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not less than seven, nor more than fourteen years, for all inventions or improvements in the arts or manufactures, to the author or authors, or designer or designers thereof, or to his or their agents or assignees, as soon as such proceedings shall have been taken by such author or authors, or designer or designers respectively, as are in that behalf herein- after mentioned.
II. Every person who, upon claiming to be the author or designer, by his agent or assignee, of any invention in or improvement to the arts or manu- factures, shall be desirous of obtaining such a Letter of Registration as is hereinhefore mentioned, shall deposit with the Colonial Treasurer the sum of twenty pounds sterling, and shall, after such deposit, present a petition to his Excellency the Governor, setting forth that he is the author or designer, or the agent or assignee of such author or designer, as the case may be, of a certain invention iu, or im- provement to, the arts or manufactures, and speci- fying the particulars of such invention or improve- ment, and that he has deposited with the Colonial Treasurer the sum of twenty pounds for defraying the expense of granting the Letters of Registration required by this Act, it shall be lawful for the said Governor for the time being to refer the said petition to one or more competent person or persons, to be appointed by the said Governor, to examine and consider the matters stated in such petition, and to report thereon for the information of his Excel- lency; and if the report of the person or persons to whom the said petition shall have been referred by the Governor shall be favourable. to its prayer, it shall be lawful for his Excellency, with the advice of his Executive Council, to grant the Letters of Registration hereinbefore mentioned; and such Letter of Registration shall, within three days after the granting thereof, be registered in the proper office in the Supreme Court, otherwise such Letter of Registration shall be void and of no effect.
III. Every grantee of such Letter of Registration shall be at liberty to assign the same, and all the benefits and advantages derivable therefrom, to any person or persons by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, to be registered in the Supreme
NEW SOUTH WALES.
Governor, No. 169. October 27, 1856.
Deposit to be paid to Colonial Treasurer on applying for such Letters, and mode of applica- tion.
Grantee of any such Letter may
assign the same.
NEW SOUTH WALES.
Governor, No. 169, October 27, 1856.
Limit as to grantee's liability.
Any such Letter may be repealed
for certain causes.
Commencement of Act.
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Court, in the same manner and within the same period after the execution thereof, as the original Letters of Registration are hereinbefore directed to be registered.
IV. No grantee of any such Letter of Registration shall be liable, in respect thereof, for any higher charge than the said sum of twenty pounds, except for such costs and charges as he shall voluntarily incur after the deposit of the said sum of twenty pounds with the Colonial Treasurer, as hereinbefore mentioned.
V. Any letter of registration granted by virtue of this Act, shall be liable to be repealed by writ of scire facias, for the same causes and in the samę manner as other grants of the Crown are liable to bel repealed.
VI. That this Act shall come into operation so soon as, and not until, the same shall have received the Royal approbation, and the notification of such approbation shall have been made, by order of his Excellency the Governor-General, in the "New South Wales Government Gazette," and that such notification shall be sufficient evidence of such approbation.
VICTORIA.
VICTORIA,
No. III.
An Act concerning Letters-Patent for Inventions.
[11th March, 1857.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to promote and
Governor, No. 28, March 12, 1857. encourage the discovery and use of new manufac- tures, and to afford greater facilities for obtaining for a limited period the exclusive enjoyment thereof, by means of Letters-Patent, Be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows (that is to say) :-