1702 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
effect the convention of March 15, 1886, a copy of which will be found 
in Senate Ex. Doc. No. 139. 
I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 
RIcHARD OLNEY. 
The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. 
[Translation.] 
IMPERIAL AND Royat Austro-HunGARIAN LEGATION, 
Washington, April 3, 1895. 
Mr. SECRETARY OF STATE: 
In consequence of an understanding, as your excellency already 
knows, a reciprocal exchange of parliamentary acts and other official 
publications of Hungary takes place with those of the United States, 
and mainly by the method that the mutual shipments are delivered 
through the channel of the Smithsonian Institution. 
Upon this basis the process of the mutual exchange of official pub- 
lications was further carried out in the manner that the Smithsonian 
Institution addressed the shipments of books of the American Govern- 
ment, including Congressional documents, and collecting on delivery 
the transportation charges from the port of shipment to the place of 
destination, to the royal Hungarian president of the cabinet, by whom 
the contents of these shipments were distributed to the Hungarian 
legislature and the different ministries. 
The Hungarian exchange was effected in the same manner, and the 
president of the royal Hungarian cabinet has always sent to the Smith- 
sonian Institution the Hungarian parliamentary acts as well as the pub- 
lications of the ministries and authorities, collecting on delivery the 
transportation charges from the port of shipment to the place of their 
destination. 
On every occasion the Smithsonian Institution was advised from 
Budapest through the imperial and royal legation of the due arrival 
of the American shipments. 
The president of the Hungarian House of Deputies deems it now 
more expedient respecting the mutual exchange of the parliamentary 
acts between the Hungarian House of Deputies and the Congress of 
the United States to adopt a direct intercourse, and already, in 1892, 
the above-named oflicer addressed the president of Congress in Wash- 
ington and indeed since then has sent directly and free of charge to 
America the acts of the Hungarian House of Deputies. 
As the acts of Congress have, nevertheless, until now reached the 
House of Deputies in Budapest in the former way—that is to say, by 
way of the Smithsonian Institution and the president of the royal 
Hungarian cabinet, the latter has requested that steps be taken to 
cause the acts of Congress, that have heretofore reached the Hungarian 
House of Deputies through the medium of the president of the cabinet, 
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