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 334 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES United States of America the following agreement regarding the exchange of official publications: There will be a complete exchange of official publications between the Government of Chile and the Government of the United States, which will be governed by the following rules: 1. The official office of exchange for the transmission of publications of the United States shall be the Smithsonian Institution. The official office of exchange in Chile shall be the National Library of Santiago. 2. The publications shall be received in the United States by the Library of Congress, and in Chile by the National Library of Santiago. 3. The Government of Chile shall transmit regularly one copy of each of the publications issued by its various departments, bureaus and institutions. There is enclosed a list of these departments and of the publications (List No. 1).1 In this list there shall be included, without the necessity of later negotiations, any new office which the Government may later create. 4. The Government of the United States shall transmit regularly one copy each of the publications issued by its various departments, bureaus and institutions. There is enclosed a list of these departments and of the publications (ist No. 2).2 In this list there shall be included, without the necessity of later negotiations, any new bureaus which the Government may later create. 5. It is understood that publications issued in the future by the Departments and institutions which do not now issue publications and are not cited in the enclosed lists, will be transmitted in one copy. 6. This agreement does not oblige either one of the two Governments to proceed to the exchange of confidential publications, blank forms or circular letters which do not have a public character. 7. Each of the parties shall pay for the postal, railroad, or maritime expenses and other charges relative to the sending of the publications which originate in its own country. 8. Both parties express their desire to facilitate as much as possible the shipments of publications. 9. It is understood that this agreement does not amend the agree- ments already in existence on the subject of the exchange of publica- tions between the various public bureaus and institutions of the two countries. This agreement shall come into force from the receipt of this note by Your Excellency. Please accept, Mr. Ambassador, the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. J RAMON GUTIERREZ To His Excellency HOFFMAN PHILIP, Ambassador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiaryof the United States. 'For list, see p. 335. 2For list as furnished by the Government of the United States of America, see p. 347.

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