REPORT ON EXCHANGES. 



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Art. 2. The contracting - states 

 agree to exchange the following 

 publications : 



1. Parliamentary and executive 

 documents published by them. 



2. Works issued by order and 

 the expense of or with the aid of a 

 subsidy from the Governments. 



3. Publications issued by acade- 

 mies or learned societies, universi- 

 ties, and schools, so far as may be 

 in the power of the Governments 

 to procure them. 



Art. 3. Each bureau shall cause 

 to be printed a list, as complete as 

 possible, of the publications that it 

 may be able to furnish to the con- 

 tracting states. 



Art. 4. During the first quarter 

 of each year each bureau shall pub- 

 lish a report of the progress of the 

 service and of the results accom- 

 plished in the course of the preced- 

 ing year. This report shall contain 

 all necessary corrections and addi- 

 tions to the list mentioned in Arti- 

 cle 3. 



This list shall be corrected aud 

 completed each year and addressed 

 to all the exchauge bureaus. 



Art. 5. The exchauge bureaus 

 shall arrange with each other as to 

 the number of copies which in cer 

 tain cases may be asked for and 

 furnished. 



Art. 0. The exchange bureaus 

 shall arrange among themselves 

 with regard to the methods of trans- 

 mitting the various publications. 



Art. 7. The documents shall be 

 transmitted directly from bureau 

 to bureau. Uniform models aud 

 forms shall be adopted for lists of 

 the contents of boxes and for all 

 executive communications, re- 

 quests, acknowledgment of receipts, 

 &c. 



Art. 8. Whenever documents are 

 to be sent abroad, each State agrees 

 to pay the expense of packing and 

 transportation to the place of des- 

 tination, and, when the documents 

 are to be sent to countries lying be- 

 yond the sea, to pay such expenses 



The Smithsonian Institution dis- 

 tributes (see act of Congress March 



2, 18G7). 



The official documents printed 

 by either house of Congress and 

 delivered by the Public Printer in 

 fifty copies. 



3. Publications of societies, &c, 

 are obtained by the Smithsonian 

 Institution at the request of foreign 

 correspondents. 



Such a list forms a part of the 

 annual report of the clerk in charge 

 of exchanges submitted to the Sec- 

 retary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion at the close of each year. 



This is also given in the statis- 

 tics of the exchanges appended to 

 the Secretary's annual report. 



Of the 50 copies supplied by Con- 

 gress to the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion only 8 are uuassigned. 



The method adopted by the Sm ith- 

 sonian Institution is to transmit 

 whenever a sufficient number of 

 books have accumulated to fill one 

 regulation "size" caseforeach Gov- 

 ernment. 



This method has been adopted 

 by the Smithsonian Institution 

 since the first establishment of ex- 

 change bureaus (iu Paris, France, 

 in 187(3) resulting from the Geo- 

 graphical Congress in August aud 

 September, 1875. 



The Smithsonian Institution pays 

 the expenses of packing, &c, and 

 delivers the boxes free of charge to 

 the representative (generally the 

 consuls) of the respective Govern- 

 mental any seaport in the country, 

 while the returns are to be deliv- 



