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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH FEBRUARY, 1887.
2. With respect to the classification of the countries of the Union having regard to their contri- butory part to the expenses of the International Bureau (No. 5 of the final Protocol):
The Plenipotentiaries declare that their respective countries should be ranked in the following classes, namely:-
Germany in the first class.
Belgium in the third class.
Spain in the second class.
France in the first class.
Great Britain in the first class.
Haiti in the fifth class.
Italy in the first class. Switzerland in the third class. Tunis in the sixth class.
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The Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Liberia states that the powers which he has received from his Government authorize him to sign the Convention, but that he has not received instructions as to the class in which his country proposes to place itself with respect to the contribution to the expenses of the International Bureau. He therefore reserves that question to be determined by his Government, who will make known their intention on the exchange of ratifications.
In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present procès-verbal. Done at Berne the 9th day of September, 1886.
(Signed)
For Great Britain
For Germany
For Belgium
For Spain
For France
For Haiti
For Italy
For Liberia
For Switzerland
For Tunis
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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.
Inclosure 5 in No. 13.
(Translation.)
Extract from the Procès-verbal at the Sitting of the 6th September, 1886.
Mr. President and Delegates,
THROUGH a Circular note of the Swiss Federal Council, the Government of the United States has been invited, in concert with the other Powers represented in the Copyright Conference held here in September 1885, to instruct and empower a Delegate to attend this Conference, and to sign, on behalf of the United States, the International Convention for the general protection of literary and artistic property, which was drafted ad referendum by the Conference of last year.
The Government of the United States again finds it impracticable to depute a Plenipotentiary Delegate, and is constrained to withhold its formal participation as a Signatory in the International Convention, which resulted from the deliberations of 1885, and thus transform that Convention into a full diplomatic engagement. To exhibit its benevolence, however, towards the principle involved, the Government of the United States desires, with the pleasure of this Conference, to be represented here, and has conferred upon me the honour to attend this Conference as a Delegate, provided that my attendance is fully recognized and admitted to be without Plenipotentiary powers, but under the limitation and reservation that the United States not being a party to the proposed Convention, reserves their privilege of future accession under provisions of Article XVIII thereof, which declares that "Countries which have not joined in the present Convention, and which by their municipal laws assure legal protection to the rights whereof this Convention treats, shall be admitted to accede thereto on their request to that effect."