And any such writing purporting to be such certificate shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be received in evidence without proof of the handwriting of the signature thereto, or of the seal of office affixed thereto, or of the person signing the same being the 5 Registrar or Deputy Registrar. And be it Enacted, That every person shall be at liberty to inspect any Design whereof the Copyright shall have expired, paying only such fee as shall be appointed by virtue of this Act in that behalf; but with regard to Designs whereof the Copyright shall not have 10 expired, no such Design shall be open to inspection, except by a Proprietor of such Design, or by any person authorized by him in writing, or by any person specially authorized by the Registrar, and then only in the presence of such Registrar, or in the presence of some person holding an appointment under this Act, and not so as to 15 take a copy of any such Design, or of any part thereof, nor without paying for every such inspection such fee as aforesaid: Provided always, That it shall be lawful for the said Registrar to give to any person applying to him and producing a particular Design, together with the registration-mark thereof, or producing such registration20 mark only, a Certificate stating whether of such Design there be any Copyright existing, and if there be, in respect to what particular article of manufacture, or substance, such Copyright exists, and the term of such Copyright, and the date of registration, and also the name and address of the registered Proprietor thereof. 25 30 And be it Enacted, That the Commissioners of the Treasury shall from time to time fix Fees to be paid for the services to be performed by the Registrar, as they shall deem requisite, to defray the expenses of the said office, and the salaries or other remuneration of the said Registrar, and of any other persons employed under him, with the sanction of the Commissioners of the Treasury, in the execution of this Act; and the balance, if any, shall be carried to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, and be paid accordingly into the receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer, at Westminster; and the Commissioners of the Treasury may regulate the manner in which such fees are to 35 be received, and in which they are to be kept, and in which they are to be accounted for; and they may also remit or dispense with the payment of such fees in any cases where they may think it expedient so to do: Provided always, That the fee for registering a Design to be applied to any woven Fabric, mentioned or comprised in Classes 7, 9 or 10, shall not exceed the sum of One Shilling; that the fee for registering a Design to be applied to a Paper Hanging, shall not exceed the sum of Ten Shillings; and that the fee to be received by the Registrar for giving a certificate relative to the existence or expiration of any Copyright in any Design printed on any woven fabric, 40 18. Penalty for extortion. 19. Interpretation Clause. 20. Alteration of yarn, thread or warp, or printed, embossed or worked on any paperhanging, to any person exhibiting a piece end of a registered pattern, with the registration-mark thereon, shall not exceed the sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence. 5 And be it Enacted, That if either the Registrar or any person employed under him either demand or receive any gratuity or reward, whether in money or otherwise, except the salary or remuneration authorized by the Commissioners of the Treasury, he shall forfeit for every such offence Fifty Pounds to any person suing for the same by action of debt in the Court of Exchequer, at Westminster; and he 10 shall also be liable to be either suspended or dismissed from his office, and rendered incapable of holding any situation in the said office, as the Lords of the Treasury see fit. AND, for the interpretation of this Act; BE it Enacted, That the following terms and expressions, so far as they are not repugnant to the 15 context of this Act, shall be construed as follows; (that is to say) the expression "Commissioners of the Treasury" shall mean the Lord High Treasurer for the time being, or the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time being, or any Three or more of them; and the singular number shall include the plural as well as the sin- 20 gular number; and the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender as well as the masculine gender. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament. SCHEDULES SCHEDULES REFERRED to by the foregoing ACT. SCHEDULE (A.) DATE OF ACTS. 27 Geo. 3, c. 38. (1787.) 29 Geo. 3, c. 19. (1789.) 34 Geo. 3, c. 23. (1794.) 2 Vict., c. 13. (1839.) TITLE. An Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of designing and printing Linens, Cottons, Calicoes and Muslins, by vesting the Properties thereof in the Designers, Printers and Proprietors, for a limited Time. - An Act for continuing an Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of designing and printing Linens, Cottons, Calicoes and Muslins, by vesting the Properties thereof in the Designers, Printers and Proprietors, for a limited Time. An Act for amending and making perpetual an Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of designing and printing Linens, Cottons, Calicoes and Muslins, by vesting the Properties thereof in the Designers, Printers and Proprietors, for a limited Time. 33 An Act for extending the Copyright of Designs for Calico Printing to Designs for printing other Woven Fabrics. DATE OF ACT. 2 Vict., c. 17. (1839.) SCHEDULE (B.) TITLE. -- An Act to secure to Proprietors of Designs for Articles of Manufacture the Copyright of such Designs for a limited Time. SCHEDULE (C.) DATE OF ACTS. 38 Geo. 3, c. 71. (1798.) 54 Geo. 3, c. 56. (1814.) - TITLE. An Act for encouraging the Art of making new Models and Casts of Busts, and other Things therein mentioned. - An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act for encouraging the Art of making new Models and Casts of Busts, and other Things therein mentioned, and for giving further Encouragement to such Arts. V BILL To encourage the Establishment of District [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] W 1. Contracts for building may be made and enlarging Prisons. c. 76. HEREAS a good system of Prison Discipline can be Preamble. carried into effect most easily, and at the least cost, by the establishment of large Prisons; and it is expedient to encourage the building of District Prisons for the common use of one or more 5 Boroughs, and any adjacent district of a County; 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, THAT it shall be lawful for the Justices of the 10 Peace of any County, and for the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of any Borough which is within the provisions of an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled, "An Act 5 & 6 W. 4 to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales," or of any Charter granted in pursuance of that Act, or 15 of any Act passed for the amendment thereof, to agree, by their Council jointly or severally, with the Justices of the Peace of any one or more Counties, or with the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of any one or more such Boroughs by their Councils respectively, for the contribution and payment of any sum of money by either or any of 20 the parties to any such agreement towards altering, enlarging, building, rebuilding, repairing or improving any Prison to be used as a District Prison under the provisions hereinafter contained, and toward the expenses of the maintenance, safe custody and punishment of the offenders committed thereunto, including their committal, prosecution |