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THE HONGKONG
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Published by Authority.
No. 34.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 23RD JULY, 1898.
VOL. XLIV.
號四十三第 日五初月六年戌戊 日三十二月七年八十九百八千一
簿四十四第
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 320.
With reference to Government Notification No. 205 of the 7th May last, the following Circular
Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.
By Command,
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th July, 1898.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
10th June, 1898.
SIR,With reference to my Circular despatch of the 15th March last, enclosing copies of an Order of Her Majesty in Council dated the 7th March, 1898, for giving effect to the Additional Act of Paris modifying the International Copyright Convention of the 9th September, 1886, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your Government, copies of an Order of Her Majesty in Council dated 19th May, 1898, extending the operation of the Order in Council of the 7th March, 1898, to the Republic of Hayti.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble Servant,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
AT THE COURT AT WINDSOR,
The 19th day of May, 1898.
PRESENT,
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY LORD CHANCELLOR
LORD PRESIDENT
LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH.
WHEREAS on the 9th day of September, 1886, a Convention (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 Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the foreign countries following, that is to say:
Belgium, France, Germany,
Hayti,
Italy,
Spain,
Switzerland, and
Tunis: