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 156 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. OH. 307. 1888. S¤¤¤¤¤f¤¤¤*¤¤¤°°- Sec. 2. That in forwarding the invitations to the said Governments the President of the United States shall set-forth that the conference is called to consider- First. Measures that shall tend to preserve the peace and promote the pros erity of the several American States. _ Secondl Measiues toward the formation of an American customs union, under which the trade of the American Nations with each other shall, so far as ppssible and profitable, be promoted. _ _ Third. The establis ment of regular and frequent communication between the ports of the several American States and the ports of each other. _ Fourth. The establishment of a uniform system of customs regulations in each of the independent American States to govern the mode of importation and exportation of merchandise an port dues and charges, auniform method of determining the classification and valuation of such merchandise in the ports o each country, and a uniform system of invoices, and the subject of the sanitation of ships and quarantine. Fifth. The adoption of a uniform system of weights and measures, and—laws to protect the tent rights, copyrights, and trade-marks of citizens of either countgy in the other, and or the extradition of criminals. — Sixth. The adoption of a common silver coin, to be issued by each Government, the same to be legal tender in all commercial transactions between the citizens of all of the American States. Seventh} An agreement upon and recommendation for adoption to their respective Governments of a definite plan of arbitration of all questions, disputes, and diierences that may now or hereafter exist between them, to the end that all diiiicnlties and disputes between such Nations may be peaceably settled and wars prevented. Eighth. And to consi er such other sub 'ects relating to the welfare of the several States represented as may he presented by any of said States which are hereby invited to participate in said conference. Am¤·¤n¤·¤¤k>¤· __ Sec. 3. That the sum of seventy- ve thousand dollars, or so much ’ thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the reasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be disbursed under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of State, for expenses incidental to the conference. D¢l·¤Z¤*<·>¤· Sec. 4. That the President of the United States shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, ten delegates to said conference, who shall serve without com nsation other than their actual necessary expxenses, and the severalpdther States participatin in said conference s all be represented by as many delegates as each QQM- may elect : Provided. however, That in the disposition of questions to come before said conference no State shall be entitled to more E’¤’°°"°°'*¤°°"s°°· HIS!) On; v'1Qh9·t th Sec ta f S h ll ‘ M ,0, _ nc. ._ a e . re ry o tate s a a int such clerks and mw other assistants as shall be necessary, at a cofnlpensation to be determincd by him, and lprovide for the daily publication by the Public Printer, m the Eng ish, Spanish, and Portuguese languages, of so much of the proceedings o the conference as it shall determine, and R°P°“· upon the conclusion of said conference shall transmit a report of the same to_the Congress of the United States, together with a statement of the disbursements of the appropriation herein provided for. Approved, May 24, 1888.