Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 61 Part 4.djvu/691

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61 STAT.] NETHERLANDS-AMERICAN DEAD IN WORLD WAR II-APR . 11, 1947 4039 c. Free entrance and exit for all personnel, supplies, trans- Free entrance and portation (air, motor, and water), including the use of highways and inland and coastal waterways necessary or incident to repatriation and concentration activities. d. Use of such ports, port facilities, including but not limited rse of ports, etc. to, warehousing, docks, pilotage, supplies and services as are essential to repatriation and concentration activ- ities subject only to payment of the established rates of compensation therefor. e. Use of rail and water transportation, including but not limited to that belonging or subject to the regulations of the respective Government to the extent required for the work involved and subject to payment for the use thereof at prevailing rates. f. The right to the use of buildings, services and to employ labor within the respective Nation, the possessions or territories subject to the jurisdiction thereof, as are required for all activities involved by payment for use thereof at prevailing rates. g. The respective Government shall procure possession of sites for permanent such sitesforpermanent cemeteries (Field of Honor) and/or memorials as are deemed necessary by the Government of the United States and will be pleased to grant to the United States of America the use thereof in perpetuity without payment by the United States of compensation therefor. Such sites shall be at location judged appro- priate for the purpose by designated representatives of the Netherlands, and shall include sufficient ground in addition to burial space, for proper beautification, ap- proach roads where required, and the construction of such buildings as are essential to the housing of care- takers, reception of visitors and general maintenance work and memorials at or separate and apart from cemeteries. h. The right without regard to any national or local laws, Right to plan, etc. customs, or regulations, to plan, layout, improve, con- struct buildings thereon, and beautify and provide for the perpetual custody and maintenance of such cemeter- ies and memorials as are directed by the United States Government, but subject however to the following provisions: a. The determination of the boundaries of any such Determination d cemetery, and particularly those portions lying out- side of the burial plots and serving for beautification and/or as a site for the erection of a memorial, must be discussed with and approved by appropriate agen- cies of the respective government ot pjdlitical com- ponent thereof.