The Italian charge to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

Mr. Secretary of State: His excellency the minister of foreign affairs informs me that on December 18 last, by means of an exchange of notes between the royal minister at Peking and the representative of the United States in consequence of a proposal presented by the latter in accordance with instructions received from his Government, an agreementa was effected for the reciprocal protection of Italian and American trade-marks in the Chinese Empire, similar to that which was concluded in 1903b between Italy and the United States for the protection of trade-marks in Morocco.

Agreeably to instructions received from my Government and by way of perfecting the understanding, I have the honor to advise your excellency that the royal consular officers in China have, with a view to the execution of the said agreement, already been furnished with the same instructions as were at the time sent to the royal legation at Tangier for the execution of the second agreement above referred to and of which this royal embassy transmitted the text, together with the respective accompaniments, to the Department of State in its note of December 19, 1903.

Accept, etc.,

C. C. Montagna.