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 3155 61 STAT.] SIAM-EXCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS-SEPT. 5, 1947 of the publications of both Governments and the shipment of its own publications to a port or other appropriate place reasonably convenient to the exchange office of the other Government. 6. The present agreement shall not be considered as a modification of any existing exchange agreement between a department or agency of one of the Governments and a department or agency of the other Government. Upon the receipt of a note from Your Excellency indicating that the foregoing provisions are acceptable to the Government of Siam, the Government of the United States of America will consider that this note and your reply constitute an agreement between the two Govern- ments on this subject, the agreement to enter into force on the date of your note in reply. Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. EDWIN F. STANTON His Excellency, LUANG ARTr'HAK IT BANOMYONO, Minister of ForeignAffairs, Bangkok. The Siamese Minister of ForeignAffairs to the American Ambassador MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, SARANROMI PALACE. No. 9800/2490 5th September, 1947. MONSIEUR L'AMBASSADEUR, With reference to Your Excellency's Note of today's date, and to the conversations between representatives of the Government of Siam and representatives of the Government of the United States of America in regard to the exchange of official publications, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that the Government of Siam agrees that there shall be an exchange of official publications between the two Governments in accordance with the following provisions: 1. Each of the two Governments shall furnish regularly a copy of each of its official publications which is indicated in a selected list prepared by the other Government and communicated through diplomatic channels subsequent to the conclusion of the present agreement. The list of publications selected by each Government may be revised from time to time and may be extended, without the necessity of subsequent negotiations, to include any other official publication of the other Government not specified in the list, or publications of new offices which the other Government may estab- lish in the future. 2. The official exchange office for the transmission of publications of the Government of the United States of America shall be the Smithsonian Institution. The official exchange office for the trans-

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