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12. If Attorney-General is of opinion that applica- tion interferes with previous application or Patent, appeal may be made to Lieutenant- Governor in Council:

13. Board of Examiners to be appointed to hear

appeal.

1. Powers and duties of Board of Examiners.

15. Attorney-General may apply for Board of

Examiners.

16. Appellaut may apply for Board of Examiners, or appeal to Judge of Supreme Court.

17. Mode of proceeding by and before the Judge. 18. Caveat may be filed for incomplete invention ; proceedings in case of another application for Patent.

19. Each patentee confined to his own invention or

improvement.

20. Provision in case patentee, without fraud, claims

too much.

21. Patentee in such case may disclaim cxcess.

22. Defective Patent may be surrendered and new

Patent may issue.

23. Original patentee may secure improvement made

by him.

24. Patents may issue for new and original designs

in any art or manufacture.

25. English Patents not to be in force in this

province, until copies of drawings and speci-

fications, and duplicate of model, shall be lodged.

26. The term of a Patent may be extended.

27. Proceedings in order to obtain such extension.

28. Penalties for falsely marking patented articles or vending unpatented articles as being patent.

29. Date of Patent to be affixed to each patented

article.

30. Special pleas prohibited; special matter may be given in evidence under general issue; pro-

vision as to costs.

31. Quakers may affirm; before whom oath or

affirmation may be taken.

32. Fees established as in Schedule annexed.

33. Letters-Patent null and void if manufacture not established or article produced within three

years.

NEW BRUNSWICK.

Lieutenant-Governor, No. 6. January 28. 1854.

NEW BRUNSWICK.

Lieutenant-Governor, No. 6. January 28, 1854.

Letters-Patent may be granted by

Lieutenant-Governor.

Mode of applying for Patent.

Specifications, drawings and models,

to be lodged with Provincial

Secretary,

Section

34. Interpretation clause. 35. Repealing clause.

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Legis- lative Council, and Assembly, as follows:-

1. The Lieutenant-Governor may direct Letters- Patent under the Great Seal of this province to be issued to any person applying for the same, granting

to such person and his legal representative, for a term not exceeding ten years, the full and exclusive right of making, using, aud vending, any new inven- tion or discovery, under the conditions and regula- tions, and conformably to the provisions, of this Act.

II. The applicant for a Patent shall state, ju his petition to the Lieutenant-Governor, that he has invented or discovered a new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter; or a new and useful improvement in some art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, not known and used by others before his discovery or invention thereof, and at the time of the application not in public or common use in this province; to which petition shall be annexed an affidavit, sworn to by the applicant, setting forth that the allegations in the same are just and true, to the best of his know- ledge and belief.

111. With this petition and affidavit the applicant shall deliver into the office of the Provincial Secre- tary, a written description of his invention, signed by him and attested by two witnesses, setting forth the manner of making or compounding, and mode

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of using the same, in such full, clear, and exact terms, as to distinguish it from all other things before known, and enable any skilled person make, compound, and use the invention. The description shall also set forth the principle of the invention, and the several modes by which it is contemplated to apply that principle, or the charae- teristics which distinguish it from other inventions; and it shall be accompanied by drawings and written references, and by a model, where the nature of the case admits of the same, or with specimens of the E

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