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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH OCTOBER, 1886.
No. 49.
Sir J. Pauncefote to Mr. Calcraft.
Foreign Office, August 21, 1885.
WITH reference to your letter of the 15th instant, I am directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to transmit to you, to be laid before the Board of Trade, a copy of the instructions which his Lordship has sent to Mr. Adams, relative to the International Copyright Conference to be held next month at Berne.*
I am, &c.
(Signed)
JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.
No. 50.
My Lord,
Mr. Adams to the Marquis of Salisbury.-(Received August 24.)
Berne, August 22, 1885.
IN accordance with the instructions contained in your Lordship's despatch of the 18th instant, I have this day addressed a note to the President of the Swiss Confederation, acquainting the Swiss Government with the capacity in which the British Delegates will attend the Copyright Conference to be held next month in Berne.
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I have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of my note.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
F. O. ADAMS.
M. le Président,
Inclosure in No. 50.
Mr. Adams to M. Schenk.
Berne, August 22, 1885.
IN my note of the 11th May last to your Excellency I had the honour to inform the Swiss Government that if it were decided to call another meeting of the Copyright Conference this autumn, Her Majesty's Government would have much pleasure in authorizing me to attend on their behalf, as before, in a consultative capacity only. I should thus have had no power to vote.
I have now, however, the honour, in accordance with the instructions which I have received from - the Marquis of Salisbury, to acquaint the Swiss Government that Her Majesty's Government have decided to extend the functions thus assigned to me by giving me power to take part in the discussions and to vote in the Conference to be held here next month, but on the distinct understanding that any part to be taken by me in the proceedings will be ad referendum, and that any resolutions arrived at by the Conference will be entirely subject to subsequent approval or rejection by Her Majesty's Government.
I am also instructed by the Marquis of Salisbury to inform the Swiss Government that his Lord- ship has appointed Mr. J. H. G. Bergne, Superintendent of the Treaty Department of the Foreign Office, as second British Delegate to attend the meetings of the Conference, and generally to assist me in all matters relating to it.
No. 51.
I avail, &c.
(Signed)
F. O. ADAMS
My Lord,
Mr. Adams to the Marquis of Salisbury.-(Received September 11.)
Berne, September 9, 1885.
THE second International Copyright Conference was opened at Berne on the 7th instant. I have the honour to transmit herewith two copies of the list of the Delegates.
M. Droz, Head of the Federal Department of Commerce and Agriculture, was again chosen unanimously to be the President of the Conference, and the French Ambassador, M. Arago, to be. Vice-President.
* No. 46.