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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 5, 1920. 387

This Article shall not apply as between the United States of America on the one hand and Bulgaria on the other.

ARTICLE 194.

The inhabitants of territories transferred under the present Treaty shall, notwithstand- ing this transfer and the change of nationality consequent thereon, continue to enjoy in Bulgaria all the rights in industrial, literary and artistic property to which they were entitled under Bulgarian legislation at the time of the transfer.

Rights of industrial, literary and artistic property which are in force in the territories transferred under the present Treaty at the moment of their transfer from Bulgaria, or which will be re-established or restored in accordance with the provisions of Article 190, shall be recognised by the State to which the said territory is transferred, and shall remain in force in that territory for the same period of time given them under the Bulgarian law.

ARTICLE 195.

A special convention shall determine all questious relative to the records, registers and copies in connection with the protection of industrial, literary or artistic property, and fix their eventual transmission or communication by the Bulgarian Offices to the Offices of the States to which Bulgarian territory is transferred.

No. 552. The following decree by the Siamese Government concerning the export of rice from Siam is published for general information.

(TRANSLATION.)

Decree Concerning the Export of Rice from the Kingdom.

BY THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

WHEREAS, by a Decree of the 12th June, B. E. 2162 (1919), the export of rice was

prohibited as from one month after the date thereof except under the conditions

laid down in the said Decree :

And Whereas the said Decree of Prohibition did not affect the fulfilment of contracts for the sale and purchase of rice, for the purpose of export, made bonâ fide before the publication of such prohibition, and no reference was made in the Decree to contracts which might be made after the publication of the prohibition subject to the condition of export licences being obtained under section 4 of the said Decree :

And Whereas the present agricultural uncertainty renders it possible that the export of rice may have to be further closely controlled :

Now Therefore We do hereby decree that any person wishing to enter into such con- tracts for the sale or purchase of rice for export from the Kingdom shall, before entering into the said contracts, apply to the Rice Controller for permission to do so, and the Rice Controller shall have power in his discretion to grant or refuse such permission.

And That in no case shall the Rice Controller issue a permit to export from the Kingdom any rice which has been sold or purchased under any contract made in contra- vention of this Decree, which contract shall be deemed null and void.

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The term "rice in this Decree shall have the same meaning as in the Decree prohibiting export of Rice dated 12th June, B. E. 2462 (1919).

Given on the 7th October, B. E. 2463.