LEEWARD ISLANDS.
Governor, No. 11, October 24, 1856.
LEEWARD ISLANDS.
Governor, No. 11. October 24, 1856.
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No Return as to Patent under Great Seal, not by Legislative enactment.
TUTI
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
C.O.
Reference :-
885
2 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
Dominica.
No fees established as payable in respect of
Patents, either by law or custom.
Virgin Islands.
On Letters-Patent under Great Seal of
the Island :-
Preparing Petition, if by Counsel
Crown Officer, for Opinion and Re-
port
Drawing Patent
Perusal thereof, and signature of
Crown Officer
Governor's fee for Great Seal
£
s. d.
1 13 0
1
1 0
3 3 0
1
0
8 5 0
0 10 0
Secretary's fee on passing ..
Enrolment of Patent and Documents
with Registrar in Chancery, per
folio
Registrar's fee
0
1
6
0 10 0
Copies, per folio
0 0 9
Registrar's Certificate
0 5 0
Governor's Certificate of official cha-
racter of Registrar
1 13 0
Nevis.
No fees established, either by law or custom, in respect of Private Bills or Patent Rights under the Great Seal.
Ditto.
On Private Bill :-
Montserrat.
St. Kitt's.
£ 8. d.
8 6 8
To Clerk of Assembly
To Registrar for recording ..
2 15 7
Charge for Printing, according to
length; probably about
2 15 7
BRITISH GUIANA.
BRITISH GUIANA,
Mr. Attorney-General Smith.-Patents, which were formerly for fourteen years, but are now limited to seven years, are granted by Ordinances of the local Legislature, and there are no regu- lations as to the documents required from an inventor or British patentee, to enable him to make a proper application for a Patent-right. The practice is for the applicant to present a petition to the Governor and Court of Policy, stating in the most general terms the nature of his invention, and requesting the Court to pass an Ordinance in his favour. This petition, which is often unaccompanied by any documents whatever, is then referred by the Court to the Attorney-General to bring in a Bill, which, when introduced, is treated in all its stages as a private Bill. The Standing Orders as to Private Bills are as follows:-
"Private Bills, after having been proposed and read a first time, shall not be read a second time until the following session; official notice thereof, in the meantime, to be given through the Royal Gazette' for the due information of all parties concerned, and a draft of the Bill kept by the Secretary for inspection. Private Bills to be printed after a second reading, as in the case of other Bills."
In all Patent Bills, clauses are inserted requiring full and accurate specifications to be recorded in the Registrar's Office within six months after the passing of the Ordinance, and providing that all privileges granted thereby shall cease and determine on any person disproving the originality of the invention. 1 annex a copy of the last Patent Bill granted in this Colony (Ordinance No. 3 of 1856) in order to show the form in which such Bills are drawn up. I submit, however, it is desirable that some precise rule should be laid down as to the documents to be produced in the first instance, when application is