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work. The Japanese minister is in correspondence with his Government, and it is 

 hoped satisfactory arrangements will soon be effected. 



The increased appropriation for 1895-96 over previous years has enabled the 

 Bureau to employ some additional assistance and to more expeditiously transmit the 

 packages intrusted to it. The foreign service could, however, be made much more 

 effective if the appropriation was sufficient to admit of forwarding cases by fast 

 steamers instead of being compelled to rely upon slower conveyance as is now occa- 

 sioned by forced economy. 



No provision has yet been made in Congressional appropriations for the immediate 

 exchange of parliamentary documents in accordance with the treaty concluded at 

 Brussels in 1886, and for which the Secretary of State recommended that $2,000 be 

 appropriated. 



It is my pleasure to inform you of the efficiency of the employees of the Exchange 

 Bureau, and to express my appreciation of the energy with which they uniformly 

 endeavor to prevent the work from accumulating. I beg also to call your attention 

 to the interest taken in all affairs of the Institution by its agents in Europe, Dr. 

 Felix Fliigel in Leipsic and Messrs. William Wesley & Son in London. 



Below is a list of transportation companies and others that continue to aid the 

 Institution to a marked degree in contributing free freight or charging only a mini- 

 mum, and in otherwise disinterestedly aiding in the diffusion of knowledge : 



LIST OF SHIPPING AGENTS AND CONSULS TO WHOM THE EXCHANGE SEPvVICE IS 

 INDEBTED FOR SPECIAL COURTESIES. 



American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston. 



Anchor Steamship Line (Henderson & Bro., agents), New York. 



Atlas Steamship Company (Pim, Forwood & Co.), New York. 



Bailey, H. B., & Co., New York. 



Bors, C, consul-general for Sweden and Norway, New York. 



Boulton, Bliss & Dallett, New York. 



Calderon, Climaco, consul-general for Colombia, New York. 



Cameron, R. W. ; & Co., New York. 



Baltazzi, X., consul-general for Turkey, New York. 



Compagnie G6n6rale Transatlantique (A. Forget, agent), New York. 



Cunard Royal Mail Steamship Company (Vernon H. Brown & Co., agents), New 



York. 

 Consul-general for Chile, New York. 



Hamburg-American Line (R. J. Cortis, manager), New York. 

 Hensel, Bruckmann & Lorbacher, New York. 

 Consul-general for Uruguay, Baltimore, Md. 

 Munoz y Espriella, New York. 



Navigazioue Generale Italiana (Phelps Bros. & Co.), New York. 

 Netherlands American Steam Navigation Company (W. H. Vanden Toorn, agent), 



New York. 

 North German Lloyd (agents: Oelrichs & Co., New York; A. Schumacher & Co., 



Baltimore). 

 Obarrio, Melchor, consul-general for Bolivia, New York. 

 Pacific Mail Steamship Company (H. J. Bullay, superintendent), New York. 

 Pioneer Line (R. W. Cameron & Co.), New York. 

 Perry, Ed., & Co., New York. 



Pomares, Mariano, consul-general for Salvador, New York. 

 Red Star Line (Peter Wright & Sons, agents), New York and Philadelphia. 

 Robl, C, consul-general for Argentina, New York. 

 Royal Danish consul, New York. 

 Royal Portuguese consul-general, New York. 

 Ruiz, Domingo L., consul-general for Ecuador. 

 Stewart, Alexander, consul-general for Paraguay, Washington, D. C. 



