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Publication. 
Sec. 17. The proceedings of the Congress shall be published, 
under direction of the General Secretary, and each member shall 
be entitled to receive one copy thereof. 
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS. 
OPENING SESSION. 
At 10 o’clock, Mr. Somerhausen, General Director of the 
Minister of the Interior, assumed the President’s chair. He was 
accompanied by several members of the Commission of Organiza¬ 
tion, and in the name of the Secretary of the Interior, welcomed 
the members in attendance, and after some well-timed remarks 
referring to the importance of international meetings of this 
nature, declared the Congress open. 
The Secretary, Prof. Wehenkel, in a few words, recalled the 
history of previous congresses, and referred to the labors of the 
organizing committee, in whose behalf he expressed the feelings 
of the deepest respect and gratitude to his Majesty the King of 
Belgium, who had so kindly extended the royal patronage to the 
Congress. He also thanked Messrs, the Ministers, who had lent 
their official assistance to the occasion, as well as to the members 
of the Congress, who in such large numbers had responded to the 
call of the committee. 
Mr. Somerhausen then proposed, as the first business of the 
meeting, to proceed to the discussion of the Constitution of the 
Congress. 
The Secretary having read the constitution, it was adopted 
section by section, and subsequently accepted and adopted by a 
unanimous vote. The following gentlemen were then unani¬ 
mously elected officers: President, M. Thiernesse. Yice Presi¬ 
dents, Messrs. M. H. Bouley, of Paris; Jacops, of Termonde; 
Muller, of Berlin; Roll, of Graz, and Wirtz, of Utrecht. Gen¬ 
eral Secretary, M. Wehenkel. Adjunct Secretaries, Messrs. W. 
M. Gerard, Gratia, Reul, Siegen and Stubbe. 
Mr. Somerhausen, after declaring the result of the election 
