preparing, manufacturing, or dealing in morphine and compounds of opium, and any person so importing, manufacturing or dealing in morphine or any compound of opium without such licence shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

This subsection shall not apply to morphine or compounds of opium in transit.

(2.) Any such licence may be revoked by the Governor-inCouncil at his discretion and without assigning cause.

(3.) There shall be paid for each such licence an annual fee of 25 dollars which shall be awarded to the opium farmer.

(4.) If the holder of any such licence does not comply with the conditions he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

126. Every importer whether for exportation from or for sale or use within the Colony of morphine or any compound of opium shall on the importation thereof truly declare before the Superintendent of Imports and Exports the amount of morphine or opium contained therein and any such importer making a false declaration in this regard shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

12c. Every importer of morphine or any compound of opium which is intended for sale or use in the Colony shall pay to the opium farmer a royalty thereon calculated at the rate of 30 dollars per tael of morphine and 3 dollars per tael of opium, which royalty shall be paid to the opium farmer and may be recovered by the opium farmer in a summary way before a Magistrate.

The Governor-in-Council may at his discretion exempt any medicine containing morphine or opium or any compound of opium manufactured in and imported from Europe, America or any British Colony from the provisions of the principal Ordinance and this Ordinance: the name and description of any medicine. so exempted shall be published in The Gazette.

12d. The Governor shall and the opium farmer may establish one or more bonded warehouses for the use of dealers in morphine and compounds of opium imported for exportation and not for use or sale in the Colony and all such morphine and compounds of opium shall be stored in such warehouse or warehouses.

The Governor-in-Council may from time to time make, vary and rescind regulations with regard to the storage and removal of morphine and compounds of opium in and from such warehouses, to the payment of charges for storage therein and to such other purposes as the Governor-in-Council may deem desirable and such regulations when published in The Gazette shall have the force of law."

5. Section 30 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting the words "compounds of opium, morphine," after the words "dross opium."

6. "The Prepared Opium (Amendment) Ordinance, 1904," is hereby repealed.

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Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong this 11th day of October, 1906.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 8th day of November, 1906.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Colonial Secretary.

LAW of the Government of Jamaica entitled "The Literary and Artistic Works Copyright Law, 1906.”

[No. 39.]

[August 29, 1906.] BE it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Council of Jamaica, as follows:

1. This Law may be cited as "The Literary and Artistic Works Copyright Law, 1906."

2. In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings :

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Literary and Artistic Work" means every book, print, lithograph, article of sculpture, dramatic piece, musical composition, painting, drawing, photograph and other work of literature and art, to which the Imperial Copyright Acts or the International Copyright Acts extend.

"Book published in numbers" includes any review, magazine, periodical work, work published in a series of books or parts, transactions of a society or body, and other books of which different volumes or parts are published at different times.

"Book means and includes every volume, part or division of a volume, pamphlet, sheet of music, map, chart or plan, separately printed or lithographed, but it shall not include any publication which consists merely of a price list, sale catalogue, annual report, trade circular or trade advertisement.

"Author means the author, inventor, designer, engraver, or maker of any literary or artistic work, and includes any person claiming through the author; and, in the case of a posthumous work, means the proprietor of the manuscript of such work and any person claiming through him; and, in the case of an encyclopædia, review, magazine, periodical work or work pub lished in a series of books or parts, includes the proprietor, projector, publisher or conductor.

"Performed" and "performance" include representation. "Dramatic Piece means and includes every tragedy, comedy, play, opera, farce or other scenic, musical or dramatic entertainment.

"Produced " means, as the case requires, published or made,

or performed, or represented, and the expression "production" is to be construed accordingly.

"Copyright" means the sole right and exclusive liberty of printing, publishing, making, copying, engraving, producing, reproducing, representing or performing any literary or artistic work, or in any manner whatsoever multiplying copies thereof.

3. The copyright in every literary and artistic work or book, published in numbers registered as hereinafter provided, which heretofore has been, or shall after the passing of this Law be, published, or publicly produced, represented or performed, made or engraved, in this island, shall endure for the natural life of such author, and for the further term of seven years commencing at the time of his death, or for the period of 42 years from its first publication, or public production, representation or performance, making or engraving, whichever shall be the longer period; and such copyright shall be the property of the author and his assigns.

4. If any person shall in this island, after the passing of this Law, print, publish, make, copy, engrave, produce, reproduce, represent or perform any literary or artistic work registered as hereinafter provided, or in any manner whatsoever multiply or bring into the island copies thereof for any purpose whatsoever, without the consent in writing of the proprietor of the copyright thereof, he shall be liable in damages at the suit of such proprietor of the copyright.

5. The officer appointed by the Governor under section 3 of Law 2 of 1887 shall be Registrar of Copyrights, with an office to be called the Registry of Copyrights.

6. There shall be kept by the Registrar of Copyrights a book of Registry, entitled "The Register of Proprietors of Copyrights in Literary and Artistic Works," wherein may be entered a memorandum of every copyright in any literary or artistic work, or portion of each copyright, and also of every subsequent assignment of any such copyright, and such memorandum shall contain such particulars and be in such form as the Governor in Privy Council shall prescribe, and such books of registry shall at all convenient times be open to the inspection of any person, on payment of one shilling, for every entry which shall be searched for or inspected in the said book or books, and the Registrar of Copyrights shell, whenever required, give a copy of any entry in such book or books, certified under his hand and impressed with the seal of his Office, to any person requiring the same, on payment to him of the sum of five shillings, and such copies, so certified and impressed, shall be received in evidence in all Courts, and shall be prima facie proof of the proprietorship or assignment of copyright as therein expressed.

7. It shall be lawful for the proprietor of copyright in any literary or artistic work, to make entry in the Register of Copy

rights of the several particulars, and in the suitable form as shall be prescribed by the Governor in Privy Council, of the copyright, or any portion of such copyright, in any such literary or artistic work, upon payment of the sum of five shillings to the Registrar of Copyrights, and it shall be lawful for every such registered proprietor to assign his interest, or any portion of his interest therein, by making entry in the said Register of such assignment, in such form as the Governor in Privy Council shall prescribe, on payment of the like sum, and such assignment so entered shall be effectual in law to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

8. No proprietor of copyright in any literary or artistic work shall maintain any action in respect of any infringement of such copyright, unless he shall, before commencing such action, have caused an entry to be made in the Register of Copyrights, pursuant to this Law;

Provided always, that the omission to make such entry shall not affect the copyright in any literary or artistic work, but only the right to sue or proceed in respect of the infringement thereof.

9. No assignment of the copyright of any book consisting of or containing a dramatic piece, or musical composition, shall be holden to convey to the assignee the right of representing or performing such dramatic piece or musical composition, unless an entry in the said register book shall be made of such assignment, wherein shall be expressed the intention of the parties that such right should pass by such assignment.

10. If any person shall deem himself aggrieved by any entry made under colour of this Law in the Register of Copy rights, it shall be lawful for such person to apply by motion to the Supreme Court or a judge for an order that such entry be expunged or varied, and upon any such application, the court or judge may make such order as to such court or judge shall seem just, and the Registrar of Copyrights shall, on production to him of any such order for expunging or varying such entry, expunge or vary the same, as may be required by the order.

11. If any person shall wilfully make or cause to be made any false entry in the Register of Copyrights, or shall wilfully produce, or cause to be tendered in evidence, any paper falsely purporting to be a copy of any entry in the said register, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding 18 calendar months.

12. The Governor in Privy Council may make rules and forms for carrying into effect the purpose and intention of this Law. Such rules, and the particulars and forms to be prescribed under the authority of this Law, shall be published in the Jamaica Gazette.

ACT of the Government of the Leeward Islands to repeal the Acts to regulate the granting of Patents for Inventions and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

[No. 3.]

I assent.

[L.S.] BICKHAM SWEET-ESCOTT, Governor.

9th June, 1906.

[June 9, 1906.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law of this Colony as to patents for inventions and to make new provisions in respect of the same.

Be it enacted by the Governor and General Legislative Council of the Leeward Islands as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Patents Act, 1906," and shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation under the hand of the Governor to be published in the Gazette.

2. In this Act unless where the context otherwise requires, the following words and expressions have or include the meanings hereinafter respectively assigned to them, that is to say,

"Court" means the Supreme Court.

"Examiner" means any skilled person or persons to whom the Registrar shall refer questions concerning Patents under this Act.

"Prescribed" means prescribed by any of the Schedules to this Act or by regulations under this Act.

"Registrar means the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court. "British possession means any territory or place situate within His Majesty's dominions and not being or forming part of the United Kingdom or of the Channel Islands or of the Isle of Man; and all territories and places under one legislature as hereinafter defined are deemed to be one British possession for the purposes of this Act; and

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Legislature includes any person or persons who exercise legislative authority in the British Possession and where there are local legislatures as well as a central legislature means a central legislature only.

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The terms "true and first inventor," 'true inventor' and "inventor" shall, to the extent that the context does not express, include the person who is the actual inventor of any invention or his assigns, or if the actual inventor be dead, his legal representatives, or (if the actual inventor, his legal representatives, or assigns, is or are not resident in the Colony) any person to whom such invention has been communicated by the actual inventor, his legal representatives, or assigns, but shall not include a person importing an invention from any other Colony or country without the authority of the actual inventor, his legal representatives or assigns.