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open at all convenient times to the inspection of the
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public, subject to such regulations as the Governor, Governor, No, 28, March 12, 1857. with the advice aforesaid, may make in that behalf.
XXX. There shall be kept at the same office a Register of proprietors to be kept.
book or books entitled "the Register of Proprie-
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tors," wherein shall be entered in such manner as the Governor, with the advice aforesaid, shall direct, the assignment of any Letters-Patent, or of any share or interest therein, any license under Letters- Patent, and the district to which such license relates, with the name or names of any person having any share or interest in such Letters-Patent or license, the date of his or their acquiring such Letters- Patent, share, and interest, and any other matter or thing relating to or affecting the proprietorship in such Letters-Patent or license, and a copy of entry in such book, certified as hereinafter mentioned, shall be given to any person requiring the same, and shall be prima facie proof of the assignment of such Letters-Patent, or share or interest therein, or of the license or proprietorship as therein expressed : Provided always, that until such entry shall have been made the grantee or grantees of the Letters- Patent shall be deemed and taken to be the sole and exclusive pro rietor or proprietors of such Letters-Patent, and of all the licenses and privileges thereby given and granted, and such register or a copy shall be open to public inspection, subject to such regulations as the Governor, with the advice aforesaid, may make.
XXXI. The Governor, with the advice aforesaid, Certified copies to be evidence.
may cause a sear to be made for the purposes here- inafter mentioned, and all Courts, Judges, and other persons whomsoever, shall take notice of such seal, and receive impressions thereof in evidence, in like manner as impressions of the seal of the Colony are received in evidence, and copies or extracts certified and sealed with such seal of Letters- Patent, specifications, disclaimers, memoranda of alterations, and all other documents or books recorded, filed, and kept, in pursuance of this Act, shall be received in evidence in all proceedings relating to Letters-Patent for inventions, in all Courts and by all Judges and other persons whomsoever.
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Governor, No. 28, March 12, 1857. Falsification or forgery of entries,
Entries may be expunged.
Penalty for unauthorized user of
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XXXII: If any person shall wilfully make, or cause to be made, any false entry in the said register, or shall wilfully make or forge, or cause to be made or forged, any writing falsely purporting to be a copy of any entry in the said book, or shall produce or tender, or cause or suffer to be produced or tendered, in evidence, any such writing, knowing the same to be false or forged, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be kept to labour on the roads or other public works of the Colony for any term not exceeding five years, or be fined and imprisoned.
XXXIII. If any person shall deem himself aggrieved by any entry made under colour of this Act in the said register, it shall be lawful for such person to apply by motion to the Supreme Court in term time, or by summons, to a Judge of such Court
in vacation for an order that such entry may be expunged, vacated, or varied, and upon any such application such Court or Judge may make such order for expunging, vacating, or varying such entry, and as to the costs of such application as to such Court or Judge may seem fit, and the officer having the care and custody of such register, on the production to him of any such order, shall expunge, vacate, or vary the said entry according to such order.
XXXIV. If any person shall write, paint, print, mould, cast, carve, engrave, stamp, or otherwise mark upon anything made, used, or sold by him, for the sole making or selling of which he hath not or shall not have obtained Letters-Patent, the name, or any imitation of the name, of any other person who hath or shali have obtained Letters-Patent for the sole making and vending of such thing, without leave in writing of such patentee or his assigns, or any person shall upon such thing not having been purchased from the patentee or some person who purchased it from or under such patentee, or not having bad the license or consent in writing of such patentee or his assigns, write, paint, print, mould, cast, carve, engrave, stamp, or otherwise mark the word "Patent," the words "Letters-Patent,” or the words by the Queen's Patent," or any words of the like kind, meaning or import, with a view of
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