File No. 23807.

Chargé Wallace to the Secretary of State.

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.,

Wm. K. Wallace.

[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.

  • Erik Scavenius.
  • Horric de Beaucaire.