108 REPORT ON EXCHANGES. 



publications between the Republic and tlie other countries with which 

 it maintains amicable relations the President of the Kepublic decrees : 



AirncLE 1. Tlie " Office for the Deposit and Distrihiitiou of Publications " sliall have 

 henceforth a special department, charged with the business of international exchange. 



Art. 2. Under the iiumediate jurisdiction of the Department of Public Instruction, 

 the office named -will be charg(>d with the duty of beginning and maintaining an ex- 

 change with the governments, official or public libraries, and scientific or literary 

 societies of the countries which accept or solicit it. 



Art. 3. In order that the office named may atteiul properly to the interchange 

 which luay be established, all the offices of the nation will send it at least 20 per cent, 

 of the publications which they may have or which they may receive in virtue of aid 

 or subsidy granted them. 



Art. 4. The Department of Public Instruction will regulate the execution of this 

 decree. 



Art. .'). The decree shall be communicated to all concerned, published, and in- 

 serted in the R. N. 



RKGULATIONS FOR THE " OFFICE FOR THE DEPOSIT AND DISTRIBUTION OP PUBLI- 

 CATIONS" IN ACCORDANCE W'lTH THE DECREE OF THE 'J.JTH OF THE PRESENT MONTH 

 ESTABLISHINO THE EXCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS. 



Buenos Ayres, July 26, 1885. 



Article 1. In compliance with the order contained in the decree of the 25th of the 

 present month of July, the "Office for the Deposit and Distribution of Publications" 

 will, by means of the department charged with the international exchange, establish 

 aninterchangeof publications oftho Republic with the governments, public and private 

 libraries, and scientific or literary societiesof the countries which acceptor solicit it, 

 said office giving account in each case to the Department of Public Instruction, with- 

 out whose previous aiiprobatiou it can not proceed. 



Art. 2. The " Office for the Deposit and Distribution of Publications" will keep a 

 day-book in whicli it will note the number, title, and condition of the publications 

 received from the national offices. ' 



Art. 3. Before complying with tlie requests for books, memorials, or other publica- 

 tions, which may bo made to it by the governors of provinces, departments of the 

 Government, or other public or private offices, or with those which itniay receive 

 from abroad, the "Office for the Deposit and Distribution of Puldications" must obtain 

 the consent of the Department of Public Instruction. 



Art. 4. The office will carry out directly the orders of the departments refisrring to 

 their respective deposits, having first fleducted the 20 pcv cent, of the publications 

 intended for international exchange. 



Art. 5. In the monthly report of operations which the office must remit to the 

 Department of Public Instruction, it will include a statement of the works received 

 as exchange during the month, in order that the department may assign them to their 

 proper destination. 



Art. G. Applications from individuals must' be made on common iiaper, and the 

 office will send them to the Department of Public Instruction for its decision. 



Art. 7. The office may apply to the governors of provinces, official and private cor- 

 porations, and to the editors of the Republic, soliciting in the most respectful terms 

 the remission or exchange of the works they may publish, aid, or edit. 



Art. 8. The office will take care to distribute among the ministers and consuls re- 

 siding in the Republic and among the Argentine ministers and consuls residing in 

 foreign countries all oificial publications whose circulation may promote the interests 

 of the nation. 



Art. 0. The office will ])ublish once a month in at least two daily i)apers of the 

 capital the monthly re])ort of its operations referred to in article 5. 



