REPORT ON EXCHANGES. 



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Art. 8, § 1. Bureaus of ex- 

 changes may in an official capac- 

 ity serve as the intermediary be- 

 tween the Parliaments, the admin- 

 istrations, and the learned societies 

 of the contracting states for the re- 

 ception and forwarding of their 

 publications. 



§ 2. It remains, however, well 

 understood that in such eases the 

 duty of the bureaus of exchanges 

 will be confined to the transmis- 

 sion free of cost of the works ex- 

 changed, and that those bureaus 

 will not in any manner take the in- 

 itiative to bring about the estab- 

 lishment of such relations between 

 the parliaments, administrations, 

 and leaned societies of foreign 

 countries. 



Art. 9. These provisions apply 

 only to documents and works pub- 

 lished after the date of the present 

 convention. It is nevertheless de- 

 sirable that the contracting states 

 should endeavor to obtain the pre- 

 ceding series or volumes, so that 

 a complete set of each collection at 

 least should be found in one of the 

 libraries in each state. 



Art. 10 [New]. The respective 

 Governments agree further to cause 

 to l>e seat to the legislative cham- 

 bers of each contracting state, as 

 soon as they are published, and 

 without passing through the inter 

 mediary of the bureaus of ex- 

 changes, a copy of the official jour- 

 nal and of the parliamentary docu- 

 ments and annals. 



Art. 11. The states which have 

 not taken part in the present con- 

 vention are admitted to adhere to 

 it upon making the request. 



This adhesion is to be notified to 

 the Belgian Government through 

 the diplomatic channel and by the 

 latter Government to all the other 

 states signing it. 



Art. 12. The present conven- 

 tion shall be ratified and the rati- 

 fications exchanged at Brussels as 

 soon as it is practicable. It is con- 



§ 1 is a reproduction of Article 9 

 of the former draft, to which have 

 been added the words Parliament 

 et administration. 



§ 2 is new. 



The amendments to the forego- 

 ing articles were requested by the 

 French Government. 



Art. 10 of the draft of 1880. 



Proposed by the Belgian Gov- 

 ernment. 



These last two articles did not 

 form part of the text agreed on in 

 1880; they have been adopted by 

 the department of foreign affairs 

 of Belgium at the same time as the 

 introductory formula of such dip- 

 lomatic documents. 



It is not deemed necessary to 

 here reproduce that preamble in 

 which all the contracting states 

 should be enumerated. 



