50 'FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 



These committees reported their conclusions to the Executive Com- 

 mittee. A third subcommittee, likewise of five members, and in which 

 the chairmen of the other. two committees were ex officio members, was 

 appointed on the Final Act; that is to say, to give the resolutions or 

 recommendations, for they were one and the same in effect, after their 

 approval by the Executive Committee, their final form and to determine 

 their appropriate and logical place in the Act to be drawn up, and to be 

 known as the Final Act of the Congress. This committee consisted of 



JAMES BROWN ScoTT, United States of America, Chairman; 



ERNESTO QUESADA, ex officio, Chairman, Committee on Resolu- 

 tions; 



Juuo PHILIPPI, ex officio, Chairman, Committee on Recom- 

 mendations; 



ALBERTO GUTIERREZ, Bolivia; 



EUSEBIO AVAL A, Paraguay. 



This committee drafted the Final Act, which included the resolutions and 

 recommendations which the Congress felt should properly be accepted and 

 laid before the Governments of the American Republics, in order that they 

 might, as far as possible, be carried into effect. The Preparatory Com- 

 mittee had decided that a general report should be prepared, to accom- 

 pany the Final Act, explaining, commenting, and interpreting its provi- 

 sions, and appointed Mr. JAMES BROWN SCOTT as Reporter General of 

 the Congress, to draft the report to accompany the Final Act. The 

 action of the Preparatory Committee was confirmed by the Executive 

 Committee of the Congress. 



Before passing to a consideration of each article of the Final Act, it 

 should be stated in this, although it will be pointed out in a later, con- 

 nection, that the duty was imposed upon the Government of the United 

 States, as the country in which the Congress was held, to transmit the 

 resolutions and recommendations contained in the Final Act to the 

 Governments of the American Republics participating in the Congress, 

 and the Congress suggested in addition that a Government specially inter- 

 ested in any one of the resolutions or recommendations should take the 

 initiative and the steps necessary to carry the same into effect. These 

 provisions were introduced in order that it might be the duty of the 

 Government of the United States, which had called the Congress, to 

 transmit its proceedings to each of the participating Governments and 

 to secure, in so far as any action of the Congress could effect it, the reali- 

 zation of the projects by specifically investing a participating Government 

 interested in a resolution with the power to take the initiative. This was 



