APPENDIX (A). 8 ANNE, c. 19 (1709). An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Time therein mentioned. Repealed by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 45, § 1. 8 GEO. II. c. 13 (1735). An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints, by vesting the Properties thereof in the Inventors and Engravers during the Time therein mentioned. WHEREAS divers persons have, by their own genius, industry, pains, and expense, invented and engraved, or worked in mezzotinto, or chiaro-oscuro, sets of historical and other prints, in hopes to have reaped the sole benefit of their labours: And whereas printsellers and other persons have of late, without the consent of the inventors, designers, and proprietors of such prints, frequently taken the liberty of copying, engraving, and publishing, or causing to be copied, engraved, and published, base copies of such works, designs, and prints, to the very great prejudice and detriment of the inventors, designers, and proprietors thereof: For remedy thereof, and for preventing such practices for the future, may it please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King'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 from and after the twenty-fourth day of June which shall be b fourteen years. Proprietor's name to be affixed to each print. Penalty on printsellers or the same. After 24th in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirtyJune, 1735, the property of his five, every person who shall invent and design, engrave, etch, or torical and other work, in mezzotinto or chiaro-oscuro, or from his own works prints vested in the inventor for and invention shall cause to be designed and engraved, etched, or worked, in mezzotinto or chiaro-oscuro, any historical or other print or prints, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing and reprinting the same for the term of fourteen years, to commence from the day of the first publishing thereof, which shall be truly engraved with the name of the proprietor on each plate, and printed on every such print or prints; and that if any printseller or other person whatsoever, from and after the said others pirating twenty-fourth day of June one thousand seven hundred and thirty-five, within the time limited by this Act, shall engrave, etch, or work as aforesaid, or in any other manner copy and sell, or cause to be engraved, etched, or copied and sold, in the whole or in part, by varying, adding to, or diminishing from the main design, or shall print, reprint, or import for sale, or cause to be printed, reprinted, or imported for sale, any such print or prints, or any parts thereof, without the consent of the proprietor or proprietors thereof first had and obtained in writing signed by him or them respectively in the presence of two or more credible witnesses, or, knowing the same to be so printed or reprinted without the consent of the proprietor or proprietors, shall publish, sell, or expose to sale, or otherwise or in any other manner dispose of, or cause to be published, sold, or exposed to sale, or otherwise or in any other manner disposed of, any such print or prints, without such consent first had and obtained as aforesaid, then such offender or offenders shall forfeit the plate or plates on which such print or prints are or shall be copied, and all and every sheet or sheets (being part of or whereon such print or prints are or shall be so copied or printed), to the proprietor or proprietors of such original print or prints, who shall forthwith destroy and damask the same; and further, that every such offender or offenders shall forfeit five shillings for every print which shall be found in his, her, or their custody, either printed or published, and exposed to sale or otherwise disposed of, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act, the one moiety thereof to the King's most excellent Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety thereof to any person or persons that shall sue for the same, to be recovered in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at West minster, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in which no wager of law, essoign, privilege, or protection, or more than one imparlance, shall be allowed. II. Provided nevertheless, That it shall and may be lawful Not to extend for any person or persons who shall hereafter purchase any plates from the to purchasers of plate or plates for printing from the original proprietors thereof original proto print and reprint from the said plates without incurring any prietors. of the penalties in this Act mentioned. actions for any Act. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Limitation of That if any action or suit shall be commenced or brought thing done in against any person or persons whatsoever for doing or causing pursuance of to be done anything in pursuance of this Act, the same shall be brought within the space of three months after so doing; and the defendant and defendants in such action or suit shall or may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence; General issue. and if upon such action or suit a verdict shall be given for the defendant or defendants, or if the plaintiff or plaintiffs become nonsuited, or discontinue his, her, or their action or actions, then the defendant or defendants shall have and recover full costs, for the recovery whereof he shall have the same remedy as any other defendant or defendants in any other case hath or have by law. IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Limitation of actions for authority aforesaid, That if any action or suit shall be comoffences against menced or brought against any person or persons for any offence this Act. committed against this Act, the same shall be brought within the space of three months after the discovery of every such offence, and not afterwards, anything in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. V. Repealed by 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Public Act. That this Act shall be deemed, adjudged, and taken to be a Public Act, and be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and other persons whatsoever, without specially pleading the same. 12 GEO. II. c. 36 (1739). An Act for prohibiting the Importation of Books reprinted abroad, and first composed or written and printed in Great Britain; and for repealing so much of an Act made in the Eighth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne as empowers the limiting the Prices of Books. Repealed by 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59. Preamble, re- The original inventors, designers, or engravers, &c., of historical and other prints, and such who shall cause prints to be done from works, &c., of their own invention, and also such as 7 GEO. III. c. 38 (1766). An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act made in the Eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, for Encouragement of the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints; and for vesting in, and securing to, Jane Hogarth, Widow, the Property in certain Prints. WHEREAS an Act of Parliament passed in the eighth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled "An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints, by vesting the Properties thereof in the Inventors and Engravers, during the Time therein mentioned," has been found ineffectual for the purposes thereby intended: Be it enacted by the King'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 from and after the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, all and every person and persons who shall invent or design, engrave, etch, or work in mezzotinto or chiaro-oscuro, or, from his own work, design, or invention, shall cause or procure to be designed, engraved, etched, or worked in mezzotinto or chiaro-oscuro, any historical print or prints, or any print or prints of any portrait, conversation, landscape, or architecture, map, chart, or plan, or any other print or prints whatsoever, shall have, and åre hereby declared to have, the benefit and protection of the said Act and this Act, under the restrictions and limitations hereinafter mentioned. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That shall engrave, from and after the said first day of January one thousand seven the recited and hundred and sixty-seven, all and every person and persons who &c., any print taken from any shall engrave, etch, or work in mezzotinto or chiaro-oscuro, or picture, drawcause to be engraved, etched, or worked, any print, taken from ing, model, or sculpture; any picture, drawing, model, or sculpture, either ancient or are entitled to modern, shall have, and are hereby declared to have, the benefit the benefit and and protection of the said Act and this Act, for the term herein- protection of after mentioned, in like manner as if such print had been present Act; graved or drawn from the original design of such graver, etcher, or draftsman; and if any person shall engrave, print and those who shall engrave and publish, or import for sale, any copy of any such print, or import for contrary to the true intent and meaning of this and the said sale, copies of such prints, are former Act, every shall be liable to the penalties liable to penalsuch person contained in the said Act, to be recovered as therein and herein- ties. after is mentioned. III. and IV. repealed by 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Penalties may all and every the penalties and penalty inflicted by the said be sued for as by the recited Act, and extended, and meant to be extended, to the several Act is directed; cases comprised in this Act, shall and may be sued for and recovered in like manner, and under the like restrictions and limitations, as in and by the said Act is declared and appointed; provided the commenced and the plaintiff or common informer in every such action (in and be recovered with full costs; case such plaintiff or common informer shall recover any of the penalties incurred by this or the said former Act) shall recover prosecution be the same, together with his full costs of suit. Provided also, that the party prosecuting shall commence his prosecution months after the within the space of six calendar months after the offence committed. within six fact. Act, vested in VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That The right inthe sole right and liberty of printing and reprinting intended to be tended to be secured by this secured and protected by the said former Act and this Act, shall and the former be extended, continued, and be vested in the respective pro- the proprietors prietors, for the space of twenty-eight years, to commence from for the term of the day of the first publishing of any of the works respectively twenty-eight years from herein before and in the said former Act mentioned. the first publi actions. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That cation. if any action or suit shall be commenced or brought against any Limitation of person or persons whatsoever, for doing, or causing to be done, anything in pursuance of this Act, the same shall be brought within the space of six calendar months after the fact committed; and the defendant or defendants in any such action or |