THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH OCTOBER, 1886.
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at the International Copyright Conference to be held at Berne on the 6th September next, for the purpose of signing the International Copyright Convention, that the Board of Trade are of opinion that the invitation should be accepted by Her Majesty's Government.
I am further to state that the Board of Trade, in compliance with the suggestion contained in the concluding paragraph of your letter, have placed themselves in communication with the Lords Com- missioners of the Treasury touching the amount of the contribution that will be required from this country as one of the States parties to the International Copyright Union.
I have, &c.
C. CECIL TREVOR.
(Signed)
No. 23.
My Lord,
Mr. Adams to the Earl of Rosebery.—(Received July 14.)
Berne, July 12, 1886.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a note which I have received from the Federal Department of Commerce, acknowledging with thanks the receipt of the copy of "The International and Colonial Copyright Act, 1886," which I had forwarded to the Federal Government as instructed by your Lordship's despatch of the 2nd instant.
I have, &c. (Signed)
F. O. ADAMS.
4.
Excellency,
Inclosure in No. 23.
Dr. Willi to Mr. Adams. (Translation.)
Berne, July 10, 1886.
AT the moment of his departure for several weeks, Federal Councillor Droz received the letter which your Excellency was good enough to address on the 5th instant to the Swiss Federal Council, furnishing a copy of "The International and Colonial Copyright Act, 1886," and announcing that Her Britannic Majesty's Government had decided to sign the International Convention for the protec- tion of literary and artistic property.
M. Droz asks me to acknowledge the receipt of this communication; and, until he can do so personally, to express to you his best thanks for the active part you have taken in the decision at which your Government has arrived.
Sir,
No. 24.
I avail, &c. The Chief of Division,
(Signed)
Mr. Walpole to Sir J. Pauncefote.-(Received July 17.)
DR. WILLI.
India Office, July 16, 1886.
WITH reference to the letters from this Office of the 2nd and 15th ultimo, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to transmit, for the information of the Earl of Rosebery, copy of the despatch which has now been received from the Government of India on the subject of the In- ternational and Colonial Copyright Bill recently enacted.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
HORACE WALPOLE.
Inclosure 1 in No. 24.
My Lord,
The Governor-General of India in Council to the Earl of Kimberley.
Simla, June 19, 1886.
WITH reference to the correspondence ending with your Lordship's despatch dated the 29th April, 1886, on the subject of the proposed International Copyright Convention, we have the honour to transmit a copy of our telegram dated the 27th ultimo, in which we have intimated our desire to enter the International Copyright Union, and expressed our opinion on certain clauses of the Interna- tional and Colonial Copyright Bill.
2. Your Lordship will observe that we approve of the provisions of clause 8. sub-sections (1) and, (2) of the Bill, and that we desire the retention of sub-section (4) of the same clause, which preserves to each Colony its present power of legislating for the copyright, within the limits of the Colony con-