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1016 REGISTRATION OF BOOKS .
[ 10 OF 1888. ]
edition of such book shall have been produced before or after
this ordinance shall come into force, shall, within one calendar
month after the day in which any such books shall first be
delivered out of the press, and notwithstanding any agreement
( if the book be 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 upon the best paper on which the same shall be printed or
lithographed, at such place and to such officer as the Governor,
with the advice of the Executive Council, shall, by notification
in the Government Gazette, from time to time direct. The
Publisher to publisher or other person employing the printer shall, at a
supply printer reasonable time before the expiration of the said month, supply
&c.
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 .
Receipt for 3. The officer appointed as above shall thereupon give a
copies.
receipt in writing for the copies so received.
Disposal of
the three
4. One of such copies shall be transmitted to the Secretary
copies. of State for the Colonies, another copy shall be disposed of as
the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, shall
from time to time, by general or special order, direct, and the
remaining copy shall, after a memorandum containing the
particulars bereinafter mentioned respecting the book shall have
been registered as hereinafter provided be deposited in such
public library, or be otherwise disposed of, as the Governor
shall from time to time determine.
Registration
of memoranda
5. There shall be kept at such office, and by such officer,*
books.
as the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council shall
[* The Renis- appoint in this behalf, a book to be called “ A Catalogue of
trar General, Books” printed in Hongkong wherein shall be registered a
24th March , memorandum of every book which shall have been delivered
1888. ] pursuant to section 2 of this ordinance ; such memorandum
shall (so far as may be practicable) contain the following
particulars (that is to say ):
( 1. ) The title of the 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 ;
( 2. ) The language in which the book is written ;
( 3. ) The name of the author, translator, or editor of the
book or any part thereof;
( 4. ) The subject ;
( 5. ) The place of printing and the place of publication ;
( 6. ) The name or firin of the printer, and the name or
firm of the publisher ;