By the President of the United States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas a convention between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Roumania, providing for the reciprocal protection of trade-marks, was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Bucharest, on the eighteenth/thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and six, the original of which convention, being in the English and Roumanian languages, is, word for word, as follows:
The United States of America and His Majesty the King of Roumania, 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:
[Page 1248]Article I.
The citizens and subjects 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 citizens or subjects 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 Kingdom of Roumania and Roumanian subjects in the United States of America must fulfill the formalities prescribed to that effect by the laws and regulations of the country in which the protection is desired.
Article III.
The present convention 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 convention and have thereto affixed their seals.
Done in duplicate at Bucharest, March 18/31, 1906.
J. W. Riddle. [seal.]
General J. N. Lahovary. [seal.]
And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Bucharest on the twenty-first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and six;
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be 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 to be affixed.
[seal.]
By the President:
Elihu Root,
Secretary of State.