XI
property in trade-marks and other distinctive marks, as well as in patterns and properXtmdl 0
designs for manufactures. marks, patterns, and de-
Article X.
signs for manufactures.
Tne high contracting parties reserve to themselves to determine hereafter, by The contracting Powers a special convention, the means ot reciprocally protecting copyright in works ot reciprocally protecting literature and the fine arts within their respective dominions. worksf &c. for a Special
convention.
Article XI.
The present Treaty shall remain in force for the space of 10 years, to date from the 1st of January, 1867, and in case neither of the high contracting powers shall have notified to the other, 12 months before the expiration of the said period of 10 years, its intention of putting an end to its operation, the Treaty shall continue in force for another year, and so on from year to year, until the expiration of a year, counting from the day on which one or other of the high contracting parties shall have announced its intention to put an end to it.
The high contracting parties reserve to themselves the right to introduce by 3^^^5^reserve°C common consent into this Treaty any modification which is not opposed to its spirit right to introduce modi- and principles, and the utility of which shall have been shown by experience. if C usefui. int ° thlS Treaty
The present Treaty shall remain in force for a period of 10 years from 1st January, 1867, or longer if no notice on either side is given to withdraw from it.
Final Protocol.
Upon proceeding to the signature of the Treaty of Commerce concluded this day between Austria and Great Britain, the Plenipotentiaries of the two Powers made the following declaration:—
I.
The Plenipotentiaries of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria declared that, in The above Treaty is to virtue of Article XIII. of the Treaty of Customs’ and Contributions’ Union of the cljlahty of°Lichtenstein!' 23rd of December, 1863, between Austria and Lichtenstein, the Treaty of Commerce concluded this day would apply equally to the Principality of Lichtenstein, and the British Plenipotentiary accepted this declaration.
II.
In order to avoid any future doubt as to the intention of Article III., the Plenipotentiaries of the two Powers have agreed to the following explanation:—
In the construction of a tariff of specific duties by weight within fixed ad valorem rates, it is necessary to determine what shall be the unit of value to which each specific duty shall be applied.
In adopting the basis of value established by Article III., it is understood that it By the basis of value is not intended to depart from the general principle of the Article, viz., the appli- of the Treaty is'undercation of certain maximum ad valorem rates of duty to all articles of British t a e gXe^Xprin 0 produce and manufacture, but to guard against the necessity of making separate cipie of a “maximum” provision for every variety of each article, thereby creating minute and inconvenient articles 0 ™'” Rritfsh"‘pro- subdivisions in the Tariff. duce and manufacture.
With this view it becomes necessary to group together qualities and descriptions of the same article or of similar articles, which, from their approximation in value and general resemblance in character, it is found possible to include under one and the same denomination in one position of the Tariff.
But it is understood that in fixing the denominations in each position of the Articles shall he soar- future Austrian Tariff, they shall be so arranged that the duty affixed to any one 'urnfftha” theduty shall position shall not exceed the “ maximum” rates fixed by Article III. of the Treaty l, n no - case exceed the upon tne average value of any kind of goods of commercial importance included by Art. m. of the Treaty,
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