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.

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III. This Act shall not extend or apply to the assumption or use by any bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland exercising episcopal functions within some district or place in Scotland of any name, style, or title in respect of such district or place; but nothing herein contained shall be taken to give any right to any such bishop to assume or use any name, style, or title which he is not now by law entitled to assume or use.

IV. Be it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to annul, repeal, or in any manner affect any provision contained in an Act passed in the 8th year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for the more effectual applica tion of Charitable Donations and Bequests in Ireland.”

ACT of the British Parliament, "for the Settlement of the Boundaries between the Provinces of Canada and New Brunswick."

[14 & 15 Vict. cap. 63.]

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[August 7, 1851.]

WHEREAS certain disputes have existed respecting the boundary line between the provinces of Canada and New Brunswick in North America; and pending such disputes certain funds have arisen from the disputed territory, and have been received by the Governments of such provinces respectively: And whereas, with a view to the settlement of such disputes, the Governor-General of Canada and the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, by the advice of their respective Councils, agreed that the matter in dispute should be referred to arbitrators, who should be directed to report to Her Majesty's Government, and that such Governor-General and Lieutenaut-Governor should each name an arbitrator on behalf of the said respective provinces, and that such arbitrators should name a third arbitrator, the award to be made by the 3 arbitrators or any 2 of them; and it was also agreed by such Governor-General and Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice aforesaid, that the net proceeds of the funds in the hands of the said Governments arising from the disputed territory should be applied, first, to defray the expenses of the arbitration, second, to defray the necessary expenses of running the (boundary) line as settled (in case such funds should prove insufficient, the expenses to be borne equally by the respective Governments), and, third, the balance of such funds to the improvement of the land and water communication between the Great Falls of the Saint John and the Saint Lawrence: And whereas, in pursuance of the agreement in this behalf, the Governor-General of

Canada named Thomas Falconer, Esquire, to be one of the said arbitrators, and the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick named Travers Twiss, Doctor of Laws, to be another of the said arbitrators, and the said Thomas Falconer and Travers Twiss named the Right Honourable Stephen Lushington, Judge of the Admiralty Court, to act as the third arbitrator: And whereas, on the 17th day of April, 1851, the said Stephen Lushington and Travers Twiss made an award concerning the said boundary, and transmitted the same, together with a plan therein referred to, to the Right Honourable Earl Grey, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and such award is in the following terms:

"That New Brunswick shall be bounded on the west by the boundary of The United States, as traced by the Commissioners of Boundary under the Treaty of Washington, dated August, 1842, from the source of the Saint Croix to a point near the outlet of Lake Pech-la-wee-kaa-co-nies or Lake Beau, marked A. in the accompanying copy of a part of Plan 17 of the survey of the boundary under the above Treaty; thence by a straight line connecting that point with another point to be determined at the distance of 1 mile due south from the southernmost point of Long Lake; thence by a straight line drawn to the southernmost point of the fiefs Madawaska and Temiscouata, and along the south-eastern boundary of those fiefs to the south-east angle of the same; thence by a meridional line northwards till it meets a line running east and west, and tangent to the height of land dividing waters flowing into the River Rimouski from those tributary to the Saint John; thence along this tangent line eastward until it meets another meridional line tangent to the height of land dividing waters flowing into the River Rimouski from those flowing into the Restigouche River; thence along this meridional line to the 48th parallel of latitude; thence along that parallel to the Mistouche River; and thence down the centre of the stream of that river to the Restigouche; thence down the centre of the stream of the Restigouche to its mouth in the Bay of Chaleurs; and thence through the middle of that bay to the Gulf of the Saint Lawrence; the islands in the said Rivers Mistouche and Restigouche to the mouth of the latter river at Dalhousie being given to New Brunswick:" And whereas it is expedient that the said boundary should be settled in conformity with the said award: Now, therefore, be it 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. New Brunswick shall be bounded as in the said award mentioned; and it shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to appoint such person or persons as he may

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 public 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