shall give an untrue answer thereto shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and on summary conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding 10., and in default of payment, shall be imprisoned, either with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months.

6. The Visiting Officer may call upon any person arriving in this Colony in any vessel, and whom he shall have cause to suspect to be a Colonial criminal, to state

(a.) His name and occupation and the Colony, parish, city, or town to which he belongs;

(b.) The port, city, town, parish, or place from whence he

came.

7. It shall be lawful for any Visiting Officer by writing under his hand addressed to any police constable to cause any person coming to the Colony by any vessel whom such Visiting Officer may have reasonable cause to believe to be a Colonial criminal within the meaning of this Ordinance, to be taken into custody and be brought before a Stipendiary Justice of the Peace, and thereupon all and every the provisions of " The Alien Criminals Ordinance, 1870" (2 of 1870), shall apply and be applicable to any person so brought as aforesaid before any such Stipendiary Justice of the Peace, and such Justice shall have jurisdiction to deal with any such person so brought before him in the same manner as he is authorized to deal under the provisions of the said Ordinance with persons brought before him suspected to be alien criminals within the meaning of "The Alien Criminals Ordinance, 1870."

8. The Governor may by Proclamation, whenever he deems it necessary, prohibit the landing in the Colony of any vicious or criminal immigrant designated in such Proclamation, except upon such conditions for insuring their retransportation to the port or place from whence they came with the least possible delay as the Governor in Council prescribes.

Such conditions may, if the Governor in Council deems it necessary, include the immediate return, or the return with the least possible delay, of the vessel and such immigrants to the said port or place, such prohibited immigrants remaining on board until the return of such vessel.

9. If any vicious or criminal immigrant shall land in any part of the Colony contrary to the Proclamation of the Governor, the vessel by which such vicious or criminal immigrant arrived shall be subject to the maritime lien created by section 6 of "The Infirm Paupers Ordinance, 1882," and all and every the provisions of such section shall apply and be applicable in the same manner as they apply and are applicable to infirm paupers landing in any part of the Colony contrary to the provisions of the said Ordinance.

10. Any master of a vessel who knowingly suffers any vicious or criminal immigrant who arrives in such vessel to land contrary to the Proclamation of the Governor as aforesaid, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and on summary conviction thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 507., and in default of payment shall be imprisoned, either with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months.

11. In any proceeding against the master of any vessel for allowing any vicious or criminal immigrant to land contrary to any Proclamation under section 8 of this Ordinance, such vessel shall not be subject to the maritime lien created by section 6 of the principal Ordinance, and no master of any such vessel shall be liable to the penalties prescribed by section 10 of this Ordinance unless it be proved to the satisfaction of the Court

(a.) That notice was given verbally or in writing in the manner prescribed by section 4 of this Ordinance in relation to destitute immigrants that any person being on board of such vessel is a vicious or criminal immigrant, as the case may be, within the meaning of the Proclamation of the Governor aforesaid; or

(b.) That the master of any such vessel independently of any notice had knowledge that any person by him permitted to be landed was a vicious or criminal immigrant, as the case may be, within the meaning of any such Proclamation as aforesaid.

12. Any vicious or criminal immigrant who knowingly and wilfully lands or suffers himself to be landed contrary to the Governor's Proclamation, and any person who knowingly lands or procures to be landed contrary to the Governor's Proclamation, or who aids or assists in landing or procuring to be landed contrary to the Governor's Proclamation any vicious or criminal immigrant, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and on summary conviction thereof shall be punished in like manner as in section 10 mentioned.

13. The following words in section 2 of the principal Ordinance, viz.:

"The term 'infirm pauper' means a person as to whom notice that he is an infirm pauper is given according to this Ordinance," Are hereby repealed, and, in lieu thereof, the following shall be read :

The term "infirm pauper" means a person not being a native of the Colony as to whom notice that he is an infirm pauper is given according to the principal Ordinance.

14. The Ordinance No. 13 of 1894, intituled "An Ordinance to extend the provisions of The Infirm Paupers Ordinance, 1882,' and to make provision to restrict the landing in the Colony of Vicious Criminal Immigrants " is hereby repealed.

Provided that this repeal shall not affect the validity or invalidity of anything done or suffered or any right accrued or liability incurred before the commencement of this Ordinance, or any proceeding pending or uncompleted at the commencement of this Ordinance.

Passed in Council, this 11th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1895.

CHAS. J. ROOKS, Acting Clerk of the Council.

ORDINANCE of the Government of Trinidad, to suspend for a limited period the Operation of Section 66 of " The Immigration Ordinance, 1870."*

[No. 23.]

(L.S.) C. C. KNOLLYS, Acting Governor.

October 23, 1896.

[October 5, 1896.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 66 of “The Immigration Ordinance, 1870," it shall be lawful for the Protector of Immigrants to make allotments from the immigrants who may be introduced into this Colony during the season 1896-97, to any plantation in the Colony, notwithstanding that 15 per cent. of the indentured adult male immigrants on any such plantation may not, during the twelve months ending the 31st December, 1895, have earned an amount of wages sufficient to give an average, for each of such immigrants, of 6d. for every day during the twelve months.

Passed in Council, this 5th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1896.

HARRY L. KNAGGS, Acting Clerk of the Council.

ACT of the Government of New South Wales, to further amend the Law relating to Patents for Inventions and Improvements in Arts or Manufactures, and to authorize the Appointment of an Examiner of Patents.t

[No. 3.]

[Assented to, July 8, 1887.]

WHEREAS it is expedient that the sum now payable by way of deposit with the Colonial Treasurer pursuant to the Act 16 Vict.,

* Page 981.

+ See also Act No. 39 of 1896, page 1015.

No. 24, intituled "An Act to authorize the Governor-General with the advice of the Executive Council to grant Letters of Registration for all Inventions and Improvements in the Arts or Manufactures to have the same effect as Letters Patent in England, so far as regards this Colony," by persons desiring to obtain Letters Patent under the said Act should be reduced, and that henceforth the sums so reduced should be paid into and form part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and it is also expedient to make provision for the temporary protection of such inventions and improvements and for the appointment of an Examiner of Patents to aid in carrying out the provisions of the Acts relating to Letters Patent:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. Every person claiming to be the author or designer of any invention in or improvement to the arts or manufactures, or his agent or assignee who shall desire to obtain Letters Patent, shall pay to the Colonial Treasurer the sum of 51., and shall after such payment lodge with the Minister of Justice a petition to the Governor setting forth that petitioner is the author, or designer, or the agent, or assignee of such author or designer (as the case may be) of a certain invention in or improvement to the arts or manufactures, and specifying (and where necessary illustrating) the particulars of such invention or improvement, and that in connection therewith he has paid to the Colonial Treasurer the sum of 51.

2. If the Minister of Justice shall, after examination of the said petition and of the report thereon of the Examiner of Patents, report to the Governor that he approves of the prayer of the petitioner, it shall thereupon be lawful for the Governor to grant Letters Patent which shall then be forwarded to the Examiner of Patents, who shall, before issuing them to the grantee or his duly authorized agent, register them as hereinafter provided.

3. Any person so claiming as aforesaid or his agent or assignee may in like manner obtain a certificate entitling him to provisional protection for any such invention or improvement upon payment to the Colonial Treasurer of the sum of 27., and upon depositing with the Minister of Justice a petition addressed to the Governor and a provisional specification in the prescribed form.

4. A certificate of provisional protection shall be in force for twelve months and no longer, and shall be null and void if before the date of the expiration thereof the lawful holder of such certificate shall fail to make application for Letters Patent in terms of section 1 of this Act.

5. It shall be lawful for the Governor to grant and issue to the

lawful holder of such certificate, or to his agent or assignee, Letters Patent for the invention or improvement provisionally specified: Provided that the petitioner so entitled shall have deposited a complete specification setting forth how the invention or improvement is be carried out and performed, and provided also that all the other conditions of sections 1 and 2 of this Act shall have been complied with; and upon the issue of such Letters Patent the certificate of provisional protection shall be deemed to be cancelled.

6. The payment of 21. to the Colonial Treasurer on petition for provisional protection, and the payment of 31. on petition for Letters Patent for the same invention, shall, if both payments are made by the original petitioner or the latter payment by his legal representative, be deemed to constitute the payment of 51. provided for in section 1 of this Act.

7. While a certificate of provisional protection remains in force the lawful holder thereof may use and publish his invention or improvement without prejudice to the issue of Letters Patent for the same, and such protection from the consequences of use and publication shall constitute the provisional protection provided for in this Act.

8. Letters Patent shall (unless the Minister of Justice shall in any case otherwise advise) be dated and sealed as of the day of the deposit of the petition for provisional protection, or if there has been no petition for provisional protection, then as of the day of the deposit of the petition for the said Letters Patent: Provided that no action shall be maintainable in respect of any infringement of an invention or improvement committed before the deposit of the complete specification thereof; nor shall any person be entitled to institute any proceedings at law or in equity for infringement until after the actual registration of the Letters Patent granted to him for the invention or improvement alleged to be infringed.

9. A certificate of provisional protection shall be no bar to the granting of a like certificate for the same invention to other petitioners, but it shall be at the discretion of the Minister of Justice to approve or refuse the issue of Letters Patent upon a second or other certificate during the continuance of a certificate of prior date for the same invention.

10. Every lawful holder of a certificate of provisional protection, and every grantee of Letters Patent (whether granted under this or the principal Act), shali be at liberty to assign the same together with all the benefits and advantages derivable therefrom to any person or persons by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal.

11. Every such grantee of Letters Patent shall also be at liberty by an instrument in manner aforesaid to grant to any person or