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Article G. Each of the two Goveruineiits will form aconecTioii as com- 

 plete as possible of all the works published within its territory, or out- 

 side of it. if the provisions of article 2 apply to them; and will trans- 

 mit this collection to the other at as early a date as possible. This col- 

 lection should especially comprise works treating of the history, geog- 

 raphy, industries, statistics, and legislation of the country. 



Article 7. Publications shall be transmitted in the month of January 

 of every year ; in Uruguay through the intermediary of the Chilian 

 legation, and in Chili through the intermediary of the Uruguayan le- 

 gation, or direct between the two Governments whenever there are no 

 legations. 



Article 8. The present convention will go into effect this day, and 

 will continue in force, until either of the two Governments shall desire 

 its discontinuance, and shall so advise the other. 



At the close of this conference the charge d'affaires of Uruguay and 

 the Chilian minister of foreign relations have signed this document in 

 duplicate copy, and affixed thereto their respective seals. 



[L. s.l J. Arkieta, 

 |L. s.] Adolfo Ibanez. 



From the Smithsonian Ivistitution, January 31, 1885, to Hon. F. T. Fre- 

 ^ linghuysen, Secretary of State. 



Sir : In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 30th of 

 December last, inclosing a copy of a note from the Charge d'affaires 

 of Uruguay in reference to an exchange of publications between that 

 Government and the Government of the United States, I beg to say 

 that an answer was necessarily deferred until a translation could be 

 made of the Spanish document accompanying your communication, the 

 original of which is herewith returned. 



It is not my province to offer suggestions to the Government of Uru- 

 guay regarding a general system of exchanges with the various Gov- 

 ernments of the world ; but so far as the United States is concerned, I 

 can say that it will give the Smithsonian Institution much pleasure to 

 make the necessary arrangements for an interchange of official publica- 

 tions of the two countries, the Institution sending to Uruguay at least 

 once a year, and perhaps twice, all the publications of the Government 

 of the United States, whether printed by order of Congress or any of 

 the Departments — these, of course, in return for an equally exhaustive 

 and comprehensive transmission on the part of the Government of Uru- 

 guay, all the returns received to be placecl in the Library of Congress. 



The Smithsonian Institution cannot undertake to secure publications 

 generally of the scientific and literary establishments of the United 

 States, but it will be hnppy to do all in its power in this respect. It 

 is, however, willing to send its own works — the Smithsonian Contribu- 

 tions to Knowledge, the Miscellaneous Collections, and the Annual 



