EEPOET OF THE SECRETARY. 



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Comparative statement of packages received for transmission througlt the International 

 Exchange Service, etc. — Continued. 



Servia 



Siam 



Sierra Leone 



Society Islands 



Soutli Australia 



Spain 



Straits Settlements. 



Sumatra 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Syria 



Tasmania 



Tonga 



Tonquin 



Transvaal 



Trinidad 



Tunis 



Turkey 



Turks Islands 



United States 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



Victoria 



Western Australia . 

 Zanzibar 



Package.s. 



For- 



51 



39 



3 



3 



1,055 



1,194 



54 



2 



1,843 



2, 358 



35 



600 



5 



548 



59 



27 



635 



11 



33, 961 



835 



659 



1,499 



664 



5 



From- 



1903. 



Packages. 



For- 



203 

 1 

 18 



276 

 2,037 



82, 943 

 32 



691 

 43 



71 



84 



13 



12 



1,143 



1, 525 



109 



2 



2, 205 



2,757 



48 



569 



11 



1 



568 



109 



55 



957 



27 



33, 980 



866 



654 



1,786 



619 



17 



374 

 829 



107, 661 



80 



1 



1, 145 



112 



Several changes in the foreign relations of the Exchange Service have occurred 

 during the year. 



Through the good offices of the Department of State arrangements were consum- 

 mated with Cuba for a mutual exchange of official pulilications, and in December, 

 1902, 7 boxes were shipped to Habana to l)e deposited in the library of the depart- 

 ment of state at that capital. 



On December 29, 1902, a reserve set of 52 cases was forwarded to the London 

 county council as an exchange for the municipal documents of the city of London. 



Transmissions to Pretoria were interrupted at the beginning of the Transvaal war, 

 and the cases which had accumulated during hostilities were finally dispatched on 

 March 20, 1903, to the governor of the Transvaal Colony. Later advices indicate 

 that this set of documents will be deposited in the state library at Pretoria. 



Regular shipments will be made in future to the depositories in Habana, Pretoria, 

 and London at the rate of about one case every two months. 



In January, 1903, the Queensland government established an exchange board, 

 with headcjuarters in the Parliament House, Brisbane. This board has already 

 taken up the matter of international exchanges in a systematic manner, and satis- 

 factory results are sure to follow. 



Until further notice the Exchange Service is constrained to discourage the for- 

 warding of parcels to the Smithsonian Institution for transmission to China except 

 those bearing addresses in Shanghai. 



Reference has frequently been made in these re2)orts to the ri'strictions placed 



