1 which agreement the United States of America may, at its pleasure, become a party to such agreement. The existence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this 5 act may require. 10 15 Approved, March 3, 1891. In "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from December, AN ACT to establish a court of appeals for the District of Columbia, and for other 1893, February 9. purposes. SEC. 8. That any final judgment or decree of the said court of appeals [of the District of Columbia] may be re-examined and affirmed, reversed, or modified by the Supreme Court of the United States, upon writ of error or appeal, in all causes in which the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, in the same man20 ner and under the same regulations as heretofore provided for in cases of writs of error on judgment or appeals from decrees rendered in the supreme court of the District of Columbia; and also in cases, without regard to the sum or value of the matter in dispute, wherein is involved. the validity of any patent or copyright, or in which is drawn in ques25 tion the validity of a treaty or statute of or an authority exercised under the United States. 30 35 In "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from December, FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, CHAPTER 215. 1893, March 3. AN ACT relating to copyrights. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book, or other article entitled to copyright, who has heretofore failed to deliver in the office of the Librarian of Congress, or in the mail addressed to the Librarian of Congress, two complete copies of such book, or description or photograph of such article, within the time 40 limited by title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes relating to copyrights, and the acts in amendment thereof, and has complied with all other provisions thereof, who has, before the first day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-three, delivered at the office of the Librarian of Congress, or deposited in the mail 1 addressed to the Librarian of Congress two complete printed copies of such book, or description, or photograph of such article, shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of said title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes and the acts in amendment thereof. Approved, March 3, 1893. In "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from December, 1891, to March, 1893." Vol. 27, 8vo. Washington, 1893, p. 743. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION, CHAPTER 23, SECTION 52. 5 AN ACT providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public 10 documents. 1895, Jan. 12. SEC. 52. The Public Printer shall sell, under such regulations as the Joint Committee on Printing may prescribe, to any person or persons who may apply additional or duplicate stereotype or electrotype plates from which any Gov-15 ernment publication is printed, at a price not to exceed the cost of composition, the metal and making to the Government and ten per centum added: Provided, That the full amount of the price shall be paid when the order is filed: And provided further, That no publication reprinted from such stereotype or electrotype plates and no other 20 Government publication shall be copyrighted. Approved, January 12, 1895. In "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from August, 1893, to March, 1895." Vol. 28, 8vo. Washington, 1895, p. 608. Also in "Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States. Ed. by 25 William A. Richardson." Vol. 2, 8vo. Washington, 1895-1900, p. 348. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION, CHAPTER 194. AN ACT to amend section forty-nine hundred and sixty-five, chapter three, title sixty, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights. 1895, March 2. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 30 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-nine hundred and sixty-five, chapter three, title sixty, of the Revised Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 4965. If any person, after the recording of the title of any 35 map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, print, cut, engraving, or photograph, or chromo, or of the description of any painting, drawing, statue, statuary, or model or design intended to be perfected and executed as a work of the fine arts, as provided by this act, shall, within the term limited, contrary to the provisions of this act, and 40 without the consent of the proprietor of the copyright first obtained in writing, signed in presence of two or more witnesses, engrave, etch, 31408-06-5 1 work, copy, print, publish, dramatize, translate, or import, either in whole or in part, or by varying the main design, with intent to evade the law, or, knowing the same to be so printed, published, dramatized, translated, or imported, shall sell or expose to sale any copy of such 5 map or other article, as aforesaid, he shall forfeit to the proprietor all the plates on which the same shall be copied, and every sheet thereof, either copied or printed, and shall further forfeit one dollar for every sheet of the same found in his possession, either printing, printed, copied, published, imported, or exposed for sale; and in case of a 10 painting, statue, or statuary, he shall forfeit ten dollars for every copy of the same in his possession, or by him sold or exposed for sale: Provided, however, That in case of any such infringement of the copyright of a photograph made from any object not a work of fine arts, the sum to be recovered in any action brought under the provisions of 15 this section shall be not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five thousand dollars, and: Provided, further, That in case of any such infringement of the copyright of a painting, drawing, statue, engraving, etching, print, or model or design for a work of the fine arts or of a photograph of a work of the fine arts, the sum to be recovered in any 20 action brought through the provisions of this section shall be not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, and not more than ten thousand dollars. One-half of all the foregoing penalties shall go to the proprietors of the copyright and the other half to the use of the United States." 25 Approved, March 2, 1895. 30 35 In "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from August, 1893, to March, 1895." Vol. 28, 8vo. Washington, 1895, p. 965. Also in "Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States. Ed. by William A. Richardson." Vol. 2, 8vo. Washington, 1895-1900, p. 437. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, CHAPTER 4. AN ACT to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes relating to 1897, Jan. 6. copyrights. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-nine hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 4966. Any person publicly performing or representing any dramatic or musical composition for which a copyright has been obtained, without the consent of the proprietor of said dramatic 40 or musical composition, or his heirs or assigns, shall be liable for damages therefor, such damages in all cases to be assessed at such sum, not less than one hundred dollars for the first and fifty dollars for every subsequent performance, as to the court shall appear to be just. If the unlawful performance and representation be willful and 1 for profit, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be imprisoned for a period not exceeding one year. Any injunction that may be granted upon hearing after notice to the defendant by any circuit court of the United States, or by a 5 judge thereof, restraining and enjoining the performance or representation of any such dramatic or musical composition may be served on the parties against whom such injunction may be granted anywhere in the United States, and shall be operative and may be enforced by proceedings to punish for contempt or otherwise by any other circuit 10 court or judge in the United States; but the defendants in said action, or any or either of them, may make a motion in any other circuit in which he or they may be engaged in performing or representing said dramatic or musical composition to dissolve or set aside the said injunction upon such reasonable notice to the plaintiff as the circuit court or 15 the judge before whom said motion shall be made shall deem proper; service of said motion to be made on the plaintiff in person or on his attorneys in the action. The circuit courts or judges thereof shall have jurisdiction to enforce said injunction and to hear and determine a motion to dissolve the same, as herein provided, as fully as if the 20 action were pending or brought in the circuit in which said motion is made." "The clerk of the court, or judge granting the injunction, shall, when required to do so by the court hearing the application to dissolve or enforce said injunction, transmit without delay to said court a certi- 25 fied copy of all the papers on which the said injunction was granted that are on file in his office." Approved, January 6, 1897. In "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from December, 1895, to March, 1897." Vol. 29, 8vo. Washington, 1897, pp. 481–482. 30 Also in "Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States. Ed. by William A. Richardson.” Vol. 2, 8vo. Washington, 1895–1900, p. 536. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, CHAPTER 265.-COPYRIGHT DEPARTMENT. AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses 35 of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes. 1897, Feb. 19. COPYRIGHT DEPARTMENT: For the following under the direction of the Librarian of Congress, necessary for the execution of the copyright law, namely: Register of copy-40 rights, three thousand dollars, who shall, on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under the direction and supervision of the Librarian of Congress, perform all the duties relating to copyrights, and shall make weekly deposits with the Secretary of the 1 Treasury, and make monthly reports to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the Librarian of Congress, and shall, on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, give bond to the Librarian of Congress in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, with approved sure5 ties, for the faithful discharge of his duties; two clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty 10 dollars each; in all, thirty-six thousand four hundred and forty dollars. The Librarian of Congress shall on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, give bond, payable to the United States, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, with sureties approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the faithful discharge of his duties. 15 according to law. The Librarian of Congress shall make to Congress at the beginning of each regular session, a report for the preceding fiscal year, as to the affairs of the Library of Congress, including the copyright business, and said report shall also include a detailed statement of all 20 receipts and expenditures on account of the Library and said copyright business. 25 30 35 Approved, February 19, 1897. In "The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from December, FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, CHAPTER 392. AN ACT to amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to copyrights. 1897, March 3. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-nine hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 4963. Every person who shall insert or impress such notice, or words of the same purport, in or upon any book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, print, cut, engraving or photograph, or other article, whether such article be subject to copyright or otherwise, for which he has not obtained a copyright, or shall knowingly 40 issue or sell any article bearing a notice of United States copyright which has not been copyrighted in this country; or shall import any book, photograph, chromo, or lithograph or other article bearing |