the Forfeiture, Seizure, and Destruction of any printed Book first published in the United Kingdom wherein there shall be Copyright, and reprinted in any Country out of the British Dominions, and imported into any Part of the British Dominions by any Person not being the Proprietor of the Copyright, or a Person authorized by such Proprietor, shall extend and be applicable to all Copies of any Works of Literature and Art, and to all Translations the Importation whereof into any Part of the British Dominions is prohibited under this Act.

X. The Provisions herein-before contained shall be inc orporated with the International Copyright Act, and shall be read and construed therewith as One Act.

XI. And whereas Her Majesty has already, by Order in Council under the said International Copyright Act, given effect to certain Stipulations contained in the said Convention with the French Republic; and it is expedient that the Remainder of the Stipulations on the Part of Her Majesty in the said Convention contained should take effect from the passing of this Act without any further Order in Council: During the Continuance of the said Convention, and so long as the Order in Council already made under the said International Copyright Act remains in force, the Provisions herein - before contained shall apply to the said Convention, and to Translations of Books and Dramatic Pieces which are, after the passing of this Act, published or represented in France, in the same Manner as if Her Majesty had issued Her Order in Council in pursuance of this Act for giving effect to such Convention, and had therein directed that such Translations should be protected as hereinbefore mentioned for a Period of Five Years from the Date of the First Publication or public Representation thereof respectively, and as if a Period of Three Months from the Publication of such Translation were the Time mentioned in such Order as the Time within which the same must be registered and a Copy thereof deposited in the United Kingdom.

XII. And whereas an Act was passed in the Tenth Year of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of Her present Majesty, for reducing, under certain Circumstances, the Duties payable upon Books and Engravings: And whereas by the said Convention with the French Republic it was stipulated that the Duties on Books, Prints, and Drawings published in the Territories of the French Republic should be reduced to the Amounts specified in the Schedule to the said Act of the Tenth Year of Her present Majesty, Chapter Fifty-eight: And whereas Her Majesty has, in pursuance of the said Convention, and in exercise of the Powers given by the said Act, by Order in Council declared that such Duties shall be reduced accordingly: And whereas by the said Convention it was further stipulated that the said Kates of Duty should not be raised during the Con

tinuance of the said Convention; and that if during the Continuance of the said Convention any Reduction of those Rates should be made in favour of Books, Prints or Drawings published in any other Country, such Reduction should be at the same Time extended to similar Articles published in France: And whereas Doubts are entertained whether such last-mentioned Stipulations can be carried into effect without the Authority of Parliament: Be it enacted, That the said Rates of Duty so reduced as aforesaid shall not be raised during the Continuance of the said Convention; and that if during the Coutinuance of the said Convention any further Reduction of such Rates is made in favour of Books, Prints, or Drawings published in any other Foreign Country, Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, declare that such Reduction shall be extended to similar Articles published in France, such Order to be made and published in the same Manner and to be subject to the same Provisions as Orders made in pursuance of the said Act of the Tenth Year of Her present Majesty, Chapter Fifty-eight.

XIII. And whereas Doubts have arisen as to the Construction of the Schedule of the Act of the Tenth Year of Her present Majesty, Chapter Fifty-eight:

It is hereby declared, That for the Purposes of the said Act every Work published in the Country of Export, of which Part has been originally produced in the United Kingdom, shall be deemed to be and be subject to the Duty payable on "Works originally produced in the United Kingdom, and republished in the Country of Export," although it contains also original Matter not produced in the United Kingdom, unless it shall be proved to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs by the Importer, Consignee, or other Person entering the same that such original Matter is at least equal to the Part of the Work produced in the United Kingdom, in which Case the Work shall be subject only to the Duty on Works not originally produced in the United Kingdom.

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XIV. And whereas by the Four several Acts of Parliament following; (that is to say,) an Act of the Eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, Chapter Thirteen; an Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of King George the Third, Chapter Thirty eight; an Act of the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, Chapter Fifty-seven; and an Act of the Seventh Year of King William the Fourth, Chapter Fifty-nine, Provision is made for securing to every Person who invents, or designs, engraves, etches, or works in Mezzotinto or Chiaro-oscuro, or, from his own Work, Design, or Invention, causes or procures to be designed, engraved, etched, or worked in Mezzotinto or Chiaro-oscuro, any Historical Print or Prints, or any Print or Prints of any Portrait, Conversation, Landscape, or Architecture, Map, Chart, or Plan, or any other Print or Prints whatsoever, and to every Person who engraves, etches,

or works in Mezzotinto or Chiaro-oscuro, or causes to be engraved, etched, or worked any Print taken from any Picture, Drawing, Model, or Sculpture, notwithstanding such Print has not been graven or drawn from his own original Design, certain Copyrights therein defined: And whereas Doubts are entertained whether the Provisions of the said Acts extend to Lithographs and certain other Impressions, and it is expedient to remove such Doubts:

It is hereby declared, That the Provisions of the said Acts are intended to include Prints taken by Lithography, or any other mechanical Process by which Prints or Impressions of Drawings or Designs are capable of being multiplied indefinitely, and the said Acts shall be construed accordingly.

5 & 6 Wm. 4. cpt. 65.

An Act for preventing the Publication of Lectures without consent.

Whereas printers, publishers, and other persons have frequently taken the liberty of printing and publishing lectures delivered upon divers subjects, without the consent of the authors of such lectures, or the persons delivering the same in public, to the great detriment of such authors and lectures: Be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five the author of any lecture or lectures, or the person to whom he hath sold or otherwise conveyed the copy thereof, in order to deliver the same in any school, seminary, institution, or other place, or for any other purpose, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing and publishing such lecture or lectures; and that if any person shall, by taking down the same in short hand or otherwise in writing, or in any other way, obtain or make a copy of such lecture or lectures, and shall print or lithograph or otherwise copy and publish the same, or cause the same to be printed lithographed, or otherwise copied and published, without leave of the author thereof, or of the person to whom the author thereof hath sold or otherwise conveyed the same, and every person who, knowing the same to have been printed or copied and published without such consent, shall sell, publish or expose to sale, or cause to be sold, published, or exposed to sale, any such lecture or lectures, shall forfeit such printed or otherwise copied lecture or lectures, or parts thereof, together with one penny for every shut thereof which shall be found in his custody, either printed, lithographed, or copied, or printing, lithographing, or copying, published, or ex

posed to sale, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, the one moiety thereof to his Majesty, his heirs or successors, and the other moiety thereof to any person who shall sue for the same, to be recovered in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record in Westminster, by action of debt, bill plaint, or information, in which no wager of law, essoin, privilege or protection, or more than one imparlance shall be allowed.

II. And be it further enacted, That any printer or publisher of any newspaper who shall, without such leave as aforesaid, print and publish in such newspaper any lecture or lectures, shall be deemed and taken to be a person printing and publishing without leave within the provisions of this act, and liable to the aforesaid forfeitures and penalties in respect of such printing and publishing.

III. And be it further enacted, That no person allowed for certain fee or reward, or otherwise, to attend and be present at any lecture delivered at any place, shall be deemed and taken to be licensed or to have leave to print, copy, and publish such lectures only because of having leave to attend such lecture or lectures.

IV. Provided always, That nothing in this act shall extend to prohibit any person from printing, copying, and publishing any lecture or lectures which have or shall have been printed and published with leave of the authors thereof or their assignees, and whereof the time hath or shall have expired within which the sole right to print and publish the same is given by an act passed in the eighth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by vesting the copies of printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and by another act passed in the fifty-fourth year of the reign of King George the third, intituled An Act to amend the several Acts for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies and copyright of printed books to the Authors of such books, or their assigns, or to any lectures which have been printed or published before the passing of this act.

V. Provided further, That nothing in this act shall extend to any lecture or lectures, or the printing, copying, or publishing any lecture or lectures, or parts thereof, of the delivering of which notice in writing shall not have been given to two justices living within five miles from the place where such lecture or lectures shall be delivered two days at the least before delivering the same or to any lecture or lectures delivered in any University or public school or college, or on any public foundation, or by any individual in virtue of or according to any gift, endowment, or foundation; and that the law relating thereto shall remain the same as if this act had not been passed.

3 & 4 Wm. IV. capt. 15.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property. 10th June 1833.

Whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend the several Acts for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies and Copyright of printed Books to the Authors of such Books, or their Assigns, it was, amongst other things, provided and enacted, that from and after the passing of the said Act the Author of any Book or Books com- ' posed, and not printed published, or which should thereafter be composed and printed and published, and his Assignee or Assigns, should have the sole Liberty of printing and re-printing such Book or Books for the full Term of Twenty-eight Years, to commence from the Day of first publishing the same, and also, if the Author should be living at the End of that Period, for the Residue of his natural Life: And whereas it is expedient to extend the Provisions of the said Act; be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act the Author of any Tragedy, Comedy, Play, Opera, Farce, or any other Dramatic Piece or Entertainment, composed, and not printed and published by the Author thereof or his Assignee, or which hereafter shall be composed, and not printed or published by the Author thereof or his Assignee, or the Assignee of such Author, shall have as his own Property the sole Liberty of representing, or causing to be represented, at any Place or Places of Dramatic Entertainment whatsoever, in any Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Isles of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey, or in any Part of the British Dominions, any such Production as aforesaid, not printed and published by the Author thereof or his Assignee, and shall be deemed and taken to be the Proprietor thereof; and that the Author of any such Production, printed and published within Ten Years before the passing of this Act by the Author thereof or his Assignee, or which shall hereafter be so printed and published, or the Assignee of such Author, shall, from the Time of passing this Act, or from the Time of such Publication respectively, until the End of Twenty-eigth Years from the Day of such first Publication of the same, and also, if the Author or Authors, or the Survivor of the Authors, shall be living at the End of that Period, during the Residue of his natural Life, have as his own Property the sole Liberty of representing, or causing to be represented, the same at any such Place of Dramatic Entertainment as aforesaid, and shall be deemed and taken to be the Proprietor thereof: Provided nevertheless, that nothing in this