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336 For El Salvador.—His Excellency Francisco A. Reyes, His Excellency Baltasar Estupinian.

For the United States of América.—His Excellency Henry G. Davis, His Excellency William I. Buchanan, His Excellency Charles M. Pepper, His Excellency Volney W. Foster, His Excellency John Barrett.

For Guatemala.—His Excellency Antonio Laza Arriaga, His Excellency Colonel Francisco Orla.

For Hayti.—His Excellency J. N. Léger.

For Honduras.—His Excellency José Leonard, His Excellency Fausto Dávila.

For Mexico.—His Excellency Genaro Raigosa, His Excellency Joaquín D. Casasús, His Excellency José López Portillo y Rojas, His Excellency Emilo Pardo, Jr., His Excellency Pablo Macedo, His Excellency Alfredo Chavero, His Excellency Francisco L. de la Barra, His Excellency Manuel Sánchez Marmol, His Excellency Rosendo Pineda.

For Nicaragua.—His Excellency Luis F. Corea, His Excellency Fausto Dávila.

For Paraguay.—His Excellency Cecilio Baez.

For Peru.—His Excellency Isaac Alzamora, His Excellency Alberto Elmore, His Excellency Manuel Alvarez Calderon.

For Uruguay.—His Excellency Juan Cuestas;

who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers and found them to be in due and proper form, excepting those presented by the representatives of Their Excellencies the Presidents of the United States of America, Nicaragua and Paraguay, who act "ad referendum," have agreed: to enter into a Convention relative to the exchange of official, scientific, literary and industrial publications, in the following terms:

The signatory Governments bind themselves to furnish one another, reciprocally, five copies of each one of the following official publications:

I. Parliamentary, administrative and statistical documents which may be published in each one of the contracting countries.

II. Works of all kinds, published or subsidized by the respective signatory Governments.

III. Geographical maps, general as well as special, topographic plans and other works of this kind.

The obligation stipulated in the foregoing article, shall exist even in the case that the works referred to should be printed outside of the territory of the country whose Government grants them subsidy or assistance.

Each one of the signatory Governments shall form as complete a collection as possible, of the books already published officially in its