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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JANUARY, 1888.
Receipt and payment for copies.
Disposal of the three copics.
Registration of Memoranda Books.
Publication of memoranda registered.
Penalty for non-delivery of books by printer.
Penalty for non-supply of books by publisher.
Modes of recovering penalties.
Power of Governor in Executive Council to make rules.
Power of
Governer in Executive Council to exclude any class of books from opera- tion of this Ordinance.
Commence- ment of
Ordinance.
3. Such Officer shall thereupon give a receipt in writing for the copies so received.
4. One of such copies shall be transmitted to the Secre- tary of State for the Colonies, another copy shall be disposed of as the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, shall from time to time, by general or special order, direct, and the remaining copy shall, after a memorandum containing the particulars hereinafter mentioned respecting the book shall have been registered as hereinafter provided be deposited in such public library, or be otherwise disposed of, as the Governor shall from time to time determine.
5. There shall be kept at such office, and by such Officer, as the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council shall appoint in this behalf, a book to be called "A Catalo- gue of Books" printed in Hongkong wherein shall be regis- tered a memorandum of every book which shall have been delivered pursuant to Section 2 of this Ordinance; such memorandum shall (so far as may be practicable) contain the following particulars (that is to say):-
(1.) The title of the book and the contents of the title page, with a translation into English of such title and contents, when the same are not in the English language;
(2.) The language in which the book is written; (3.) The name of the author, translator, or editor of
the book or any part thereof;
(4.) The subject;
(5.) The place of printing and the place of publication: (6.) The name or firm of the printer, and the name or
firm of the publisher;
(7.) The date of issue from the press of the publica-
tion;
(8.) The number of sheets, leaves, or pages;
(9.) The size;
(10.) The first, second, or other number of edition; (11.) The number of copies of which the edition con-
sists;
(12.) Whether the book is printed or lithographed; (13.) The price at which the book is sold to the public;
and
(14.) The name and residence of the proprietor of the copyright or of any portion of such copyright; such memorandum shall be made and registered in the case of each book as soon as practicable after the delivery of the copies thereof in manner aforesaid.
6. The memoranda registered during each quarter in the said catalogue shall be published in the Government Gazette as soon as may be after the end of such quarter and a copy of the memoranda so published shall be sent to the said Secretary of State for the Colonies.
7. Every printer who neglects to deliver three copies of any such book as is referred to in Section 2 of this Ordinance, or of any second or subsequent edition of any such book, to the Officer and in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Twenty- five Dollars.
8. Every publisher or other person, employing any such printer, who neglects to supply him in manner aforesaid with maps, prints or engraving finished and coloured as aforesaid which may be necessary to enable such printer to Į comply with the provisions of the said Section shall be
liable to a fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars.
9. All pecuniary penalties imposed under this Ordinance may be recovered in the manner prescribed.
10. The Governor with the advice of the Executive Council shall have power to make such rules as may be necessary or desirable for carrying out the objects of this Ordinance and from time to time to repeal, alter and add to such rules. All such rules and all repeals and alterations thereof and additions thereto shall be published in the Government Gazette.
11. The Governor with the advice of the Executive Council may by notification in the Government Gazette, exclude any class of books from the operation of the whole or any part or parts of this Ordinance.
12. This Ordinance shall come into operation on