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made to the Legislature here for a Patent Bill; and I would suggest that, in the case of British patentees, they should be required to produce examined copies of their Letters-Patent and specifications for the inspection of the Attorney-General; and that, in the case of alleged original inventors in the Colony, they should be required to lodge with the Attorney. General provisional specifications, and that he should be authorized to call in the aid of scientific persous, should he consider it necessary, at the

of expense the applicants, previously to introducing any such Patent Bill.

The foregoing remarks as to British patentees are intended to apply to those only whose Patents do not, by the terms thereof, extend to this Colony, for, where they do, there is no necessity whatever, in my opinion, for the patentee to apply to the local Legis- lature for any confirmation of his right.

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The only official fees and expenses, strictly speak- ing, required to be paid by patentees, are for recording their specifications in the Registrar's Office. expense of the act of deposit is two dollars for the first two pages, and 25 cents for each additional page, together with 8 cents for lodging the specifica- tion. The whole expense of deposit does not usually exceed 10s., but now that the Stamp Act has come into operation this will have to be increased by the stamp duty of 10 cents on each page of the act of deposit.

Should the patentee afterwards require from the Registrar's Office copies of his act of deposit and specification, he will have to pay for the copies at the

rate of 25 cents per page, and cach page will require a 5-cent stamp.

There are no fees or expenses attendant on the passage of a Patent Bill through the Legislature, nor on its printing and publication.

BRITISH GUIANA.-No. 3, 1856.

An Ordinance for granting to Francis Burke the sole use of, and property in, an invention for extracting fibres from vegetables for manufacturing purposes.

Ordinance enacted by his Excellency Philip Edmund Wodehouse. Esquire, Governor and Commander- in-chief in and over the Colony of British Guiana,

BRITISH GUIANA.

BRITISH GUIANA.

Preamble.

Francis Burke to have sole privi-

lege during seven years to make,

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Vice-Admiral and Ordinary of the same, &c., &c., by and with the advice and consent of the honour- able the Court of Policy of said Colony.

To all to whom these presents do, may, or shall come, greeting. Be it known —

Whereas Francis Burke, of the Island of Mont- serrat, in and by a certain petition addressed to his Excellency the Governor and the honourable the Court of Policy of British Guiana, and read in said Court on the 12th day of December, 1855, after setting forth, among other things, that he, the said Francis Burke, had perfected an invention which he believed well fitted to separate and prepare, in an economical, expeditious, and efficient manner, the fibres con- tained in the plantain, banana, aloe, and other vegetables, for various manufacturing purposes, prayed that this Court would be pleased to pass an Ordinance to secure to him fair and reasonable protection for his invention: and whereas it is expedient to give encouragement to an invention promising benefits to the Colony: Be it therefore enacted by his Excellency the Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows:-

I. From and after the publication of this Ordi-

use, exercise, and vend a dis- nance, the said Francis Burke, his heirs, executors, covery or invention for sepa- administrators, and assigns, shall have full power, rating and preparing vegetable

poses.

fibres for manufacturing pur- sole privilege, and authority, by himself and them. selves, or by his and their deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as he, the said Francis Burke, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times thereafter during the term of seven years, lawfully to make, use, exercise, and vend, the right to use a certain discovery or inven- tion for separating and preparing in an economical, expeditious, and efficient manner, the fibres con- tained in the plantain, banana, aloe, and other vegetables, for various manufacturing purposes within British Guiana, in such manner as to him, the said Francis Burke, his heirs, executors, admi- nistrators, and assigns, or any of them, shall, in his or their discretion, seem meet; and that he, the said Francis Burke, his heirs, executors, administra. tors, and assigns, shall lawfully have and enjoy the

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