country, one complete copy of the best edition then published in such foreign country"; that section 13 of the Copyright Act of 1909 be amended by striking out the words "or from any foreign country.”

SEC. 6. That section 15 of the Copyright Act of 1909 be amended to read as follows: “That of the printed book or periodical specified in section 5 subsection (a) and (b) of this Act, except the original text of a book or periodical of foreign origin, the text of all copies accorded protection under this Act, except as below provided, shall be printed from type set within the limits of the United States, either by hand or by the aid of any kind of typesetting machine, or from plates made within the limits of the United States from type set therein, or, if the text be produced by lithographic process, photogravure process, or photo-engraving process, then by a process wholly performed within the limits of the United States, and the printing of the text and binding of the said book shall be performed within the limits of the United States in its entirety; which requirements shall extend also to the illustrations within a book consisting of printed text and illustrations produced by lithographic process, photogravure process, or photo-engraving process, and also to separate lithographs or photo-engravings except where in either case the subjects represented are located in a foreign country and illustrate a scientific work or reproduce a work of art; but they shall not apply to works in raised characters for the use of the blind.”

SEC. 7. That section 16 of the Copyright Act of 1909 be amended to read as follows: "That in the case of a printed book or periodical specified in section 5, subsections (a) and (b) of this Act, and subject to the provisions contained in section 15 of this Act, the copies so deposited shall be accompanied by an affidavit, under the official seal of any officer authorized to administer oaths within the United States, duly made by the person claiming copyright or by his duly authorized agent or representative residing in the United States, or by the printer who has printed the book or periodical, setting forth that the copies deposited have been printed from type set within the limits of the United States or from plates made within the limits of the United States from type set therein; or, if the text be produced by litho

graphic process, photogravure process, or photoengraving process, that such process was wholly performed within the limits of the United States, and that the printing of the text and binding of the said book or periodical have also been performed within the limits of the United States in its entirety. Such affiadavit shall state also the place where and the establishment or establishments in which such type was set or plates were made or lithographic process, photogravure process, or photoengraving process, or printing and binding were performed, and the date of the completion of the printing of the book or periodical, or the date of publication.”

SEC. 8. That section 31, subsection (d) paragraph third be amended to read as follows: "When imported, for use and not for sale, not more than two copies of any such book in any one year, in good faith, by or for any society or institution incorporated for educational, literary, philosophical, scientific, or religious purposes, or for the encouragements of the fine arts, or for any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning, or for any State, school, college, university, or free public library and branch or public reading rooms in the United States."

SEC. 9. That on and after the date of the President's proclamation, as provided in section 1 of this Act, foreign authors not domiciled in the United States who are citizens or subjects of any country other than the United States which is a member of the International Copyright Union and whose works are first published in and enjoy copyright protection in any country which is a member of the Copyright Union, shall have within the United States for the term of copyright prescribed by the said Act of 1909, including the right of renewal, and beginning upon the date of said proclamation for all of their works in which copyright is subsisting at such date and for all of their works first published thereafter from such date of publication the same rights and remedies in regard to their works which citizens of the United States possess under the copyright laws of the United States, and the enjoyment and the exercise by such foreign authors not domiciled in the United States of the rights and remedies accorded by the copyright laws of the United States shall not be subject to any formalities, and they shall not be required to comply with the provisions

Whereas the President of the United States in a proclamation dated April 9, 1910 (36 Stat. L. 2685), proclaimed that subjects of the Netherlands since July 1, 1909, have been entitled to all the benefits of the copyright act approved March 4, 1909, other than the benefits under section 1 (e) thereof; and,

Whereas the Government of the Netherlands declared on October 2, 1922, that under the laws in force in that country "citizens of the United States may claim copyright in the Netherlands and possessions with respect to their musical works made or published for the first time since the date of this declaration, which copyright includes the exclusive right to manufacture rolls, discs, and other objects for the mechanical reproduction of a work in whole or in part, as well as the exclusive right to give public representations or executions by means of these instruments, and this independently of the fact that these instruments have been made either in the Netherlands and possessions or in the United States of America or elsewhere";

Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that one of the alternative conditions specified in sections 1 (e) and 8 (b) of the act of March 4, 1909, was fulfilled in respect to the subjects of the Netherlands on October 2, 1922, and that the subjects of the Netherlands from and after that date shall be entitled to all the benefits of the said act, including copyright controlling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically a musical work, as provided in section 1 (e) of the said act, in the case of all works by the Netherlands authors which have been published on or after October 2, 1922, and have obtained copyright in accordance with the laws of the United States.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and of the Independence of [SEAL.] the United States of America the one hundred and forty-seventh.

WARREN G. HARDING.

By the President:

CHARLES E. HUGHES,

Secretary of State.

APPENDIX III.

ORIENTALIA: ACQUISITIONS.

By Walter T. Swingle, Chairman Library Committee, United States
Department of Agriculture.

Chinese books as usual exceeded by far other East Asiatic accessions. They total 444 works in 3,626 volumes. The Chinese accessions represent an increase of about 5 per cent in the number of works and also of about 5 per cent in the number of volumes. The Japanese accessions number about 21 works in 90 volumes. No Korean or Annamite books were received during the past year.

Good progress was made in securing official gazetteers, some 134 in all being added to the already very large collection in this field. Of these 2 were provincial, 24 were prefectural, and 105 district gazetteers. In addition I duplicate prefectural and 2 duplicate district gazetteers were received.

The Chinese collections now contains 1,296 gazetteers, as well as 104 duplicate copies.

The most interesting acquisition in this field is of two editions of the Hupeh provincial gazetteer, the Hupeh t'ung chih, for some years the only one lacking from the Library of Congress set of provincial gazetteers. For five years past active efforts have been made to secure this gazetteer: in 1918 several booksellers promised to get a copy but none was delivered; finally, in 1921, a new edition of the Hupeh gazetteer was issued, and not only was this secured but also a copy of the old edition published in 1803, now very rare. The old edition is in 100 books and the new in 172. The latter is thoroughly revised and brought up to date; it is in fact the latest provincial gazetteer.

The Province of Szechwan leads in the number of gazetteers added, 21 having been secured during the past year. Shensi Province comes next with 13 gazetteers.

Through the good offices of Dr. U. Y. Yen, director of the educational bureau of the Chinese Ministry of Education

Chinese Official Gazetteers.

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teer preserved in

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in Washington, D. C., the Library has received from the commissioner of education of Yunnan Province seven official gazetteers of that Province, hitherto the most poorly represented in the Library's collection of gazetteers. Thanks to this gift of the provincial authorities the number of prefectural gazetteers for Yunnan Province has been increased from three to six.

In addition to the gazetteers, some 15 sets of periodicals were donated by the publishers and sent to the Library along with them.

Doctor Yen has expressed the confident hope that the educational commissioners of the other Chinese provinces will be glad to follow the example of their colleague of Yunnan and send to the Library the gazetteers of their respective provinces still missing in Washington.

As the official gazetteers in the Library form the largest collection in any library outside of China, it is not unreasonable to hope that with the active cooperation and help of the provincial officials the Library's set may soon be equal to any single collection in China itself.

An item of very unusual interest in the class of official the Yung Lo ta gazetteers is found in one of the volumes of the Yung Lo ta tien acquired in the spring of 1923, of which an extended notice is given further on in this report. Books 10949 and 10950 of this work contain a gazetteer of Fuchow Fu, Kiangsi Province, and its five dependent districts, with 7 maps. It occupies 43 large folios and is extracted largely from an ancient gazetteer now lost, of the prefecture, the Fu chou chih, which must have been published before 14031409, when the Yung Lo ta tien was compiled. There are two short extracts from the Yüan i t'ung chih, the first and in many ways the best general gazetteer of China (published by order of the Mongol Emperor very early in the fourteenth century and unfortunately now almost entirely lost). Even these short extracts of only some half a hundred words are of interest. Five other works besides the two just named are quoted; one of them, the Chün hsien chih, a district gazetteer doubtless lost by now.

It seems to be almost impossible to secure official gazetteers printed during the Sung and Yüan dynasties or during