United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 3324 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...act concerns " the exchange between the Governments of documents and information relating to the slave trade." Article 81 says: The powers shall communicate to one another to the fullest extent and with the least delay that they shall consider possible: 1. Tho text of the laws and administrative regulations existing or enacted by application of the clauses of the present general act. 2. Statistical information concerning the slave trade, slaves arrested and liberated, and the traffic in firearms, ammunition, and alcoholic liquors. Article 82 reads: The exchange of these documents and information shall be centralized in a special office attached to the foreign office at Brussels Article 83 refers to the duties of the office at Zanzibar, and article 84 states that the documents and information shall be collected and published periodically, and addressed to all the signatory powers. Article 85 reads: The office expenses, as well as thoso incurred in correspondence, translation, and printing, shall be shared by all the signatory powers, and shall be collocted through the agency of the department of the foreign office at Brussels. There being no fund at this Department's command available for the liquidation of this Government's share of the expenses, viz, $93.09, and our treaty obligations requiring that it be met, I request that this communication be promptly brought to the attention of Congress, to the end that the necessary appropriation shall be made. House Ex. Doc. No. 72, Fifty-third Congress, second session, refers to our share of the expenses tor 1892, which was provided in the deficiency act approved August 23, L894. I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, W. Q. Geesham. The Secretary Of The Tbeasuey. 3d...