arisinjL,' from individuals or free insliUitiuns, capitalized at 3 per cent, 

 reaches at least the sixth of the allowance of the ])articipating states, 

 there shall he formed a committee of donors which shall be represented 

 by twQ members of the international committee. 



Article 10. A report upon the work and the financial ad- 

 ministration of the bureau shall be addressed each year to the adher- 

 ing governments. To the report will be annexed a statement of the 

 preliminary budget for the following year and the program of un- 

 dertakings. 



Article ii. The budget of the International Bureau of Eth- 

 nography will be supported by annual assessments of the contracting 

 members and states, by the proceeds of the sale of publications 

 and by taxes to be calculated upon information furnished, and by 

 gifts and legacies. 



The amount of the assessments assigned annually to the bureau 



by the adhering states, is fixed at the minimum figure of . 



(This amount shall be fixed at the first meeting of the international 

 committee:, it will depend in effect upon divers circumstances not 

 yet determined, especially upon the number of languages into which 

 the documents shall be translated and published.) 



The asses^ifients not consumed in the operations, shall be re- 

 ported at the end of the year. They may serve, should there be 

 a surplus, to constitute a reserve fund. 



Above the annual assessments a capital of (likewise re- 

 served as above) shall be put the first year at the disposition of the 

 bureau for installation expenses. The States and Colonies which 

 shall hereafter make use of the privileges of joining, according to 

 Article 17, shall have to pay their share of this sum upon the basis 

 of assessments as fixed in Article 13. 



Article 12. The States and Colonies which withdraw from 

 the bureau at the expiration of the first term of twenty years, shall 

 lose their participating rights in the common fund. 



In case of liquidation the common fund shall be partitioned 

 among the States and Colonies of the International Bureau after a 

 basis of distribution as provided for in Article 13. 



Article 13. The contributing part of the contracting states 

 in the annual assessment to the International Bureau of Ethnog- 

 raphy, as well as the first installments, is established in units upon 

 the double base of their population and of economic activity. 



As for population, a unit shall be considered as 500,000 inhabit- 

 ants. As for economic activity, a unit shall be considered as 50,- 

 000,000 francs of foreign commerce, imports and exports together. 



Article 14. The amount of the personal contribution of each 

 state is rendered in an agreed proportion in subscriptions to pub- 

 lications calculated at a price of public sale reduced one-fifth. 



The use of collections by the delegates of the central administra- 



