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Agreement Between the United States and Ecuador, Signed at Quito, October 1, 1942, Amending That of January 24, 1942, Concerning an Advance Base for American Military Forces at Salinas31

Duly empowered by Colonel Alberto C. Romero, Minister of National Defense of Ecuador, and by the Commanding General of the Caribbean Defense Command of the United States of America, respectively, Colonel Ricardo Astudillo, Superior Commander of the Army of Ecuador, and Colonel Serafin M. Montesinos, United States [Page 377] Army, met to modify and amplify Articles 4 and 6 of the Agreement signed January 24, 1942 as modified by the Agreement signed February 20, 1942. These modifications and amplifications must be previously ratified by the Governments of Ecuador and the United States in order to be in effect.

Article 4 is amended to read as follows:

The boundaries of the fields and water areas where the above mentioned constructions and installations will be effected, are fixed in the adjoining sketch plan,31a except the North-South boundary which is changed as shown in the accompanying topographical map:31a “War Department, Office of the Division Engineer, Panama Division, Dated August 26, 1942, Scale 1″=600′ Drawing Nº 5767.”

Article 6 is amended to read as follows:

The constructions and installations authorized may be started immediately upon the signing of the present agreement. The Government of the United States agrees to deliver to the Government of Ecuador the sum of seventy one thousand five hundred dollars ($71,500.00) for the expropriation and indemnization for the lands and dwellings of the Municipality of Salinas and of private citizens established on the lands pertaining to this Agreement, and for the demolition of the existing structures that may be necessary for the constructions and installations indicated above.

Signed at Quito on the 1st. day of October, 1942.
sgd.)
Ricardo Astudillo
,
Colonel Ing.
sgd.)
Serafin M. Montesinos
,
Colonel U.S. Army.
Witness:
sgd.)
Cristóbal Toledo S.
,
Coronel Jefe E.M.G.
Witness:
sgd.)
Harry N. Renshaw
,
Lt. Col., A.C.

Note.—Of this document two (2) copies in Spanish and two (2) in English have been made, of which one in each language has been delivered to Colonel Montesinos and the other two have been delivered to the Ecuadorean General Staff. Each two of the above cited copies is accompanied by a topographical map authenticated by the signatures of Colonels Astudillo and Montesinos.

sgd.)
Cristóbal Toledo S.
,
Coronel, Jefe del E.M.G.
  1. True copy of the original transmitted to the Department by the Ambassador in Ecuador in his despatch No. 3591, October 2; received October 8.
  2. Not found in Department files.
  3. Not found in Department files.