SCHEDULE to which the preceding act refers.

No. 1.

FORM OF MINUTE OF CONSENT TO BE ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.

WE, the undersigned, A. B. of , the author of a certain book, intituled Y. Z. [or the personal representative of the author, as the case may be], and C. D. of do hereby certify, that we have consented and agreed to accept the benefits of the act passed in the fifth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, cap. , for the extension of the term of copyright therein provided by the said act, and hereby declare that such extended term of copyright therein is the property of the said A. B. or C. D. Dated this

day of

Witness

, 18.

To the Registering Officer appointed by the Stationers' Company.

No. 2.

FORM OF REQUIRING ENTRY OF PROPRIETORSHIP.

I, A. B., of

do hereby certify, that I am the proprietor of the copyright of a book, intituled Y. Z., and I hereby require you to make entry in the register book of the Stationers' Company of my proprietorship of such copyright, according to the particulars underwritten.

No. 3.

ORIGINAL ENTRY OF PROPRIETORSHIP OF COPYRIGHT OF A BOOK.

I, A. B., of

being the assigner of the copyright of the book hereunder described, do hereby require you to make entry of the assignment

of the copyright therein.

No. 5.

FORM OF ENTRY OF ASSIGNMENT OF COPYRIGHT IN ANY BOOK PRE

6 & 7

c. 59.

c. 57.

6 & 7 Wm. IV. c. 59. — An Act to extend the Protection of Copyright in Prints and Engravings in Ireland.

"WHEREAS an act was passed in the seventeenth year of Will. IV. the reign of his late Majesty King George the third, intituled An Act for more effectually securing the Property 17 G. III. of Prints to Inventors and Engravers, by enabling them to sue for and recover Penalties in certain Cases and whereas it is desirable to extend the provisions of the said act to Ireland; be it therefore 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 passing of this act all Provisions the provisions contained in the said recited act of the of recited seventeenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King ed to Ire- George the third, and of all the other acts therein recited, land. shall be and the same are hereby extended to the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

act extend

Penalty on engraving

II. And be it further enacted, that from and after the or publish- passing of this act, if any engraver, etcher printseller, or ing any print with other person shall, within the time limited by the aforeout consent said recited acts, engrave, etch, or publish, or cause to of proprie

tor.

be engraved, etched, or published any engraving or print of any description whatever, either in whole or in part, which may have been or which shall hereafter be published in any part of Great Britain or Ireland, without the express consent of the proprietor or proprietors thereof first had and obtained in writing, signed by him, her, or them respectively, with his, her or their own hand or hands, in the presence of and attested by two or more credible witnesses, then every such proprietor shall and may, by and in a separate action upon the case, to be brought against the person offending in any Court of Law in Great Britain or Ireland, recover such damages as a jury on the trial of such action or on the execution of a writ of inquiry thereon shall give or assess, together with double costs of suit.

6 & 7 Wm. IV. c. 110.
An Act to repeal so much
of an Act of the Fifty-fourth Year of King George
the Third, respecting Copyrights, as requires the
delivery of a copy of every published Book to the
Library of Sion College, the Four Universities of
Scotland, and of the King's Inns in Dublin.

c. 110.

WHEREAS by an act passed in the fifty-fourth year of the 6 & 7 reign of his late Majesty King George the third, intituled Will. IV. An Aet to amend the several Acts for the encouragement of Learning by securing the Copies and Copyright of 54 G. III. printed Books to the Authors of such Books or their As- c. 146. signs, it is amongst other things enacted, that eleven copies of every published book shall be gratuitously delivered to eleven public libraries named in the said act; and whereas the provisions of the said act have in certain respects operated to the injury of authors and publishers, and have in some cases checked or prevented the publication of works of great utility and importance, and it is therefore expedient that the said act should be amended: be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lord's Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that so much of the said recited act as requires that a So much of copy of every book which shall be printed and published recited act as requires shall be delivered in manner therein mentioned to the the delivery warehouse-keeper of the Company of Stationers for the books for of copies of use of the library of Sion College, the libraries of the the libraries four universities of Scotland, and the King's Inns Libra- tioned rery at Dublin, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. pealed.

herein men

tion to be

ries out of

II. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful Compensafor the Lord High Treasurer or for the Commissioners made to the of his Majesty's Treasury, or any three or more of them, said librafrom time to time to issue and pay out of the consoli- consolidatdated fund of the united kingdom of Great Britain and ed fund. Ireland, to the person or persons or body politic or corporate, proprietors or managers of each of the aforesaid libra