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Rh 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 Secretary 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:

14. In order to avoid delay in the establishment of the union herein described, the Delegates assembled in this Conference will promptly communicate to their respective Governments the plan of organization and of practical work adopted by the Conference, and will ask the said Governments to notify the Secretary of State of the United States, through their