XIII. All documentary evidence required, or allowed by the law officer to be filed, shall be subject to the same regulations, in all respects, as apply to the procedure before the Comptroller, and shall be filed in the Patent Office, unless the law officer shall order to the contrary.

XIV. Any notice or other document required to be given to the law officers' clerk, under these rules, may be sent by a prepaid letter through the post.

HENRY JAMES, A.G.

FARRER HERSCHELL, S.G.

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE RULES.

No Rules having been made under sect. 25 (6) ante, p. 31, the following, which were made under the repealed Acts, are still in

force.

Rules to be observed in Proceedings before the Judicial Com mittee of the Privy Council under the Act of the 5th and 6th Wm. 4, intituled "An Act to amend the Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions," cap. 83.

RULE I-A party intending to apply by petition, under section 2 of the said Act, shall give public notice by advertising in the London Gazette three times, and in three London papers, and three times in some country paper published in the town where or near to which he carries on any manufacture of anything made according to his specification, or near to or in which he resides, in case he carries on no such manufacture, or published in the county where he carries on such manufacture, or where he lives, in case there shall not be any paper published in such town, that he intends to petition His Majesty under the said section, and shall in such advertisements state the object of such petition, and give notice of the day on which