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International Bureau of the American Republics, 
 
 WasUngton, D. C, May 1, 1906. 
 
 Gentlemen: On March 29, 1890, the International American Con- 
 ference, by a unanimous vote of the delegates of the eighteen coun- 
 tries there represented, nameh'^, the Argentine Republic, Bolivia, 
 Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Hon- 
 duras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguaj^, Peru, Salvador, United States, 
 UruguaA^, and Venezuela, provided for the establishment of an associa- 
 tion to be known as "The International Union of American Republics 
 for the Prompt Collection and Distribution of Commercial Informa- 
 tion," which should be represented at the capital of the United States 
 by a Bureau, under the title of "The Bureau of the American Repub- 
 lics." This organ, so to speak, of the independent governments of 
 the New World was placed under the supervision of the Secretary of 
 State of the United States, and was to continue in existence for a 
 period of ten years, and, if found profitable to the nations participat- 
 ing in its advantages, it was to be maintained for successive periods of 
 ten years indefinitely. (See Appendix I.) 
 
 At the first session of the Fifty-first Congress of the United States, 
 that body, in an "Act making appropriations for the support of the 
 diplomatic and consular service, etc.," approved July 14, 1890, gave 
 the President authority to carr}^ into efl^ect the recommendations of 
 the Conference so far as he should deem them expedient, and appro- 
 priated $36,000 for the organization and establishment of the Bureau, 
 which amount it had been stipulated bj;" the delegates in the Confer- 
 ence assembled should not be exceeded, and should be annually 
 advanced by the United States and shared by the, several Republics in 
 proportion to their population. (See Appendix II.) 
 
 On August 26, 1890, Mr. William E. Curtis was appointed Director 
 and was instructed to organize the Bureau. 
 
 The Conference had defined the purpose of the Bureau to be the 
 preparation and publication of bulletins concerning the commerce and 
 resources of the American Republics, and to furnish information of 
 interest to manufacturers, merchants, and shippers, which should be 
 at all times available to persons desirous of obtaining particulars 
 regarding their customs tariffs and regulations, as well as commerce 
 and navigation. 
 
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 The principal work of the Bureau during its existence has been the 
 compihition of handbooks, which have been and still are published 
 periodically. They contain general and specific information of the 
 character sought l)y the merchants, manufacturers, and shippers of 
 the American continents. These publications are compiled from 
 information received directly from oificial and authentic sources. 
 
 When the Bureau first came to undertake this task, the ignorance 
 concerning the political, commercial, and social conditions prevalent 
 in all the nations now banded together for the common weal was wide- 
 spread, while manv so-called standard publications in English were 
 found in numerous cases' to be absolutel}'^ unreliable as to statements 
 regarding Central and South American countries. The care with 
 which the handbooks of the Bureau are prepared, and the fact that 
 they are submitted before publication to the inspection and revision 
 of the officials or diplomatic agents of the Governments to which they 
 relate, tend to make them reliable, accurate, and authentic. 
 
 The demand for the publications of the Bureau was great from the 
 first, far exceeding the supply made possible under the limited 
 pecuniary support vouchsafed the Bureau. "^ 
 
 To meet this demand and the ever-increasing requests from those 
 for whose benefit the Bureau was established was a perplexing ques- 
 tion which early pressed itself upon the attention of the executive offi- 
 cers of the Bureau. The second director, Mr. Clinton Furbish, who 
 assumed charge on May 18, 1893, and held office until March 29, 1897, 
 issued a circular in October, 1893, announcing that thereafter a small 
 price would be charged for all the publications, with the view to secur- 
 ing impartiality of distribution. This practice still continues. The 
 receipts from this source average $1,000 per annum. 
 
 During the incumbency of Mr. Furbish, in accordance with the 
 recommendations of the International American Conference, the issue 
 of monthly bulletins was inaugurated, the purpose being to procure 
 and publish information regarding difierent industries of the several 
 Republics and the possibilities of profit in their development. The 
 first of these bulletins was issued in October, 1893, being entitled 
 " Coffee in America." The second was issued in November under the 
 title of "Coal and Petroleum in Colombia." 
 
 Thereafter the Bulletin continued to be a regular monthly publica- 
 tion printed in the Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese languages, 
 and devoted to the chronicling of important events and intelligence, 
 generally obtained from official sources, of the countries belonging to 
 the International Union. The edition is 12,000 copies, circulated 
 throughout Latin America and the United States, of which, since July, 
 1900, by order of Congress, 5,000 copies are printed for distribution 
 on the orders of Senators and Representatives. The publication is 
 now in its twenty-second volume. 
 
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 As a further means of extending- the Bureau's sources of informa- 
 tion, and of making the Bulletin a true reflex of the conditions pre- 
 vailing in all the countries comprising the International Union, the 
 cooperation has been sought of prominent persons in the various 
 Latin- American Republics in the capacity of honorary corresponding 
 members of the International Union. These supply the Bureau from 
 time to time with information which helps greatly to extend and com- 
 plete our knowledge of the economic conditions and resources of the 
 respective countries. 
 
 During the year 1896 a most important step was taken by the repre- 
 sentatives of the countries composing the International Union of 
 American Republics. For the purpose of carrying out the evident 
 intentions of the organizers of this movement, an invitation was 
 extended to the accredited representatives of the nations forming the 
 union, requesting them to meet the Secretary of State of the United 
 States for the purpose of consulting in regard to the future work of 
 the Bureau and of enlarging its scope. This meeting was held at the 
 Department of State on April 1, 1896. A committee of Ave members 
 was appointed to report upon the best means to carry out the ideas of 
 the representatives. 
 
 Having devoted much time to the matters submitted to them, the 
 committee made a final report June 4, 1896, which was adopted by 
 the representatives as a basis for the government of the affairs of the 
 union. The report was to the effect that the intention of the Interna- 
 tional American Conference was to establish a bureau entirely inter- 
 national in character; that in view of this purpose it was desirable 
 that citizens of the various countries composing the union should be 
 equally eligible to all the positions in the Bureau through competitite 
 examination; that the common interest would be subserved b}^ widen- 
 ing the scope of the work of the Bureau by making it the organ of 
 the union, not only for the purpose of collecting and disseminating 
 commercial information, but of dealing with all subjects relating to 
 economic life and growth of the countries of the union; that such 
 enlargement of the work necessitated increased expenditures, while it 
 was not desirable to exceed the limits of the original estimate of 
 expense; that this increase of expenditures would best be met by the 
 admission of advertisements in the publications of the Bureau. 
 
 Thereupon the report recommended that the Director of the Bureau 
 be instructed to take immediate action looking to the insertion ol 
 advertisements in the publications. The plan was tried and abandoned. 
 A further plan for the reorganization of the Bureau was proposed, 
 which incorporated certain regulations regarding the examinations for 
 applicants for positions, and created a permanent executive committee 
 to be composed of five of the representatives of the American nations 
 constituting the union. Four of these were called to serve ex officio in 
 
said capacity by turns in the alphabetical order of the names of their 
 nations in one of the four languag-es of the union, previousl}^ selected by 
 lot at a meeting- of the representatives of the same, the Secretary of State 
 of the United States being alwaj's, ex officio, a member. At the end 
 of the hrst 3'ear the first member of the committee was to be replaced 
 by the fifth representative in the alphabetical list, the second by the 
 sixth at the end of the second year, and so on in rotation from year to 
 year. The executive committee was to convene in ordinary session on 
 the first Monday of every month, and in extraordinary session when- 
 ever invited b}^ the Secretary of State, and could, when so requested 
 by a majorit}' of its members, call a meeting of all the representatives 
 of the union. 
 
 The executive committee acted as a board of supervision of the 
 administrators of the Bureau, and three of its members personally, or 
 by agents designated by them, formed part of the board for the exam- 
 ination of applicants for positions in the Bureau. It audited the 
 accounts of the Bureau. The Director was instructed to make a 
 report to the governments forming the union as soon as possible after 
 the 1st day of July of every year on the work of the Bureau for the 
 preceding year. (See Appendix III.) 
 
 Among the recommendations of the International Conference at 
 Washington, in 1889-90, was one advocating the publication of a code 
 of nomenclature of articles of merchandise exported and imported. 
 The work of preparing this code, or catalogue, of commercial terms 
 devolved upon the Bureau, and was completed in 1897. The work, as 
 completed, is in three volumes, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, 
 with the equivalents in each case in the other languages. 
 
 The most important work of the Bureau in the year 1897 was the 
 preparation of the Commercial Directory of the American Republics, 
 begun under Director Joseph P. Smith. The undertaking was one of 
 great magnitude, and entailed large expenditures of money and time. 
 The first volume was published about eight months from the time of 
 its inception, and the second volume a year later. 
 
 Upon the decease of Mr. Smith, Mr. Frederic Emory, Chief of the 
 Bureau of Foreign Commerce of the Department of State, was 
 instructed by the Secretary of State to assume charge of the Bureau 
 as Acting Director, and on February 28, 1898, by resolution of the 
 executive committee, this gentleman was appointed Director, provi- 
 sionall}^ Mr. Emory served as secretary of the Bureau from March, 
 1893, until April 17, 189-1:, when he was appointed Chief of the Bureau 
 of Foreign Commerce of the Department of State. It was not until 
 May 21, 1898, that Mr. Emory's successor as secretar}'- of the Bureau 
 was appointed, the position having remained vacant in the meantime. 
 
On that date Dr. Horacio Guzman was designated as secretary, under 
 special authority conferred by the executive committee, and served as 
 such until the date of his death, April 23, 1901. 
 
 A conference of the members of the International Union of Amer- 
 ican Republics was held on March 18, 1899, to consider a plan for the 
 permanent government of the Bureau of the American Republics 
 which had been submitted to the executive committee of the union 
 by the provisional director, Mr. Frederic Emory, as the result of his con- 
 clusions in the management of the Bureau. The plan was unanimously 
 adopted. (See Appendix IV.) 
 
 Mr. W. W. Rockhill was appointed Director of the Bureau May 20, 
 1899, and continued to serve until March 6, 1905, with the exception 
 of an interval of about one year, when he was absent on a special 
 service. During this period Mr. Williams C. Fox, the chief clerk of 
 the Bureau, was Acting Director. 
 
 At the Second International Conference of the American States, held 
 in Mexico in 1901-2, a further plan of reorganization was agreed upon. 
 (See Appendix V.) 
 
 At the conference in Mexico a branch office of the Bureau was 
 established in charge of the Acting Director. Certain important 
 duties were imposed upon the Bureau by the Second International 
 Conference, which were performed in due course, namely, the carry- 
 ing out of the arrangements for the coffee conference (New York, 
 October, 1902), the customs congress (New York, January, 1903), and 
 the sanitary conferences, (Washington, December, 1902, and October, 
 1905). 
 
 The first sanitary conference ^created the International Sanitary 
 Bureau, whose duty it is to lend its best aid and experience toward the 
 widest possible protection of the public health of each of the American 
 Republics. The funds of this Bureau are disbursed, and other details 
 attended to, by the International Bureau of the American Republics. 
 (See Appendix VI.) 
 
 The suggestion made in the First International Conference (W^ash- 
 ington, 1889-90) to establish a Columbus memorial librar}'^ as a monu- 
 ment to the conference was perfected in the Second International 
 Conference (Mexico, 1901-2). (See Appendixes VII and VIII.) 
 
 The librar}^ contains to-day 13,059 books and pamphlets, 465 maps, 
 and 31 general atlases, treating solely of Latin America. The library 
 is growing steadily. The necessity for the proper housing of such a 
 valuable library and the inadequate quarters which the Bureau occu- 
 pies caused Director Rockhill to submit to the governing board a pi'op- 
 osition looking toward the acquiring by the Bureau of a permanent 
 home. (See Appendix VIII.) 
 
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 The plan met with general approval, and the following countries, 16 
 •n all, have informed the Bureau that their quotas for the new build- 
 ing would be available when required: 
 
 Argentine Republic. Venezuela. Nicaragua. 
 
 Brazil, Mexico. Salvador. 
 
 Cuba. Bolivia. Chile. 
 
 Honduras. Haiti. Ecuador. 
 
 Peru. Costa Rica. Guatemala. 
 Uruguay. 
 
 Six of these countries have already paid their respective quotas for 
 this purpose, as follows: 
 
 Brazil $15,254.18 
 
 Cuba 1,469.12 
 
 Honduras 372.50 
 
 Peru 2,775.96 
 
 Uruguay 900.49 
 
 Venezuela 2,170.33 
 
 Total 22, 942. 58 
 
 There is, therefore, $22,942.58 held in trust in the United States 
 Treasur}'^ for the purpose of the building. 
 
 The quotas for the building fund have been calculated upon the 
 basis of population of the several countries, which at the rate of 
 $934.10 per million amount to $125,000. 
 
 Mr. W. W. Rockhill was succeeded by the undersigned as Director 
 April 5, 1905. 
 
 Mr. N. Veloz Goiticoa was appointed secretary of the Bureau, April 
 7, 1902, and resigned February 1, 1906, being succeeded by Mr. 
 Francisco J. Yanes on the following da^^ 
 
 At the regular monthly meeting of the governing board of Decem- 
 ber 6, 1905, rules and regulations for the government of the Bureau 
 were adopted, under which it is now working. Under these rules 
 and regulations four committees were appointed for the purpose of 
 cooperating in carrj'ing on the work of the Bureau, as follows: On 
 internal regulations, the representatives from (]osta Kica, Ecuador, 
 Panama, and the Dominican Republic; on accounts, the representa- 
 tives from Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Haiti, and Uruguay; orf library, 
 the representatives from Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, and Guatemala; on 
 Bulletin and other publications, the representatives from Bolivia, 
 Chile, the Argentine Republic, and Venezuela. (See Appendix IX.) 
 
 A list of the Bureau's publications, together with such other docu- 
 ments which it has for distribution, is appended herewith. (See 
 Appendix X.) 
 
 The work of the Bureau is carried on by twenty-four persons, 
 including officials, translators, clerks, and minor employees. 
 
As was the case at the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, the Trans- 
 Mississippi and International Exposition at Omaha in 1898, the Pan- 
 American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901, the South Carolina Inter- 
 State and West Indian Exposition at Charleston in 1902, and the 
 Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904, the Bureau was 
 represented b3dnvitation at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, 
 which was held at Portland, Oreg., from May 15 to October 16, 1905. 
 The exhibit attracted considerable attention on the Pacific coast, and 
 was the means of making- the work of the Bureau very widely known 
 in that part of the United States. 
 
 I have the honor to be, gentlemen, 3^our obedient servant, 
 
 Williams C. Fox, 
 
 DirectoT. 
 The Honorable Chairman and Members of the Governing Board 
 
 OF THE International Union of American Republics. 
 
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Appendix No. I. 
 
 EXTEACT FROM REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON CUSTOMS REGULATIONS AS 
 ADOPTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CONFERENCE AT WASHING- 
 TON, 1889-1890. 
 
 At the meeting of the conference, held March 29, 1890, the following resolution was 
 adoped: 
 
 "That the Governments here represented shall unite for the establishment of an 
 American International Bureau for the collection, tabulation, and publication, in the 
 English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages, of information as to the productions and 
 commerce, and as to the customs laws and regulations of their respective countries; 
 such Bureau to be maintained in one of the countricvS for the common benefit and at 
 the common expense, and to furnish to all the other countries such commercial sta- 
 tistics and other useful information as may be contributed to it by any of the Amer- 
 ican Republics. That the committee on customs regulations be authorized and in- 
 structed to furnish to the conference a plan of organization and a scheme for the practi- 
 cal work for the proposed Bureau." 
 
 In accordance with said resolution the committee submits the following recom- 
 mendations : 
 
 1. There shall be formed by the countries represented in this conference an associ- 
 ation under the title of "The International Union of American Republics ior the 
 prompt collection and distribution of commercial information." 
 
 2. The International Union shall be represented by a Bureau to be established in 
 the cit}' of Washington, D. C, under the supervision of the Secretary of State of the 
 United States and to be charged with the care of all transactions and publications and 
 with all correspondence pertaining to the International Union. 
 
 3. This Bureau shall be called "The Commercial Bureau of the American Repub- 
 lics," and its oi'gan shall be a publication to be entitled "Bulletin of the Commercial 
 Bureau of the American Republics." 
 
 4. The Bulletin shall be printed in the English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages. 
 
 5. The contents of the Bulletin shall consist of — 
 
 (a) The existing customs tariffs of the several countries belonging to the union 
 and all changes of the same as they occur, with such explanations as may be deemed 
 useful. 
 
 (6) All official regulations which affect the entrance and clearance of vessels and 
 the importation and exportation of merchandise in the ports of the represented 
 countries; also all circulars of instruction to customs officials which relate to customs 
 procedure or to the classification of merchandise for duty. 
 
 (c) Ample quotations from commercial and parcel-post treaties between any of 
 the American Republics. 
 
 {d) Important statistics of external commerce and domestic products and other 
 information of special interest to merchants- and shippers of the rejDresented 
 countries. 
 
 6. In order to enable the Commercial Bureau to secure the utmost accuracy in the 
 publication of the Bulletin, each country belonging to this union shall send directly 
 to the Bureau without delay two copies each of all official documents which may 
 pertain to matters having relation to the objects of the union, including customs 
 tariffs, official circulars, international treaties or agreements, local regulations, and, 
 so far as practical, complete statistics regarding commerce and domestic products 
 and resources. 
 
 7. This Bureau shall at all times be available as a medium of communication and 
 correspondence for persons applying for reasonable information in regard to matters 
 pertaining to the customs tariffs and regulations and to the commerce and navigation 
 of the American Republics. 
 
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 8. The form and style of the Bulletin shall be determined by the Commercial 
 Bureau and each edition shall consist of at least 1,000 copies. In order that diplo- 
 matic representatives, consular agents, boards of trade, and other preferred persons 
 shall be promptly supplied with the Bulletin, each member of the union may furnish 
 the Bureau with addresses to which copies shall be mailed at its expense. 
 
 9. Every country belonging to the International Union shall receive its quota of 
 each issue of the Bulletin and the quota of each country shall be in proportion to its 
 population. 
 
 Copies of the Bulletin may be sold (if there be a surplus) at a price to be fixed by 
 the Bureau. 
 
 10. While it shall be required that the utmost possible care be taken to insure 
 absolute accuracy in the publications of the Bureau, the International Union will 
 assume no pecuniary responsibility on account of errors or inaccuracies which may 
 occur therein. A notice to this effect shall be conspicuously printed upon the first 
 page of every successive issue of the Bulletin. 
 
 11. The maximum expense to be incurred for establishing the Bureau and for its 
 annual maintenance shall be $36,000, and the following is a detailed estimate of its 
 organization, subject to such changes as prove desirable: 
 
 One Director in charge of Bureau, compensation $5, 000 
 
 One secretary 3, 000 
 
 One accountant 2, 200 
 
 One clerk 1, 800 
 
 One clerk and typewriter 1, 600 
 
 One translator ( Spanish and English ) 2, 500 
 
 One translator (Spanish and English ) 2, 000 
 
 One translator ( Portugiiese and English ) 2, 500 
 
 One messenger 800 
 
 One porter 600 
 
 Total 22, 000 
 
 OFFICE EXPENSES. 
 
 Rent of apartments, to contain one room for Director, one room for secretary, 
 one room for translators, one room for clerks, etc., and one room for library 
 and archives ?3, 000 
 
 Light, heat, cleaning, etc 500 
 
 Total ■ 3, 500 
 
 PUBLICATION OP BULLETIN. 
 
 Printing, paper, and other expenses |10, 000 
 
 Postage, express, and miscellaneous expenses 500 
 
 Total 10, 500 
 
 12. The Government of the United States, through the Secretary of State, to 
 advance to the International Union a fund of $36,000, or so much of that amount as 
 may be required, for the expenses of the Commercial Bureau during its first year, 
 and a like sum for each subsequent year of the existence of this union. 
 
 13. On the 1st day of July of the year 1891, and of each subsequent year during 
 the continuance of this union, the Director of the Commercial Bureau shall transmit 
 to every Government belonging to the union a statement in detail of the expenses 
 incurred for the purposes of the union, not to exceed §36,000, and shall assess upon 
 each of said Governments the same proportion of the total outlay as the populations 
 of the respective countries bear to the total populations of all the countries represented 
 in the union, and all the Governments so assessed shall promptly remit to the Secre- 
 tary of State of the United States, in coin or its equivalent, the amounts respectively 
 assessed upon them by the Director of the Bureau. In computing the population of 
 any of the countries of this union, the Director of the Bureau shall be authorized to 
 use the latest official statistics in his possession. The first assessment to be made 
 according to the following table: 
 
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 Table of assessments for commercial bureau. 
 
 Countries. 
 
 Haiti 
 
 Nicaragua . 
 
 Peru 
 
 Guatemala 
 Uruguay... 
 Colombia. . 
 Argentina . 
 Costa Rica. 
 Paraguay.. 
 Brazil 
 
 Population. 
 
 Tax. 
 
 500,000 
 
 1187.50 
 
 200, 000 
 
 75.00 
 
 2, tiOO, 000 
 
 975.00 
 
 1,400,000 
 
 .525.00 
 
 600, 000 
 
 225.00 
 
 3,900,000 
 
 1,462. .50 
 
 3, 900, 000 
 
 1,462.50 
 
 200, 000 
 
 75.00 1 
 
 250, 000 
 
 93.75 ! 
 
 14, 000, 000 
 
 .5,250.00 j 
 
 Countries. 
 
 Honduras 
 
 Mexico 
 
 Bolivia 
 
 United States 
 Venezuela ... 
 
 Chile •.... 
 
 Salvador 
 
 Ecuador 
 
 Total... 
 
 Population, 
 
 850, 000 
 400, 000 
 200, 000 
 1.50,000 
 200, OOJ 
 500, 000 
 650, 000 
 000, 000 
 
 Tax. 
 
 $131. 25 
 3, 900. 00 
 450. 00 
 18,806.00 
 825. 00 
 937. 50 
 243. 75 
 375.00 
 
 36, 000. 00 
 
 14. In order to avoid delay in the establishment of the union herein described, the 
 delegates assembled in th4s conference will promptly communicate to their respective 
 Governments the plan of organization and of practical work ado])ted by the confer- 
 ence, and will ask the said Governments to notify the Secretary of State of the United 
 States, through their accreciited representatives at this capital or otherwise, of their 
 adhesion or nonadhesion, as the case may be, to the terms proposed. 
 
 15. The Secretary of State of the United States is requested to organize and estab- 
 lish the Commercial Bureau as soon as practicable after a majority of the countries 
 here represented have officially signified their consent to join the International 
 Union. 
 
 16. Amendments and modifications of the plans of this union may be made at any 
 time during its continuance by the vote, officially communicated to the Secretary of 
 State of the United States, of a majority of the members of the union. 
 
 17. This union shall continue in force during a term of ten years from the date of 
 its organization, and no country becoming a member of the union shall cease to be a 
 member until the end of said period of ten years. Unless twelve months before the 
 expiration of said period a majority of the members of the union shall have given to 
 the Secretary of State of the United States official notice of their wish to terminate 
 the union at the end of its first period, the union shall continue to be maintained for 
 another period of ten years and thereafter, under the same conditions, for successive 
 periods of ten years each. 
 
 Jose Alfonso. 
 
 M. ROMEKO. 
 
 N. BoLET Peraza. 
 Salvador de Mendon^a. 
 H. G. Davis. 
 Chas. R. Flint. 
 
Appendix No. II. 
 
 Act making appropriations for the support of the diplomatic and consular service of the United 
 States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, approved July 14, 1890, and subsequent acts. 
 
 "For the organization and establishment, under the direction of the Secretary of 
 State, of 'The International Union of American Republics for the prompt collection 
 and distribution of commercial information,' thirty-six thousand dollars, and the 
 sums contributed by other American Republics for this purpose, when collected, 
 shall be covered into the Treasury." 
 
 The Fifty-first Congress (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 26, p. 1053) appropriated as 
 follows for the fiscal year 1891-92: 
 
 "For 'The International Union of American Republics, for the prompt collection 
 and distribution of commercial information,' thirty-six thousand dollars; and the 
 sums contributed by other American Republics for this purpose, when collected, shall 
 be covered into the Treasury." 
 
 The Fifty-second Congress (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 27, p. 227) appropriated 
 as follows for the fiscal year 1892-93: 
 
 "Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, for the prompt collection and 
 distribution of commercial information, as recommended by the International Amer- 
 ican Conference, thirty thousand (sic.) dollars. The sums contributed by the other 
 American Republics for this purpose, when collected, shall be covered into the 
 Treasury." 
 
 The Fifty-second Congress, second session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 27, p. 500), 
 appropriated as follows for the year 1893-94: 
 
 "Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, for the prompt collection and 
 distribution of commercial information, as recommended by the International Ameri- 
 can Conference, thirty thousand dollars. And of the sums heretofore, or which may 
 be hereafter, contributed by the other American Republics for this purpose, there 
 shall be covered into the Treasury the amount necessary to reimburse the United 
 States for the sum advanced beyond its contributive share for the maintenance of the 
 American Republics." 
 
 The Fifty-third Congress, second session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 28, pp. 151, 
 418, 843), appropriated for the fiscal year 1894-95 as follows: 
 
 "Commercial Bureau of American Republics, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That 
 any moneys received from sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or other sources, 
 may be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation and may 
 be drawn therefrom upon requisition of the Secretary of State for the purpose of 
 meeting the expenses of the Bureau." 
 
 " For the Bureau of American Republics: For preparing, printing, and circulating 
 publications, five thousand dollars. The Bureau of the American Republics shall 
 be placed under the control and direction of the Secretary of State, who shall report 
 to Congress at its next regular session the propriety of continuing said Bureau, or if 
 any obligation exists upon the part of the United States requiring the continuance 
 thereof. ' ' 
 
 "International LTnion of American Republics: For Commercial Biu'eau of Ameri- 
 can Republics, eight thousand dollars." 
 
 The Fifty-third Congress, third session (U. S. Statutes at Large, p. 825, vol. 28) 
 appropriated for the fiscal year 1895-96 as follows: 
 
 "Commercial Bureau of "American Republics, twenty-eight thousand dollars: Pro- 
 vided, That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, 
 or other sources, niay be paid into the Treasury as a credit, in addition to the 
 appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of 
 State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau." 
 
 The Fifty-fourth Congress, first session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 29, p. 38), 
 appropriated as follows for the fiscal year 1896-97: 
 
 " Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, twenty-eight thousand dollars: 
 Provided, That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau publications, from 
 rents, or other sources shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the 
 appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of 
 State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau." 
 
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 The Fifty-fourtli Congress, second session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 29, p. 590), 
 appropriated as follows for the liseal year 1897-98: 
 
 " Coninieroial Bureau of American Republics, twenty-eight thousand dollars: Pro- 
 vided, That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or 
 other source- shall be paid intotheTreasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation, 
 and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose 
 of meeting the expenses of the Bureau: Prorided, That the provisions of the fifth 
 and sixth sections of the act entitled 'An act establishing post routes, and for other 
 purposes,' approved March three, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for the trans- 
 mission of official mail matter be, and they are hereby, extended and made appli- 
 cable to all official mail matter of the Bureau of the American Republics established 
 in Washington by recommendation of the International American Conference, rep- 
 resenting the International Union of American Republics." 
 
 The Fifty-fifth Congress, second session (U. S. Stat. L., vol. 30, p. 273), appro- 
 priated as follows for the fiscal year 1898-99: 
 
 "Commercial Bureau of xlmerican Republics, thirty-six thousand dollars: Provided, 
 That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or other 
 sources shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation, 
 and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the pur- 
 pose of u:ieeting the expenses of the Bureau." 
 
 The Fifty-fifth Congress, third session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 30, p. -833), 
 appropriated as follows for the fiscal year 1899-1900: 
 
 "Commercial Bureau of American Republics, thirty-six thousand dollars: Provided, 
 That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the 
 Bureau, or from the sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or other sources, 
 shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation, and may 
 be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of 
 meeting the expenses of the Bureau." 
 
 The Fifty-sixth Congress, first session (U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. 31, p. 71), 
 appropriated as follows for the fiscal year 1900-1901 : 
 
 " Commercial Bureau of American Republics, thirty-six thousand dollars: Provided, 
 That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the 
 Bureau, or from the sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or other sources, 
 shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation, and may 
 be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of 
 meeting the expenses of the Bureau: And provided further, That the Public Printer 
 be, and is hereby, authorized to print an edition of the Monthly Bulletin not to 
 exceed five thousand coj^ies for distribution hy the Bureau every month during the 
 fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one." 
 
 The appropriations made by the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses were 
 identical with the one last above ciuoted. 
 
Appendix No. III. 
 
 At a meeting of all the representatives of the countries forming the Union of 
 American Republics, held on the 1st of x\pril, 1896, the Secretary of State of the 
 United States was unanimously requested to appoint a committee of five members 
 intrusted with drawing up a plan for the improvement of the work of the Bureau of 
 the Amei'ican Republics. 
 
 The appointment was made by the Secretary of State, as follows: 
 Seiior Don Matias Romero, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of 
 Mexico. 
 
 SeiTior Don Salv. Mendonga, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of 
 Brazil. 
 
 Seiior Don Jose Andrade, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of 
 Venezuela. 
 
 Seiior Don Ant. Lazo, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Gua- 
 temala. 
 Seiior Don J. B. Calvo, then charge d'affaires of Costa Rica. 
 
 The committee made its report on June 4, 1896, the same having been adopted by 
 all the representatives. 
 
 Then the executive committee was created to be composed of five members, the 
 Secretary of Staite of the United States being always ex officio the chairman, the 
 other four members to serve their tenns by turns in the alphabetical order of the names 
 of their nations in the French language. 
 The executive committee, therefore, was composed for the year 1896-97 as follows: 
 Etats Unis d'Amerique. 
 Etats Unis de Bresil. 
 Etats Unis de Mexique. 
 Etats Unis de Venezuela. 
 Nation Argentine. 
 The Argentine Republic and Mexico having intended to withdraw from the union, 
 the minit<ters from those countries, Messrs. Merou and Romero, accepted their places 
 as members of the executive committee pending the action of their respective 
 Governments. 
 
 At the end of the year, June 30, 1897, Minister Mendonga, of Brazil, retired and 
 Minister Luis Paz, of Bolivia, came in. The executive committee for the year 
 1897-98, was then as follows: 
 
 Etats Unis d'Amerique. 
 Etats Unis de Mexique. 
 Etats Unis de Venezuela. ' 
 Nation Argentine. 
 Republique de Bolivie. 
 At the end of the year, June 30, 1898, Minister Romero, of Mexico, retired, Chile 
 succeeding according to the alphabetical order, but Chile up to that time was not a 
 member of the union, and the representative of Colombia was called. 
 
 The executive committee for the year 1898-99 was then to be composed of the 
 representatives of the following countries: 
 Etats Unis d'Amerique. 
 Etats Unis de Venezuela. 
 Nation Argentine. 
 Republique de Bolivie. 
 Republique de Colombie. 
 Colombia was in the same condition as Argentina and Mexico in regard to the 
 intention to withdraw, but its representative in Washington did not follow the course 
 pursued by his colleagues Merou and Romero, and did not accept the appointment. 
 For this reason, and in consideration of the continuous absence of the minister of 
 Bolivia, the Director of the Bureau, by direction of the Secretary of State, addressed 
 a note dated June 24, 1898, to Mr. Calvo, the Costa Rican minister, Costa Rica being 
 the next in alphabetic order. Minister Calvo, in a note of the same date, accepted 
 the position of a member of the executive committee, but with the understanding 
 that he would retire as soon as the representative of Colombia was able to accept the 
 
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 place. The point of view taken in the matter according to the precedent estal)hshed 
 in the cases of Argentina and Mexico being that there was no reason why the same 
 course, as in regard to those countries, should not be followed in regard to Colombia. 
 Moreover, Bolivia was never represented in the executive committee, and the place 
 of its representative was kept open for him, his name remaining in the published 
 lists of the members of the connnittee. The action of Colombia, JNIexico, or Argen- 
 tina in intending to withdraw from the union, as it is well known, was never ac- 
 knowledged by the Government of the United States nor any other of the countries 
 forming the union. 
 
 Later on the Colombian Government withdrew its objections to continue as a 
 member of said union, and its minister joined the committee. 
 
 At the end of the year, June 30, 1899, Venezuela's term lapseil. The representa- 
 tives of the following countries to form the executive committee for the vear 1899- 
 1900: 
 
 United States of America. 
 
 Argentine Republic. 
 
 Bolivia. 
 
 Colombia. 
 
 Costa Rica. 
 At the end of the year, June 30, 1900, the Argentine Republic's term lapsed and 
 Minister Wilde retired. 
 
 As it can be noted, the name of the minister from Bolivia appeared in the Bulletin 
 of the Bureau up to March, 1900. Then the Director of the Bureau, in view of the 
 continued absence of said representative, suggested that the one from the country 
 next in the alphabetic order should be called to complete the number of which the 
 committee shall be composed. The minister from Ecuador being absent the appoint- 
 ment was sent to the minister from Guatemala. 
 
 Bolivia has now a new representative in Washington. Its term in the executive 
 committee ends June 30, 1901. 
 
 ALPHABETICAL LIST. 
 
 Etats Unis d'Amerique. 
 Etats Unis du Bresil. 
 Etats Unis du Mexique. 
 Etats Unis de A'enezuela. 
 Nation Argentine. 
 Republique de Bolivie. 
 Republique du Chile. 
 Republique de la Colombie. 
 Republique de Costa Rica. 
 Republique de I'Equateur. 
 
 Republique de Guatemala. 
 Republique d' Haiti. 
 Republique de Honduras. 
 Republique de Nicaragua. 
 Republique du Paragnay. 
 Republique du Peru. 
 Republique de St. Domingue. 
 Republique de Salvador. 
 Republique Oriental de 1' Uruguay, 
 
 Report as Adopted, 
 
 To the honorable Secretary of State of the United States: 
 
 The committee appointed by you, authorized by the meeting of the union held on 
 the 1st of April, 1896, and intrusted with drawing up a j^lan for the improvement of 
 the work of the Bureau of the American Republics, after careful consideration of 
 the subject in several meetings — 
 
 Considering, That the purpose of the resolution of March 29, 1890, of the Inter- 
 national American conference was to establish a Bureau which would be entirely 
 international in character; 
 
 Considering, That in view of such purpose it is desirable that the citizens of the 
 various countries composing the union should be equally eligible to all positions in 
 said Bureau through competitive examination; 
 
 Considering, That it would be advantageous to the common interest to widen the 
 scope of the work of the Bureau without departing from the bases of its original 
 organization, by making it the organ of the union, not only for the purpose of col- 
 lecting and disseminating commercial information, but of dealing with all subjects 
 relating to economic life and growth of the countries of the union; 
 
 Considering, That such enlargement of the work of the Bureau will necessitate an 
 increase of expenditures, and that, as at the same time it is desirable not to exceed 
 the limits of the original estimate of expense, it becomes necessary to provide means 
 for obtaining revenue to meet such increased expenditures; 
 
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 Considering, That bj' the admission of advertisements in the publications of the 
 Bureau sufficient revenue can probably be obtained to warrant increased expenditure — 
 
 Recommends that the Secretary of State, to give due effect to the requirements of 
 clause 15 of the resolution under which the Bureau was established, shall formulate 
 regulations for its government and work according to the plan hereinafter submitted; 
 
 That such regulations shall be communicated to the representatives of the coun- 
 tries constituting the union in a general meeting for their knowledge; 
 
 That in order to provide for successfully carrying into effect the provisions of the 
 regulations, the Secretary of State shall instruct the Director of the Bureau of the 
 American Republics to take immediate action looking to the insertion of advertise- 
 ments in the publications of the Bureau. 
 
 The committee does not believe it advisable to recommend at present an increase 
 of appropriation for the support of the Bureau, and therefore retains for the present 
 the same officers and salaries that were established in the act of organization. 
 
 PLAN RECOMMENDED. 
 
 1. The Bureau of the American Republics is, for all purposes, to be considered as 
 an international organization. 
 
 The appointments in the future for all positions in the Bureau for which literary 
 or scientific qualifications are required shall be made by the Secretary of State of the 
 United States conformably to the following rules: 
 
 (o) All applicants for positions in the Bureau shall be examined by a board com- 
 posed of three members of the executive committee, or persons designated by them, 
 and two examiners appointed by the Secretary of State of the United States. The 
 board shall send to the Secretary of State a list of the three names of the applicants 
 for each position who from their written and oral examinations shall show them- 
 selves best qualified to fill such place. From this list the Secretary of State shall 
 select one name for the appointment. In case less than three candidates are approved 
 by the examiners, the name or names of only such as are approved shall be pre- 
 sented to the Secretary of State for appointment. Citizens of any of the countries 
 constituting the union may be candidates for any position in the Bureau, provided 
 they shall be able to pass an examination in the English language and have the 
 other qualifications hereafter prescribed. 
 
 (6) Every official of the Bureau appointed by the Secretary of State shall be eligi- 
 ble to promotion, and shall pass an examination by the examining board as above 
 constituted before such promotion can be made. 
 
 (c) Every official of the Bureau appointed by the Secretary of State shall be 
 exempt from dismissal from office by him except for just cause affecting his general 
 character or his capacity and efficiency in the discharge of his duties. 
 
 (rf) Every official or employee of the Bureau shall be entitled to thirty days leave 
 of absence during each year, with full pay, and such leaves shall be granted by turns 
 in each class. 
 
 (e) Places in the Bureau not requiring literary or scientific qualifications, such as 
 those of janitor, messenger, porter, etc., shall be filled by the Director of the Bureau, 
 who shall appoint to or remove from such places with sole reference to the efficient 
 discharge of the services to be rendered. 
 
 2. A permanent executive committee is created, to be composed of five of the 
 representatives of the American nations constituting the union. Four of these shall 
 be called to serve ex officio in said capacity by turns, in the alphabetic order of the 
 names of their nations in one of the four languages of the union, previously selected 
 by lot, at a meeting of the representatives of the union, the Secretary of State of the 
 United States being always ex officio a member. At the end of the first year the 
 first member of the committee shall be replaced by the fifth representative in 
 the alphabetic list, the second by the sixth at the end of the second year, and so on 
 in rotation from year to year. The executive committee shall convene in ordinary 
 session on the first Monday of every month and in extraordinary session whenever 
 invited by the Secretary of State, and may, when so requested bj^ a majority of its 
 members, call a meeting of all the representatives of the union. The Secretary of 
 State may also call such meeting whenever he shall deem proper to do so., 
 
 (a) The executive committee shall act as a board of supervision of the administra- 
 tion of the Bureau. 
 
 (6) It shall appoint three of its members, who, personally or by agents designated 
 by them, shall form part of the board for the examination of applicants for positions 
 in the Bureau, as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 (c) It shall audit the accounts of the Bureau, either by its members or by proper 
 agents selected by them, and consider the estimate submitted by the director of the 
 Bureau for the succeeding year. 
 
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 ((/) It shall recoiiunend from time to time suoh modifications as, in its judgment, 
 shall conduce to the improvement of the work of the Bureau. 
 
 (e) The meml)ers of the executive committee and their substitutes shall serve 
 without remuneration in all their functions. 
 
 3. The duties of the officials and employees of the Bureau shall be as follows: 
 
 (rt) The Director shall have general supervision over all the work of the Bureau, 
 and require from each of the employees the faithful discharge of his or her particular 
 duties. He shall have a book kept, which shall be o])ened at 9 o'clock a. m. on 
 every week day, except legal holidays, in which each oflicial and employee as he 
 enters in the morning shall inscribe his or her name, with the time of arrival. 
 This book shall be kept by the janitor and signed each day by the Director at the 
 close of the Bureau at 4 p. m. 
 
 He shall, as soon as possible after the 1st day of July of every year, make a report 
 to the Governments forming the union, in which he shall give an account of the work 
 of the Bureau for the year last past, and present a detailed account of the receipts 
 and expenditures for the said year, and indicate the quotas to be paid by the respec- 
 tive countries forming the union. This report shall also include an estimate of the 
 receipts and expenditures for the following year, such estimate to be submitted to 
 the executive committee for its approval. 
 
 The report shall be sent at once to the representatives of the said countries for trans- 
 mission to their respective Governments, for their information in regard to the work 
 of the Bureau, and the amount due from them for the support of the Bureau for the 
 year last endeci, which amount must be paid to the Secretary of State of the United 
 States before the close of December of each year. 
 
 The Director shall ask the Secretary of State to call a meeting of the executive 
 committee of the Bureau whenever the said committee shall not, of its own accord, 
 have assembled during the space of one month. 
 
 (&) The translators shall make, in their respective languages, all the translations 
 necessary for the publications and other work of the Bureau. 
 
 4. The present officials and employees of the Bureau shall continue in the same, 
 subject to the provisions of section 1 (c), and all new appointments shall be made on 
 examination and in the manner hereinbefore provided. Any vacancy existing or 
 occurring in the Bureau before this plan goes into effect shall be temporarily filled 
 by some officer or employee of the same designated by the Secretary of State until 
 the position is definitely filled in the manner hereinbefore provided. The execu- 
 tive committee shall consider and authorize to be made such changes in the number 
 of the officers and employees of the Bureau as it may deem advisable for the efficient 
 performance of the work of the Bureau and as can be made without increasing the 
 appropriations for the support of the Bureau, all new appointments under such 
 authorization to be made as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 5. Each Government in the union shall have the right to send at its own expense 
 an agent to the Bureau specially intrusted with the duty of furnishing such informa- 
 tion in regard to his own country as may be required of him and of obtaining infor- 
 mation in relation to the commerce and industries of the United States, or any other 
 of the countries constituting the union. Such agent may take the place of the repre- 
 sentative of his country in case of prolonged absence of the latter. 
 
 6. The Governments of the nations represented in the union shall be requested to 
 send to the Bureau a collection of their laws, whether state or federal, and of any pub- 
 lications relating to their geography, industries, commerce, and resources in general, 
 or concerning any other subjects tending to increase the information in regard to the 
 present condition of said nations, such collections and publications to form the nucleus 
 of an international American library. 
 
 7. The publications of the Bureau in the form of monthly bulletins and handbooks 
 or monographs shall have reference especially to commercial affairs, as customs duties, 
 transportation, budgets, statistics, and to any matter relating to the commerce and 
 industries in general of the nations forming the union, and, besides, geographical 
 information, discoveries and explorations, and any subject that may extend a knowl- 
 edge of the economic condition and resources of said nations. 
 
 8. In conformity with the practice of several nations, both in America and Europe, 
 the Director of the Bureau, under the general direction of the executive committee, 
 is authorized to arrange for the insertion of private advertisements in the publica- 
 tions made by the Bureau. The rates paid for their insertion shall be uniform for 
 all the countries of the union. The Director of the Bureau is authorized to sell the 
 surplus of the publications to private parties at a price not to exceed 10 per cent 
 more than the actual cost of publication. The publications of the Bureau shall be 
 made in such languages of the union as the executive committee may from time to 
 ^time direct. 
 
Appendix No. IV. 
 
 PLAN ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY MARCH 18, 1899, AT A CONFERENCE OF DIPLO- 
 MATIC REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COUNTRIES COMPOSING THE INTERNA- 
 TIONAL UNION OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS FOR THE PERMANENT GOVERNMENT 
 OF THE BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 
 
 Whereas experience has shown that the agreement entered into on the 4th of June, 
 1896, between the Secretary of State of the United States and the diplomatic repre- 
 sentatives in Washington of a majority of the countries of the International Union of 
 American Republics for the government of the Bureau representing the union needs 
 to be modified in some particular, the following is hereby adopted as a substitute for 
 that agreement, and its provisions will hereafter serve for the guidance of the Bureau: 
 
 1. The Bureau of the American Republics will be governed under the supervision 
 of the Secretary of State of the United States, with the cooperation and advice of four 
 representatives of the other republics composing the International Union, the five 
 persons indicated to constitute an executive committee, of which the Secretary of 
 State is to be ex-officio chairman, or in his absence the Acting Secretary of State. 
 The other four members of the executive committee shall be called to serve in turn 
 in the alphabetical order of the official names of their nations in one of the four lan- 
 guages of the union previously selected by lot at a meeting of the representatives of 
 the union. At the end of each year the first of these four members shall retire, giv- 
 ing place to another representative of the union in the same alphabetical order already 
 explained, and so on until the next period of succession. 
 
 The present executive committee, having been constituted after the foregoing 
 method of appointment and order of alternation, shall continue its existence until 
 regularly changed in accordance therewith. 
 
 2. The meetings of the executive committee shall be held from time to time upon 
 notice from the chairman or upon the request of a majority of the committee. In 
 case of the absence or inability of any of the members representing the countries other 
 than the United States his official substitute shall be invited to take his place at meet- 
 ings of the committee. At any meeting of the committee three members shall con- 
 stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 
 
 3. The executive committee shall, in the manner hereinafter provided, have the 
 power to appoint the Director, secretary, and permanent translators of the Bureau of 
 the American Republics, after consideration of the qualifications of the applicants 
 for these positions, to fix their salaries, and to dismiss them w-henever it may deem 
 advisable. The method of appointment shall be the following: 
 
 In case of a vacancy the executive committee will receive from the chairman the 
 applications of candidates or letters of recommendation, and each member of the 
 committee is at liberty to propose such names as he may think desirable. From 
 these applications and recommendations the committee will select three or more per- 
 sons, whom it deems to be qualified for the position, and submit them to the chair- 
 man for the selection of one of them, who will then receive a commission from the 
 chairman entitling him to hold and discharge the duties of the office, at a specified 
 salary, subject to the further will of the committee, provided that it is hereby under- 
 stood and agreed that the Director shall be a citizen of the United States. In case of 
 the death, permanent disability, or prolonged absence of the Director of the Bureau, 
 the executive committee is empowered to suspend the foregoing rules of appoint- 
 ment and choose a provisional Director for such time as may be deemed expedient. 
 During the temporary absence or disability of the Director the secretary of the 
 Bureau will be the Acting Director, but it will be understood that he discharges his 
 duties subject to the instructions of the Director, and the executive committee may 
 restrict the functions of the Acting Director in such a waj' as may seem to be 
 demanded by the immediate interests of the Bureau. 
 
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 4. The other duties of the executive committee are to be those of general supervis- 
 ion and perfecting of the management of the Bureau, especially in all matters affect- 
 ing the particular requirements or interests of individual members of the union, the 
 finances, the business features, and the development of the various branches of the 
 work of the Bureau, as indicated by the International American Conference. 
 
 5. The Director shall have immediate control of all the work of the Bureau and of 
 the literary, clerical, and laboring forces thereof, and will suggest to the executive 
 committee such changes as he may deem judicious and such business engagements as 
 he may find desirable to enter into for the benefit of the Bureau. He shall have full 
 power" of appointment and dismissal of the officials and employees of the Bureau 
 other than the secretary and permanent translators, and of fixing the various rates 
 of compensation for their services; but he can make no appointment for a period 
 longer than the term of his incumbency. He shall submit to the executive commit- 
 tee a report, as soon as possible after the 1st of July of every year, upon the work of 
 the Bureau for the year preceding, said report to contain a detailed account of the 
 receipts and expenditures for the said year and the amounts of quotas to be paid by 
 the respective countries forming the union, as well as an estimate of the receipts and 
 expenditures for the following year. 
 
 6. The annual report of the Director, upon approval by the executive committee, 
 shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State of the United States and to the ministers 
 of foreign affairs of the other countries of the union. 
 
 7. The admission of advertisements in the publications of the Bureau continues to 
 be allowed, but not the solicitation of such advertisements or of purchase of the Bureau 
 publications upon commissions paid to agents, unless specifically authorized by the 
 executive committee. 
 
 8. All moneys received from advertising, sales of publications, or other sources, 
 exclusive of the appropriation of the United States Congress, shall be paid as promptly 
 as possible to the Secretary of State for deposit in the Treasury of the United States 
 to the credit of the Bureau fund, "Keceipts, sales, etc." 
 
 9. No payments shall be made by the Director or any other official of the Bureau 
 of the American Republics except upon a check or draft drawn or indorsed to the 
 order of the Secretary of State, or upon vouchers drawn upon the disbursing officer 
 of the Department of State. 
 
Appendix No. V. 
 
 REORGANIZATION OF THE BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 
 
 EESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES 
 FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OP THE AMERICAN 
 REPUBLICS. 
 
 The Governments represented at this conference, realizing the usefulness of the 
 International Bureau of the American Republics established in Washington, agree 
 that said Bureau shall be governed, for a period of ten years from the date of the 
 adjournment of the present conference, by the following regulations, which, how- 
 ever, shall be subject to the revision of the next conference of the American Repub- 
 lics, or to that of the republics themselves, in accordance with the provisions of 
 paragraph 16 of the resolutions adopted by the First International Conference of the 
 American Republics on April 14, 1890: 
 
 Article 1. The International Bureau of the American Republics shall be under the 
 control of a governing board composed of the diplomatic representatives of all the 
 governments' of said republics accredited near the Government of the United States 
 of America, and of the Secretary of State of the latter Nation, who shall be the chair- 
 man of said governing board. The governing board shall hold a regular meeting 
 monthly, except during the months of June, July, and August, and such special 
 meetings as may be called by the chairman, either of his own accord or at the request 
 of two members of the board. The attendance of five members of said board at any 
 regular or special meeting shall be sufficient to constitute a quorum, and to enable 
 the board to transact in due form any business within the scope of its authority, and 
 to appoint such committees as it may deem proper. 
 
 Art. 2. All the positions in the Bureau shall be filled after an examination of the 
 applicants by an exajiiining board composed of three persons, who shall be appointed 
 by the governing board. Said applicants shall make their applications by filling 
 out the blank forms furnished them by the Director of the Bureau, in which applica- 
 tions shall be specified the particular service that it is proposed to render; they shall 
 inscribe their names in a register that the Bureau sh^ll keep for that purpose, and in 
 which shall be recorded all the particulars relating to the examination, and the 
 examining board shall only recommend, for the particular position that is required 
 to be filled and which is applied for, those who show their fitness for the same. The 
 appointments shall be made by the governing board and shall be signed by the 
 chairman. 
 
 Art. 3. The governing board shall, with the -cooperation of the Director of the 
 Bureau, prepare annually a detailed estimate of the expenses of the following year. 
 This estimate shall be transmitted to each government, together with a statement 
 showing the proportion of the amounts that each one of them shall pay, in conformity 
 with the agreement of April 14, 1890, and said governments are bound to remit their 
 respective quotas to the Secretary of State of the Government of the United States 
 of America six months in advance. 
 
 Art. 4. Whenever the governing board shall deem advisable, it shall appoint one 
 or two of its members to audit the accounts of the Bureau, and submit to said board 
 a report thereof. 
 
 Art. 5. The Bureau shall have authority, through the diplomatic representatives 
 in Washington, to correspond with the executive departments of the different Amer- 
 ican Republics, and shall furnish to any of said Republics such information as it may 
 possess, or that it can obtain, whenever requested to do so. Said Republics agree to 
 furnish to the Bureau, so far as may be practicable, the reports that it may request, 
 and to send it in due time two copies of each of their official publications, which shall 
 be preserved in the library of the Bureau. They agree, furthermore, to furnish to 
 the Bureau any other information that its Director may request. 
 
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 Art. 6. The Bureau shall publish a "Monthly Bulletin," which shall be printed 
 in the Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French languages, either together or sepa- 
 rately, and which shall contain such statistical, commercial, and legislative reports 
 as may be of special interest to the inhabitants of the different Republics. The 
 Bureau shall also publish pamphlets, maps, geographic and topographic charts, and 
 any other matter that the governing board may deem advisable and order published. 
 
 Art. 7. As soon as the advertising contracts now in force shall have expired, the 
 Bulletin shall discontinue the publication of advertisements. 
 
 Art. 8: All the publications of the Bureau shall be considered as public docu- 
 ments, and shall be carried free in the mails of the several Republics. 
 
 Art. 9. The Bureau shall be especially charged with the performance of all the 
 duties imposed upon it by the resolutions adopted by the present international 
 conference. 
 
 Art. 10. The Director of the Bureau may attend the meetings of the governing 
 board, and of the committees, as well as of those of the international American con- 
 ferences, for the purpose of giving information when requested to do so. 
 
 Art. 11. The Bureau shall be the custodian of the archives of the international 
 conferences of the American Republics. 
 
 Art. 12. The resolutions of the First International Conference of the American 
 Kepublics, adopted April 14, 1890, shall remain in force, in so far as they are not in 
 contravention of these regulations; all other resolutions and plans referring to the 
 organization of the Bureau are hereby annulled. 
 
 Art. 13. Under the authority of the governing board of the International Union 
 of the American Republics, and as a division of the Bureau of said Republics, a Latin- 
 American library, to be known as the "Columbus Memorial Library," is hereby 
 established. 
 
Appendix VI, 
 
 FROM REPORT OF TRANSACTIONS OF THE FIRST GENERAL INTERNATIONAL 
 SANITARY CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, 1902. 
 
 INTERNATIONAL SANITARY BUREAU, 
 
 On recommendation of the advisory council, the International Sanitary Bureau 
 was increased from five to seven members, and the following were appointed mem- 
 bers of that Bureau: 
 
 Surg. Gen. Walter Wyman, chairman; Dr. Eduardo Lic^aga, of Mexico; Dr. Eduardo 
 Moore, of Chile; Dr. Juan Guiteras, of Cuba; Dr. Juan J. IJlloa, of Costa Rica; Dr. 
 Rhett Goode, of the United States; Dr. A. H. Doty, of the United States. 
 
 Doctor Reynolds, of Chicago, offered three resolutions, which were referred to the 
 advisory council and were later reported favorably and adopted, as follows: 
 
 AVhereas bubonic plague and other diseases are spread by rats, mice, and other 
 lower animals, which to a great extent find sustenance in animal and vegetable 
 kitchen wastes, commonly called garbage: Therefore, be it 
 
 Resolved, That all organic waste or garbage should be kept separately on the 
 premises until it can be removed, unmixed with anything else, and destroyed. 
 
 Whereas typhoid fever and Asiatic cholera are caused by swallowing food or drink 
 contaminated by the discharges of previous cases: Therefore, be it 
 
 Resolved, That it be recognized by this conference that if all the discharges of every 
 existing case of typhoid fever and Asiatic cholera were instantly disinfected, typhoid 
 ^ver and Asiatic cholera would cease to be a menace to the world. 
 
 Whereas the Second American International Conference of the Pan-American 
 States, held in the City of Mexico, ISIovember, 1901, to January, 1902, provided that a 
 sanitary convention convene in Washington within one year from the signing of the 
 resolutions on sanitation and quarantine, and shall elect an International Sanitary 
 Bureau, with permanent headquarters at Washington, for the purpose of rendering 
 effective service to the different Republics represented in this convention: It is 
 hereby 
 
 Resolved: 
 
 First. That it shall be the duty of the International Sanitary Bureau to urge each 
 Republic to promptly and regularly transmit to said Bureau all data of every char- 
 acter relative to the sanitary conditions of their respective ports and territories. 
 
 Second. And to furnish said Bureau every opportunity and aid for a thorough, care- 
 ful, and scientific study and investigation of any outbreaks of pestilential diseases 
 which may occur within the territory of any of the said Republics. 
 
 Third. R is further resolved, That it shall be the duty of the International Sanitary 
 Bureau to lend its best aid and experience toward the widest possible protection of 
 the public health of each of the said Republics in order that disease may be elimi- 
 nated and that commerce between said Republics may be facilitated. 
 
 Fourth. R is further resolved bj/ this convention. That it shall be the duty of the Inter- 
 national Sanitary Bureau to encourage and aid or enforce in all proper ways the sani- 
 tation of seaports, including the sanitary improvements of harbors, sewerage, drainage 
 of the soil, paving, elimination of infection from buildings, and the destruction of 
 mosquitoes and other vermin. 
 
 Fifth. R is also recommended hy iltis convention, That in order to carry out the above 
 measures, a fund of $5,000 shall be collected by the Bureau of American Republics 
 in accordance with paragraph 7 of the resolutions of the Second International Ameri- 
 can Conference above referred to. 
 
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Appendix VII. 
 
 COLUMBUS MEMORIAL LIBRARY 
 
 EXTKACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CONFERENCE, 
 
 APRIL 18, 1890. 
 
 Mr. Martinez Silva. Mr. President, ever since my distinguished colleague, Mr. 
 Mendon(;a, spoke at a private gathering of the appropriateness and expedience of 
 erecting a monument to commemorate the assembling of the International Confer- 
 ence of American States the honorabie delegates seem to have been unanimously of 
 the oi^inion that something of the sort ought to be done. But it has since occurred 
 to me that among the various embarrassments which would be encountered in the 
 attempt to carry out the suggestion it would be very difficult to select a model which 
 all would accept, and that discussions and delays would arise — discussions and delays 
 which might at last lead to that worst result, that nothing should be done. 
 
 With this fear in my mind, and thinking, furthermore, that the memorial to be 
 erected ought to be something at once useful and made up of various elements, to 
 which each government might contribute independently, it occurred to me that the 
 only plan which would satisfy all these requirements was the establishment in Wash- 
 ington of a memorial library, to which each government could send, on its own 
 account, the most complete collection possible of historical, literary, and geographi- 
 cal works, laws, official reports, maps, etc., so that the results of intellectual and sci- 
 entific labor in all America might be collected together under a single roof. 
 
 That would be a monument more lasting and more noble than any in bronze or 
 marble; because, in the first place, such a memorial would redound to our honor and 
 help to make the Spanish-American nations known, while at the same time it would 
 be very agreeable to the United States to have erected in Washington the library 
 which I propose. It will gradually be enriched and enlarged, day by day, because 
 the several Governments will take care to transmit every new work which may be 
 published in their respective countries, until at last it will become so complete a col- 
 lection that whoever shall desire to pursue any study concerning America will come 
 to Washington to do it; even from Europe itself students would have to come for any 
 special study concerning these countries. We are so disconnected in America, there 
 are so many difficulties in the way of communication, that it may be said that we do 
 not know each other. It is, for instance, almost impossible in Bogota to procure a 
 book published in the Argentine Republic, and I believe that the same is the case in 
 the Argentine Republic respecting the publications of Bogota. Let us suppose that a 
 person is desirous of writing on America; how could he collect data as correct and 
 complete as the case demands? He would have to go from country to country, spend- 
 ing much money and time to attain his object; but if there be a library such as I 
 propose, then all those dedicating themselves to such research or in need of data can 
 come here and find what they want. 
 
 Catalogues of this library would be distributed in all the countries of America and 
 Europe, so that the people of all parts of the world would know what could here be 
 obtained. It would be, moreover, of great usefulness for the permanent Spanish- 
 American legations in Washington. All of the honorable delegates may have had 
 occasion to note that great difficulties have presented themselves each time that 
 information or a book respecting our countries is needed here. 
 
 It would also be of great value to the Government of the United States, for it 
 would stimulate the study of those nations in this country. So that my idea reduces 
 itself to the establishment in Washington, in some building or apartment which could 
 be provided for by the Government of the United States, of a Portuguese-Spanish- 
 American library, each Government sending a collection, as complete as possible, of 
 geographical charts, historical, statistical, and literary works, etc., enriching this 
 library from year to year with the new publications which may be issued by the 
 American nations. At the outset we might collect here 15,000 or 20,000 volumes, 
 but in the course of twenty years this library will have an importance unrivaled in 
 the world. 
 
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 I would desire to propose also that each Government should send its share of books 
 in time for the library to be publicly dedicated on the anniversary of the discovery 
 of America. 
 
 I had not the time to put this proposition in writing, and I present it in this crude 
 state to the Conference, but if the idea is approved I shall take the liberty to submit 
 it to the chair in writing in the form in which it should be communicated to the 
 Governments. 
 
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 Mr. BoLET Peraza. I hold that this offspring of a noble heart and enlightened 
 -mind should not be taken from its originator, consequently I am not going to offer 
 any amendment, but suggest to the honorable delegate who has expressed the idea 
 to baptize this library with the name of "The Columbus Library." 
 
 Mr. Martinez Silva. It is unnecesaary to state that I accept with much pleasure 
 the happy suggestion of my distinguished colleague from Venezuela. 
 
 The President. If no other delegate asks the floor, the roll will be called. 
 
 The roll was called. 
 
 The President. The resolution has been unanimously approved. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE SESSION OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFER- 
 ENCE OF AMERICAN STATES, JANUARY 24, 1902. 
 
 His Excellency Seiior Calvo, delegate of Costa Rica, presented a proposition con- 
 cerning the creation of a library in connection with the International Bureau of the 
 American Republics. He requested that it might be considered as an additional 
 article to the resolutions previously approved, and that all formal procedure might 
 be dispensed with. 
 
 His excellency the chairman announced that the motion would be considered at 
 the afternoon session, conformably to the following order of the day: 
 
 ,;• -X- * * -X- •» -A- 
 
 The proposition of Seilor Calvo, delegate of Costa Rica, that a Latin-American 
 library, to be known as the Columbus Library, should be founded under the author- 
 ity of the governing board of the International Union of the American Republics 
 and as a section of the Bureau of said Republics, in order to commemorate the assem- 
 bling of the first and second International Conferences of American States, was read. 
 
 The conference unanimously agreed that it should be given immediate consideration. 
 
 Upon discussion, Mr. Foster said that his delegation heartily supported the resolu- 
 tion providing for the collection of valuable books and documents relative to the 
 American Republics, which should, in the course of time, form the most important 
 collection in the world, and which should be a noble record of the persons who were 
 no longer living and of those who still lived whose efforts had contributed to the 
 development of the International Bureau of the American Republics. He stated 
 further that the American delegation felt proud that one of its great statesmen 
 had occupied himself actively and successfully in its organization, and that his 
 efforts had been seconded by other men of high intelligence who represented the 
 sister Republics of this hemisphere, among whom Don Matias Romero tigured con- 
 spicuoush^, and who, in this case as in many others requiring tact of a political 
 order, had impressed thereon the seal of a statesman and consummate diplomat as 
 well as of an individual of the finest honor and highest intelligence, and whose 
 ideals had elevated the consideration of matters of small importance. He added 
 that he felt sure that the Conference would find itself disposed to concede the impor- 
 tance of this resolution, which had for its high purpose the establishment of a 
 library as an eternal record to the memory of Don Matias Romero; to the great 
 statesman, James G. Blaine, and to those who had labored so effectively, success- 
 fully, patiently, and energetically, Messrs. Mendon(;a, Merou, Leger, Martinez Silva, 
 Guachalla, Carbo, Lazo Arriaga, and particularly Sen or Calvo, who, in his entire 
 devotion to the work, had distinguished himself among his fellows. 
 
 Senor Calvo thanked Mr. Foster for his reference to him, and added that, in response 
 to certain observations made to him privately by one of the Mexican delegation, he 
 wished to explain that as the libraries of Congress and of the Department of State 
 in Washington contained all works published in the United States, it seemed unnec- 
 essary to include such works in the library annexed to the Bureau of American 
 Republics, and it had, therefore, been limited solely to Latin-American publications. 
 
 The proposition was approved unanimously and the chairman ordered it sent to 
 the Commission on Editing. 
 
Appendix No. VIII. 
 
 PLAN FOE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BUILDING IN WASHINGTON FOR THE 
 INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 
 
 [Extract from the minutes of a session of the governing board held on May 23, 1903.] 
 
 The secretary read the report of the buildino committee, after which the Director, 
 as chairman oi the committee, stated tiiat he thought the board might like to know 
 how it had arri ved at tlie conclusion adopted in this report. It iiad considered 
 various methods for securing the property and erecting on it the building contem- 
 plated; the first was of negotiating for a loan with some Washington capitalists, and 
 of extinguishing the debt thus incurred by a gradual amortization, to be taken out 
 of the ordinary funds appropriated by the different Governments for the support of 
 the Bureau. The committee had found no disposition on the part of those addressed 
 in the matter of accepting this plan, as the International Union of the American 
 Eepublics had no existence juridique, the Secretary of State, for examijle, could not 
 engage the credit of the United States in this matter, and it was presumable that the 
 Governments of tnost of the other Republics, if not all, were in the same position. 
 
 Another method suggested was to secure the purchase of the land and the erection 
 of the building by local capitalists, and for the union to acquire ownership in the 
 same manner as contemplated in the first method considered. This also was open 
 to the same objections. Further argument against these two methods and any other 
 of a similar nature was that many of the representatives did not think the borrowing 
 of money by the union for such purpose was compatible with the dignity of the 
 States they represent. Tlie committee was therefore naturally led to adopt the con- 
 clusion embodied in their report. 
 
 The Director stated that he had looked at various pieces of property for sale within 
 a radius of half a mile of the Department of State, and found that one or two desira- 
 ble locations could be secured for about ;i^2..50 a foot. It was on that basis for the 
 purchase that the estimates of the committee were based. The necessary ground 
 would cost §20,000, roughly. He added that it had been estimated by architects, to 
 whom the requirements for the proposed building had been submitted, that it would 
 cost from $70,000 to §cSO,000, without interior fittings. One hundred and twenty-five 
 thousand dollars therefore seemed sufficient for all present requirements, with space 
 for a library of .50,000 volumes, and additional ground on which a further extension 
 of the library could be made, so that several hundred tluiusand volumes could be 
 stored away in it. 
 
 The minister from Guatemala. Mr. Lazo Arriaga, said that the statement of the 
 Director is accurate in every way and has the approval of the committee. He would 
 like to add that the intention of the committee has not been to reach a decision at 
 this meeting as to location and style of building, but only a^ to the method of rais- 
 ing the amount of money required. When the various governments have accepted 
 the plan now submitted, these que.stions can be considered by the board. 
 
 The minister from Argentina said he thought the idea embodied in the report was 
 excellent, and it would have all his support; he would write immediately to his Gov- 
 ernment for its decision. Such a building, he thought, would be a materialization of 
 the ideas of the founders of the Bureau. 
 
 The minister from Costa Rica supported the views of the minister from Argentina, 
 and said that the method suggested of asking the acceptance of the various govern- 
 ments to appropriate the money in the manner indicated in the report of the com- 
 mittee was agreeable to him. 
 
 The Argentine minister further suggested th:tt, in his opinion, it would materially 
 advance the prompt consideration of the suggestion contained in the report of the 
 committee if the Secretary of State would instruct the diplomatic representatives of 
 the United States in the various states of the union to bring it to the attention of the 
 governments to which they are accredited, and inform them that it has the heartiest 
 support of the United States. 
 
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 This the Secretary of State said he would take much pleasure in doing. 
 
 The Secretary of State then said: 
 
 "I would say for myself that the plan commends itself to me most strongly, and I 
 am sure the President will be of the same mind, that it is an excellent idea. The 
 union has been in existence for thirteen years — long enough to demonstrate that, 
 although it may not have accomplished as many things as some may have hoped, it 
 has been of substantial benefit to all of us, and we can not think for a moment of 
 allowing it to fall into desuetude or to give up the hope of its continued progress and 
 development for the common benefit. I shall take great pleasure in laying the sug- 
 gestion contained in the report before the President and urging him to accept it, and 
 as soon as Congress comes together next winter to make a request for the appropria- 
 tion which falls to the United States. 
 
 "I think we have a right to conclude from our Qxperience of the last few years and 
 from all that has been accomplished that there are possibilities of great and perma- 
 nent benefit to all the Republics in this institution, and it will be a source of gratifi- 
 cation to all of us to know that we have had something to do with its founding, and 
 not least of the pleasures of our recollections will be that of the close associations 
 we have formed through it. Many of the pleasantest recollections of my declining 
 years will be the personal acquaintances and friendships which I have made in these 
 meetings of the governing board of the International Union of the American Repub- 
 lics. " 
 
 The minister from Costa Rica then moved that the report of the building com- 
 mittee be accepted. 
 
 This motion was seconded by the minister from Cuba, and was unanimously 
 adopted. 
 
 The minister from Costa Rica stated, on voting, that he was authorized by the 
 representatives of Nicai'agua and Honduras to vote in the same sense for them. Pie 
 also stated that the minister from Salvador had requested him to state that he would 
 accept the conclusions reached bj' the majority. 
 
 The views of the ambassador from Mexico on the proposition being deemed of 
 very great importance, it was decided that the Director would submit to Senor de 
 Azpiroz the minutes of the meeting and secure an expression of his views; if the 
 ambassador desired to make anj' remarks on the subject, they could be added to the 
 minutes of the present meeting. 
 
 The meeting then adjourned. 
 
 The ambassador from Mexico, having been shown the report of the committee and 
 the minutes of the meeting by the secretary of the Bureau, declared that if he had 
 been present he w'ould have seconded in all its parts everything that was declared by 
 the representatives of the other Republics, and consequently he requests to be con- 
 sidered present to the effect of adding his vote to that of the rest. 
 
 To the Secretary of State, Chairman, and Members of tlie Governing Board of the Interna- 
 tional Union of American Republics: 
 
 The Columbus Memorial Library, created by the Second International American 
 Conference at Mexico, has grown with such rapidity that even at the present time 
 the space which can be given it in the temporary quarters now occupied by the 
 International Bureau of the American Republics is found entirely inadequate. The 
 constantly increasing public which avails itself of this library proves its great value 
 and usefulness and makes it necessary that safe and commodious quarters should be 
 secured for it. This fact, together with the desirability of having rooms where the 
 various international boards in which the union is interested can hold their meet- 
 ings, and the necessity for the offices of the International Bureau to be in close 
 proximity to the library, impelled the governing board to consider a plan for erect- 
 ing a permanent building for these purposes. At a meeting held on January 5 last 
 it appointed a committee for the purpose of inquiring into and reporting on this 
 matter. 
 
 The committee has the honor to make the following report: 
 
 Having examined the various suggestions made concerning the erection of a build- 
 ing for the International Bureau of the American Republics and the Columbus 
 Library, it is of opinion that the only feasible plan by which this end could be secured 
 is for each one of the powers composing the union to oljligate itself to contribute a 
 specific sum, calculated in the same manner as is done for the annual appropriations 
 for the maintenance of the Bureau. The cost of the buildings and fittings should be, 
 in the opinion of the committee, $125,000. Annexed to the present report is a table 
 showing the sums which each State would have to contribute on the basis adopted 
 by the committee. 
 
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 The committee is further of opinio )n tliat the requirements for the building are as 
 shown in the annexed tentative sketch, which provides only the minimum space 
 desirable for the i)urpose in view. 
 
 If the couclusionH here reached are acceptable to the board, the committee has 
 further to reijui'St that each one of tiie representatives of the powers comjjosing the 
 union will transmit them without delay to his Government and endeavor to secure 
 its answer before the 1st of October, when further steps can l)e taken to carry out the 
 desired end. 
 
 Washington, D. C, May 21, 1903. 
 
 Antonio Lazo Arriaga. 
 
 J. N. Leger. 
 
 W. W. Rock n ILL. 
 
 Quota which each government would'have to contribute toward the fund of §125,000 for the 
 erection of a huikling for the International Bureau of the American Repuhllcfi. 
 
 
 Population. 
 
 Quota. 
 
 j 
 
 Population. 
 
 Quota. 
 
 Argentina 
 
 4,044,911 
 1,816,271 
 16, 330, 216 
 2, 712, 145 
 4, 000, 000 
 
 294, 941 
 1, 572, 845 
 
 610, 000 
 1,271,861 
 1,364,678 
 1, 200, 000 
 
 $3, 778. 33 
 1,696. .51 
 
 15, 254. 18 
 2, ,533. 37 
 3, 736. 38 
 275. 41 
 1,469.12 
 569. 71 
 1,187.97 
 1,277.67 
 1, 120. 84 
 
 Honduras 
 
 398, 877 
 13, 570, 545 
 
 1372 50 
 
 Bolivia 
 
 Mexico 
 
 Nicaragua 
 
 V? ene, i'> 
 
 Brazil 
 
 423,200 1 395 22 
 
 Chile 
 
 635,571 j 593.60 
 2,971,844 2,775.96 
 
 Colombia 
 
 Peru 
 
 Costa Rica 
 
 1,006.848 940.41 
 
 Cuba 
 
 United States 
 
 76,303,387 | 71,275.58 
 964,104 900.49 
 
 Dominican Republic . . . 
 
 Uruguay 
 
 Ecuador 
 
 
 2 323 .5'-'7 2 170 83 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 Haiti 
 
 133,815,771 I'W nnn nn 
 
 
 
 
 
 [Senate document No. 14, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session.] 
 
 To the Senate and House of Representatives: 
 
 I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State looking to the payment 
 of this Government's quota of a fund to be contributed by the governments forming 
 the International Union of American Republics for the erection of a building in the 
 city of Washington for the use of the- Bureau of the American Republics. 
 
 I approve the recommendations made by the Secretary of State and strongly 
 recommend the matter to the favorable consideration of Congress. 
 
 Theodore Roosevelt. 
 
 White House, December 11, 1903. 
 
 The President: 
 
 The governing board of the International Union of American Republics, which 
 is compo.sed of the diplomatic representatives of the governments of all the American 
 Republics accredited to the Government of the United States, and the Secretary of 
 State, agreed by a unanimous vote in the regular meeting of Januarj^ 5, 1903, that it 
 was highly desirable that permanent quarters be provided for the International Bureau 
 of the American Republics. This Bureau ever since its creation about thirteen years 
 ago has occupied a rented building, which is now inadequate not only for the clerical 
 force of the Bureau but for the large and ever increasing library which the Inter- 
 national Conference of American States at Mexico expressed itself as particularly 
 desirous of seeing augmented and made of more use to the public. 
 
 At a subsequent meeting, held on May 23, 1903, it was decided that a sum of not 
 less than $125,000 would be necessary for the purchase of the ground and erection of 
 a building large enough for the purpose in view, and it was suggested that the various 
 States composing the International Union of American Republics should contribute 
 to said fund on the same basis as that now in force between the American Republics 
 for the maintenance of the International Bureau. 
 
 This decision of the governing board was communicated by the Department of 
 State to the various governments, and the board has since been informed by fifteen 
 of the governments that they will take immediate action to have their specified 
 quotas appropriated by the legislatures and transmitted to the United States. Two 
 of the governments have already paid the full amount of their quotas. 
 
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 Under the agreement the share of the United States is $71,275.58, and I strongly 
 recommend that Congress be asked to appropriate this sum for the purpose men- 
 tioned. It is desirable that the appropriation should be made immediately available, 
 and subject to the order of the Secretary of State. 
 
 Considering the profound interest which the Goveri^ment of the United States has 
 always taken in the promotion of harmony and closer relations with the American 
 States through the International Union of American Republics, and the fact as well 
 that the International Bureau, which is the active agency of the union, is located in 
 the capital of the United States, it would seem that this Government should do more 
 than simply contribute its share toward the building. 1 therefore make the further 
 recommendation that Congress be asked to appropriate an additional $50,000 for the 
 purchase of a suitable lot of ground, in proximity to the other public buildings at 
 Washington, on which to erect the building. 
 
 Respectfully submitted. 
 
 John Hay. 
 
 Depabtment op State, 
 
 Washington, December 9, 1903. 
 
Appendix No, IX. 
 
 BY-LAWS, 
 
 The following articles, drawn in conformity with the resolutions adopted by the 
 First International American Conference on iipril 14, 1890, and by the second con- 
 ference on January 29, 1902, establishino; the "International Bureau of the American 
 Republics" in Washington, and with the resolutions that have been adopted from 
 time to time by the governing board as to the government of the Bureau, shall 
 constitute the by-laws of said Bureau: 
 
 Article I. — The governing board. 
 
 The governing board shall hold regular monthly meetings, except during the 
 months of June, July, and August, and such special meetings as may be called by 
 the chairman, either of his own accord or at the request of two members of the 
 board. 
 
 Calls for special meetings shall state the object of such meeting, and shall be made 
 at least three days before the date set for it, except in case of great urgency. 
 
 The attendance of five members of the board shall be sufficient to constitute a 
 quorum. 
 
 Any member of the board may represent by proxy any other member of the board 
 in specific cases and upon exhibition of a written authority to do so. He may also 
 represent the government of another country in the union when he has special 
 powers to do so, even when he is not the diplomatic representative of such country. 
 
 When, during the debate upon a question, one of the members of the board should 
 request that a second discussion be had, such request shall be granted without 
 further proceedings, upon the conclusion of the first discussion. But the second 
 discussion shall not take place until the next meeting of the board. 
 
 Before the approval of the minutes of any meeting the resolutions passed at that 
 meeting may be reconsidered upon the request of two of the members of the board. 
 
 Before the 30th day of June each year the governing board shall appoint a com- 
 mittee, of which the Director of the Bureau shall be a member, for the purpose of 
 preparing the estimate of the revenues and expenditures of the Bureau for the ensu- 
 ing year, to contain a detailed statement of both the regular and estimated revenues 
 and of the expenditures to be made, a list of the employees of the Bureau and their 
 respective salaries, and other matters of interest. 
 
 Such estimate shall be submitted to the members of the board one week, at least, 
 before the meeting when it is to be discussed, and, upon approval, the estimate shall 
 then be transmitted to the governments of the union, with the statement of their 
 respective quotas. 
 
 Aeticle II. — The committees. 
 
 At the regular October meeting each year the governing board shall appoint four 
 committees of three or more members to act as permanent committees on the internal 
 regulations of the Bureau, accounts, library, the Bulletin and other publications. 
 
 Each of the standing committees shall, as soon as possible after its appointment, 
 classify its members by lot into two classes, one of which shall hold office for two 
 years and the other for one year, and the committees shall thereafter be appointed 
 for two years, and no member whose term of office shall have expired shall be reap- 
 pointed until after the lapse of at least one year. 
 
 Said committees shall report on the matters under their respective charges as often 
 as circumstances or the resolutions of the governing board may demand. 
 
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 Article III. — The personnel. 
 
 The personnel of the Bureau shall consist of a Director, a secretary, a chief clerk, 
 a librarian, and accountant, and such translators and other emplovees as the governino- 
 board may direct. " * 
 
 . All employees besides their specific duties shall discharge such other duties as the 
 Director may assign to them. 
 
 Office hours shall be the same governing the Department of State of the United 
 States. 
 
 All employees shall be entitled to one month vacation each yeat. 
 
 Leave not to exceed two months may be granted employees," without pay. But in 
 case of sickness a month may be granted with pay. 
 
 Absence for six consecutive days without leave, and without good and sufficient 
 cause to be duly established, and repeated absence as aforesaid of one or two days, as 
 well as negligence, insubordination, and other offenses, shall cause summary disrnissal 
 of the employee. 
 
 The Bureau shall have a register wherein a record shall be kept of the absences of 
 all employees, either on leave, by reason of sickness, or any other cause. In con- 
 formity with the record shown in the register, the time each employee has been 
 absent without cause shall be deducted from the annual leave of said employee. 
 
 The Bureau shall have under its care and custody the archives of the International 
 Conferences of the American Republics. 
 
 Article IV. — The Director. 
 
 The Director, in liis capacity as the chief officer of the Bureau, shall have under his 
 control all the affairs of the Bureau under the immediate supervision of the governing 
 board. 
 
 He shall correspond with the governments of the union through their respective 
 diplomatic representatives in Washington. 
 
 He may, in an advisory capacity, attend the meetings of the governing board, the 
 meetings of the committees as well as the sessions of the international conferences of 
 the countries of the union for the purpose of giving information when requested to 
 do so. 
 
 He shall prepare the internal regulations governing the employees of the Bureau 
 and report to the governing board on the efficiency of said employees. The Director 
 shall have power to suspend any of said employees for misconduct or negligence in 
 the discharge of his or her duties. 
 
 He shall appoint or remove the messengers and other minor employees. 
 
 He shall supervise the accuracy of the receipts and expenditures of the Bureau, 
 being directly responsible therefor. 
 
 He shall supervise the publication of the Monthly Bulletin and other publications 
 of the Bureau, and in the case of publications relating particularly to any one coun- 
 try of the union, he shall consult on the matter with the respective diplomatic 
 representative. 
 
 _ He shall sign orders for payment in conformity with the estimate or- the resolu- 
 tions adopted by the governing board. 
 
 He may not absent himself unless with the permission of the governing board or 
 of the chairman of the board in case of urgency. 
 
 He shall submit an annual report on the progress of the Bureau, its revenues and 
 expenditures, the work on hand and that proposed to be done, pointing out every- 
 thing that, in his judgment, should be changed for the good of the service and in 
 order to enlarge the scope of the Bureau. 
 
 Article V. — The secretary. 
 
 The secretary shall have the control of all matters pertaining to the secretaryship 
 of the governing board. 
 
 He shall prepare the general correspondence of the Bureau under the direction of 
 the Director. 
 
 He shall compile, classify, and distribute the material for the publications of the 
 Bureau, directing them to be printed. 
 
 During the temporary absence of the Director he shall be Acting Director. 
 
 He shall have a special book where a record shall be kept of all the important 
 work done in the Bureau, to serve as a basis for the annual repoi't and as a reference 
 book whenever necessary. 
 
 The secretary, as the second officer of the Bureau, shall cooperate with the Director 
 to the success of its labors. 
 
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 Article VI. — T}ie chief clerk: 
 
 The chief clerk shall have under his immediate control all the employees of the 
 Bureau whose duties are not specifically defined. 
 
 He shall have supervision over all matters relating to the internal service of the . 
 Bureau. 
 
 He shall be the intermediary between the Dire(;torand the secretary and the other 
 employees. 
 
 He shall distribute the woi'k among the employees and supervise its execution. 
 
 He shall supervise, as editor, the publication of the Monthly Bulletin of the Bureau, 
 which Mhall be printed in the .Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French languages, 
 either jointly or separately, and will contain statistical, commercial, and legislative 
 data of special interest to the inhabitants of the different Republics. 
 
 He shall also edit such special bulletins, pamphlets, geographical charts, and other 
 publications that the governing board may direct to be published. 
 
 He shall substitute the secretary during his absence, and the Director during the 
 absence of the secretary. 
 
 Article VII. — The librarian. 
 
 The librarian shall have the control of the Columbus Memorial Library, the main 
 object of which is to collect and preserve all publications dealing with the Latin 
 American countries. 
 
 He shall direct the organization of the library by countries and the preparation of 
 its catalogues. 
 
 He shall suggest all measures tending to increase the development of the library 
 and its usefulness. 
 
 He shall prepare all the correspondence relating to the library, preserving it in 
 separate tiles properly indexed. 
 
 Article VIII.- — The accountant. ■ 
 
 The accountant shall keep the account books of the Bureau and shall supervise all 
 matters relating to the care and disposal of the funds of the Bureau, subject to the 
 rules issued by the Director. 
 
 Artic'le X. — The translators. 
 
 The governing board shall appoint such translators as it may deem proper. The 
 translators shall be under the control of a chief translator, appointed by the board, 
 who shall supervise and be responsible for all such work as may be prepared in the 
 Bureau. 
 
 Article X. — The other employees. 
 
 The employees of the Bureau not above specified shall receive general instructions 
 from the Director as regards their resjDective duties, and in the discharge of said 
 duties they shall be subject to the prescriptions of the internal regulations of the 
 Bureau, under the secretary or the chief clerk, who is their immediate authority, as 
 the case may be. 
 
 Article XL — Appointments. 
 
 Citizens of the several countries of the union are equally eligible to all the posi- 
 tions in the Bureau, and these positions shall be filled after the examination of the 
 applicant before an examining board consisting of three persons appointed by the 
 governing board. Applicants shall file their applications on blank forms furnished 
 by the Director, wherein specification shall be made of the particular service to be 
 rendered and shall enter their names in a register kept for that purpose by the 
 Director in which all particulars relative to the examination shall be recorded. 
 
 The examining board shall only recommend such applicants as have shown the 
 highest qualifications for the position in question. 
 
 Appointments and removals shall be made by the governing board and notified by 
 the chairman. 
 
 Transitory Provision. 
 
 From the date of approval of these regulations all resolutions on rules inconsistent 
 therewith adopted by the governing board are abrogated. 
 
Appendix No. X. 
 
 PTJBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS, 1891-1906. 
 
 Monthly Bulletin of the Bureau published regularly since 1893, in English, Spanish, 
 
 Portuguese, and French. Average, 300 pages. 
 Annual reports of the Director. 
 
 1891. First Report. December 16, 1891. 50 pp. 8°. 
 
 1892. Second Report. January 12, 1893. 76 pp. 8°. 
 
 1893. Third Report. February 15, 1894. 56 pp. English and Spanish. 
 
 . English only, with estimate, by Secretary of State, of appropriations for 
 
 Bureau, 1895. (House Ex. Doc. 124, 2d session. In v. 29.) 
 
 1894. Fourth Report. February 12, 1895. (English, Spanish, and Portuguese.) 
 
 36 pp. 8°. 
 
 1895. Fifth Annual Report [Bulletin 80]. (English, Spanish, and Portuguese.) 
 
 28 pp. 8°. 
 
 1896. Sixth Annual Report of Director. 1896. 1897. 16 pp. [Bulletin 83.] 
 
 1897. Seventh Annual Report of the Director for the year 1897. (English, 
 
 Spanish, and Portuguese. ) February, 1898. 142 pp. 8°. 
 
 1898. Eighth Annual Report of the Director. December, 1898. 89 pp. 8°. 
 
 1899. Ninth Annual Report of the Director for the year 1899. December, 1899. 
 
 36 pp. 8°. 
 
 1900. Tenth Annual Report of the Director for the year 1900. December, 1900. 
 
 37 pp. 8°. 
 
 Reports for years following 1900 published in Monthly Bulletin. 
 
 1. Handbook of American Republics, No. 1. 1891. 50 pp. [Out of print. A 
 
 reprint in No. 2.] 
 
 2. . 2d edition. 486 pp. Ills. 
 
 3. Patent and trade-mark laws of America. 1891. 48 pp. 
 
 4. Money, weights, and measures of the American Republics. 1891. 12 pp. 8°. 
 
 5. Import duties of Mexico. 1891. 46 pp. 8°. 
 
 6. Foreign commerce of the American Republics. 1891. 171pp. 8°. 
 
 7. Handbook of Brazil. 1891. 336 pp. 8°. 
 
 8. Import duties of Brazil. 1891. 139 pp. Ills. 8°. 
 
 9. Handbook of Mexico. 1891. 247 pp. Ills. 
 
 10. Import duties of Cuba and Porto Rico. 1891. V, 114 pp. 8°. 
 
 11. of Costa Rica. 1891. 33 pp. 8°. 
 
 12. of Santo Domingo. 1891. 87 pp. 111. 8°. 
 
 13. Commercial directory of Brazil. 1891. pp. 33-85. 
 14. of Venezuela." pp. 313-324. 
 
 15. of Colombia, pp. 95-102. 
 
 16. of Peru. pp. 277-289. 
 
 17. of Chile, pp. 87-94. 
 
 18. of Mexico. 1893. 130 pp. 8°. 
 
 19. of Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Uruguay, pp. 31-32, 111-115, 273-276, 
 
 305-311. 
 
 20. Import duties of Nicaragua. 1891. 34 pp. 8°. 
 
 21. of Mexico (revised), 1891. v, 66 pp. 8°. 
 
 22. of Bolivia. 1891. 51 pp. 8°. 
 
 23. of Salvador. 1891. 39 pp. 8°. 
 
 24. of Honduras. 1891. 42 pp. 111. 8°. 
 
 25. of Ecuador. 1891. 12 pp. Ills. 8°. 
 
 26. Commercial directory of the Argentine Republic. 1893. 29 pp. 8°. 
 
 27. Import duties of Colombia. 1891. 17 pp. Ills. 8°. 
 
 28. Commercial directory of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salva- 
 
 dor, pp. 103-109, 117-123, 129-133, 265-272, 291-300. 
 
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 29. of Haiti and Santo Domingo, pp. 125-128, 301-303. 
 
 30. First annual report of the Bureau. 
 
 31. Handbook of Costa Rica. 1892. iv, 146 pp. Ills. 
 
 32. of Guatemala. 1892. 194 pp. Ills. 
 
 33. of Colombia. 1892. 138 pp. Ills. 
 
 34. of Venezuela. 1892. 192 pp. Ills. 
 
 35. Breadatuffs in Latin America. 1892. 21 pp. 8°. 
 
 36. Import duties of Venezuela. 1892. 56 pp. 8°. 
 
 37. of British possessions in the West Indies and Spanish America. 1892. 
 
 54 pp. 8°. 
 
 38. Commercial directory of Cuba and Porto Rico. pp. 375-414, 415-422. » 
 
 39. of the European colonies, pp. 325-374. 
 
 40. Mines and mining laws of Latin America. 1892. 348 pp. 8°. 
 
 41. Commercial information concerning the American Republics and colonies. 1892. 
 
 286 pp. 8°. 
 
 42. Newspaper directory of Latin America, pp. 423-458. 
 
 43. Import duties of Guatemala. 1892. 84 pp. 8°. 
 
 44. of the United States. 1892. 61 pp. 8°. 
 
 45. of Peru. 1892. 231 pp. Ills. 8°. 
 
 46. of Chile. 1892. 274 pp. Ills. 8°. 
 
 47. of Uruguay. 1892. v, 248 pp. 8°. 
 
 48. of the Argentine Republic. 1892. iv, 201 pp. 8°. 
 
 49. of Haiti. 1892. iv, 109 pp. 8°. 
 
 50. Handbook of American Republics. No. 3. 1893. 604 pp. Ills. (Revisions 
 
 of Bulletins 1 and 2. ) 
 
 51. of Nicaragua. 1893. 183 pp. Ills. 
 
 52. of Santo Domingo. 1892. (Also in vol. 2, reprints of publications.) 
 
 53. Laws of the American republics relating to immigration and the sale of public 
 
 lands. IV, 199 pp. 8°. 
 
 54. Handbook of Paraguav. (Reprint in V. II.) 
 
 55. of Bolivia. 1893. vi, 413 pp. Map. 
 
 56. Import duties of Guatemala. (Revision of No. 43. Reprint in Monthly Bulletin, 
 
 June, 1894.) 
 
 57. Handbook of Honduras. (Reprint V. 3.) 
 
 58. Handbook of Salvador. (Reprint V. 3.) 
 
 60. Handbook of Peru. (See V. 4.) 
 
 61. of Uruguay. 1893. vi, 347 pp. Ills. 
 
 62. of Haiti. 1893. vi, 240 pp. Ills. 
 
 63. How^ the markets of Latin America may be reached, ix, 505 pp. 1 map. 
 
 64. Handbook of Ecuador. 1892. v, 177 pp. 
 
 67. Handbook of Argentine Republic. 1892. 455 pp. Ills. 
 
 68. Handbook of Guatemala. 1897. 119 pp. Ills. (See also No. 32.) 
 Consolidated bulletins: 
 
 V. 1, pt. 1. First annual report; handbook No. 3; Nos. 30, 50, 35. 1883. 
 
 50, 604, 91 pp. Ills. 
 V. 5, pt. 1. Tariffs, Nos. 48, 22, 8, 37. 1893. XIX, 201, 255, 139, 54 pp. 
 V. 6. Commercial directories of the American Republics. Nos. 13-19, 26, 
 
 28, 29, 38, 39, and 42. 1893. 453 pp. 
 Commercial directory of Latin America. 1892. 438 pp. Ills. 
 
 69. Manual de las Republicas Americanas. 1891. 509 pp. Ills. 
 
 70. Import duties of Peru. 1896. 
 
 71. United States tariff act of 1894. 
 
 72. Second annual report of the Director. 1892. January, 1893. 76 pp. 8°. 
 
 73. Third annual report of the Director. February, 1894. 56 pp. (English and 
 
 Spanish. ) 
 
 74. Fourth annual report of the Director. 1895. (English, Spanish, and Portu- 
 
 guese. ) 36 pp. 8°. 
 
 75. Import duties of the United States. 1897. (English.) 
 
 76. Spanish. 
 
 77. Portuguese. 
 
 78. — French. 
 
 79. List of Diplomatic Officers in Latin America. 
 
 80. Fifth annual report of the Bureau. 28 pp. 8°. 
 
 81. Specifications for a Government building in Mexico. 8 pp. 8°. 
 
 83. Sixth annual report of the Bureau. 
 
 84. Handbook of Alaska. 1897. 133 pp. map. 8°. 
 
 85. Handbook of Hawaii. 1897. 180 pp. map. 8°. 
 
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 86. List of publications of the Bureau of the American RepubUcs. 
 
 87. Reciprocity and trade. 1897. 29 pp. 8°. 
 
 88. Spanish- American trade. 1897. 48 pp. 8°. 
 
 90. Newspaper directory of Latin America. 1897. 41 pp. 8°. 
 
 91. Commercial directory of the American Republics. 1897-1898. (With maps.) 
 
 2 V. 4°. 
 
 92. Eighth annual report. 89 pp. 8°. 
 
 93. Handbook of Venezuela. (English. Revised edition.) 1899. 138 pp. 8°. 
 (Spanish.) pp. 139-278. 8°. 
 
 94. Worthington reports. (Chile, Argentine, Brazil, and Uruguay. ) 1899. 178 pp. 8°. 
 
 American Constitutions. A compilation of the political constitutions of the inde- 
 pendent States of America, in the original text, with English and Spanish 
 translations. 1906. 3 vols. 8°. 
 
 Vol. I, now ready, cpntains the constitutions of the Federal Republics of the United 
 States of America, of Mexico, of the Argentine Republic, of Brazil, and of Venezuela, 
 and of the Republics of Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, 
 Costa Rica, and Panama. Vols. II and III will be ready shortly. 
 
 Vol. II will contain the constitutions of the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Uru- 
 guay, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, and Bolivia. 
 
 Vol. Ill will contain Articles of Confederation" of the United States, First Constitution 
 of Venezuela 1811, Fundamental Law of Republic of Colombia 1819, Ditto of 1821, Con- 
 stitution of Colombia of 1821, Constitution of Central American Confederation of 1824, 
 Constitution of the Grenadian Confederation of 1858, Constitution of United States of 
 Colombia of 1863, Pro Constitution of Guatemala of 1876, Convention between United 
 States and Republic of Panama for construction of ship canal to connect the waters of 
 the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. 
 
 Argentine Republic. A geographical sketch, with special reference to economical 
 
 conditions, actual development, and prospects of future growth. 1903. 
 
 28 ills. 3 maps. 366 pp. 8°. (See also No. 67.) 
 Bolivia. Geographical sketch, natural resources, laws, economic conditions, actual 
 
 development, prospects of future growth. Washington, 1904. Ills. 214 
 
 pp. 8°. (See also No. 55.) 
 Brazil. A geographical sketch, with special reference to economic conditions. 1901. 
 
 233 pp. 8°. (See also No. 7.) 
 El cafe. Su historia, cultivo, beneficio, variedades, produccion, exportacion, impor- 
 
 tacion, consume, etc. Datos extensos presentados al congreso relativo al 
 
 cafe que se reuninl en Neuva York el 1° de octubre de 1902. 167 pp. 8°. 
 Coffee. Extensive information and statistics. ( English edition of the above. ) 108 
 
 pp. 8°. 
 Code of commercial nomenclature, 1897. English, Spanish, and Portuguese. 670 
 
 pp. 4°. 
 
 Spanish, English, and Portuguese. 640 pp. 4°. 
 
 Portuguese, Spanish, and English. 645 pp. 4°. 
 
 Costa Rica. Law for the adoption of the gold standard. [1896.] 17 pp. 8°. 
 Some facts and figures. By J. B. Calvo. Followed by an article entitled 
 
 Costa Rica at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. 1894. 56 p. 
 
 Map. illus. 8°. 
 Cuba. Prepared by Senor Gonzalo de Quesada . . . and approved by the Cuban 
 
 Government, November, 1905. 541 pp. Ills. map. 8°. 
 El Ferrocarril Panamericano. Informe presentado al sefior secretario de estado de 
 
 los Estados Unidos de America sobre el resultado de sus trabajos en la 
 
 America Latina. Por Charles M. Pepper .. . Marzo 12del904. 74 pp. 8°. 
 Honduras. Geographical sketch, natural resources, laws, economic conditions, actual 
 
 development, prospects of future growth. 1904. 252 pp. 111. 8°. (See 
 
 also No. 57. ) 
 Mexican law in regard to medical studies and the practice of medical professions. 
 
 June, 1904. 6 p. 8". (In English and Spanish.) 
 Mexico. A geographical sketch. Economic conditions and prospects of future 
 
 development. 1900. 385 pp. 8°. (See also No. 9.) 
 Mexico. Geographical sketch, natural resources, laws, economic conditions, actual 
 
 development, prospect of future growth. 1904. 454 pp. 111. 8°. 
 Paraguav. Second edition, revised and enlarged, with chapter on the native races. 
 
 1902. 187 pp. 111. Map. 8°. (See also No. 54.) 
 Patent and trade- mark laws of the Spanish-American Republics, Brazil, and the 
 
 Republic of Haiti. Revised to August, 1904. 343 pp. 8°. 
 
 Same. Original text. 1904. 415 pp. 8°. 
 
 Peru. Law promulgated March 30, 1904, providing for the construction of four 
 
 lines of railroad. Decree of April 8, 1904, establishing commissions for 
 
 preliminary surveys, etc., of the new lines. 6 pp. 8°. 
 
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 Report on coffee, with special reference to the Costa Rican products. By J. B. Calvo. 
 
 1901. 15 pp. 8°. 
 Venezuela. Geographical sketch, natural resources, laws, economic conditions, 
 
 actual development, prospects of future growth. 1904. 111. maps. 608 
 
 pp. 8°. (See also Nos. 34 and 93). 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 
 
 Bolivia. Catalogue of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and maps relating to the 
 
 Republic of Bolivia in the Columbus Memorial Librarv. Revised to 
 
 March 31, 1905. 23 pp. 8°. 
 Brazil. A list of books, magazine articles, and maps relating to Brazil; 1800-1900. 
 
 Prepared by P. Lee Phillips, F. R. G. S., chief of division of maps and 
 
 charts, Librarv of Congress. A supplement to the Handbook of Brazil 
 ■ (1901). 145 pp. 8°. 
 Central America. A list of books, magazine articles, and maps relating to Central 
 
 America, including the Republics of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, 
 
 Nicaragua, and Salvador. 1800-1900. 109 pp. 8°. 
 Chile. A list of books, magazine articles, and maps relating to Chile. 1903. 110 
 
 pp. 8°. 
 Cuba. Books [articles in periodicals, and maps] relating to Cuba. Compiled by 
 
 Mr. A. P. C. Griffin, of the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. 
 
 In: Cuba. Prepared by Scilor Gonzalo de Quesada. 1905. Chapter xvii. pp. 315-512. 
 
 Mexico. Bibliography and cartography of Mexico. (A brief list for the benefit of 
 those desiring a better knowledge of the country, and an index to the 
 literature on the subject. ) 
 
 In Mexico. A geographical sketch. 1901,. Chapter xx. pp. It21-ltl,5. 
 
 Paraguay. A list of books, magazine articles, and maps relating to Paraguay. 1904. 
 53 pp. 8°. 
 
 Bolivia. Mapa de la Repiiblica de Bolivia, mandado organizar y publicar por el 
 
 Presidente Constitucional , General Jos6 Manuel Pando. Scale, 1 : 2, 000, 000. 
 
 La Paz, 1901. (Reprint, 1904.) 
 Costa Rica. From official and other sources. 1903. Scale of 12.5 miles to 1 inch. 
 
 (792,000.) , 
 
 Guatemala. From official and other sources. 1902. Scale, 12.5 miles to 1 inch. 
 
 (1:792,000.) In two sheets: 1, general map; 2, agricultural areas. 
 Mexico. Map of Mexico, from Mexican and other official sources. 1900. In two 
 
 sheets: 1, general map; 2, map showing agricultural features. Scale of 50 
 
 miles to 1 inch. 
 Nicaragua. From official and other sources. 1904. Scale, 12.5 miles to 1 inch. 
 
 (1:192,000.) In two sheets: 1, general map; 2, agricultural areas. 
 
 List of Books and Maps in Course op Prepapation. 
 
 Law Manuals: 
 
 Leyes Comerciales de la America Latina: Codigo de Comercio de Espana compa- 
 rado con los Codigos y Leyes Comerciales de Pan America. 
 
 Land and Immigration Laws of American Republics. (To replace edition of 
 1893.) 
 Handbooks: 
 
 Chile. 
 
 Dominican Republic. 
 
 Nicaragua. 
 Maps: 
 
 Brazil. [In hands of printer.] 
 
 Honduras. 
 
 El Salvador. 
 Library Catalogues: 
 
 Cuba. 
 
 Dominican Republic. 
 
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 THE BUREAU HAS OBTAINED FOR DISTRIBUTION THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS TREATING 
 ON SUBJECTS WITHIN ITS SCOPE. 
 
 Brazil at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. St. Louis, 1904. 160 p. 8°. 
 
 Chile. A short description of the Republic of Chile. According to official data. 
 1901. 103 p. ill. map. 8°. 
 
 Same. Spanish translation. 
 
 Chile at the Pan-American Exposition. Brief notes on Chile and general catalogue 
 of Chile exhibits. 1901. 252 p. ill. 8°. 
 
 Costa Rica. The land, its resources, and its people, by Richard Villafranca. 1895. 
 139 p. 
 
 Guatemala. The country of the future, by Charles M. Pepper. 1906. 80 p. 8°. 
 
 International American conference reports and recommendations, 1890, including 
 the reports of the plan of arbitration, reciprocity treaties, intercontinental 
 railway, steamship communication, sanitary regulations, common silver 
 coin, patents and trade-marks, weights and measures, port dues, interna- 
 tional law, extradition treaties, international bank, . memorial tablet, 
 Columbian Exposition. 1 vol. v. p. 
 
 International American conference reports of committees and discussions thereon. 
 1890. (Revised under the direction of the executive committee by order 
 of the conference, adopted March 7, 1890. ) 4 vols. 
 
 International sanitary convention. Convocation of the second convention. 1905. 
 9 pp. 8°. 
 
 International sanitary convention. Convention ad referendum concluded at the 
 second general international sanitary convention of the American Repub- 
 lics in Washington on October 14, 1905. 25 pp. 4°. (In English and 
 Spanish. ) 
 
 Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from 
 the Secretary of State submitting the report, with accompanying papers, of 
 the delegates of the United States to the Second International Conference 
 of American States, held at the City of Mexico from October 22, 1901, to 
 January 22, 1902. Washington, 1902. 243 p. 8°. (57th Cong., 1st sess., 
 Senate Doc. No. 330. ) 
 
 Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Sec- 
 retary of State, with accompanying papers, relative to the proceedings of 
 the international congress for the study of the production and consump- 
 tion of coffee, etc. Washington, 1903. 312 pages, 8° (paper). (57th 
 Cong., 2d sess.. Senate Doc. No. 35.) 
 
 Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report by the Secre- 
 tary of State, with accompanying papers, relative to the proceedings of 
 the first customs congress of the American Republics, held at New York 
 in January, 1903. Washington, 1903. 195 pages, 8° (paper). (57th 
 Cong., 2d sess., Senate Doc. No. 180.) 
 
 Transactions of the first genera) international sanitary convention of the American 
 Republics, held at Washington, December 2, 3, and 4, 1902, under the 
 auspices of the governing board of the International Union of the Ameri- 
 can Republics, Washington, 1903. (57th Cong., 2d sess., Senate Doc. No. 
 169. ) (In Spanish and English. ) 
 
 Venezuela. Esbozo geografico, recursos naturales, legislacion , condiciones economicas, 
 desarrollo alcanzado, prospecto de futuro desenvolvimiento. Editado y 
 compilado para la Oficina International de las Republicas Americanas por 
 N. Veloz Goiticoa, Secretario de la Oficina. Traduccion castellana y pub- 
 licacion ordenadas por el General Cipriano Castro, Presidente de la Repub- 
 lica. Caracas, 1905. 695 pdginas, 8°. 
 
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