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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH JANUARY, 1898.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.- No. 41.

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With reference to Government Notification No. 29 of 21st January, 1888, the following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published for information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th January, 1898.

CIRCULAR.

SIR,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

DOWNING STREET,

15th December, 1897.

With reference to Lord Knutsford's Circular Despatch of the 18th November, 1887, enclosing copies of the Convention concerning the creation of an International Union for the protection of Literary and Artistic Works, signed at Berne on the 9th September, 1886, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your Government, copies of a Parliamentary Paper containing an Additional Act, signed at Paris on the 4th May, 1896, modifying certain Articles of that Convention, together with Procés-Verbal, dated 9th of September, 1897, recording the deposit of ratifi- cations of the Additional Act.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

The Officer Administering the Government of

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

HONGKONG.

ADDITIONAL ACT MODIFYING THE INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT CONVENTION OF SEPTEMBER 9, 1886.

Signed at Paris, May 4, 1896.

[Ratifications deposited at Paris, September 9, 1897.] (Translation.)

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India; His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, in the name of the German Empire; His Majesty the King of the Belgians; Her Majesty the Queen-Regent of Spain, in the name of His Majesty the King of Spain; the President of the French Republic; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Luxemburg; His Most Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco; His Highness the Prince of Montenegro; the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation; His Highness the Bey of Tunis; being equally animated by the desire to protect in a more effective and more uniform manner the rights of the authors over their literary and artistic works, have resolved to conclude an Additional Act to the Convention, signed at Berne on the 9th September, 1886, respecting the establish- ment of an International Union for the protection of such works, and have named as their Plenipoten- tiaries, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, Mr. Henry Howard, Minister Plenipotentiary in Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy at Paris; Sir Henry G. Bergne, Head of the Commercial and Sanitary Department of the Foreign Office;

His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, His Excellency M. Paul Reichardt, Privy Councillor, Director in the Department of Foreign Affairs; His Excellency Professor Dr. Otto Dambach, Privy Councillor; Dr. Franz Hermann Dungs, Privy Councillor, Referee to the Department of Justice; M. Felix von Müller, Councillor of the German Embassy at Paris;

His Majesty the King of the Belgians, Baron Auguste d'Anethan, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of the Belgians to the French Republic; M. Jules de Borchgrave, Secretary of the Chamber of Representatives; Chevalier Edouard Descamps, Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, Senator;

Her Majesty the Queen-Regent of Spain, in the name of His Catholic Majesty the King of Spain, the Marquis de Novallas, First Secretary of the Spanish Embassy at Paris;

The President of the French Republic, M. Charles de Saulce de Freycinet, member of the French Academy, Senator: M. Henri Marcel; Minister Plenipotentiary, Assistant in the Commercial Depart- ment in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs; M. Charles Lyon-Caen, Member of the Institute, Professor of the Faculty of Law of Paris; M. Eugène Pouillet, President of the Order of Barristers; M. Louis Renault, Professor of the Faculty of Law of Paris, Legal Adviser of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs;

His Majesty the King of Italy, Commandeur Luigi Roux, Doctor of Laws, ex-Deputy; Chevalier Georges Polacco, First Secretary of the Italian Embassy at Paris;