APPENDIX III. 
REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 
Sir: I have the honor to submit a report on the operations of the Interna: 
tional Exchange Service during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909. 
The most noteworthy event in connection with the service during the year 
was the passage of the following resolution: 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of more fully carrying 
into effect the provisions of the convention concluded at Brussels on March 
fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and proclaimed by the President on 
January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the Public Printer is hereby 
authorized and directed to supply to the Library of Congress such number as 
may be required, not exceeding one hundred copies, of the daily issue of the 
Congressional Record for distribution, through the Smithsonian Institution, to 
the legislative chambers of such foreign governments aS may agree to send to 
the United States current copies of their parliamentary record or like publica- 
tion, such documents, when received, to be deposited in the Library of Con- 
gress. (Approved March 4, 1909.) 
Though the Smithsonian Institution has endeavored on previous occasions to 
have the Congress set aside a number of copies of the daily Congressional Record 
for exchange with foreign governments, it has only now been possible to have 
the matter favorably acted upon—twenty years having elapsed since the rati- 
fication by this Government of the Brussels convention for the immediate ex- 
change of the official journal. 
Upon the passage of the above resolution, the Congressional Record was at 
once sent to the following countries, the parliaments of which already transmit 
their official journal to the Library of Congress or have agreed to do so: 
Australia. Greece. Portugal. 
Austria. Guatemala. Roumania. 
Belgium. Honduras. Russia. 
Brazil. Hungary. Servia. 
Canada. Italy. Spain. 
Cuba. New South Wales. Switzerland. 
France. Prussia. Uruguay. 
The subject has been brought to the attention of other countries, and it is 
anticipated that during the coming year this proposed exchange, which is of so 
much importance to the members of the various national legislatures, will be 
entered into with a number of additional governments. It should be stated, in 
this connection, that the exchange here alluded to is separate and distinct from 
the exchange of official documents which has existed between the United States 
and other countries for a number of years. It is interparliamentary, and pro- 
vides for the immediate transmission, direct by mail, of the official journal as 
soon as published. 
That the Smithsonian system of exchanges is appreciated by governmental 
and scientific establishments and men of learning throughout the world is indi- 
cated by the large number of packages intrusted to its care for distribution. 
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