(2.) To the same sub-section the following words shall be added, namely: "unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Colonial Secretary that the non-payment of the fee arises from the death or bankruptcy of the registered proprietor, or from his having ceased to carry on business, and that no person claiming under that proprietor or under his bankruptcy is using the trade-mark."

13. In section 25 of the Principal Ordinance, after the words "subject to," shall be added the words "the provisions of this Ordinance and to."

14. In section 26 of the Principal Ordinance, after the words "subject to," shall be added the words "the provisions of this Ordinance and to."

15. To section 29 of the Principal Ordinance the following subsection shall be added, namely:

"(d.) Permit an applicant for registration of a trade-mark to amend his application by omitting any particular goods or classes of goods in connection with which he has desired the trade-mark to be registered."

16. After section 39 of the Principal Ordinance the following section shall be added and numbered 39 (a), namely:

"There shall be paid, in respect of applications and registration, and other matters under this Ordinance, such fees as may from time to time be prescribed by the Governor in Executive Council."

17. The Principal Ordinance shall, as from the commencement of this Ordinance, take effect subject to the additions, omissions, and substitutions required by this Ordinance; but nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the validity of any act done, right acquired, or liability incurred before the commencement of this Ordinance.

18. This Ordinance shall commence and come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1890.

19. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Trade-Marks Ordinance, 1890," and this Ordinance and the Principal Ordinance may be cited collectively as "The Trade-Marks Ordinances, 1888 and 1890."

Passed in Council, the 16th day of April, 1890.

A. R. DAWSON, Acting Clerk to the Council.

Assented to by his Excellency the Governor, the 26th day of April, 1890.

E. NOEL WALKER, Colonial Secretary.

ORDINANCE of the Government of Ceylon, to provide for the Naturalization of Aliens.

[No. 21.]

[Assented to, December 5, 1890.]

(L.S.) A. E. HAVELOCK. WHEREAS by "The Naturalization Act, 1870,"* being an Imperial Statute passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of Her present Majesty, it is enacted that all Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances which may be duly made by the Legislature of any British possession for imparting to any person the privileges or any of the privileges of naturalization, to be enjoyed by such person within the limits of such possession, shall, within such limits, have the authority of law, but shall be subject to be confirmed or disallowed by Her Majesty in the same manner and subject to the same rules in and subject to which Her Majesty has power to confirm or disallow any other Laws, Statutes, or Ordinances in that possession;

And whereas it is expedient to provide for the naturalization of aliens resident in this Colony:

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1.-(1.) Any person whilst actually residing in the Colony may apply to the Governor in Executive Council that the privileges of naturalization may be conferred on him.

(2.) Such application shall state the applicant's age, place of birth, place of residence, profession, trade, or occupation, the length of time during which he has resided within the Colony, that he is permanently settled in the Colony, or is residing within the same with intent to settle therein.

(3.) Such application shall be in writing, and signed by the applicant, and shall be accompanied by an affidavit sworn by him verifying the truth of the statements contained in the application.

2. The Governor in Executive Council may require such further information and evidence, by affidavit or otherwise, as to him may seem proper, in addition to the affidavit accompanying the application.

3. The Governor in Executive Council, if satisfied with the evidence adduced, shall take the case of the applicant into consideration, and may, with or without assigning any reason, grant or refuse such application, as he thinks most conducive to the public good, and no appeal shall lie from his decision.

4.-(1.) If such application is granted, the Colonial Secretary shall, by notice in writing under his hand, require the applicant, * Vol. LX, page 267.

within thirty days from the date of such notice, to take the oath of allegiance substantially in the form contained in the Schedule hereto.

(2.) Such oath may be administered by any Police Magistrate or Justice of the Peace within the limits of his jurisdiction, and the person who shall administer the oath shall grant to the applicant a certificate in writing of his having taken and subscribed such oath, and of the date of his taking and subscribing the same, and shall forward to the Colonial Secretary the oath so taken and subscribed, together with a duplicate of such certificate, which oath and duplicate certificate shall be filed and kept, with the application and the evidence relating thereto, in the Colonial Secretary's office.

5.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor, upon the production of such certificate as aforesaid, and upon being satisfied that the applicant has duly taken the prescribed oath within the period specified in section 4, to issue Letters Patent under the seal of the Colony granting to the applicant all the rights and privileges of a British subject, and thereupon the applicant shall, within the limits of the Colony, be entitled to all political and other rights, powers, and privileges, and be subject to all obligations to which a natural-born British subject is entitled or subject.

(2.) Such Letters Patent shall bear a stamp of 100 rupees, to be supplied by the applicant, and shall be enrolled for safe custody in the Supreme Court of the Colony.

6. If any material statement contained in any application made under section 1, or any material portion of the evidence adduced in support of such application, shall be false, the Governor in Executive Council may, by an order in writing, cancel the Letters Patent issued upon such application, and from and after the date of such order all the rights, powers, and privileges derived through such Letters Patent shall altogether cease.

7. All Letters Patent issued under this Ordinance, and all orders cancelling the same, shall be published in the "Government Gazette."

8. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Naturalization Ordinance, 1890."

Passed in Council the 26th day of November, 1890.

H. L. CRAWFORD, Acting Clerk to the Council.

Assented to by his Excellency the Governor the 5th day of December, 1890.

E. NOEL WALKER, Colonial Secretary.

SCHEDULE.

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do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.

ORDINANCE of the Government of Ceylon, to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the granting of Exclusive Privileges to Inventors.

[No. 16.]

[Assented to, November 21, 1892.]

(L.S.) A. E. HAVELOCK.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law relating to the granting of exclusive privileges to inventors:

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Inventions Ordinance, 1892," and shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1893.

2.-(1.) The Ordinances described in the first Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column thereof.

(2.) But this repeal of Ordinances shall not affect any exclusive privilege acquired, or any conditions or restrictions imposed with respect to any privilege, or any right or liability accrued or incurred under any of those Ordinances before the commencement of this Ordinance, or any relief in respect of any such privilege, right, or liability.

(3.) Any Ordinance or document referring to any Ordinance hereby repealed shall be construed to refer to this Ordinance or the corresponding portion thereof.

3. In this Ordinance, unless there is something repuguant in the subject or context

(1.) "Invention" includes an improvement;

(2.) "Inventor" does not include the importer into Ceylon of a Lew invention unless he is the actual inventor;

(3.) "Petitioner" means a person who has petitioned, under this Ordinance, for leave to file a specification of an invention, whether he has filed the specification or not;

(4.) "Assign" includes a grantee of the exclusive privilege of naking, selling, or using an invention, or of authorizing others so to do, during the term for which the privilege is to continue or may be extended, or for any shorter term;

(5.) "Inventor," "actual inventor," and "petitioner" include the executors, administrators, or assigns of an inventor, actual inventor, and petitioner, as the case may be ;

(6.) "Manufacture" includes any art, process, or manner of producing, preparing, or making an article, and also any article prepared or produced by manufacture;

(7.) "Write" includes print, lithograph, photograph, engrave, and every other mode in which words or figures can be expressed on paper or on any substance;

(8.) "Colonial Secretary" means any person acting as and for the Colonial Secretary, and includes any assistant to the Colonial Secretary to the extent to which he may be authorized by general or special order of the Governor to discharge the functions of the Colonial Secretary under this Ordinance.

4.—(1.) The inventor of a new manufacture, or two or more persons, some or one of whom only are or is the true and first inventors or inventor of a new manufacture, may petition the Governor for leave to file a specification thereof.

(2.) Any person, whether a British subject or not, may petition for such leave.

(3.) The petition must be in writing, signed by the petitioner or petitioners, or, in case the petitioner or petitioners shall be absent from Ceylon, by an agent authorized thereto on his or their behalf, and in the Form (A) in the second Schedule, or in such other form as may be from time to time prescribed, if the inventor or inventors has or have not obtained a patent in the United Kingdom, and in the Form (B) in the said Schedule, or in such other form as may be from time to time prescribed, if he or they has or have obtained a patent in the United Kingdom.

(4.) The petition must contain a declaration to the effect that the petitioner is in possession of an invention whereof he, or in the case of a joint petition, one or more of the petitioners, claims or claim to be the true and first inventor or inventors, and for which he or they desires or desire to obtain leave to file a specification; and it must state the name, occupation, and address of the petitioner or petitioners, and, where a patent has been obtained in the United Kingdom, the date of the patent and the date of the actual sealing thereof, and must describe with reasonable precision and detail the nature of the invention and of the particular novelty whereof it consists, and be supplemented by such further particulars relating to the invention, and by such drawings or photographs illustrative thereof, as the Governor in Executive Council may see fit to require from the petitioner or petitioners.

(5.) If in any case it appears to the Governor in Executive Council that a petition ought to be further supplemented by a