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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH NOVEMBER, 1899.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 639.

The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th November, 1899.

CIRCULAR.!

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

SIR,

DOWNING STREET,

26th September, 1899.

I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of a Convention between the United Kingdom and Guatemala relative to Trade Marks, signed at Guatemala on the 20th July, 1898, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Guatemala on the 28th July, 1899.

I have the honour to be,

The Officer Administering the Government of

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

HONGKONG.

CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND GUATEMALA RELATIVE TO TRADE MARKS.

Signed at Guatemala, July 20, 1898.

[Ratifications exchanged at Guatemala, July 28, 1899.]

HER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, &c., &c., and his Excellency the President of the Republic of Guatemala, being desirous to conclude a Convention for the mutual protection of trade-marks and designs, have for that purpose appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, namely:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, &c., George Birt Jenner, Esquire, her Minister Resident in Central America ;

And his Excellency the President of Guatemala, Doctor Francisco Anguiano, Secretary of State for the Department of the Interior and Justice, and in charge of that of Foreign Relations;

Who, after having mutually communicated their Full Powers, found, in good and due form, have agreed to the following Articles :-

ARTICLE I.

The subjects or citizens of each of the Contracting Parties shall have, in the dominions and possessions of the other, the same rights as are now granted, or may hereafter be granted, to national subjects or citizens in all that relates to trade-marks, industrial designs, and patterns.

In order that such rights may be obtained, the formalities required by the laws of the respective countries must be fulfilled.

ARTICLE II.

The stipulations of the present Convention shall be applicable to all the Colonies and foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty, excepting to those hereinafter named, that is to say, except to India, the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, and New Zealand.

Provided always that the stipulations of the present Convention shall be made applicable to any of the above-named Colonies or foreign possessions, on whose behalf notice to that effect shall have been given by Her Britannic Majesty's Representative to the Minister of Foreign Relations of the Republic of Guatemala within one year from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Convention.