'62 REPORT ON EXCHANGES. 



Advertiser (Reichs Gesetzblatt), which publishes all the general laws 

 enacted, believing that reports of the sessions of the several provincial 

 diets and the different i)rovincial laws and regulations would be of but 

 a secondary interest to the United States Government. 



The undersigned will not fail to communicate to the Hon. J. M. Fran- 

 cis, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United 

 States of America, all further information bearing upon this question, 

 and avails himself of this opportunity to tender a renewed assurance of 

 his high esteem. 



From Hon. John M. Francis, ambassador, United States legation, Vienna, 

 January 21, 1885, to Hon. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of 

 State, Washington, D. G. 



Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith translation of a note from 

 Baron Pasetti, chief of section Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dated Janu- 

 ary 1(3, 1885, in regard to the exchange of Government publications be- 

 tween the Government of the United States and that of Austria, as fully 

 set forth in my No. 20 of October 24, 1884. 



Baron Pasetti's note, with accompanying inclosure of a list of oflicial 

 works from the imperial royal department of public instruction, ex- 

 plains or suggests the basis of the i)roposed international exchange, 

 which has the approval of Mr. Boehmer, agent for the Congressional 

 Library and Smithsonian Institution, who recently conferred with the 

 proper Government officials here on this subject. 



Mr. Boehmer uow^ requests that a copy of the inclosed communication 

 from Baron Pasetti and the accompanying list of official works referred 

 to be transmitted by the department to the directors of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. • ' 



From Baron Pasetti, minister of foreign affairs, Vienna, January 16, 

 1885, to Hon. John M. Francis envoy extraordinary and minister pleni 

 potentiary of the United States. 



Sir : On the 20th of October last, under Kos. ^p-, the Ministry of 

 Foreign Affairs had the honor of informing Hon. John M. Francis, en- 

 voy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States 

 of America, that the Imperial Royal Ministry of the Interior had con- 

 sented to an establishment of a regular excnange of official jmblica- 

 tious with the United States Government. 



In the mean time a note has been received by the Ministry of Foreign 

 Affairs from the Imperial Royal Ministry of Instruction, wherein the 

 latter makes known its views on the above question. 



The last named ministry says that the exchange of official publica- 

 tions and of periodicals published by scientific institutes in Austria has 

 been uniformly pursued for some time. Numerous copies are forwarded 



