61 STAT.] ECUADOR-EXCHANGE OF PUBLICATIONS-OCT. 21, 29, 1947 2. With respect thereto, I take the liberty of informing Your Excel- lency that the Ecuadoran Government is agreeable to the establish- ment of an exchange of official publications, in accordance with the following provisions: I. Each of the two Governments shall furnish regularly to the other a copy of each of its official publications which are indicated in a selected list prepared by the other Government and communi- cated through diplomatic channels subsequent to the conclusion of the present agreement. The list of the publications selected by each Government may be revised from time to time and may be extended, without the necessity of subsequent negotiations, in order to include any other official publication of the other Govern- ment not specified in the list, or publications concerning new offices which the other Government may establish in the future. II. The official exchange office for the transmission of publications of the Government of Ecuador shall be the Biblioteca Nacional. The official exchange office for the Government of the United States of America shall be the Smithsonian Institution. III. The publications shall be received on behalf of the Republic of Ecuador by the Biblioteca Nacional and on behalf of the United States of America by the Library of Congress. IV. The present agreement does not obligate either of the two Governments to furnish confidential publications, blank forms, and circulars which are not of a public character. V. Each of the two Governments shall bear all charges, including postal, rail and shipping costs, arising under the present agreement in connection with the transportation within its own country of the publications of both Governments and the shipment of its own publications to a port or other appropriate place reasonably con- venient to the exchange office of the other Governmlent. VI. 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. 3. The Government of Ecuador considers that the above-mentioned communication from Your Excellency and this reply constitute an agreement between the two Governments on this subject, the agree- ment to enter into force from this date. I avail myself of the opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. Josi V. TRUJILLO His Excellency JOHN F. SIMMONS, Ambassador Extraordinaryand Plenipotentiary of the United States of America. 3325
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