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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD FEBRUARY, 1905.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 75.
With reference to Government Notification No. 839 of 18th December, 1903, the following Circular Despatch, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with its enclosure, is published,
By Command,
F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st February, 1905.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
21st December, 1904.
SIR,- With reference to Lord Knutsford's Circular despatch of the 29th February, 1888, enclosing an Order of Her late Majesty in Council, dated 28th November, 1887, for giving effect to the Inter- national Copyright Convention of the 9th September, 1886, and to subsequent Circular despatches of the 15th of March, 1898, the 10th June, 1898, the 24th August, 1899, and the 26th October, 1903, enclosing further Orders in Council relative to the operation of that Convention, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your Government, copies of an Order of His Majesty in Council, dated the 12th December, 1904, giving effect to the accession of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Convention and to the additional Act of Paris of 1896, as from the 1st of August, 1904.
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
I have, etc.,
ALFRED LYTTELTON.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, The 12th day of December, 1924.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS
WHEREAS on the ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six a Con- vention (hereinafter called the Berne Convention) with respect to the protection to be given by way of copyright to the authors of literary and artistic works was concluded between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and the foreign countries following, that is to say:--Belgium, Hayti, Switzer- land, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Tunis,
And whereas on the fifth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, the ratifications of the said Convention were duly exchanged between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and
the aforesaid countries.
And whereas by an Order, in Council dated the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, an-l made under the authority co umitted to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria by the International Copyright Acts, 1844 to 1886, Her Majesty was pleased to make pro- vision for giving rights of copyright throughout Her Majesty's dominions to the authors of literary and artistic works first produced in any of the said foreign countries (therein referred to as the foreign countries of the Copyright Union and otherwise giving efect throughout Her Majesty's dominions to the terms of the said Berne Convention, and an English translation of the said Convention was set out in the first schedule to the said Order in Council.
And whereas since the date of the said Order in Council the foreign countries following, namely, Luxemburg, Monaco, Montenegro, and Norway, have acceded to the said Berne Convention and by Orders in Council dated respectively the tenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty- eight, the fifteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, the sixteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and made under the authority aforesaid, the provisions of the said Order in Council of the twenty-eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, have been extended to the last-mentioned foreign countries respectively.
And whereas an Additional Act to the said Berne Convention was agreed upon between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and the following foreign countries for the purpose of varying the provisions, of the said Berne Convention, namely, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Spain, Monaco, Tunis, France, and Montenegro, and the ratifications of the said Additional Act were on the ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven exchanged between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and the said foreign countries.