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12 G. II. and charges that the person or persons so complaining c. 36. shall be put unto by reason of such complaint and of the causing such rate or price to be so limited and settled; all which shall be done by the said Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper Bishop of London two Chief Justices Chief Baron Vice Chancellors of the two Universities in that part of Great Britain called England and the said Lord President of the Sessions Lord Justice General Lord Chief Baron and Rector of the college of Edinburgh in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, or any one of them, by writing under their hands and seals, and thereof public notice shall be forthwith given by the said bookseller or booksellers printer or printers by an advertisement in the Gazette; and if any bookseller or booksellers printer or printers shall after such settlement made of the said rate and price sell or expose to sale any book or books at a higher or greater price than what shall have been so limited and settled as aforesaid, then and in every such case such bookseller or booksellers printer or printers shall forfeit the sum of five pounds for every such book so by him her or them sold or exposed to sale, one moiety thereof to the Queen's most excellent Majesty her heirs and successors, and the other moiety to any person or persons that shall sue for the same, to be recovered with costs of suit in any of her Majesty's courts of record at Westminster 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or more than one imparlance shall be allowed; and every part of the said clause shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

Further
continued

by 27 G. II.
c. 18, and
33 G. II.
c. 16.

IV. And be it further enacted, That this Act (except so much thereof as repeals the before-mentioned clause in the said Act of the eighth year of the reign of the late Queen Anne relating to the prices of books) shall continue and be in force from the said twenty-ninth day of September one thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine for and during the space of seven years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of Parliament and no

longer.

7 Geo. III. c. 38.

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.

8 Geo. II.

c. 13.

"WHEREAS an Act of Parliament passed in the eighth year 7 G. III. of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, c. 38. 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 Original inventors, hundred and sixty-seven all and every person and persons &c. of who shall invent or design engrave etch or work in mez- prints, &c. intitled to zotinto or chiaro oscuro, or from his own work design or the benefit invention shall cause or procure to be designed engraved and present of recited etched or worked in mezzotinto or chiaro oscuro any his- act, &c. torical print or prints, or any print or prints of any portrait conversation landscape or architectural map chart or plan or any other print or prints whatsoever, shall have and are 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 from and after the said first day of January one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven all and every person and persons who shall engrave etch or work in mezzotinto or chiaro oscuro, or caused to be engraved etched or worked any print taken from any picture drawing model or sculpture either ancient or modern, shall

7 G. III. have and are hereby declared to have the benefit and c. 38. protection of the said Act and this Act for the time hereinafter mentioned in like manner as if such print had been graved or drawn from the original design of such graver etcher or draftsman, and if any person shall engrave print and publish or import for sale any copy of any such print contrary to the true intent and meaning of this and the said former Act, every such person shall be liable to the penalties contained in the said Act, to be recovered as therein and hereinafter is mentioned.

The right intended vested in

tors for 28 years.

"The sole right of printing and reprinting the late W. Hogarth's prints vested in his widow and executrix for twenty years. Penalty of copying, &c. any of them before expiration of the term; such copies excepted as were made and exposed to sale after the term of fourteen years for which the said works were first licensed, &c.”

V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every the penalties and penalty inflicted by the said Act and extended and meant to be extended to the several 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; and the plaintiff or common informer in every such action (in case such plaintiff or common informer shall recover any of the penalties incurred by this or the said former Act) shall recover the same together with his full costs of suit.

VI. Provided also, That the party prosecuting shall commence his prosecution within the space of six calendar months after the offence committed.

VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the sole right and liberty of printing and rethe proprie printing intended to be secured and protected by the said former Act and this Act shall be extended continued and be vested in the respective proprietors for the space of twenty-eight years, to commence from the day of the first publishing of any of the works respectively herein before and in the said former Act mentioned.

c. 38.

Limitation

VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- 7 G. III. said, That if any action or suit shall be commenced or brought against any person or persons whatsoever for doing or causing to be done any thing in pursuance of this of actions. Act, the same shall be brought within the space of six calendar months after the fact committed; and the defendant or defendants in any of such action or suit shall or may plead the general issue and give the special mat- General ter in evidence; and if upon such action or suit a verdict shall be given for the defendant or defendants, or if the plaintiff or plaintiffs become non-suited or discontinue. his her or their action or actions, then the defendant or defendants shall have and recover full costs; for the re- Full costs. covery whereof he shall have the same remedy as any other defendant or defendants in any other case hath or have by law.

issue.

15G. III.

c. 53.

15 George III. c. 53. — An Act for enabling the two Universities in England, the four Universities in Scotland, and the several Colleges of Eton, Westminster, and Winchester, to hold in perpetuity their Copyright in Books, given or bequeathed to the said Universities and Colleges for the Advancement of useful Learning and other purposes of Education and for amending so much of an Act of the Eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, as relates to the Delivery of Books to the Warehouse-keeper of the Stationers' Company, for the Use of the several Libraries therein mentioned.

"WHEREAS authors have heretofore bequeathed or given and may hereafter bequeath or give the copies of books composed by them to or in trust for one of the two universities in that part of Great Britain called England, or to or in trust for some of the colleges or houses of learning within the same, or to or in trust for the four universities in Scotland, or to or in trust for the several colleges of Eton Westminster and Winchester, and in and by their several wills or other instruments of donation have directed or may direct that the profits arising from the printing and reprinting such books shall be applied or appropriated as a fund for the advancement of learning and other beneficial purposes of education within the said universities and colleges aforesaid: And whereas such useful purposes will frequently be frustrated unless the sole printing and reprinting of such books, the copies of which have been or shall be so bequeathed or given as aforesaid, be preserved and secured to the said universities colleges and houses of learning respectively in perpetuity" May it therefore 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 pre

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