into operation has been passed by the Congress of the United States, and the ratifications of the Convention have been exchanged as provided in Article VI thereof:

And whereas the Acting Secretary of State of the United States and His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington have recorded in a protocol a conference held by them at Washington, on the ninth day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, in the following language:

"Whereas it is provided by Article V of the Convention between the "United States of America and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian "Islands concerning commercial reciprocity, signed at Washington on the "30th day of January, 1875, as follows:

-"'ARTICLE V. The present Convention shall take effect as soon as it "shall have been approved and proclaimed by His Majesty the King of "the Hawaiian Islands, and shall have been ratified and duly proclaimed "on the part of the Government of the United States, but not until the "law to carry it into operation shall have been passed by the Congress of "the United States of America. Such assent having been given, and the "ratifications of the Convention having been exchanged as provided in "Article VI, the Convention shall remain in force for seven years from "the date at which it may come into operation; and further, until the ex"piration of twelve months after either of the high contracting parties "shall give notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same; each of "the high contracting parties being at liberty to give such notice to the "other at the end of the said term of seven years, or at any time there"" after :'

"And whereas the said Convention has been approved and proclaimed by His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, and has been ratified and duly proclaimed on the part of the Government of the United States:

"And whereas an act was passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, entitled 'An act to carry into effect a Convention between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, signed on the thirtieth day of January eighteen hundred and seventy-five,' which was approved on the 15th day of August in the year 1876:

"And whereas an act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Hawaiian Islands, entitled 'An act to carry into effect a Convention between His Majesty the King and the United States of America, signed at Washiugton on the 30th day of January, 1875,' which was duly approved on the 18th day of July, in the year 1876:

"And whereas the ratifications of the said Convention have been exchanged as provided in Article VI:

"The undersigned, William Hunter, Acting Secretary of State of the United States of America, and the Honorable Elisha H. Allen, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Chancellor of the Kingdom, Member of the Privy Council of State, and His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, duly authorized for this purpose by their respective Governments, have met together at Washington, and having found the said Convention has been approved and proclaimed by His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands and has been ratified and duly proclaimed on the part of the Government of the United States, and that the laws required to carry the said Treaty into operation have been passed by the Congress of the United States of America on the one part and by the Legislative Assembly of the Hawaiian Islands on the other, hereby declare that the Convention aforesaid, concluded between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands on the 30th day of January, 1875, will take effect on the date hereof:"

tion has been passed to carry the same into effect, and that the ratifications of the Convention have been exchanged as provided in Article VI.

(September 9, 1876.] LARTICLES OF COMMERCIAL RECIPROCITY IN THE CONVENTION OF JANUARY 30, 1875, Jan. 30, 1875. REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING PROCLAMATION.]

19 Stat., 625. ARTICLE I. For and in consideration of the rights and privileges granted by His Hawaiian prodMajesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands in the next succeeding arti- ucts to be admit

ted into United cle of this convention and as an equivalent therefor, the United States States free of duty. of America hereby agree to admit all the articles named in the following R. S., $ 2505. schedule, the same being the growth and manufacture or produce of the 1876, Aug. 15, ch.

290. Hawaiian Islands, into all the ports of the United States free of duty.

SCHEDULE. Arrow-root;

Muscovado, brown, and all other Castor oil;

unrefined sugar, meaning thereBananas;

by the grades of sugar heretofore Nuts, vegetables, dried and un- commonly imported from the Hadried, preserved and unpre

waiian Islands and now kuown served ;

in the markets of San Francisco Hides and skins undressed;

and Portland as “ Sandwich Isl. Rice;

and sugar;" Pulu;

Syrups of sugar-cane, melado, and Seeds, plants, shrubs or trees; molasses;

Tallow.

ARTICLE II.
For and in consideration of the rights and privileges granted by the

United States United States of America in the preceding article of this convention, Into Hawaiian Island as an equivalent therefor, His Majesty, the King of the Hawaiian ands free of duty. Islands hereby agrees to admit all the articles named in the following schedule, the same being the growth, manufacture or produce of the United States of America, into all the ports of the Hawaiian Islands, free of duty.

SCHEDULE. Agricultural implements;

Hardware; Animals;

Hides, furs, skins and pelts, dressed Beef, bacon, pork, ham and all or undressed:

fresh, smoked or preserved meats; Hoop iron, and rivets, nails, spikes Boots and shoes;

and bolts, tacks, brads or sprigs; Grain, flour, meal and bran, bread Ice;

and breadstuffs, of all kinds; Iron and steel and manufactures Bricks, lime and cement;

thereof; Butter, cheese, lard, tallow, bullion; Leather;

Lumber and timber of all kinds, Cordage, naval stores including round, hewed, sawed, and unman

tar, pitch, resin, turpentine raw ufactured in whole or in part;
and rectified;

Doors, sashes and blinds;
Copper and composition sheathing; Machinery of all kinds, engines and
Nails and bolts;

parts thereof; Cotton and manufactures of cotton Oats and hay;

bleached, and unbleached, and Paper, stationery and books, and whether or not colored, stained, all manufactures of paper or of painted or printed;

paper and wood; Eggs;

Petroleum and all oils for lubricate Fish and oysters, and all other ing or illuminating purposes;

creatures living in the water, and Plants, shrubs, trees and seeds;
the products thereof;

Rice;
Fruits, nuts, and vegetables, green, Sugar, refined or unrefined;

dried or undried, preserved or Salt;
unpreserved ;

Coal;

Soap;

Shooks, staves and headings; Textile manufactures, made of a
Wool and manufactures of wool, combination of wool, cotton, silk

other than ready made cloth. or linen, or of any two or more of
ing;

them other than when ready Wagons and carts for the purposes

made clothing;
of agriculture or of drayage; Harness and all manufactures of
Wood and manufactures of wood, leather;

or of wood and metal except Starch;
furniture either upholstered or And' tobacco, whether in leaf or
carved and carriages;

manufactured.

ARTICLE III.

Evidence of ar- The evidence that articles proposed to be admitted into the ports of ticles being the the United States of America, or the ports of the Hawaiian Islands, free product of said of duty, under the first and second articles of this convention, are the countries; how established.

growth, manufacture or produce of the United States of America or of the Hawaiian Islands respectively shall be established under such rules and regulations and conditions for the protection of the revenue as the two Governments may from time to time respectively prescribe.

ARTICLE IV.

No export duty

No export duty or charges shall be imposed in the Hawaiian Islands to be charged by or in the United States, upon any of the articles proposed to be admiteither country on ted into the ports of the United States or the ports of the Hawaiian such products.

Islands free of duty, under the first and second articles of this conven

tion. No lease, &c., of It is agreed, on the part of His Hawaiian Majesty, that, so long as this Hawaiian ports, treaty shall remain in force, he will not lease or otherwise dispose of or and no other nation to have same create any lien upon any port, harbor, or other territory in his dominprivileges. ions, or grant any special privilege or rights of use therein, to any other

power, state or government, nor make any treaty by which any other nation shall obtain the same privileges, relative to the admission of any articles free of duty, hereby secured to the United States.

ARTICLE V.

p. 627.

When to take ef- The present convention shall take effect as soon as it shall have been fect.

approved and proclaimed by His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Seedot 1876, Aug. Islands, and shall have been ratified aud duly proclaimed on the part of 15, ch. 290.

the Government of the United States, but not until a law to carry it See proclamation, into operation shall have been passed' by the Congress of the United

States of America. How long to re- Such assent having been given and the ratifications of the convention main in forco.

having been exchanged as provided in article VI, the convention shall remain in force for seven years, from the date at which it may come into operation; and further, until the expiration of twelve months after either of the high contracting parties shall give notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same; each of the high contracting parties being at liberty to give such notice to the other at the end of the said term of seven years, or at any time thereafter.

ARTICLE VI.

Exchange of rat- The present convention shall be duly ratified, and the ratifications ifications. See proclamation,

exchanged at Washington city, within eighteen months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible.

[January 30, 1875.]

p. 627.

[RECIPROCAL PROTECTION OF TRADE-MARKS IN UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL.]

Whereas an agreement between the United States and Brazil for the reciprocal protection of marks of manufacture and trade in the two countries, was concluded and signed by their plenipotentiaries, at Rio de Janeiro, on the 24th day of September, 1878, the original of which agreement is word for word as follows:

1881, March 3, ch. 138.

United States

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND BRAZIL
FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE MARKS OF MANUFACTURE AND and Brazil agree
TRADE.

The Government of the United States of America and the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, with a view to the reciprocal protection of the marks of manufacture and trade in the two countries, have agreed as follows:

The citizens or subjects of the two High Contracting Parties shall have in the dominions and possessions of the other, the same rights as belong to native citizens or subjects, in every thing relating to property in marks of manufacture and trade.

that

citizens of each shall have same in each other's posrights as natives

sessions as to trade

marks. R. S., §§ 4937-4947. 1876, Aug. 14, ch. 274. 1881, March 3, ch. 138. It is understood that any person who desires to obtain the aforesaid -laws of, to be protection must fulfil the formalities required by the laws of the respect- complied with.

ive countries.

In witness whereof the undersigned duly authorized to this end, have Execution of signed the present agreement and have affixed thereto the seals of their treaty. árms.

Done in duplicate at Rio de Janeiro the twenty-fourth day of the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. And whereas the said agreement has been duly ratified:

Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused the said agreement to be made public to the end that the same and every clause and part thereof, may be observed and fullfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.

[CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.]

ARTICLE

Preamble.

1. Claims of citizens, &c., of United States against France.

-of citizens of France against United States. referred to commissioners.

2. Commission to examine and decide upon claims.

3.

but not claims for loss of slaves.

vacancies in, to be filled.

ARTICLE

Terms of awards.

7. Full force to be given to decisions without
delay.

8. Claims to be presented within six months
after notice of meeting.

Commissioners may extend time three months.
Claims to be decided within two years, with-
out extension, except, &c.

Commissioners to determine whether claim has
been duly presented.

Jan. 15, 1880. 21 Stat. L.

country against the other, was concluded and signed by their respective pleni-
potentiaries, at the city of Washington, on the fifteenth day of January, in
the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, which Convention is word
for word as follows:
CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE

FRENCH REPUBLIC, FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF CERTAIN CLAIMS OF
THE CITIZENS OF EITHER COUNTRY AGAINST THE OTHER.

The United States of America and the French Republic, animated by the desire to settle and adjust amicably the claims made by the citizens of either country against the government of the other, growing out of acts committed by the civil or military authorities of either country as hereinafter defined, during a state of war or insurrection, under the circumstances hereinafter specified, have agreed to make arrangements for that purpose, by means of a Convention, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries to confer and agree thereupon, as follows:

The President of the United States, William Maxwell Evarts, Secretary of State of the United States, and the President of the French Republic, Georges Maxime Outrey, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of France at Washington, Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, &c., &c., &c.;

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

ARTICLE I. Claims of citizens, &c., of Uni- All claims on the part of corporations, companies, or private indited States against viduals, citizens of the United States, upon the Government of France, France.

arising out of acts committed against the persons or property of citizens of the United States not in the service of the enemies of France, or voluntarily giving aid and comfort to the same, by the French civil or military authorities, upon the high seas or within the territory of France, its colonies and dependencies, during the late war between France and Mexico, or during the war of 1870–71 between France and Germany and the subsequent civil disturbances known as the "Insurrection of

the Commune”; - of citizens of France against

And on the other hand, all claims on the part of corporations, comUnited States. panies or private individuals, citizens of France, upon the Government

of the United States, arising out of acts committed against the persons or property of citizens of France not in the service of the enemies of the United States, or voluntarily giving aid and comfort to the same, by the civil or military authorities of the Government of the United States, upon the high seas or within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, during the period comprised between the thirteenth day of April,

eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and the twentieth day of August, eight- referred to commissioners.

een hundred and sixty-six, shall be referred to three Commissioners, one 1880, June 16,ch. of whom shall be named by the President of the United States, and one 253.

by the French Government, and the third by His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil.

ARTICLE II. Commission to The said commission, thus constituted, shall be competent and obliged examine and de- to examine and decide upon all claims of the aforesaid character, precide upon claims. sented to them by the citizens of either country, except such as have

been already diplomatically, judicially or otherwise by competent au- but not claims thorities, heretofore disposed of by either government; but no claim or for loss of slaves. item of damage or injury based upon the emancipation or loss of slaves

shall be entertained by the said Commission.

ARTICLE III. - vacancies in, to In case of the death, prolonged absence, or incapacity to serve of one be filled.

of the said Commissioners, or in the event of one Commissioner omitting, or declining, or ceasing to act as such, then the President of the