A Treatise on the Law of Letters-patent, for the Sole Use of Inventions in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

person intending to enter a Caveat shall enter the same at the Council Office, on or before such day so named in the said advertisements; and having entered such Caveat, shall be entitled to have from the Petitioner four weeks' notice of the time appointed for the hearing.

III. Petitions under Sections 2 and 4 of the said Act must be presented within one week from the insertion of the last of the advertisements required to be published in the London Gazette.

IV. All Petitions must be accompanied with affidavits of advertisements having been inserted according to the provisions of Section 4 of the said Act, and the 1st and 2nd of these Rules, and the matters in such affidavits may be disputed by the parties opposing upon the hearing of the Petitions.

V. All persons entering Caveats under Section 4 of the said Act, and all parties to any former suit or action touching Letters-patent, in respect of which Petitions shall have been presented under Section 2 of the said Act, and all persons lodging notices of opposition under the 1st of these Rules, shall respectively be entitled to be served with Copies of Petitions presented under the said Sections, and no application to fix a time for hearing shall be made without affidavit of such service.

VI. All parties served with Petitions shall lodge at the Council Office, within a fortnight after such service, notice of the grounds of their objections to the granting of the prayers of such Petitions.

VII. Parties may have copies of all papers lodged in respect of any application under the said Act, at their own expense.

VIII. The Master of the High Court of Chancery, or other Officer to whom it may be referred to tax Costs incurred in the matter of any Petition presented under the said Act, shall allow or disallow in his discretion all payments made to persons of science or skill examined as witnesses to matters of opinion chiefly.

COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL,

18th November, 1835.

IX. A party applying for an extension of a Patent, under Section 4 of the said Act, must lodge at the Council Office four printed or written copies of his Specification, for the use of the Judicial Committee. If such Specification shall have been printed in some Publication, lodging four copies of the Publication containing the same will be deemed sufficient. In the event also of the Applicant's Specification not having been published as aforesaid, and if the expense of making four copies of any Drawing therein contained or referred to would be considerable, the lodging of one copy only of such Drawing will be deemed sufficient.

All copies mentioned in this Rule must be lodged not less than one week before the day fixed for hearing the application. The Judicial Committee will hear the Attorney-General, or other Counsel, on behalf of the Crown, against granting any application made under either the 2nd or 4th Section of the said Act, in case it shall be thought fit to oppose the same on such behalf.

COUNCIL OFFICE,

December 21st, 1835.

PRIVY COUNCIL.

Table of Costs and Fees.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of August, 1842.

Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Representation from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, dated the 10th August, instant, and in the words following: viz.

"The Lords of the Judicial Committee having taken into consideration the scale on which the costs of Appeals and other matters referred by your Majesty to this Committee, are usually taxed by the Masters of the Court of Queen's Bench or other persons to whom their Lordships have from time to time referred the same, their Lordships agree humbly to represent to your Majesty, that it is expedient that the scale of costs hitherto allowed in the said proceedings before this Committee should be reduced; and their Lordships recommend that, provisionally, and until further consideration, such costs in all Appeals or matters, not being Appeals from the Courts of Ecclesiastical or Admiralty Jurisdiction, should be taxed and allowed by all such taxing officers as shall hereafter be directed to ascertain and report the same to the Board, according to the Schedule hereunto annexed; and that this rate of charges should be observed by Solicitors conducting business before this Committee."

Her Majesty, having taken this representation into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve thereof, and of what is therein recommended, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the same be duly and punctually observed, complied with and carried into execution. Whereof all persons whom it may concern are to take notice, and govern themselves accordingly. C. C. GREVILLE.

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I.-The Schedule of Fees above referred to as allowed to Solicitors conducting business before the Judicial Committee.

Retaining Fee

Perusing official Copy of Proceedings

£ S.

Attendances at the Council Office or elsewhere, on

ordinary business, such as to enter an Appeal or an Appearance, to make a search, to lodge a Petition or Affidavit, or to retain Counsel Instructions for Petition of Appeal

Drawing Petition or Case, per folio

Drawing Appendix, per folio

Copying, per folio

Drawing small Petitions for Orders, &c.

Instructions for Case

Attending Consultation