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steps toward the realization of the purposes of the Pan American Archeo 

 logical Union. 



ARTICLE IX. The expense incident to the discharge of the functions of 

 the Pan American Archeological Union shall be met by subsidies from 

 the respective States and institutions and -by donations from private 

 persons. 



EDUARDO SuAREz MUJICA. 



DOMICIO DA GAMA. 



ERNESTO QUESADA. 



It does not appear necessary to restate the provisions of these import- 

 ant projects in terms other than those employed by the proposers, or to 

 advance reasons other than those which they themselves considered to 

 to be the justification of the projects and calculated to secure their ac- 

 ceptance. It is proper, however, to call attention to the fact that the 

 three special unions presuppose a close and intimate connection with 

 the Pan American Union, in whose building at Washington they are to 

 be housed, with funds supplied by Governments, the various institutions 

 forming part of the proposed Unions, and by private persons interested 

 in their success. If the recommendation of the Congress, contained in 

 Article 22, be carried into effect, a department of education would be 

 created and located in the Pan American Union, and if the project for 

 the creation of a Pan American University Union were realized it would 

 likewise be located in the Pan American Union, and the two projects 

 could undoubtedly be combined and carried into effect if the Governing 

 Board of the Pan American Union should consider one or the other as 

 feasible, devise a plan for their realization, and secure the cooperation of 

 the American Republics represented by the Governing Board. 



Inasmuch as these are matters for the Governments to consider, and 

 as the Congress urged either the creation of the separate unions or of the 

 greater intellectual union, of which they should form parts, without 

 suggesting or passing upon the details required for their execution, it does 

 not seem advisable to enter into or to discuss the details of execution in 

 this general report on the Final Act ; but it is necessary, however, to state, 

 in clear, unequivocal, and formal terms, that the Congress accepted the 

 three projects in principle and recommended that the necessary meas- 

 ures be taken in order to make them flesh and blood. It should be 

 pointed out, before passing to the fourth project, that the three projects 

 contemplate the enlargement of the activities if not of the scope of the 

 Pan American Union, and that from this standpoint they are govern- 

 mental projects, although they provide for the cooperation of institutions, 

 both public and private, and of private persons. 



