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coming into force and effect, shall be proceeded with and acted on in the same manner as if they had been made after this Act shall have come into operation.

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CANADA.

Governor, No. 22, August 25, 1856.

XX. And for the interpretation of this Act: Be Interpretation of words in this it enacted, that the expressions" useful art, machiue, " shall manufacture, or composition of matter," include any such thing herein referred to, whether it be made by hand or by machinery, or by both of those means; the expression "foreign country' shall include any country not under the British dominion and subject to the Crown thereof; and the singular number shall include the plural as well as the singular number, and the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender as well as the masculine gender.

14 & 15 VICT., C'ap. 79.

An Act to enable Parties holding Patents for Inven- tions confined to one Section of this Province, to obtain the extension of the same to the other Section thereof, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

[August 30, 1851.]

Whereas it is expedient that parties holding Preamble. Patents for the invention of any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement on the same, issued under the Acts of Parliament of the respective Provinces of Upper or Lower Canada previous to the union of the same, should be enabled to obtain the extension of the exclusive privileges granted by such Patents, to that section of the United Province not embraced within such Patents; and whereas by the eighteenth section of the Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter twenty-four, and intituled

"An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws of 12 Viet., c. 24.

Patents for Inventions in this Province," it is pro- vided, "That all Patents thereafter to be granted under the provisions of the said Acts or of that Act, should extend and be privileged throughout the said Province of Canada," but no effectual provision is made for the extension of privileges theretofore granted in either section of the Province to the

CANADA.

Governor, No. 122, August 25, 1856.

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other section thereof, as aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great

How a party holding a Patent for Britain and Ireland, and intituled "An Act to an invention extending only to reunite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada,

one section of the Province may

obtain the extension thereof to and for the government of Canada," and it is hereby

the other section.

Proviso.

enacted by the authority of the same, That when-

over any party holding a Patent for any such inven- tion, issued under the authority of either of the Acts above mentioned, shall be desirous of obtaining the extension of the privileges thereby granted to the other section of this Province, it shall be lawful for the Governor of this Province, upon application made to him to that effect, and on the due proceed- ings being had, as directed by this Act (except that no declaration of invention or discovery shall be required, but it shall be sufficient to allege that the applicant holds a Patent for the other section of the Province) to issue Letters-Patent to such grantee, which shall be available in that section of the Province not embraced by the latent already issued as aforesaid, which said Letters-Patent so to be issued as aforesaid, shall be subject to all the provisos, conditions, reservations, and restrictions mentioned and contained in the said Act of this Province, and shall, as regards such section of the Province, convey to the grantee all the privileges conferred by the said last-mentioned Act, for and during the period of fourteen years, and shall, for such section of the Province as aforesaid, be renewable for the period and under the conditions prescribed in the eleventh section of the said last-mentioned Act: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be con- strued to extend the period limited by Patents here- tofore issued under either of the said Acts of the late Province of Upper or Lower Canada, within the sections to which the said Patents are thereby con-

Proviso as to persons using the fined: Provided also, that every person or corpora- invention before such extension. tion in that section of the Province to which such

Letters-Patent shall extend solely by virtue of this Act, who has or shall have purchased, constructed, or used, within such section of the Province as last aforesaid, any machine, manufacture, or composition

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