323. PROLONGATION OF PATENTS.-Patents may be prolonged by application to Congress through the Government. (§3.)

324. FEES. The patent fees vary between $10 and $300, (2 guineas and 60 guineas.) (§ 4.)

325. WHO MAY BE EMPLOYED BY PATENTEE.-Half the number of men employed by the patentee in mechanical works must be citizens of the United States of Mexico, if such may be had. (§ 5.)

326. LAW, DATE, AND WHERE RECORDED.-Decree of 25th January, 1817. (See Commissioners of Patents' Journal, vide supra 71, No. 289.)

327. KINDS OF PATENTS.-Patents of invention, improvement, or importation granted to natives or foreigners represented in the Netherlands. No guaranty as to priority or merit.

328. PREVIOUS EXAMINATION.-By the Commissioner General of Instruction, Arts, and Sciences, and sometimes also by the Royal Institute of the Netherlands.

329. DURATION.-Five, ten, and fifteen years. Foreign inventions according to the duration of the foreign pat

ent.

330. GOVERNMENT FEES.-£12 10s., (150 fl.,) for five years; from £25 to £33 10s., (accordance to importance,) for ten years; from £50 to £62 10s., for fifteen years. To be paid to the Treasurer of the Province, at the delivery of the patent by the respective Governors. The remainder of taxes on patents annulled to be returned.

331. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED, AND WHERE TO BE LEFT.A petition to the King. A specification and drawings. To be left with the Registrar of the States for the Commissioner General of Instruction, Arts, and Sciences.

332. WORKING AND EXTENSION.-Original term prolonged by applying to the Commissioner General of Instruction, Arts, and Sciences. To be worked within two years.

333. ASSIGNMENTS.-By authorization of the King. To be registered at the Record Office of the Province, and at the Ministry of Instruction, Arts, and Sciences. Fees, 15s.

334. ANNULMENT.-In case of, 1st, deficient or fraudulent specification; 2d, previous publication; 3d, not being worked within two years; 4th, obtaining a foreign patent at a posterior date; 5th, for reasons of public safety.

335. LIST OF PATENTS DELIVERED.-At the Ministry of Public Instruction, in, the official gazette, in the Commissioners of Patents' Journal.

336. SPECIFICATIONS PUBLISHED.-At the expiration or annulment of patents, except there be political or commercial reasons for withholding such publication.

337. PROCEEDINGS TO OBTAIN A PATENT.-Application must be by petition, stating general object of the invention, giving applicant's name, domicil, &c., naming the

term for which the patent is demanded, with an exact and detailed specification, under sealed cover, annexed with the necessary drawings, &c. These shall be published at the expiration of the patent, unless the Government shall, for important reasons, postpone such publication.

The Commissioner General shall send patents of invention, importation, or improvement, granted and signed by the King, to the Governor of the Province where the applicant resides, the patent to be delivered to applicant on his proving that he has paid to the receiver of the Province the tax fixed by the tariff.

[NOTE.-The Dutch patent laws were repealed by the law of the 15th of July, 1869, enacting the abrogation of grants of exclusive rights for inventions and improvements of objects of art and industry. The law is as follows:

ART. 1. From and after the day of the promulgation of the present law, no more patents for inventions and improvements, or importation of objects of art and industry, will be granted, except such as may have been applied for previous to this date.]

(See Commissioners of Patents' Journal, vide supra 71, No. 1,643.)

338. LAW, DATE, AND WHERE RECORDED.-An act to repeal the patent acts of this colony, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof, passed 12th May, 1856. (See Commissioners' of Patents' Journal, vide supra 71, No. 858, An., 1862.)

339. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED, AND WHERE TO BE LEFT.Petition to the Governor, with description. Declaration as to novelty (in foreign parts before a British consul.) Drawings, models, (if not too costly,) or specimens of ingredients. To be left at the office of the Colonial Secretary. Notice, with description, in the royal gazette and one local paper.

340. DURATION.-Term not exceeding fourteen years. Extension seven years. Foreign patents according to original term.

341. KINDS OF PATENTS.-Letters patent for invention and improvements under the great seal of the Island. Disclaimer, reissue patents granted in England and extending to the colonies, to be filed or lodged (in copies) in the office of the Colonial Secretary for obtaining certificate thereof.

342. SPECIFICATIONS, COPIES OF.-To be obtained at the office of the Colonial Secretary.

343. ASSIGNMENTS.-To be recorded in the office of the Colonial Secretary. Real assignees of foreign inventors patented abroad may obtain letters patent.

344. WORKING.-Within two years.

345. GOVERNMENT FEES.-£5, besides the usual fees charged on documents issued under the great seal of the Island.

346. OTHER LEGAL PROVISIONS.-Infringers liable to forfeit and pay to the patentee a sum equal to three

times the actual damage sustained by him, together with

costs.

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347. Law, date, and where recorded. 350. Duration.

348. Kinds of patents.

351. Documents required.

349. Government fees.

352. Proceedings to obtain a patent.

347. LAW, DATE, AND WHERE RECORDED.--Act of the Legislative Council, assented to 6th December, 1852. (See Commissioners of Patents' Journal, vide supra 71, No. 386, An., 1857.)

348. KINDS OF PATENTS.-Letters of registration for invention and improvement granted to inventors, their agents or assignees. Letters of registration may be repealed by writ of scire facias.

349. GOVERNMENT FEES.-£20, payable to Colonial Treasurer.

350. DURATION.-Not less than seven, and not more than fourteen years.

351. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED.-Petition to the Government by the inventor, agent, or assignees, with description and receipt from Colonial Treasurer.

352. PROCEEDINGS TO OBTAIN A PATENT.-The applicant for patents is to present a petition to the Governor, setting forth that he is the author or designer of a certain invention, or his agent, or his assignee, stating the particulars of the invention, and that he has deposited the patent fee with the Colonial Treasurer. The petition is then to be referred to one or more competent persons, and, their report being favorable, the letters of registra