i06 report op the secretary general. 



Article 22. 



The Second Pan American Scientific Congress, confirming the resolution 



adopted at the First Pan American Scientific Congress of 1908-9, 



recommends the organization in connection with the Pan American 



Union of a department of education, which shall — 



(a) Be entrusted with the publication, in Spanish, Portuguese, 



French, and English, of such works on education as are of 



importance to the American countries; 



(6) Keep' the dififerent Republics in touch with educational progress ; 



(c) Promote in each country the scientific study of educational 



problems from both national and American standpoints; 



(d) Facilitate the interchange of ideas and information among the 



teachers of the continent, and in general serve the educational 

 interests of the Americas. 



Article 23. 



The Second Pan American Scientific Congress recommends, in order to 

 increase the study of international law, to popularize its just 

 principles, and to secure its observance and application in the 

 mutual relations of the Americas, that steps be taken to im- 

 prove and to enlarge library and reference facilities — 



(a) By preparing and publishing a bibliography of international law 

 and related subjects, furnishing the names of publishers and 

 prices, so far as these are obtainable, with special reference 

 to the needs of poorly endowed libraries; 



(6) By preparing and publishing a carefully prepared index or digest 

 of the various heads and subheads of international law, with 

 references to standard sources of authority under each head 

 and subhead thereof; 



(c) By collecting with the aid, wherever possible, of ministries of for 

 eign afifairs and publishing from official copies thus secured, 

 in cheap and convenient form, all official documents, both 

 foreign and domestic, bearing upon international law, includ- 

 ing therein treaties, information relating to arbitration, an- 

 nouncements of national policy, and diplomatic correspondence ; 



(rf) By issuing in the form of law reports judgments of national 

 courts involving questions of international law, the sentences 

 of arbitral tribunals, and the awards of mixed commissions. 



