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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST JANUARY, 1888.
will study questions of general utility likely to be of interest to the Union, and, by the aid of documents placed at its disposal by the different administrations, will edit a periodical publication in the French language treating questions which concern the Union. The Governments of the countries of the Union reserve to themselves the faculty of authorizing, by common accord, the publication by the Office of an edition in one or more other languages if experience should show this to be requisite.
The International Office will always hold itself at the disposal of members of the Union, with the view to furnish them with any special information they may require relative to the protection of literary and artistic works.
The Admistration of the country where a Conference is about to be held, will gramme of the Conference with assistance of the International Office.
prepare the pro-
The Director of the International Office will attend the sittings of the Conferences, and will take part in the discussions without a deliberative voice. He will make an annual Report on his administra- tion, which shall be communicated to all the members of the Union.
The expenses of the Office of the International Union shall be shared by the Contracting States. Unless a fresh arrangement be made, they cannot exceed a sum of 60,000 fr. a year. be increased by the decision of one of the Conferences provided for in Article XVII.
This sum may
The share of the total expense to be paid by each country shall be determined by the division of the Contracting and acceding States into six classes, each of which shall contribute in the proportion of a certain number of units, viz.:-
First Class....
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Fifth
Sixth
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These coefficients will be multiplied by the number of States of each class, and the total product thus obtained will give the number of units by which the total expense is to be divided. The quotient will give the amount of the unity of expense.
Each State will declare, at the time of its accession, in which of the said classes it desires to be placed.
The Swiss Administration will prepare the Budget of the Office, superintend its expenditure, make the necessary advances, and draw up the annual account, which shall be communicated to all the other Administrations.
6. The next Conference shall be held at Paris between four and six years from the date of the coming into force of the Convention.
The French Government will fix the date within these limits after having consulted the Inter- national Office.
7. It is agreed that, as regards the exchange of ratifications contemplated in Article XXI, each Contracting Party shall give a single instrument, which shall be deposited, with those of the other States in the Government archives of the Swiss Confederation. Each party shall receive in exchange a copy of the procès-verbal of the exchange of ratifications, signed by the Plenipotentiaries present.
The present Final Protocol, which shall be ratified with the Convention concluded this day, shall be considered as forming an integral part of the said Convention, and shall have the same force, effect, and duration.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same. Done at Berne, the 9th day of September, 1886.
(Signed)
F. O. ADAMS. J. H. G. BERGNE. OTTO VON BÜLOW.
MAURICE DELFOSSE.
ALMINA.
VILLA-AMIL.
EMMANUEL ARAGO.
LOUIS-JOSEPH JANVIER. E. DI BECCARIA.
KENTZER.
DROZ.
L. RUCHONNET.
A. D'ORELLI.
L. RENAULT.