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An Act to extend the Provincial Copy-right Act to persons resident in the
United Kingdom, on certain conditions.

WHE

[ 28th July, 1847. ]

c. 61.

HEREAS it is just and expedient to extend, under certain restrictions, the Preamble. provisions of the Act of this Province, passed in the Session held in the fourth and fifth years of the Reign of Her Majesty, and intituled, An Act for the protection of Act 4 & 5 V. Copy-right in this Province, to the works of authors being British subjects and resident in Great Britain and Ireland: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That for and notwithstanding anything in the said Provincial Act contained, the provisions thereof shall be, and the same are hereby extended to any person or persons, being British subjects, and residing in Great Britain or Ireland, as if such person or persons were resident in this Province: Provided always, that to entitle any such literary production or engraving as is in the said Act mentioned, being the work of any such person or persons so residing in Great Britain or Ireland, to the protection of the said Act, it shall be printed and published in this Province, and shall, in addition to the words directed to be inserted by the sixth section of the said Provincial Act, and immediately following thereafter, contain the name and place of abode or business in this Province, of the printer or printers and publisher or publishers of every such literary production or engraving.

MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE DESBARATS,
Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

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An Act to extend the Provincial Copy-right Act to persons resident in the
United Kingdom, on certain conditions.

28th July, 1847. ]

HEREAS it is just and expedient to extend, under certain restrictions, the Preamble. provisions of the Act of this Province, passed in the Session held in the fourth

c. 61.

and fifth years of the Reign of Her Majesty, and intituled, An Act for the protection of Act 4 & 5 V. Copy-right in this Province, to the works of authors being British subjects and resident in Great Britain and Ireland: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That for and notwithstanding anything in the said Provincial Act contained, the provisions thereof shall be, and the same are hereby extended to any person or persons, being British subjects, and residing in Great Britain or Ireland, as if such person or persons were resident in this Province: Provided always, that to entitle any such literary production or engraving as is in the said Act mentioned, being the work of any such person or persons so residing in Great Britain or Ireland, to the protection of the said Act, it shall be printed and published in this Province, and shall, in addition to the words directed to be inserted by the sixth section of the said Provincial Act, and immediately following thereafter, contain the name and place of abode or business in this Province, of the printer or printers and publisher or publishers of every such literary production or engraving.

MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE & GEORGE Desbarats,
Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.

The said Act extended to dent in the United King

authors resi

dom.

Proviso: the work protectprinted and published

ed must be

in this Pro

vince, and name and

contain the

abode of the Printer and Publisher.

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