Considering,

That by the Basle Congress Paris was appointed as the
meeting-place for this year’s Congress of the International
Working Men’s Association;

That the present French regime continuing, the Congress will
not be able to meet at Paris;

That nevertheless the preparations for the meeting render an
immediate resolution necessary;

That article 3 of the Statutes obliges the Council to change, in
case of need, the place of meeting appointed by the Congress’;

That the Central Committee of the German Social-Democratic
Working Men’s Party has invited the General Council to transfer
this year’s Congress to Germany '”';

The General Council ‘has in its sitting of the 17th of May
unanimously resolved that this year’s Congress of the International
Working Men’s Association be opened on the 5th September next
and meet at Mayence.