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reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for the Governor, No. 74, August 22, 1856. granting of Patents for Useful Inventions,' to enact other provisions in lieu thercof: therefore enacted by the Governor, Legislative Council and Assembly, in Legislative Session con- vened, as follows:-
Repeal of the 14th and 19th Vict.,
respecting Patents.
Proviso.
Governor in Council to grant Letters Patent for new and useful inventions.
I. That the said Act passed in the fourteentli year of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled “An Act for granting of Patents for Useful Inventions," and the said Act passed in the nineteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend
an Act passed by the Legislature of this Island in the fourteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for the granting of Patents for Useful Inventions,'" be and the same are hereby respectively repealed: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall in any way affect any Letters- Patent already granted under and by virtue of the said reiteded Acts, or any matter or thing done in pursuance thereof.
II. From and after the publication of this Act, whenever any person whomsoever shall apply to the Governor, alleging that he hath invented and disco- vered any new and useful art, machine, manufac- ture, or composition of matter, not theretofore known or used, and shall, by petition to the Governor. signify his desire to obtain an exclusive property in such new invention and discovery, and shall pray that a Patent be granted for the same, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of Her Majesty's Council, to cause and direct Letters-Patent, under the Great Seal of this Island, to be issued, which Letters- Patent shall recite the allegatious and suggestions of the said petition so to be preferred as aforesaid, and shall therein give a short description of the said invention and discovery, and thereupon shall grant to such person, so applying for the same, his execu tors. administrators, or assigns, for a term not ex- ceeding fourteen years, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, and using, and vending to others to be used, the said new invention or discovery; which Letters-Patent shall be good and available to the grantee therein named, by force
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