REPORT OP THE SECRETARY. 61 



The entire number of publications sent abroad during tbe year under the provisions 

 of the act of Congress of March 2, 1867, and of the treaty above referred to, was 

 23,023, and there have been received in return 974 packages. The United States 

 Government Departments have forwarded to their correspondents abroad 37,871 

 packages, and have receivedin return 14,813 packages. The total number of exchanges 

 for Government libraries has therefore been 15,787 packages received and 37,871 

 packages sent abroad, a total of 76,681 packages, or about 71 per cent of the entire 

 number handled. 



The very inadequate return for the great number of documents sent out is in part 

 undoubtedly due to the fact that no other country publishes on such a lavish scale as 

 our own. Direct solicitation made by a special representative to the Governments 

 with which the Institution is in correspondence would also probably result in a 

 considerable increase to the Library of Congress. 



the Prince de Caraman, his minister of foreign affairs, and the Chevalier de Moreau, 

 his minister of agriculture, industry, and public works, 



His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, the Count de Villeneuve, his envoy extraordi- 

 nary and minister plenipotentiary near His Majesty the King of the Belgians, 



Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, Mr. de Tavira, charge d'affaires ad 

 interim of Spain at Brussels, 



His Majesty the King of Italy, the Marquis Maffei, his envoy extraordinary and 

 minister plenipotentiary near His Majesty the King of the Belgians, 



His Majesty the King of Portugal and of the Algarves, the Baron de Sant'Anna, 

 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Very Faithful Majesty, 



His Majesty the King of Servia, Mr. Marinovitch, his envoy extraordinary and 

 minister plenipotentiary near His Majesty the King of the Belgians, 



The Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation, Mr. Rivier, its special plenipo- 

 tentiary, 



Who, after having communicated between themselves their full powers, which are 

 found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles: 



Article I. There shall be established in each of the contracting States, a bureau 

 charged with the duty of the exchanges. 



Art. II. The publications which the contracting States agree to exchange are the 

 following : 



1st. The official documents, parliamentary and administrative, which are pub- 

 lished in the country of their origin. 



2nd. The works executed by order and at the expense of the Government. 



Art. III. Each bureau shall cause to be printed a list of the publications that it 

 is able to place at the disposal of the contracting States. 



This list shall be corrected and completed each year and regularly addressed to 

 all the bureaus of exchange. 



Art. IV. The bureaus of exchange will arrange between themselves the number of 

 copies which they may be able eventually to demand and furnish. 



Art. V. The transmission shall be made directly from bureau to bureau. Uniform 

 models and formulas will be adopted for the memoranda of the contents of the cases, 

 as well as for all the administrative correspondence, requests, acknowledgments of 

 reception, etc. 



Art. VI. For exterior transmissions, each State assumes the expense of packing 

 and transportation to the place of destination. Nevertheless, when the transmissions 

 shall be made by sea, special arrangements will regulate the share of each State in 

 the expense of transportation. 



Art. VII. The bureaus of exchange will serve, in an official capacity, as interme- 

 diaries between the learned bodies and literary and scientific societies, etc., * * * 

 ■of the contracting States for the reception and transmission of their publications. 



It remains, however, well understood that, in such case, the duty of the bureaus 

 of exchange will be confined to the free transmission of the works exchanged, and 



