New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-16
A PROCLAMATION by the President o
the United States of America:


WHEREAS, An additional article to the
treaty of navigation and commerce between
the United States of America and the En-
peror of Russia, of the eighteenth Deem
Der, 1882, was concluded and signed at
Washington by their respective plenipOten-
tiaries on the twenty-seventh day of Jan
uary 1868, the original of which additional
article is word for word as follows:
The United States of America and his
Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias.
deeming 1t advisable that there should be
an additional article to the treaty of COM
merce between them of the eighteenth De-
cember 1892, have for this purpose named
as their plenipotentiaries, the President of
the United States, William H. Seward Sec
rotary. of State, and his Majesty the Empe-
ror of all the Russias, the Privy Councillor,
Edward de Stoeckl, accredited as his Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the United States; and the said plenipo-
tentiaries, after an examination of their re-
spective full powers, which were found to
be in good and due form, have agreed to and
signed the following:
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.
The high contracting parties, desiring to
secure complete and efficient protection to
the manufacturing industry of their re-
spective citizens and subjects, agree that
any counterfeiting in one of the two cOun-
tries of the trade marks affixed in the other
on merchandise to show its origin and quail
ity, shall be strictly prohibited and re-
pressed, and shall give ground for an action
OF damages in favor of the injured party,
to be prosecuted in the courts of the coYn-
try in which the counterfeit shall be proven.
The trade marks in which the citizens or
subjects of one of the two countries may
wish to secure the right of property in the
other, must be lodged exclusively, to wit:
The marks of citizens of the United
States in the department of manufactures
and inland commerce at st. Petersburg
and the marks of Russian subjects at the
patent office in Washington.
This additional article shall be terminable
by either party, pursuant to the twelfth
article of the treaty to which it is an addi-
ton. 1t shall be ratified by the President
by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate of the United States, and by his
Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias,
and the respective Publications of the same
shall be exchanged at st Petersburg within
nine months from the date hereof. or sooner
if possible.
In faith whereof the respective plenipo-
tentiaries have signed the present additional
article in duplicate and affixed thereto
the seal of their arms.
Done at Washington, the twenty-seyenth
day of January, in the year of grace one
eight hundred and siXty-elght.
WILLIAM III. SEWARD,
EDOUARD DE STOECKL.
And whereas. the said additional article
has been duly ratified on both parts, and
the respective notifications of the same
we're exchanged at ST. Petersburg on the
5wenty-frst day of September last by Cas-
sius NJ. Clay, Esquire, envoy extraordinary
md minister plenipotentiary of the United
States, and Vladimir de Westmann. acting
minister of foreign affairs of his Majesty |
he Emperor of all the Russias, on the pat |
If their respective governments:
Now. therefore. be it known that I, An !
lrew johnson, President OF the United |
States of America, have caused the said |
article 10 be made public, to the |
nd that the same and every clause and part /
hereof, may be observed and fulfilled with |
rood faith by the United States and the cit. |
zens thereof
In witness whereof, / have hereunto set |
ny hand and caused the seal of the United |
states to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington this ff- /
zenith day OF October, in the year OF our
lord one thousand eight hundred and
and of the Independence Of the |
United States the niuetv third
ANDREW JOHNSON.
BY the President:
WILLIAM III. SEWARD,
~ Secretary of State.
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