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assign to thein, deem that those exchanges do not reqnire to be direct, 

 that they may be very rapidly made by the bureaus of exchanges, and 

 that they should remain entirely free for the Parliaments. The dele- 

 gates of France think that it would have sufficed to express the wish 

 of the chambers, and to render them regular. 



The undersigned delegates of the United States of America and of 

 Switzerland share this opinion. 



Finally, before separating the conference expresses the wish that the 

 contracting states shall endeavor to obtain the series or volumes pub- 

 lished prior to the date of the general convention, so that a complete 

 set of each collection will be found in at least one library in each state. 



In testimony whereof the undersigned delegates have drawn up the 

 present final protocol and have set their signatures thereto. 



Done at Brussels the April, 1883. 



The signatures of the delegates of Austria- Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, 

 Spain, United States of America, France, Italy, Portugal, Koumania, 

 Servia, and Switzerland follow. 



[Inclo8ure8. — Translation.] — (A.)— Draft of convention signed by all the dele- 

 gates TO THE CONEEKENCE AT BRUSSELS, APRIL, 1883. 



Article 1. There shall be established in each of the contracting 

 states a bureau charged with the duty of the exchanges. 



Art. 2. The publications which the contracting states agree to ex- 

 change are the following: (1) The official documents, parliamentary 

 and administrative, which are published in the country of their origin ; 

 (2) The works executed by order and at the expense of the Governments. 



Art. 3. Each bureau shall cause to be printed the list of the publica- 

 tions that it is aide 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 exchanges. 



Art. 4. The bureaus of exchanges will arrange between themselves 

 the number of copies which they may demand and furnish. 



Art. 5. The shipments shall be made directly from bureau to bureau. 

 Uniform models and formulas for the invoices of the contents of the 

 cases, as well as tor all administrative correspondence, requests, and 

 acknowledgments of reception, &c, shall be adopted. 



Art. 6. For shipments to foreign countries, each state assumes the 

 cost of packiug and of transportation to destination. When, however, 

 the shipment is made by sea, special acknowledgments shall determine 

 the proportion of each state in the cost of transportation. 



Art. 7. (§ 1.) The bureaus of exchanges will serve as the official in- 

 termediaries between the learned bodies and the literary, scientific, &c, 

 societies of the contracting states for the reception and forwarding of 

 their publications. 



(§ 2.) It remains, however, well understood that, in such cases, the duty 

 of the bureaus of exchanges will be confined to the transmission free of 

 cost of the works exchanged, and that those bureaus will not in any 

 manner take the initiative to bring about the establishment of those 

 relations. 



Art. 8. These provisions apply only to the documents and works pub- 

 lished after the date of the present convention. 



Art. 9. 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 



