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COLONIAL BOOKS REGISTRATION: No. 2 of 1888.

(2) The publisher or other person employing the printer shall, at a reasonable time before the expiration of the said month, supply such printer with all maps, prints, and engravings, finished and coloured as aforesaid, which may be necessary to enable him to comply with the requirements aforesaid.

[s. 4, rep. No. 62 of 1911.]

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5. One of such copies shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State, another copy shall be disposed of as the Governor may, by general or special order, direct, and the remaining copy shall, after a memorandum containing the particulars respecting the book has been registered as hereinafter provided, be deposited in such public library or be otherwise disposed of as the Governor may determine.

6.—(1) There shall be kept at such office and by such officer as the Governor may appoint in this behalf, a book to be called "A Catalogue of Books printed in Hongkong," wherein shall be registered a memorandum of every book which may have been delivered pursuant to section 3.

(2) Such memorandum shall be made as soon as possible after the delivery of the copies thereof, and shall, so far as practicable, contain the following particulars:

(a) the title of book and the contents of the title page, with a translation into English of such title and contents, when the same are not in the English language;

* See G.N. No. 30 of 1914, by which one copy of every book printed in the Colony is to be deposited in the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.

†The officer appointed under section 6 is the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, see Hodgson's Regulations of Hongkong, 1914, p. 77.

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COLONIAL BOOKS REGISTRATION: No. 2 of 1888. (2) The publisher or other person employing the printer shall, at a reasonable time before the expiration of the said month, supply such printer with all maps, prints, and engravings, finished and coloured as aforesaid, which may be necessary to enable him to comply with the requirements aforesaid. [s. 4, rep. No. 62 of 1911.] Page 385 5. One of such copies shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State, another copy shall be disposed of as the Governor may, by general or special order, direct, and the remaining copy shall, after a memorandum containing the particulars respecting the book has been registered as hereinafter provided, be deposited in such public library or be otherwise disposed of as the Governor may determine. 6.—(1) There shall be kept at such office and by such officer as the Governor may appoint in this behalf, a book to be called "A Catalogue of Books printed in Hongkong," wherein shall be registered a memorandum of every book which may have been delivered pursuant to section 3. (2) Such memorandum shall be made as soon as possible after the delivery of the copies thereof, and shall, so far as practicable, contain the following particulars: (a) the title of book and the contents of the title page, with a translation into English of such title and contents, when the same are not in the English language; * See G.N. No. 30 of 1914, by which one copy of every book printed in the Colony is to be deposited in the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs. †The officer appointed under section 6 is the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, see Hodgson's Regulations of Hongkong, 1914, p. 77. Page 385 has been adjusted to Page 385 remain at the most proper place. Some minor errors were corrected: 1. "art nd ted Ich her the" was removed as it appears to be OCR noise with no relevance to the content. 2. "Disposal of of State" was corrected to "Secretary of State" to fix the duplication error. 3. Formatting was adjusted to follow the rules, using HTML tags for paragraphs. 4. "the saine" was corrected to "the same". 5. Removed unnecessary line breaks and reformatted the text for better readability while preserving original line breaks where they match sentence or clause boundaries. 6. "Hodgson's Regulations of Hongkongj1914" was corrected to "Hodgson's Regulations of Hongkong, 1914".
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COLONIAL BOOKS REGISTRATION: No. 2 of 1888.

produced, with any additions or alterations whether the same are in letter-press or in the maps, prints, or other engravings belonging thereto, and whether the first edition of such book has been produced before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, shall within one month after the day in which any such book is first delivered out of the press, and notwithstanding any agreement (if the book is published) between the printer and the publisher thereof, be delivered, free of any charge, claim, or demand whatsoever by the printer, bound, sewed, or stitched together, and on the best paper on which the same is printed, to the officer mentioned in section 6, who shall give a receipt for the same.

(2) The publisher or other person employing the printer shall, at a reasonable time before the expiration of the said month, supply such printer with all maps, prints, and engravings, finished and coloured as aforesaid, which may be necessary to enable him to comply with the requirements aforesaid.

[s. 4, rep. No. 62 of 1911.]

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5. One of such copies shall be transmitted to the Secretary Disposal of of State, another copy shall be disposed of as the Governor copies. may, by general or special order, direct, and the remaining copy shall, after a memorandum containing the particulars respecting the book has been registered as hereinafter provided, be deposited in such public library or be otherwise disposed of as the Governor may determine.

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6.—(1) There shall be kept at such office and by such Catalogue of officer as the Governor may appoint in this behalf, a book to the Colony. be called "A Catalogue of Books printed in Hongkong," wherein shall be registered a memorandum of every book which may have been delivered pursuant to section 3.

(2) Such memorandum shall be made as soon as possible after the delivery of the copies thereof, and shall, so far as practicable, contain the following particulars :---

(a) the title of book and the contents of the title page, with a translation into English of such title and contents, when- the saine are not in the English language;

* See G.N. No. 30 of 1914, by which one copy of every book printed in the

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Colony is to be deposited in the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.

†The officer appointed under section 6 is the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, see

Hodgson's Regulations of Hongkongj1914, p. 77.

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