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the session of the previous year, the first meeting to be held in the city of 

 Washington. 



ARTICLE VI. The said Council shall, once in five years, organize an 

 extraordinary meeting of a congress of libraries at which may assemble all 

 persons who form part of the superior personnel of the libraries of the 

 continent, whether officers of associations or private persons. Said con- 

 gress shall occupy itself with questions relating to the organization and 

 perfecting of libraries. 



ARTICLE VII. The Pan Americaa Library Union shall have a permanent 

 Director and Secretary General, established at the seat of its offices, and 

 they shall devote themselves to the organization and direction of the 

 operations specified in Article II. The said functionaries shall be ap- 

 pointed by the Council for a term of five years and may be reelected in- 

 definitely. In the first instance and until the Council shall have been 

 constituted, they shall be designated by the Pan American Union. 



ARTICLE VIII. The expenses incurred by the Pan American Library- 

 Union shall be covered by contributions from the respective countries on 

 the basis of a strict equality and by donations of private persons. The Pan 

 American Union shall be charged with the arrangement for such subsidies 

 and the stimulation of interest in such donations as its special contribution 

 towards the great purpose of inter- American intellectual union, which the 

 present organization seeks to realize. 



EDUARDO SuAREz MUJICA. 

 DOMICIO DA GAMA. 

 ERNESTO QUESADA. 



3. PROJECT FOR THE CREATION OF A PAN AMERICAN 

 ARCHEOLOGICAL UNION. 



The Chairmen of the Argentine, Brazilian, and Chilean Delegations 

 submit for the approbation of the Congress a project for an inter- American 

 Archeological Union, destined to complete, in the intellectual field, the 

 work initiated by the existing Pan American Union in the political field. 



The advancement of modern science requiring, as it does, the study of 

 the deposits, tombs, and monuments, in situ, as a first and indispensable 

 prerequisite to the deduction from such facts as have become known of the 

 conclusions which, taken together, may supply new elements to aid in the 

 discovery of the truth with respect to the pre-Columbian history of this 

 continent, and to the end that the spirit of gain, stimulating the ignorance 

 of the natives, may be prevented from destroying the deposits through the 

 collection of isolated pieces for sale a practice that serves only to fill the 

 cases of museums and private collections with articles having a value at 

 best but relative, and at times nil, because of the absence of exact data as 

 to origin the undersigned, desiring to bring to an end this state of things, 

 and in the interest of Pan Americanism, present the following project: 



ARTICLE I. That there be created, among the States of America, a Pan 



American Archeological Union, destined to safeguard the archeological 



treasures of the respective countries, in the interest of progress in the 



corresponding study of this most interesting branch of human learning, 



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