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provement, for which he solicits Letters-Patent, and that such invention or discovery has not been known in this Province or in any other country, which oath shall be delivered in with the petition for such Letters-Patent.
7. Before any person shall obtain any Letters- Patent, he shall deliver into the Secretary's office an intelligible and exact description of such invention, and of the manner of using, or process of com- pounding the same, so as to enable any person skilled in the science of which it is a branch, to make and use the same; and in case of any machine shall deliver a model, and explain the principle by which it may be distinguished from other inventions, and shall accompany the whole with drawings and written references where the case admits of draw- ings, or with specimens of the ingredients sufficient for the purpose of experiment, where the invention is a composition of matter, which description, signed by such person and attested by two witnesses, shall be filed in the Secretary's office; and copies thereof, certified by the Provincial Secretary, shall be com- petent evidence in all Courts where matters con- cerning such Letters-Patent may come in question; but the Governor may, upon special grounds being shown, dispense with the delivery of the model at the Secretary's office, if he shall deem it right to do so.
NOVA SCOTIA.
Lieutenant-Governor, No. 85, September 3, 1856.
NOVA SCOTIA.
Lieutenant-Governor. No. 85, September 3, 1856.
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vious to such application; and after such Letters- Patent are obtained, such person shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges by such Act con- ferred.
2. The affidavit required by such chapter may be sworn by the person making such application before any Judge of the Province or Colony in which such person shall reside.
CHAPTER 21.
An Act to extend the provisions of the Patent Laws.
[Passed the 4th day of April, 1853.]
Be it enacted, by the Governor, Council, aud Assembly as follows:-Any British subject who shall have been an inhabitant of Canada, New Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island, or Newfoundland, for the his space of one year previous to his application, upon having complied with the provisions of Chapter 120 of the Revised Statutes, "Of Patents for useful Inventions," shall obtain Letters-Patent for any useful invention or improvement, notwithstanding his residing out of this Province, to the same extent in every respect as if he had been an inhabitant thereof, and had resided therein for one year pre-
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND,
Lieutenant-Governor, No. 40, September 5, 1856.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.
Mr. Attorney-General Hensley.-It appears that there is only one Act, 7th. Wm. IV, cap. 21, which regulates the mode of applying for and granting Patents for useful inventions, and that that Act only secures and extends the right to any person or persons who shall then be an inhabitant or inhabi- tants of this island, or who shall have resided thercin for one year previously to the application for the Patent. There is, therefore, no law enabling a British patentee to obtain a Patent for an inven- tion, and consequently, in late years, it has, in one or two cases, been found necessary, when Patents have been sought for by parties resident out of the island, to introduce a separate private Act relating to the particular invention or inventor only.
The British patentee seeking to extend his Patent-right to this Colony should, therefore, in the first instance, obtain an enabling Act of the Legislature, and having done so, and been thus placed on the same footing as a resident, must proceed to comply with the requirements of the Act 7 Wm. IV, cap. 21, and apply, by petition, to the Lieutenant-Governor of the island for the time being, setting forth the fact of his having invented
or discovered some new or useful art, or some new or useful improvement thereon, not before known and used, or some new or useful machine, manu- facture, composition of matter, and praying for the grant of a Patent for it, upon which the Lieutenant- Governor is authorised to issue Letters-Patent under the Public Scal, granting to the inventor, for a term not exceeding ten years, or such other term as the
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