File No. 23807.
Chargé Wallace to
the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Copenhagen
,
February 23,
1910
.
No. 273.]
Sir: I have the honor to inclose, as of
interest to the department, two copies, with translation in duplicate,
of a supplementary agreement, signed on February 9, 1910, by the Danish
minister for foreign affairs and the French minister in Copenhagen, to
the convention of commerce and navigation signed in Paris, February 9,
1842.
I beg to draw the department’s attention to Article II of the convention,
inasmuch as the Rigsdag has now under consideration a complete revision
of the existing laws governing the rights of commercial travelers in
Denmark.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure—Translation.]
The undersigned, Erik Julius Christian de Scavenius, minister for
foreign affairs of His Majesty the King of Denmark, and Charles
Prosper Maurice Horric de Beaucaire, envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic at Copenhagen, duly
authorized for the purpose, have agreed upon the following
supplementary articles to the convention of commerce and navigation
signed in Paris the 9th of February, 1842.
Article I.
Danish subjects in France and French citizens in Denmark in the
exercise of their civil rights as well as in the pursuit of their
trades and industrial or commercial professions, shall enjoy the
same rights, privileges, liberties, favors, immunities, and
exemptions which have been or will be granted to their own nationals
and shall not be subjected to other forms of taxation or impost than
those which are or may be levied on their own nationals.
Article II.
The amount to be paid for letters patent in Denmark by the commercial
travelers of firms established in France shall not exceed the amount
paid by commercial travelers of nations most favored in this
respect. The commercial travelers of firms established in Denmark
shall be subject in France to an equivalent impost.
Article III.
The foregoing articles will have the same force and value as if they
were an integral part of the above-mentioned convention of the 9th
of February, 1842, they shall apply to the same geographical areas,
and shall cease to be effective simultaneously with termination of
the said convention, in case this should be renounced.
Article IV.
These articles, executed in duplicate, shall come into force one
month after their signature.
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Erik Scavenius.
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Horric de Beaucaire.
Copenhagen
,
February 9,
1910
.