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7886.

No. 78.

(WEST INDIES.)

LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

MY LORD DUKE,

We were honoured with your Grace's commands, signified in Si Frederic

Temple, August 16, 1861. Rogers' letter of the 6th August 1860, stating that he was directed by your Grace to transmit to us for our information copies of correspondence, arising out of an application from Mr. Horatio Huggins that patents for inventions obtained in this country might be extended to the Colonies, and that your Grace would be glad to be informed of the course which we might determine to take in respect to this subject, in order that your Grace might communicate it to the Colonies concerned.

Sir Frederic Rogers added, that no application respecting the proposed extension had been made to any but the West Indian Colonies.

We were honoured with a further letter from Sir Frederic Rogers, dated the 20th March last, stating that with reference to his letter of the 6th August 1860, relative to the question of extending to certain Colonies, patents for inventions obtained in this country, he was directed by your Grace to transmit to us a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of British Guiana, reporting that the Court of Policy saw no objection to the extension of such patents to that Colony.

In obedience to your Grace's commands we have taken the above-mentioned papers into consideration, and have the honour to

Report

That the Commissioners of Patents have met, and have taken the question of the extension of patents to the Colonies into their consideration, and they have come to the conclusion that it is not expedient, at present, either to adopt, or recommend, such extension.

His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K.G.,

&c.

&c.

&c.

We have, &c. (Signed)

WM. ATHERTON. ROUNDELL' PALMER.

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