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the one lawyers as such are affected, whereas in the other not only lawyers 

 but men of affairs are included, because it is of advantage to men engaged 

 in business extending beyond the confines of their country to have the 

 codes of law in their hands and to be familiar with the rules of procedure, 

 lest through ignorance and neglect their feet become entangled in the 

 meshes of foreign law. Of course neither codes nor rules of procedure 

 can dispense with the lawyer, for we must needs have a professional 

 class devoting itself to the interpretation and the application of laws; 

 and yet the codes and rules of procedure would often prevent the com- 

 mission of a mistake and their very presence and their very difficulty 

 would urge the taking of advice of the profession before it is too late. 



The recommendations of Section VI as a whole aim to make inter- 

 national law a thing of flesh and blood, a living organism, as necessary 

 to nations in their mutual intercourse as is national law to individuals in 

 political society; to impart to the peoples of the Americas a knowledge 

 of the constitutions, laws and institutions of the Republics of our be- 

 loved continent; to strive for uniformity both in the framing and in the 

 interpretation of laws, in so far as this may be possible, and by broaden- 

 ing the legal profession and bringing its members into correspondence, if 

 not into actual personal touch, to create a community of ideals, to 

 raise the standard of the profession in all the Americas and to make it 

 worthy of the trust and confidence which it has enjoyed and without 

 which its members can not render effective service. 



ARTICLE 37. The Second Pan American Scientific Congress recommends 

 that 



(a) A compilation be made, according to a definite plan, of the 

 mining laws of the American Republics, not only in their 

 original languages but also in Spanish, Portuguese, French, 

 and English translations, as the case may be, with a view to 

 the reciprocal improvement of the laws of each of the 

 American Republics; 



(7>) The several American Governments appoint a committee to con- 

 sider the uniformity of mining statistics and to make recom- 

 mendations to their respective Governments in order to 

 systematize, simplify, and standardize such statistics. 



This article was recommended by Section VII of the Congress, dealing 

 with mining, metallurgy, economic geology, and applied chemistry, and, 

 in view of the very great importance to the American countries of the 

 subjects discussed in the Section, although not made the basis of recom- 

 mendations, it seems advisable to consider briefly and to state in outline 

 the nature of the problems discussed by the Section. For this reason a 



