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study and diffusion of matters that are of greatest interest to the 

 continent. 



(h) To serve as the consultative organ for the Pan American Union 

 in matters which that institution may think it advantageous to sub- 

 mit for its study and report. 



ARTICLE III. All of the official universities of America and the free 

 universities recognized in the States wherein they operate shall form parts 

 of the Union. 



ARTICLE IV. The Union shall be administered by a Governing Coun- 

 cil, to be composed of a university representative for each country. The 

 official and free universities of each State shall choose, by election, a 

 representative who shall serve for a term of three years and who may be 

 reelected indefinitely. 

 ARTICLE V. The duties of the Governing Council are the following: 



(a) To labor for the realization of the purposes specified in Article 

 II and to adopt the most advantageous means to that end. 



(6) To propose the professor or professors who are to expound the 

 American themes, determined by the Governing Council, in the 

 various universities; 



(c) To provide appropriate means whereby the lectures of the pro- 



, g fessors or the papers especially prepared in each country, if deemed 



worthy of such distinction, may be printed and distributed among 



the different universities. Each delegate to the Council shall specify 



the work or paper of his country that merits publication. 



ARTICLE VI. The Governing Council of the University Union shall 



perform its labors in the home of the Pan American Union at Washington, 



where it shall organize the necessary offices in order to develop scientific 



activity which shall be germane to and consonant with the political unity 



pursued by the Pan American Union. The Governing Council shall 



appoint, as permanent officers, a Director and a Secretary General. 



ARTICLE VII. The expenses of the University Union shall be defrayed 

 by assessments upon the different universities, by subsidies from the 

 States, and by donations from individuals. The Pan American Union 

 shall be charged with the collection and disbursement of the subsidies and 

 with the stimulation of interest such donations as its special contribution 

 to the lofty efforts toward the Intellectual Pan American Union which 

 the present organization seeks to realize. 



ARTICLE VIII. Until the Governing Council shall be definitively 

 organized as provided in Article IV the Director and Secretary General 

 charged with the organization of the preparatory work shall be appointed 

 by the Pan American Union. 



EDUARDO SUAREZ MUJICA, 

 DOMICIO DA GAM A, 

 ERNESTO QUESADA. 



