By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas a Declaration between the United States of America and the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg providing for a complete and effective protection of the manufacturing industry of the citizens and subjects of the two countries, was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Luxemburg the twenty-third and at the Hague the twenty-seventh of December, one thousand nine hundred and four, the original of which Declaration, being in the English language, is word for word as follows:
declaration.
The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg being desirous of securing a complete and effective protection of the manufacturing industry of the citizens and subjects of the two countries, the undersigned, being duly authorized to that effect, have agreed upon the following provisions.
Article I.
The subjects and citizens of each of the high contracting parties shall enjoy in the dominions and possessions of the other the same rights as are given to native subjects or citizens in matters relating to trade-marks.
Article II.
In order to secure to their marks the protection stipulated for by the preceding article, American citizens in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg and Luxemburg subjects in the United States of America must fulfil the formalities prescribed to that effect by the laws and regulations of the country in which the protection is desired.
[Page 636]Article III.
The present arrangement shall take effect from the date of its official publication in the two countries and shall remain in force until the expiration of twelve months immediately following a denunciation made by one or the other of the contracting parties.
In witness whereof, the undersigned have signed the present Declaration and have thereto affixed their seals.
Done in duplicate at Luxemburg, the 23, and in the Hague, the 27 December 1904.
| Stanford Newel | [seal.] |
| Eyschen | [seal.] |
And whereas the said Declaration has been duly ratified;
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Declaration to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
By the President:
Alvey A. Adee
Acting Secretary of State.