report of the secretary general. ii3 



ArticIvE 45. 



The Second Pan American Scientific Congress urges that — 



The American Governments, deriving important revenues from the 

 consumption of alcohol, organize their systems of taxation in 

 such manner that their economic interests be subordinated to 

 the higher interests of a social and moral order, which tend 

 to the suppression of alcoholism. 



Article 46. 



The Second Pan American Scientific Congress deems it desirable — 



That the monetary systems of the American Republics be subjected 

 to careful scientific study, with a view to making the experi- 

 ence of each available to all. 



Article 47. 



The Second Pan American Scientific Congress especially and earnestly 

 recommends, in order to unite the various technical, medical, 

 legal, and other scientific associations of the American 

 Republics — 

 The establishment of a Pan American Intellectual Union, to be 

 divided into such groups and sections as may be deemed 

 convenient or advisable, the details whereof are contained 

 in the records of the congress and in the form of four propo- 

 sitions devoted to the proposed Union, which may, in the 

 opinion of the congress, be carried into effect either through 

 the instrumentality of the Pan American Union or by means 

 of some other existing agency or institution to be created, in 

 the confident belief that the establishment of such a Union 

 will lay broad and deep the true foundations of intellectual 

 Pan Americanism. 



Article 48. 



The Second Pan American Scientific Congress, upon the motion of the 

 delegation of Chile, unanimously resolves that — 

 The Third Pan American Scientific Congress shall meet in the city 

 of Lima in connection with the celebration of the anniversary 

 of the independence of Peru, in 1921, and appoints for that 

 purpose the following gentlemen : Dr. Javier Prado y Ugar- 



