ne or more of the newspapers printed in ace of four weeks. enacted, That no person shall be entitled less he shall, before publication, deposit a such book, or books, map, chart, musical ngraving, in the clerk's office of the diserein the author or proprietor shall reside, hereby directed and required to record the book to be kept for that purpose, in the py of the title, under the seal of the court, etor, whenever he shall require the same:) Be it remembered, that on the day A. B., of the said district, hath deposited book, (map, chart, or otherwise, as the ch is in the words following, to wit: (here hereof he claims as author (or proprietor formity with an act of Congress, entitled eral acts respecting copyrights.' C. D., which record, the clerk shall be entitled laiming such right as aforesaid, fifty cents; copy, under seal, actually given to such d the author or proprietor of any such omposition, print, cut, or engraving, shall, the publication of said book, map, chart, cut, or engraving, deliver or cause to be ne to the clerk of said district. And it k of each district court, at least once in -tified list of all such records of copyright, ded, and the dates of record, and also all s or other works deposited in his office Secretary of State, to be preserved in his enacted, That no person shall be entitled ess he shall give information of copyright be inserted, in the several copies of each during the term secured on the title-page, owing, if it be a book, or, if a map, chart, cut, or engraving, by causing to be f, or if a volume of maps, charts, music, le or frontispiece thereof, the following ling to act of Congress, in the year -e of the district court of ," (as the nacted. That if any other person or percording the title of any book or books, this act, shall, within the forfeit every copy of s cut, or print, without suc And be it further enacted d o person shall be entit ore publication, deposi ooks, map, chart, musi clerk's office of the d or proprietor shall resi and required to record t for that purpose, int der the seal of the cou - shall require the sam d, that on the A district, hath deposit rt, or otherwise, as t following, to wit: (he as author (or propriet et of Congress, entitl ng copyrights.' C.D eclerk shall be entitl as aforesaid, fifty cent , actually given to su proprietor of any su cut, or engraving, sha said book, map, char deliver or cause to b said district. Andi court, at least once i h records of copyright of record, and also al deposited in his offic to be preserved in hi erson shall be entitle ormation of copyrigh several copies of each ured on the title-page ok, or, if a map, chart 9, by causing to be maps, charts, music of the following print, publish, or import, or cause to imported, any copy of such book, or books, person legally entitled to the copyright the in writing, signed in the presence of two or shall, knowing the same to be so printed or expose to sale, or cause to be published any copy of such book without such cons offender shall forfeit every copy of such b at the time, entitled to the copyright thereof pay fifty cents for every such sheet which n sion, either printed, or printing, published sale, contrary to the intent of this act, the legal owner of the copyright as aforesaid, the United States, to be recovered by ac having competent jurisdiction thereof. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That, after the recording the title of any print chart or musical composition, according to shall, within the term or terms limited by work, sell, or copy, or cause to be engrave or copied, either on the whole, or by varyi ing the main design with intent to evade import for sale, or cause to be printed, or i map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, thereof, without the consent of the propri copyright thereof, first obtained in writing two credible witnesses; or, knowing the imported without such consent, shall publish in any manner dispose of any such map, cl engraving, cut, or print, without such conse offender or offenders shall forfeit the pla map, chart, musical composition, engraving, ied, and also all and every sheet thereof so said, to the proprietor or proprietors of t shall further forfeit one dollar for every musical composition, print, cut, or engravi his or their possession, printed or publishe trary to the true intent and meaning of thereof to the proprietor or proprietors, a use of the United States to be recovered i author or proprietor be a citizen of the United Stat therein,) shall be liable to suffer and pay to the author all damages occasioned by such injury, to be recover action on the case founded upon this act, in any court hav 10 thereof; and the several courts of the United States grant injunctions to prevent the violation of the rights inventors, are hereby empowered to grant injunctions, i according to the principles of equity, to restrain such any manuscript as aforesaid. 15 SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That, if any pers shall be sued or prosecuted, for any matter, act, or thing by virtue of this act, he or they may plead the general the special matter in evidence. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That, if any perso 20 from and after the passing of this act, shall print or pub map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engravin legally acquired the copyright thereof, and shall insert of the same hath been entered according to act of Cong purporting the same, every person so offending shall fo 25 one hundred dollars; one moiety thereof to the person v for the same, and the other to the use of the United recovered by action of debt, in any court of record havin thereof. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That, in all recover 30 act, either for damages, forfeitures, or penalties, full o allowed thereon, any thing in any former act to the contr standing. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That no action or shall be maintained, in any case of forfeiture or penalty 35 act, unless the same shall have been commenced within tw the cause of action shall have arisen. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the "Act for agement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the ti 40 mentioned," passed May thirty-first, one thousand seven b ninety, and the act supplementary thereto, passed April tw one thousand eight hundred and two, shall be, and the same repealed: saving, always, such rights as may have been conformity to their provisions. 7 mi ion thereof person or persons wh - without the consent as aforesaid, (if su Eed States, or resider - author or proprietor recovered by a specia ourt having cognisance States empowered t e rights of authors and tions, in like manner. in such publication of ny person or persons or thing done under or -eneral issue and give y person or persons or publish any book. ngraving, not having Insert or impress that Congress, or words shall forfeit and pay erson who shall sue United States, to be d having cognisance ecoveries under this - full costs shall be e contrary notwith ion or prosecution penalty under this hin two years after ct for the encour charts, and books, g the times therein seven hundred and nty-ninth, and providing remedies, penalties, and forfe thereof, shall be held and construed to exten proprietor or proprietors of each and ev obtained, according to law, during the term ner as if such copyright had been entered an directions of this act. SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That, been heretofore obtained by an author or au or engraver, of any book, map, chart, print a proprietor of the same: if such author or a such inventor, designer, or engraver, be liv act, then such author or authors, or the surv tor, engraver, or designer, shall continue to right to his book, chart, map, print, cut, or fit of each and all the provisions of this act for such additional period of time as will, to shall have elapsed from the first entry of su term of twenty-eight years, with the same or children, to renew the copyright, at the above provided in relation to copyrights ori act. And if such author or authors, invent shall not be living at the passage of this ad executors and administrators, shall be enti enjoyment of said copyright, with the benef visions of this act for the security thereof, eight years from the first entry of said copyri of renewal to the widow, child, or childr designer, inventor, or engraver, as is provide originally secured under this act: Provide extend to any copyright heretofore secure already expired. Approved, February 3, 1831. In "The Public Statutes at Large of the Unit Organization of the Government in 1789 to Mar Peters." Vol. 4, 8vo. Boston, 1846, pp. 436-439 TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SES AN ACT supplementary to the act to amend the sev Be it enacted by the Senate and of the United States of Ameri 1834, June 30. That all deeds or instruments in purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration withou SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of court shall be entitled to such fees for performing the ser authorized and required, as he is entitled to for perfo O services under existing laws of the United States. Approved, June 30, 1834. In "The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of Ame Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. Edite Peters." Vol. 4, 8vo. Boston, 1846, p. 728. 5 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, CHAPTER 178, AN ACT to establish the "Smithsonian Institution," for the increase of knowledge among men. ( 1846, August 10. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the proprietor of any book, map, chart, musical co print, cut, or engraving, for which a copyrig secured under the existing acts of Congress, or those w hereafter be enacted respecting copyrights, shall, within th from the publication of said book, map, chart, musical co print, cut, or engraving, deliver, or cause to be delivered, 5 the same to the librarian of the Smithsonian Institution, an to the Librarian of Congress Library, for the use of said 1 Approved, August 10, 1846. 5 In "The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of A December 1, 1845, to March 3, 1851. Edited by George Minot." Boston, 1851, p. 106. THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, CHAPTER 201, AN ACT making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Dep ing the fiscal year, ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand ei and fifty-six. 1855, March 3. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all bo charts, or other publications, entered for copy which, under the act of August tenth, eightee and forty-six, are required to be deposited in the Library of and in the Smithsonian Institution, may be sent through 0 free of postage, under such regulations as the Postmast may prescribe. Approved, March 3, 1855. In "The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of Ar |