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 3606 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. 6. The present agreement shall not be considered as a modifica- tion 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 Sweden, 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 assurance of my highest consider- ation. H. FREEMAN MATTHEWS His Excellency OSTEN UNDE6N, Minister for ForeignAffairs, Stockholm. The Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the American Ambassador ROYAL SWEDISH MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS STOCKHOLM, December 16,1947. SIB, With reference to your note of December 16, 1947, and to the con- versations between representatives of the Government of the United States of America in regard to the exchange of official publications, I have the honor to inform you that the Government of Sweden 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 are indicated in a selected list prepared by the other Government and communicated through diplomatic channels subsequent to the conclusion of the present agree- ment. 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 establish 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- mission of publications of the Government of Sweden shall be the Royal Swedish Library. 3. The publications shall be received on behalf of the United States of America by the Library of Congress and on behalf of the Kingdom of Sweden by the Royal Swedish Library.

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