(Inclosure 3.)-List received from some of the Foreign Consuls of losses sustained by their respective countrymen during the late capture of Messina.

ACT of the British Parliament, "to extend the Provisions of the Designs Act, 1850,* and to give Protection from Piracy to Persons exhibiting new Inventions in the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851."

[14 Vict. cap. 8.]

[April 11, 1851.] WHEREAS it is expedient that such protection as hereinafter mentioned should be afforded to persons desirous of exhibiting new inventions in the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851 be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

I. Any new invention for which letters patent might lawfully be granted may at any time during the year 1851, but not afterwards, be publicly exhibited in any place previously certified by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations to be a place of exhibition within the meaning of the Designs Act, 1850 [cap. 104], without prejudice to the validity of any letters patent to be thereafter, during the term of the provisional registration hereinafter mentioned, granted for such invention to the true and first inventor thereof: Provided always that such invention has previously to such public exhibition thereof been provisionally registered in manner hereinafter mentioned; and provided also, that the same be not otherwise publicly exhibited or used by or with the consent of the inventor prior to the granting of any such letters patent as aforesaid, except as hereinafter mentioned: Provided also,

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that no sale or transfer, or contract for sale or transfer, of the right to or benefit of any invention so provisionally registered, or of the rights acquired under this Act, or to be acquired under any letters patent to be granted for such invention, shall be deemed a use of such invention; and the publication of any account or description of such invention in any catalogue, paper, newspaper, periodical, or otherwise shall not affect the validity of any letters patent to be during such term granted as aforesaid.

II. The public trial or exhibition of any such invention as aforesaid (being an invention for purposes of agriculture or horticulture), which shall be certified by the Lords of the said Committee to have taken place under the direction of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 for purposes connected with the exhibition thereof, in such place of public exhibition as aforesaid, whether such trial or exhibition take place before or after the passing of this Act, shall not prevent the provisional registration of such invention under this Act, nor prejudice or affect the validity of any letters patent to be granted for such invention during such term as aforesaid.

III. Her Majesty's Attorney-General, or such person or persons as he may from time to time appoint to issue certificates under this Act, on being furnished with a description in writing, signed by or on behalf of the person claiming to be the true and first inventor within this realm of any new invention intended to be exhibited in such place of public exhibition as aforesaid, and on being satisfied that such invention is proper to be so exhibited, and that the description in writing so furnished describes the nature of the said invention so intended to be exhibited, and in what manner the same is to be performed, shall give a certificate in writing, under the hand or hands of such Attorney-General or the person or persons appointed as aforesaid, for the provisional registration of such invention.

IV. The registrar of designs acting under the Designs Act, 1850, upon receiving such certificate, and being furnished with the name and place of address of the person by or on whose behalf the registration is desired, shall register such certificate, name, and place of address, and the invention to which any certificate so registered relates shall be deemed to be provisionally registered, and the regis tration thereof shall continue in force for the term of 1 year from the time of the same being so registered, and the registrar shall certify, under his hand and seal, that such invention has been provisionally registered, and the date of such registration, and the name and place of address of the person by or on whose behalf the regis tration was effected: Provided always, that if any invention so provisionally registered be not actually exhibited in such place of publie exhibition as aforesaid, or if the same invention be in use by others at the time of the said registration, or if the person by or on whose

behalf the said registration has been effected be not the first and true inventor thereof, such registration shall be absolutely void.

V. The description in writing of any invention so provisionally registered shall be preserved in such manner and subject to such regulations as the Attorney-General shall direct, and any invention so provisionally registered, and exhibited at such place of public exhibition as aforesaid, shall have the words "provisionally registered" marked thereon or attached thereto, with the date of the said registration.

VI. Such provisional registration as aforesaid shall during the term thereof confer on the inventor of such invention, with respect thereto, all the protection against piracy and other benefits which by the Designs Act, 1850, are conferred upon the proprietors of designs provisionally registered thereunder with respect to such designs; and so long as such provisional registration continues in force the penalties and provisions of the Designs Act, 1842 [cap. 100],* for preventing the piracy of designs shall extend to the acts, matters, and things next hereinafter mentioned, as fully and effectually as if those penalties and provisions had been re-enacted in this Act, and expressly extended to such acts, matters, and things; that is to say, to the making, using, exercising, or vending the invention so provisionally registered, to the practising the same or any part thereof, to the counterfeiting, imitating, or resembling the same, to the making additions thereto or subtraction from the same, without the consent in writing of the person by or on whose behalf the said invention was so provisionally registered.

VII. All letters patent to be during the term of any such provisional registration granted in respect of any invention so provisionally registered shall, notwithstanding the registration thereof, and notwithstanding the exhibition thereof in such place of public exhibition or otherwise as aforesaid, be of the same validity as if such invention had not been so registered or exhibited; and it shall be lawful for the Lord High Chancellor, if he think fit, on the grant of any letters patent to any inventor in respect of any invention provisionally registered under this Act, to cause such letters patent to be sealed as of the day of such provisional registration, and to bear date the day of such provisional registration, the Act of the 18th year of King Henry VI or any other Act notwithstanding.

VIII. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Designs Act 1850, and the 2 Acts therein referred to, and called the Designs Act, 1842 [cap. 100],* and the Designs Act, 1843 [cap. 65],† the protection intended to be by those Acts extended to the proprietors of new and original designs shall be extended to the proprietors of all new and original designs which shall be provisionally regis* Vol. XXXIX. Page 1122. + Vol. XXXI. Page 1227.

tered and exhibited in such place of public exhibition as aforesaid, notwithstanding that such designs may have been previously published or applied elsewhere than in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; provided that such design or any article to which the same has been applied have not been publicly sold or exposed for sale previously to such exhibition thereof as aforesaid.

XI. All the provisions of the Designs Act, 1850, and the provisions incorporated therewith, relating or applicable to the designs to be provisionally registered thereunder, or to the proprietors of such designs, except the provision for extending the term of any such provisional registration, shall, so far as the same are not repugnant to, or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, apply to the inventions to be provisionally registered under this Act, and to the inventors thereof; and the said Designs Act and this Act shall be construed together as one Act.

X. This Act may be cited as The Protection of Inventions Act, 1851."

ACT of the British Parliament, "to prevent the Assumption of certain Ecclesiastical Titles in respect of Places in the United Kingdom."

[14 & 15 Vict. cap. 60.]

[August 1, 1851.] WHEREAS divers of Her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects have assumed to themselves the titles of Archbishop and Bishops of a pretended province, and of pretended sees or dioceses, within the United Kingdom, under colour of an alleged authority given to them for that purpose by certain briefs, rescripts, or letters apostolical from the See of Rome, and particularly by a certain brief, rescript, or letters apostolical purporting to have been given at Rome on the 29th of September, 1850; and whereas by the Act of the 10th year of King George IV. [chap. 7], after reciting that the Protestant Episcopal Church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, discipline, and government thereof, and likewise the Protestant Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the doctrine, discipline, and government thereof, were by the respective Acts of Union of England and Scotland, and of Great Britain and Ireland, established permanently and inviolably, and that the right and title of archbishops to their respective provinces, of bishops to their sees, and of deans to their deaneries, as well in England as in Ireland, had been settled and established by law, it was enacted, that if any person after the commencement of that Act, other than the person thereunto authorised by law, should assume or use the name, style, or

title of archbishop of any province, bishop of any bishoprick, or dean of any deanery, in England or Ireland, he should for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of 1007.; and whereas it may be doubted whether the recited enactment extends to the assumption of the title of archbishop or bishop of a pretended province or diocese, or archbishop or bishop of a city, place, or territory, or dean of any pretended deanery in England or Ireland, not being the see, province, or diocese of any archbishop or bishop or deanery of any dean recognised by law; but the attempt to establish, under colour of authority from the See of Rome or otherwise, such pretended sees, provinces, dioceses, or deaneries, is illegal and void. And whereas it is expedient to prohibit the assumption of such titles in respect of any places within the United Kingdom; be it therefore declared and enacted by the Queen'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

I. All such briefs, rescripts, or letters apostolical, and all and every the jurisdiction, authority, pre-eminence, or title conferred or pretended to be conferred thereby, are and shall be and be deemed unlawful and void.

II. And be it enacted, that if, after the passing of this Act, any person shall obtain or cause to be procured from the Bishop or See of Rome, or shall publish or put in use within any part of the United Kingdom, any such bull, brief, rescript, or letters apostolical, or any other instrument or writing, for the purpose of constituting such archbishops or bishops of such pretended provinces, sees, or dioceses within the United Kingdom, or if any person, other than a person thereunto authorised by law in respect of an archbishopric, bishopric, or deanery of the United Church of England and Ireland, assume or use the name, style, or title of archbishop, bishop, or dean of any city, town, or place, or of any territory or district (under any designation or description whatsoever) in the United Kingdom, whether such city, town, or place, or such territory or district, be or be not the see or the province, or co-extensive with the province, of any archbishop, or the see or the diocese, or co-extensive with the diocese, of any bishop, or the seat or place of the church of any dean, or co-extensive with any deanery, of the said United Church, the person so offending shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of 1007., to be recovered as penalties imposed by the recited Act may be recovered under the provisions thereof, or by action of debt at the suit of any person in one of Her Majesty's superior courts of law, with the consent of Her Majesty's Attorney General in England and Ireland, or Her Majesty's Advocate in Scotland, as

the

case may be.

[1850-51.]

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