Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part I

No. 31.
Mr. Jay to Mr. Fish.

American Legation,
Vienna, March 26, 1872. (Received April 11.)

No. 424.]

Sir: To my. No. 422, of the 22d March, was appended a copy of a note which, at the suggestion of the Count Andrassy, I had addressed to his excellency, on the limited protection afforded by the Austrian patent-laws to American manufacturers.

I have to-day received a preliminary-response from the foreign office a translation of which is appended, advising me that my note had been submitted without de ay to the minister of commerce, Dr. Banhans, and that that minister will soon be ready to present to the Reichsrath the project of a special law for the provisional protection of articles introduced at the Vienna Exposition.

I am, &c.,

JOHN JAY.

[Inclosure—Translation.]

The imperial royal minister for foreign affairs to Mr. Jay.

Appendix

As a preliminary response due to the esteemed note of the 17th instant, the contents of which the undersigned minister of the imperial house and for foreign affairs communicated without delay to the imperial royal minister of commerce, the undersigned is glad to be enabled to inform Mr. John Jay, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, that the undersigned has already been advised by that minister that he will soon be ready to present to the Reichsrath the project of a special law for the provisional protection of articles introduced at the Vienna Exposition.

The undersigned, &c., for the minister for foreign affairs.

ORCZY.

Vienna, March 25, 1872.