Every French amd foreign busines house in France is required, under a law passed in 1919, to be registered at the Tribunal de Commerce of its own locality. Another Jaw, passed in June of the present year, stipulates that the registration number and name of the tribunal must appear on all invoices, letters, orders, price-lists, advertisements, catalogues and handbills. This law comes into effect: on December 5 and business men are beginning to realise some of its consequences. They do not object as a rule to formalities designed to protect them against competition from mushroom firms, but they are strongly of opinion that these formalities especially to publicity. If the law is enforced, they will be put to the expense of altering countless dies, blocks and stereotype devices used in printing their catalogues and other trade literature. The mention of the number and tribunal will: spoil the effect of designs of an autistic nature, and if they have to add the mention to even the shortest newspaper advertisements, their publicity bills will be appreciably increased. One wonders why these obvious considerations were overlooked by members of Parliament who are supposed to be acquainted with business needs. To put the matter right, three members have drafted a Bill to amend the Jaw of June 1923 by the omission of the word "advertisements.""
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