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Article I
The Government of Ecuador, seeking to protect the native wild life of the Galapagos Islands, and to obtain further knowledge of the economic resources, natural history, and meteorology of the Islands and the oceanography of their contiguous waters,
(a) [[strikethrough]] shall without [[/strikethrough]] charge of other restriction (excepting only such prior commitments as may already have been made by the Government of Ecuador to the Government of the United States of America) grant the Smithsonian Institution the use of the entire island of South Seymour in the Galapagos, or at least a sufficiently extensive site for the construction of a research laboratory, lodgings, outbuildings, storage tanks for fuel and water, watershed or catchment basin[[strikethrough]],[[/strikethrough]] if necessary, communication system, and dock and harbor facilities on the southern shore of South Seymour Island near its western end, unless some other site be mutually agreed upon subsequent to the ratification of this cooperative agreement; in any case the site finally selected is to be defined as to metes and bounds, and laid out, by the Smithsonian Institution or its representatives; 
(b) shall grant the Smithsonian Institution free access to all parts of all at present un^[[in]]habited, as well as at present inhabited islands in the archipelago, with necessary personnel, equipment, [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] and apparatus for the purpose of carrying ^[[on]] the proposed scientific studies and investigations, and the right to collect ^[[any]] such specimens and material as may be needed for those ^[[such]] studies and investigations; and shall grant the Smithsonian Institution the permission to erect, if need be, temporary branch laboratories, temporary living quarters and necessary outbuildings, communications and landing facilities on any island should the studies and investigations require such installations, provided that private property or holdings existing on the