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As the natural harbor facilities of South Seymour Island are considered the best in the Islands for smaller (laboratory) vessels, that site has been picked in preference to any on Indefatigable. This Island, however, is immediately adjacent to Indefatigable. 

Art. I (g). Here, more important, is the right to pass on applications of other investigators or expeditions desiring to work in the Islands while this cooperative agreement is in force. It simply would not do to have other collectors operating in the Islands without being under our control; moreover, all scientific investigations should be under our auspices and direct control. 

Art. I (k). (Suggested.) [[line with arrow pointing from "Suggested" to inside brackets of "(k)"]] That no military detachment be detailed to the laboratory site or stationed on any of the uninhabited islands. If the Government of Ecuador should insist upon at least one soldier at the base laboratory in addition to the Ecuadorian scientists we are providing for, he should be required to have a health certificate guaranteeing him to be free of parasitic or infectious disease. We should also have the right to insist upon like certificates for any Ecuadorian labor we may employ or be asked to employ.

Art. II (b). See comment upon first paragraph of Art. I.