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MEMORANDUM.
FRENCH ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION AND CYPRUS GOVERNMENT JOINT EXPEDITION TO ENGOMI.
The following paragraphs set out the arrangements agreed for the termination of the collaboration of the Cyprus Government Department of Antiquities with the French Archaeological Mission in the excavation of the Late Bronze Age town site at Engomi initiated by Dr.C.F.A.Schaeffer. This collaboration has been in operation since 21st November,1947, on the basis of the Memorandum of that date signed by Dr.Schaeffer and the Director of Antiquities and approved on behalf of the Government of Cyprus by the Colonial Secretary's letter No.1157/32, dated 5th March, 1948, and on behalf of the French Archaeological Mission by Dr.Schaeffer's letter, dated 1st June, 1948.
1. The Joint-Expedition will be dissolved with effect from 31st December 1953, on which date the Memorandum dated 21st November, 1947, shall cease to have effect.
Provided that if the excavations referred to in clause 2 below are completed before that date, the Joint-Expedition will be dissolved with effect from an earlier date to be agreed by the two parties.
2. Before that date the Department of Antiquities shall excavte only in the two areas which it has so far uncovered, shall complete its excavations and remove outside the limits of the town the earth excavated in them.
3. A division of the finds from the excavations of the two parties shall be made upon the dissolution of the Joint-Expedition in accordance with the last sentence of clause 3 of the Memorandum dated 21st November, 1947 and section 16(1)(c) of the Antiquities Law.
4. After the dissolution of the Joint-Expedition the excavation house at Engomi, the cost of erecting which was shared by the two parties, will be available for the French Archaeological Mission so long as its excavations at Engomi continue
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