(c.) The master of such ship shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 501.

(d.) The passenger forbidden to land and leaving the ship pending enquiry without permission as aforesaid, or any person who aids or assists him in landing, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 501.

(5.) This section shall not apply to any person who has been rescued from any ship and brought to this Colony without having been taken to any port without the Colony where such person could have been landed and properly cared for and relieved.

5. A Magistrate may, on its being proved to his satisfaction that a passenger has landed from a ship contrary to the provisions of this Act, issue a warrant to arrest and convey back on board such ship such passenger or to take such passenger before a Magistrate to be further dealt with under the provisions of section 4 of this Act as such warrant shall require.

6. If a ship from which a passenger shall have landed contrary to the provisions of this Act shall leave the Colony without such passenger, and such ship shall return to this Colony within three years after leaving the same, such passenger shall be arrested and conveyed back on board such ship under warrant signed by a Magistrate, notwithstanding that such passenger has been punished under section 4 of this Act: Provided always that such passenger, if he is undergoing imprisonment in default of payment of the fine imposed under section 4 of this Act, shall be delivered by the gaoler to any constable entrusted with the execution of a warrant signed by a Magistrate to convey back such passenger on board such ship.

7. Any master of a ship neglecting or refusing to receive or to carry away any passenger arrested and conveyed back on board such ship under the two preceding sections shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 501.

8. Any foreign seaman or any stowaway may be discharged or allowed to land if the Consular Agent of the country to which such seaman or stowaway belongs or the agent of the ship in which he is brought to this Colony shall give the port officer a written undertaking to maintain such foreign seaman or stowaway until he can be reshipped or sent away from the Colony or can otherwise satisfy such port officer that the seaman or stowaway will not become chargeable to the Colony.

9.-(1.) If any foreign seaman is discharged and lands or any stowaway lands without the written undertaking required by section 8 being given or without satifying the port officer as therein mentioned he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 201., and the master of the ship shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 201.

(2.) Such seaman or stowaway may be arrested and dealt with in the manner in which a passenger who has landed contrary to the provisions of this Act may be arrested and dealt with under sections 5 and 6 of this Act.

10. The master of any ship may on the desertion of any

seaman or the landing of any stowaway or pauper passenger from his ship apply to a Magistrate, who shall grant such application, for a warrant to arrest and convey back on board ship such seaman or stowaway or pauper passenger, and on so doing the master shall be held harmless of all pains and penalties at law for so doing.

11. If any passenger, foreign seaman, or stowaway land in this Colony from any ship contrary to the provisions of this Act, and such passenger, foreign seaman, or stowaway is, on the complaint of the master of such ship, arrested and conveyed on board such ship under the provisions of sections 5 and 9 of this Act, the maritime lien arising under section 4 of this Act shall cease to exist, and the penalty to which the master is liable under sections 4 and 9 shall not be enforceable, but such maritime lien shall revive and such penalty shall be enforceable if such passenger, foreign seaman or stowaway again lands in this Colony before the department of such ship.

12. Any expense incurred in such apprehension shall be paid by the master of the ship, and until such expense is paid the chief or other proper officer of the revenue is hereby authorized to refuse a certificate of clearance to the master of such ship.

13. The master of any ship arriving at this Colony shall answer all questions which the port officer shall put to him, and any master who shall either refuse to answer any such question, or who shall give an untrue answer thereto, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 507.

14. If the port officer shall have reason to believe that any person brought to this Colony in any steam-ship as a first class passenger has been brought to this Colony under that designation for the purpose of evading the provisions of this Act, the port officer shall prohibit such person from landing in this Colony, and shall notify the master of such ship of such prohibition, and if any such passenger shall without the permission of the port officer land in this Colony after being prohibited as aforesaid, such passenger and the master of such ship shall be liable to the same penalties as are imposed by this Act when a passenger lands in this Colony contrary to the provisions of this Act, and the ship shall be subject to the maritime lien imposed by section 4 of this Act, and all the provisions of this Act as to any maritime lien shall apply to any maritime lien incurred under this present section.

15. The Governor in Council may make regulations for more effectually carrying out the provisions of this Act.

16. Any person infringing the provisions of any regulation made under the provisions of this Act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 107.

17. All penalties imposed by this Act shall be recoverable summarily.

18. The Act 28 Vict., c. 1, is hereby repealed.

19. This Act shall come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1908.

FORM (B).

To all to whom these presents shall come A. B., of

greeting:

Whereas C. D., who lately arrived in this Colony by the ship has been forbidden to land under the provisions of "The Immigrant Paupers Prevention Act, 1908," and whereas the said A. B. desires the said C. D. to land in the Colony, now these presents witness that in consideration of the said C. D. being permitted to land in the Colony, he the said 4. B. doth hereby for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant with the Governor of the Colony for the time being, and his successors in office, that he the said A. B. will on demand forthwith repay to the Governor as aforesaid, or the any charges which within three years from the date hereof may be incurred in respect of the said C. D.

In witness whereof the said A. B. has set his hand and seal this

ACT of the Government of Barbados to amend "The Patents

[No. 10.]

Act, 1903."*

[February 20, 1908.]

BE it enacted by the Governor, Council, and General Assembly of this Island and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Patents (Amendment) Act, 1908."

2. Section 47 of "The Patents Act, 1903," is hereby amended by substituting the words "five pounds five shillings for the words "fifteen pounds" occurring in line 8 of the said section.

ORDINANCE of the Government of British Guiana to amend the Immigration Ordinances.

[No. 9.]

I assent.

F. M. HODGSON, Governor.

[May 6, 1908.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of British Guiana with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows:1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Immigration Ordinances Amendment Ordinance, 1908," and this Ordinance and "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891," and "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891, Amendment Ordinance, 1907," shall be read and construed together as one Ordinance.

* Vol. XCVI, page 290.

+ Vol. XCIV, page 392.

Vol. C, page 632.

2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Ordinance, no hiring or contract for service of any immigrant possessed of or entitled to a certificate of exemption from labour shall be taken to be a contract for more than twelve months certain from the time of entering into service, any express or implied agreement to the contrary notwithstanding.

ACT of the Government of Canada respecting Copyright. [Chap. 70.] [R. S., 1906.]

NOTE. The original Act is chapter 88 of 38 Vict., although there is another Act passed in the same year also chaptered 88. It was assented to by Her late Majesty under the authority of the Imperial Act 38 & 39 Vict.,

c. 53.

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Copyright Act." (R. S., c. 62, s. 1.)

Interpretation.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires― (a.) "Minister" means the Minister of Agriculture.

(b.) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture. (c.) "Legal representatives" includes heirs, executors, ad- . ministrators and assigns, or other legal representatives. (R. S., c. 62, s. 2.)

PART I.-Registers of Copyrights.

3. The Minister shall cause to be kept, at the Department, books to be called the Registers of Copyrights, in which proprietors of literary, scientific, and artistic works or compositions, may have the same registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (R. S., c. 62, s. 3.)

Subjects and Conditions of Copyright.

4. Any person domiciled in Canada or in any part of the British possessions, or any citizens of any country which has an international copyright treaty with the United Kingdom, who is the author of any book, map, chart, or musical composition, or of any original painting, drawing, statue, sculpture, or photograph, or who invents, designs, etches, engraves, or causes to be engraved, etched, or made from his own design any print, cut, or engraving, and the legal representatives of such person or citizen, shall for the term of twenty-eight years, from the time of recording the copyright thereof in the manner hereinafter directed, have the sole and exclusive right