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REPORT ON EXCHANGES. 



(Iuclosurc 3, 4.) — TRANSLATION OF PROPOSALS ORIGINALLY SUBMITTED FOK THE 

 DISCUSSION OF THE CONFERENCE. 



Amendments made to the drafts 

 agreed upon by the conference of 

 1880. 



New draft of a convention for the 

 international exchange* of official 

 documents and of scientific and 



literary publications. 



Article 1. There shall be estab- 

 lished in each of the contracting 

 states a bureau charged with the 

 duty of the exchanges. 



Art. 2. Publications which the 

 contracting states agree to ex- 

 change are the following: (1) The 

 official documents, parliamentary, 

 administrative, which are published 

 in the country of their origin; (2) 

 the works executed by order and 

 at the expense of the Governments; 

 (3) the publications of academies 

 and learned societies, of universi- 

 ties and schools, as far as the Gov- 

 ernments shall be able to obtain 

 them. 



Art. 3. Each bureau shall cause 

 to be printed a list, as complete as 

 possible, of the publications that 

 it is able to place at the disposal 

 of the contracting states. 



That list shall be corrected and 

 completed each year, and regularly 

 addressed to all the bureaus of ex- 

 change. 



Art. 4. The bureaus of exchange 

 will arrange between themselves 

 the number of copies which in cer- 

 tain cases they may demand and 

 furnish. 



Art. 5. The bureaus of ex- 

 changes will determine among 

 themselves the models of packages 

 of different publications. 



Art. 6. Shipments shall be made 

 directly from buieau to bureau. 

 Uniform models and formulas for 

 the invoices of the contents of the 

 cases, as well as for all administra- 

 tive correspondents' requests and 

 acknowledgments of reception, 

 &c, shall be adopted. 



Art. 7. For shipments to foreign 

 countries, each state assumes the 

 cost of packing and of transporta- 

 tion to destination and for coun- 

 tries beyond the sea to the port of 

 debarkation. 



Without alteration. 



The words u witli subsidies" have 

 been omitted from the second para- 

 graph. 



The second paragraph of this 

 article replaces the fourth article 

 of the draft of 1880. 



Article 5 of the draft of 1880. 



Art. 6 of the draft of 1880. 



Art. 7 of the convention of 1880. 



Art. 8 of the draft of 1880. 



