# United States Treaty Series/Volume 1/Pan American Union (1902)

This is the official United States government version published in the first volume of the United States Treaty Series (Bevans).
PAN AMERICAN UNION
* Resolution adopted by the Second International American Conference at México January 29, 1902
* Amended by resolution dated August 7, 1906, of the Third International American Conference, as amended
* Termination: Regulations (except those relating to personnel) repealed by resolution dated August 7, 1906, of the Third International American Conference; became obsolete December 13, 1951, upon entry into force of the Charter of the Organization of American States dated April 30, 1948
Report of the Delegates of the United States to the Second International Conference of American States, Held at the City of Mexico From October 22, 1901, to January 22, 1902 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902), p. 160; Senate document 330, 57th Congress, 1st session
Reorganization of the International Bureau of the American Republics
The undersigned, Delegates of the Republics represented in the Second International American Conference, duly authorized by their Governments, have approved the following Resolution:
The Second International American Conference resolves:
Art. 1st. The International Bureau of the American Republics shall be under the management of a Governing Board, which shall consist of the Secretary of State of the United States of America, who shall be its Chairman, and the diplomatic representatives of all the governments represented in the Bureau and accredited to the Government of the United States of America. The Governing Board shall hold regular meetings once every month, excepting in June, July, and August, and such special meetings as may be called by the Chairman, or on request of two members of the Governing Board; and the presence of five at any regular or special meeting shall be sufficient to constitute a quorum empowered to transact any business which may come before the Board. The Governing Board shall appoint such Committees as it may deem proper.
​Art. 2nd. All the positions in the Bureau shall be filled after examination of the applicants by an Examining Board. Said applicants shall present their applications upon blanks, to be furnished by the Director of the Bureau, on which the applicants shall state the particular service which they desire to perform; they shall inscribe their names on a Register kept by the Director, wherein all the details of the examination shall be recorded, and the Examining Board can only recommend for special positions applied for and to be filled those who may show their qualifications for the performance of the duties of said position. The appointments shall be made by the Governing Board and shall be signed by the Chairman.
Art. 3rd. The Governing Board, with the cooperation of the Director of the Bureau, shall annually prepare an itemized budget for the expenses of the succeeding year. This budget shall be transmitted to each Government represented in the Bureau, together with a statement showing the proportionate amount which is to be paid by said Government based upon the agreement of April 14th., 1890, which amounts each Government, by its acceptance of the regulations, shall agree to transmit to the Secretary of State of the United States, six months in advance.
Art. 4th. The Governing Board may at any time appoint one or two of its members to examine the accounts of the Bureau and report to said Board.
Art. 5th. The Bureau shall have authority to correspond, through the diplomatic representatives in Washington, with the Executive Departments of the several American Republics, and shall furnish such information as it possesses or can obtain to any of said Republics so requesting. Each of the Republics agrees to facilitate the gathering of information by the Bureau as far as practicable, and promptly to send thereto two copies of each of its official publications, which shall be preserved in the Library of the Bureau, and to supply such other information as, from time to time, may be requested by the Director of the Bureau.
Art. 6th. The Bureau shall publish a monthly Bulletin which shall be printed in the English, Spanish, Portuguese and French languages, or separately in each language, and which shall contain laws and statistical information of special interest to the inhabitants of the several Republics.
The Bureau shall publish such pamphlets, maps, topographical and geographical charts and other documents as the Governing Board may direct.
Art. 7th. As soon as the present contracts for advertising in the Bulletin shall have expired, no further advertisements shall be published.
Art. 8th. Publications of the Bureau shall be considered public documents and shall be carried free in the mails of all the Republics.
Art. 9th. The Bureau shall be charged especially with the performance of ​all the duties imposed upon it by the resolutions of the present International Conference.
Art. 10th. The Director of the Bureau may attend the meetings of the Governing Board and all its Committees, and also the sessions of the International Conference of the American Republics, for the purpose of giving information when called upon for it.
Art. 11th. The Bureau shall be the custodian of the archives of the International Conferences of the American Republics.
Art. 12th. The resolutions of the First International Conference of the American Republics, adopted April 14th., 1890, shall remain in force, so far as they are not in conflict with these Regulations; and all other resolutions and plans for the reorganization of the Bureau are hereby annulled.
Art. 13th. Under the authority of the Governing Board of the International Union of the American Republics and as a Section of the Bureau of said Republics, a Latin-American Library is established to be named "Biblioteca de Colón" (Columbus Library).
Made and signed in the City of Mexico, on the 29th. day of the month of January, one thousand nine hundred and two, in three copies, in Spanish, English and French, respectively, which shall be deposited in the Department of Foreign Relations of the Government of the United States of Mexico, in order that certified copies thereof be made to be forwarded through diplomatic agency to each one of the Signatory States.
* For the Argentine Republic:
** Antonio Bermejo
** Lorenzo Anadon
* For Bolivia:
** Fernando E. Guachalla
* For Colombia:
** Rafael Reyes
* For Costa Rica:
** J. B. Calvo
* For Chili:
** Augusto Matte
** Joaq. Walker M.
** Emilio Bello C.
* For the Dominican Republic:
** Fed. Henriquez i Carvajal
** L. F. Carbo
** Quintin Gutierrez
* For Ecuador:
** L. F. Carbo
* For El Salvador:
** Francisco A. Reyes
** Baltasar Estupinian
* For the United States of America:
** W. I. Buchanan
** Charles M. Pepper
** Volney W. Foster
* For Guatemala:
** Francisco Orla
* For Hayti:
** J. N. Léger
* For Honduras:
** J. Leonard
** F. Dávila
* For Mexico:
** G. Raigosa
** Joaquin D. Casasús
** E. Pardo, jr.
** José Lopez Portillo y Rojas
** Pablo Macedo
** F. L. de la Barra
** Alfredo Chavero
** M. Sanchez Marmol
** Rosendo Pineda
* For Nicaragua:
** F. Dávila
* For Paraguay:
** Cecilio Baez
* For Perú:
** Manuel Alvarez Calderon
** Alberto Elmore
* For Uruguay:
** Juan Cuestas
* ↑ For an explanation of the various names of the Union, see footnote 1, ante, p. 129.
* ↑ Post. p. 535.
* ↑ 2 UST 2394; TIAS 2361.
* ↑ Ante, p. 129.
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