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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JULY, 1898.
"(B.) Photographic works and works produced by an analogous process shall be admitted to the benefits of these engagements in so far as the laws of each State may permit, and to the extent of the protection accorded by such laws to similar national works.
"It is understood that an authorized photograph of a work of art shall enjoy legal protection in all the countries of the Union, as contemplated by the Berne Convention and by the present Additional Act, for the same period as the principal right of reproduction of the work itself subsists, and within the limits of private arrangements between those who have legal rights."
2. No. 4.-This clause shall run as follows:-
"The common agreement contemplated in Article XIV. of the Convention is established as follows:-
"The application of the Berne Convention and of the present Additional Act to works which have not fallen into the public domain within the country of origin at the time when these engagements come into force, shall operate according to such stipulations on this head as may be contained in special Conventions either actually existing or to be concluded hereafter.
"In the absence of such stipulations between any of the countries of the Union, the respective countries shall regulate, each for itself, by its domestic legislation, the manner in which the principle contained in Article XIV. is to be applied.
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"The stipulations of Article XIV. of the Berne Convention and of the present clause of the Final Protocol shall apply equally to the exclusive right of translation, so far as such right is established by the present Additional Act.
"The temporary stipulations noted above shall be applicable to countries which may hereafter accede to the Union."
ARTICLE III.
The countries of the Union which are not parties to the present Additional Act shall at any time be allowed to accede thereto on their request to that effect. This stipulation shall apply equally to It will suffice countries which may hereafter accede to the Convention of the 9th September, 1886.
who for this purpose that such accession should be notified in writing to the Swiss Federal Council, shall in turn communicate it to the other Governments.
ARTICLE IV.
The present Additional Act shall have the same force and duration as the Convention of the 9th September, 1886.
It shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Paris, in the manner adopted in the case of that Convention, as soon as possible, and within the space of one year at the latest.
It shall come into force as regards those countries which shall have ratified it three months after such exchange of ratifications.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 321.
The following Notice is published.
By Cominand,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th July, 1898.
NOTICE.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
The Customs charge levied upon the addressees of type-samples of unmanufactured tobacco admitted into the British Isles by Post is now 8d. instead of 9d. as heretofore. The regulations requiring such samples to be of unmanufactured tobacco, not to exceed 4 ounces, in gross weight, and to comply with the general regulations of the Sample Post still apply.
General Post Office, Hongkong, 18th July, 1898.
A. M. THOMSON,
Postmaster General.
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