For the Independent State of the For the Republic of Hayti, Congo, EDM. VAN EETVELDE. MANUEL M. DE PERALTA. For the United States of America, EDWIN H. TERRELL-ad refer endum. For France and her Colonies, A. BOURÉE. Regulations for the execution of the Convention creating an International Bureau for the publication of Customs Tariffs. [Art. 13 of the Convention.] ARTICLE 1. The international Customs Bulletin shall be published in five languages, viz: German, English, Spanish, French and Italian. ARTICLE 2. Each State belonging to the Union shall have the privilege of causing to be translated and publishing at its own expense, the whole or any part of the Bulletin in any language that it may see fit, provided that such language be not one of those adopted by the International Bureau. Each of the States of the Union shall likewise have the right to reproduce mere extracts from tariffs, or, by way of exception, portions of the Bulletin, either in a local official organ or in its parliamentary documents. It is understood moreover, that each State is to be at liberty, as has hitherto been the case, to publish all the tariffs in the original language or in a translation, provided that the text published be not the work of the International Bureau. ARTICLE 3. The International Bureau pledges itself to take the utmost care in the translation of the customs laws and of the official publications that serve to interpret said laws, but it is understood that the Governments interested assume no responsibility with regard to the accuracy of these translations, and that, in case of dispute, the original text shall be their sole guide. A notice to this effect shall be printed in large type at the foot of the first page of each number. ARTICLE 4. The size of the Bulletin shall be determined by the Bureau. ARTICLE 5. Each Government shall make known in which of the languages adopted by the International Bureau it desires to receive the copies of the Bulletin which are to be furnished to it in return for the amount payable by it for the support of the institution. Any Government may take a certain number of copies in one language, and the remainder in other languages. ARTICLE 6. The International Bureau can supply the Bulletin to no Governments save those belonging to the Union. ARTICLE 7. The amount of the quota payable by each State shall be returned to it in subscriptions to the Bulletin of the Union, computed at the rate of 15 francs each. ARTICLE 8. The expenditures are computed approximately as follows: Francs. (a) Salaries of the officers and employés of the International Bureau, including an addition thereto of 15 per cent 75,000 (b) Cost of printing and sending the Bulletin of the Union Total... 30,000 20,000 125,000 ARTICLE 9. It shall be the duty of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium to take such measures as may be necessary for the organization of the International Bureau, and for putting it in working order, keeping within the limits fixed by the Convention and by these regulations. ARTICLE 10. The Superintendent of the International Bureau is hereby authorized, subject to the approval of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, to use, during the current fiscal year, such sums, appropriated for the past year, as may not have been then used. These sums shall, the case arising, go to form a reserve fund for the payment of contingent expenses. The said reserve shall in no case exceed 25,000 francs. The surplus will, perhaps, render it possible to reduce the price of subscription to the Bulletin, without increasing the number of copies guaranteed by the contracting States; this surplus may also serve to meet the expense that would be occasioned by the addition of a new language to those enumerated in article 1. This last measure shall not be carried out without the unanimous consent of the States and Colonies belonging to the Union. Done at Brussels, July the 5th, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, to be appended to the Convention of this day's date. For Great Britain and sundry For Italy and her Colonies, British Colonies, MARTIN GOSSELIN, A. E. BATEMAN. For British India, MARTIN GOSSELIN, For the Dominion of Canada, For the Cape of Good Hope, MARTIN GOSSELIN, A. E. BATEMAN. For Portugal and her Colonies, HENRIQUE DE MACEDO PEREIRA CONTINHO, AUGUSTO CESAR FERREIRA DE MESQUITA. For Roumania, J. VACARESCO. For Russia, G. KAMENSKY. For Salvador, EMILE ELOY. J. DE RENZIS. For Mexico, EDM. VAN DEN WYNGAERT. For Nicaragua, J. F. MEDINA. For Paraguay, HENRI OOSTENDORP. For the Netherlands and their Colonies, H. TESTA, FINAL DECLARATIONS. The undersigned delegates, having met this day for the purpose of signing the Convention and regulations providing for the formation of an International Union for the publication of customs tariffs, have exchanged the following declarations: 1. As regards the classification of the countries of the Union according to the quotas payable by them for the support of the International Bureau (arts. 9, 10, and 11 of the Convention): The delegates declare that, so long as the Convention shall remain in force, the adhering countries shall be classified as follows, and that the quotas payable by them shall be in proportion to the number of units stated below. As to the amounts of the quotas that have appeared in the table of apportionment, they are reproduced below by way of information, as the contribution of each State can not be determined with absolute precision until all the adhesions shall have become definitive. It is nevertheless, understood that these figures shall in no case be increased while this convention remains in force. |