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des documents officiels et des publications 
scientifiques et littéraires, les Gouverne- 
ments respectifs s’engagent a faire expé- 
dier aux chambres législatives de chaque 
Etat contractant, au fur & 4 mesure de 
leur publication, un exemplaire du jour- 
nal officiel, ainsi que des annales & des 
documents parlementaires livrés 4 la pub- 
licité. 
ArTIcLE II. 
Les Etats qui n’ont pas pris part 4 la 
présente Convention sont admis 4 y ad- 
hérer sur leur demande. 
Cette adhésion sera notifiée, par la voie 
diplomatique au Gouvernement belge et 
par ce Gouvernement 4 tous les autres 
Etats Signataires. 
ARTICLE ITI. 
La présente Convention sera ratifiée et 
les ratifications seront échangées 4 Bru- 
xelles aussit6t que faire se pourra. Elle 
est conclue pour dix ans, 4 partir du jour 
de l’échange des ratifications et elle con- 
tinuera A subsister au dela de ce délai tant - 
que l’un des Gouvernements n’aura pas 
déclaré six mois 4 l’avance qu’il y renonce. 
En foi de quoi, les Plénipotentiaires 
respectifs ont signée et y ont apposé 
leurs cachets. 
Fait 4 Bruxelles en sept exemplaires, le 
15 Mars, 1886. 
[s—EAL] LAMBERT TREE 
[SEAL] Pr. p—E CARAMAN 
[SEAL] CH’v’LIER p. Moreau 
[SEAL] DE VILLENEUVE 
[sEAL] Jost Ma. pe Tavira 
[sEAL] Marrer 
[sEAL] B’on pg Sanv’ ANNA 
[sEAL] J. MaArrnovitcu. 
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
change of official documents and of scien- 
tifie and literary publications, the re- 
spective Governments undertake to have 
transmitted to the legislative chambers 
of each contracting State, as fast as their 
publication, a copy of the Official Journal, 
as well as of the parliamentary Annals 
and Documents, which are given pub- 
licity. 
Artic.E II, 
The States which have not taken part 
in the pre.ent Convention are admitted 
to adhere thereto on their request. 
This adhesion will be notified diplo- 
matically to the Belgian Government, 
and by that Government to all the other 
signatory States. 
Articute III. 
The present Convention will be ratified 
and the ratifications will be exchanged at 
Brussels as soon as practicable. It is con- 
cluded for ten years from the day of the 
exchange of the ratifications and it will 
remain in force beyond that time, so long 
as one of the Governments shall not have 
declared six months in advance that it 
renounces it. 
In witness whereof, the respective 
Plenpotentiaries have signed it, and have 
thereunto affixed their seals. 
Done at Brussels, in seven copies the 
15th of March, 1886. 
[u. s.] Lampert TREE 
[u. s.] Pr. pz CARAMAN 
[u. s.] CH’v’Lrer p. MorEau 
[u. s.] Cre. DE VILLENEUVE 
[u. s.] Joss Ma. pe Tavira 
[u. s.] MArFrrer 
[u. s.] B’on DE Sanr’ ANNA 
[u. s.] J. MaRinovircH 
And whereas the Plenipotentiary of the United States of America did, on the 17th 
day of November, 1888, deposit the President’s ratification of the said Convention 
with His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, for delivery to the 
Plenipotentiaries of the other signatory States, on the occasion of their re-assembling 
to exchange the ratifications of the said Convention; 
And whereas the Plenipotentiaries of the several Contracting Parties did, on the 
_ 14th day of January, 1889, exchange the.ratifications of the said Convention: 
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United 
States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end 
that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and salle with 
good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. 
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