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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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C.O-885

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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of this Act, and shall be recorded in the office of

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the Colonial Secretary in a book to be kept for that Governor, No. 74, August 22, 1866. purpose, and shall be delivered to the patentee: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Proviso. Governor in Council, they should deem it

expe-

dient, to insert in any such Letters-Patent a provi- sion extending the operation thereof for a further term of seven years; and provided further, that Proviso. before the Great Seal of this Island shall be affixed to any such Letters-Patent, or the same shall be issued and signed as aforesaid, such Letters-Patent shall be delivered to Her Majesty's Attorney-Gene- ral of this Island, who shall examine the same, and shall, if he finds the same conformable to this Act, certify accordingly, and return the same within fifteen days into the office of the Colonial Secretary, to be issued and signed.

The improver of a patented inven

tion may have a Patent for his improvement.

III. Where any Letters-Patent shall be obtained by any person, in manner aforesaid, for any new and useful invention or discovery in any art, machine, or composition of matter, and thereafter other shall discover or make any improve- any person

of ment in the principle or process

such art, any machine, or composition of matter, for which such Patent hath been granted, and shall make applica- tion for and obtain Letters-Patent under this Act, for the exclusive right of such improvement, it shall not be lawful for the person who shall obtain and procure Letters-Patent for any such improvement, to make, use, or vend the original invention or discovery, nor for the person who shall have pro- cured Letters-Patent for the original invention or discovery, to make, use, or vend any such improve- ment: Provided always, that simply changing the Proviso, form or the proportions of any machine or compo- sition of matter, in any degree, shall not be deemed

a discovery or improvement within the meaning of this Act.

IV. It shall and may be lawful for any person to obtain and receive from the office of the Colonial Secretary, any copy or copies of any such Letters- Patent, or of the petition whereon the same were granted and issued, or of any paper connected there- with, or any drawing relating to the same, on pay- ment, for such copy or copies, of such fees as are

Copy of Letters-Patent and of

petition may be received frou Secretary's office.

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now payable at the office of the Colonial Secretary

Governor, No. 74, August 22,1856. for copies of other documents.

Oath or affirmation to be taken

before Patent is granted.

Description of invention, aud

V. Before any person shall obtain or receive any Letters-Patent under this Act, such person shall make oath, or, if a Quaker, shall make solemn affirmation, in writing, before some one of the Justices of Her Majesty's Supreme Court, that he doth verily believe that he is the true inventor or discoverer of the art, machine, composition of matter, or improvement, for which he solicits Letters-Patent, and that such invention or discovery hath not, to the best of his knowledge or belief, been known or used in this island or in any other country, which oath or affirmation shall be delivered in with the petition for such Letters-Patent.

VI. Together with such petition and oath or model, with drawings thereof, affirmation, before any person shall receive or obtain

to be filed with petition.

any Letters-Patent as aforesaid, such person shall also deliver into the office of the Colonial Secretary

a written description of his fivention, and of the manner of using or process of compounding the same, in such full, clear, and exact terms as to distinguish the same from all other things before known, and to enable any person skilled in the art or science of which it is a branch, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make, compound, and use the same, and in case of any machine, shall deliver a model thereof into the office of the Colo- nial Secretary, and shall explain the principle and the several modes in which such person hath con- templated the application of that principle or cha- racter by which it may be distinguished from other inventions, and shall accompany the whole with drawings and written references, where the nature of the case admits of drawings, or with specimens of the ingredients, and of the composition of matter, sufficient in quantity for the purpose of experiment, where the invention is of a composition of matter, which description, signed by such person so applying for such Letters-Patent, and attested by two witnesses, shall be filed in the office of the Colonial Secretary, and copies thereof, certified under his hand, shall be competent evidence in all Courts where any matter

or thing touching or concerning the said Letters- Patent shall or may come into question: Provided nevertheless, that, where, from the complicated

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