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MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS, 1776-1917

to the Union two copies of all official documents or publications relating to matters connected with the purposes of the Union; and with the same object they shall also send one copy to each of the Pan American Commissions.

Article XIV

All correspondence and publications of the "Pan American Union" shall be carried free of charge by the mails of the American Republics.

Article XV

The "Pan American Union" shall be governed by the regulations prepared by the Governing Board in accordance with the Statutes.

Article XVI

The American Republics bind themselves to continue to support the "Pan American Union" for a term of ten years from this date, and to pay annually into the Treasury of the "Pan American Union" their respective quotas. Any of the Republics may cease to belong to the Union of American Republics upon notice to the Governing Board, two years in advance. The "Pan American Union" shall continue for successive terms of ten years unless twelve months before the expiration of such term a majority of the members of the Union shall express the wish, through the Secretary of State of the United States of America, to withdraw therefrom on the expiration of the term.

Article XVII

All rules contrary to the present Resolution are hereby repealed.

Made and signed in the city of Buenos Aires on the eleventh day of the month of August in the year one thousand nine hundred and ten in the Spanish, English, Portuguese and French languages, and filed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic, in order that certified copies may be taken to be forwarded through the Diplomatic Channels to each one of the Signatory States.

  • For the United States of America:
    • Henry White
    • Enoch H. Crowder
    • Lewis Nixon
    • John Bassett Moore
    • Bernard Moses
    • Lamar C. Quintero
    • Paul S. Reinsch
    • David Kinley
  • For the Argentine Republic:
    • Antonio Bermejo
    • Eduardo L. Bidau
    • Manuel A. Montes de Oca
    • Epifanio Portela
    • Carlos Salas
    • José A. Terry
    • Estanislao S. Zeballos