international committee formed by the delegates of all the con- 

 tracting states. This international committee will be composed of 

 three delegates for each nation, of which one delegate shall have the 

 title of National Commissioner, who shall be especially designated. 



They are nominated for a term of six years. 



This committee will unite at least once every two years, and 

 consider all the decisions and conclusions relating to the Inter- 

 national Bureau of Ethnography. It shall be empowered to con- 

 vene more frequently, but at the initiative of the executive of the 

 bureau or at the demand of four of the adhering states. 



Article 6. The national commissioners shall unite at least 

 once each year and exercise the control of administration, and es- 

 pecially verify the accounts. 



Each commissioner will be, in place of his government, the 

 ordinary intermediary to the International Bureau of Ethnography. 

 He will communicate to it the results received by way of missions, 

 of inquiries or otherwise. He will transmit the requirements of 

 the International Bureau to his Government or Principal. 



Article 7. In the interval between sessions, the execution of 

 the scientific decisions of the international committee, and the man- 

 agement of the administrative affairs, shall be confined to an execu- 

 tive bureau composed of the President, permanent Secretary, and 

 Assistant Secretary. 



For scientific affairs not foreseen, the Bureau shall take, through 

 correspondence, the advice of the delegates of the different govern- 

 ments. 



Likewise for administrative affairs not foreseen, the Bureau 

 will take, through correspondence, the advice of the national com- 

 missioners of the different governments. 



It shall be the duty of the bureau to fix the dates of the meet- 

 ings of the international committee, as well as to convoke the dele- 

 gates of the contracting states, indicating the order of the day of 

 meeting. 



The communications to the International Bureau of Ethnog- 

 raphy with the adhering governments will be through the inter- 

 mediary of the national commissioners. 



Article 8. Each country may encourage the co-operation of 

 its own learned men and own learned societies ; but the communica- 

 tion of this organization shall be made to the International Bureau 

 of Ethnography. 



The bureau may enter into direct relations with all societies 

 of ethnography, of sociology, of geography and other scientific or- 

 ganization which wish to co-operate in the realization of the aim 

 of the Institution; likewise with men of science and, in general, 

 individuals. 



Article 9. If the amount of donations, legacies and subsidies 



