President, I have
a few words bearing on the subject before the Conference which I wish
to express before any action is taken.

The PRESIDENT. There will be no subject before the Congress if the
resolutions of General STRACHEY are withdrawn, and the Chair
understands that the object of General STRACHEY in withdrawing these
resolutions was to avoid a discussion upon a subject that could hardly
lead to any satisfactory conclusion.

If, however, Mr. FLEMING desires to address the Conference, he will be
at liberty to do so.

Mr. FLEMING, Delegate of Great Britain. I do not wish to intrude any
new matter upon the Conference. What I had to say had a bearing upon
the subject, but, if the resolutions are withdrawn and the Conference
desires to end the matter, I shall not insist upon speaking.

No objection being made, the resolutions offered by General STRACHEY
at the last session of the Conference were then withdrawn.

Count LEWENHAUPT, Delegate for Sweden, then proposed that the
resolutions passed by the Conference should be formally recorded in a
Final Act, stating the votes on each resolution that was adopted.

The Conference took a recess, in order to allow the Delegates to
examine the draft of the Final Act.

After the recess the Final Act was unanimously adopted, as follows:

FINAL ACT.

The President of the United States of America, in pursuance
of a special provision of Congress, having extended to the
Governments of all nations in diplomatic relations with his
own, an invitation to send Delegates to meet Delegates from
the United States in the city of Washington on the first of
October, 1884, for the purpose of discussing, and, if
possible, fixing upon a meridian proper to be employed as a
common zero of longitude and standard of time-reckoning
throughout the whole world, this International Meridian
Conference assembled at the time and place designated; and,
after careful and patient discussion, has passed the
following resolutions:

I.

"That it is the opinion of this Congress that it is
desirable to adopt a single prime meridian for all nations,
in place of the multiplicity of initial meridians which now
exist."

This resolution was unanimously adopted.

II.

"That the Conference proposes to the Governments here
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