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developed, the Permanent Committee was able to supply 

 certain preliminary Reports which were necessary to ensure 

 the satisfactory working of the Institute in future. The 

 Agenda for the General Assembly were thus being gradually 

 prepared, and at this stage, indeed, the Permanent Com- 

 mittee gave most of its attention to them, the various subjects 

 and reports mentioned therein being carefully and ex- 

 haustively discussed. 



I have only touched on the principal points which the Per- 

 manent Committee examined, and I shall conclude this part of 

 my Report by quoting a few figures which are really more 

 convincing than words. Since the meetings of the General 

 Assembly in 1908, the Permanent Committee met on 18 

 occasions, and its consultative bodies — the Special Com- 

 mittee and the three Permanent Committees — held 21, 18, 

 17, and 7 meetings respectively. The important Sub-com- 

 mittee of the Third Permanent Committee, formed to consider 

 the proposal of M. Saenz-Pena relating to the creation of 

 an Emigration Bureau, held four sittings. 



Duties of the Various Departments. 



A short account of the duties of the various Departments 

 is now given : — ■ 



The General Secretary's Branch. 



The General Secretary's Division consists practically of two 

 Branches : (1) the General Secretary's Branch, and (2) the 

 Library ; the former dealing with correspondence and records, 

 as well as with the duties of the bursar, the accountant, and 

 the cashier. For the sake of brevity and lucidity, I shall 

 quote a few figures only. The Staff dealing with corre- 

 spondence and records consists of an Assistant to the General 

 Secretary, an Editor, a Record-keeper, and two Shorthand- 

 typists. Their work included 18 reports of proceedings of 

 the Permanent Committee, with a large number of appen- 

 dices, 1,795 letters received, and 1,442 replies, including 11 

 printed and 35 typewritten circulars. In order to realise the 

 full extent of the work, it must not be forgotten that this 

 particular Division acts as the connecting-link between the 

 Permanent Committee and the various Departments ; between 



