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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TQ

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Downing Street, January 2, 1853. HER Majesty's Government having had many applications made to them relative to the grant of Patents for Inventions so as to extend to the Colonies, and being anxious to adopt some general rules of practice in regard to such applications, I am directed to request that you will favour the Secretary of State with answers to the following questions:-

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What is the present state of the law of the Colony under your government, as to the powers which exist for the grant of Patents within the Colony by the Local Authorities; and also as to the mode of proving, in the Colonial Courts, Patents granted in this country? Regard being had to the recent "Patents Act," 15 & 16 Vict., c. 83, and also to the Act "To Amend the Law of Evidence," 14 & 15 Viet., cap. 99.

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What is your opinion, and that of your Executive Council, as to the expediency of the grant of Patents in this country extending to the Colony under your government; and what facilities would it be necessary for the Legislature to give (supposing no sufficient facilities at present to exist) for rendering such a Patent available by proof in the Colonial Courts, in case of infringement of the inventor's rights?

I have, &c.

(Signed) H. MERIVALE.

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EUROPE AND AFRICA:

Heligoland

Gibraltar (no reply). Malta

Ionian States (no reply).

Gambia (no reply).

Gold Coast

Sierra Leone (no reply).

St. Helena

Cape of Good Hope Natal (no reply).

NORTH AMERICA :—

Canada (no reply). New Brunswick.

Nova Scotia

Prince Edward Island

Newfoundland

Bermuda

WEST INDIES, &c. ;—

Jamaica..

Honduras (no reply).

Turks Island (no reply).

Barbados

Grenada

St. Vincent

Tobago (no reply).

St. Lucia

Trinidad. Antigua.. Montserrat

St. Kitts

Nevis

Virgin Islands (missing).

Dominica

British Guiana

Bahamas

Falkland Islands

EASTERN COLONIES :-

Mauritius

Ceylon

Hong Kong Labuan..

New South Wales

Victoria..

Van Diemen's Land

South Australia

Western Australia

New Zealand (no reply).

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