Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1877

No. 109.
Mr. Evarts to M. Outrey.

Department of State,
Washington, April 25, 1877.

Sir: Reverting to your note of the 21st ultimo in reference to an ambiguity as to the meaning of the English version of article II of the convention for the protection of trade-marks between the United States and France, I have the honor to state that this government construes the article referred to in the sense which is clearly expressed in the French version of the said article, and formally accepts the French version as the true interpretation thereof.

It is believed that the foregoing statement will be sufficient to obviate any difficulty to which the doubtful sense of the English version of the article in question might give rise.

I avail myself, &c.

WM. M. EVARTS.