regulations, to be legalized, but in practice this is not required.

Besides the sealed packet containing the above documents, the applicant must hand in a receipt for one hundred francs, being the first year's payment of the patent tax. The Paris office, at which these payments are to be made, is that of the Receveur Central, Rue Neuve des Mathurins, No. 36.

These requirements fulfilled, the applicant receives a certificate stating the day and hour of depositing the documents. The patent commences from this date.

The documents are then transmitted by the prefect to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, and the patent is returned to the applicant in regular order. The patent consists in a decree of the minister declaring the regularity of the patent, accompanied by one of the copies of the description and drawings, duly certified.

The patent is delivered at the risk of the applicant, and without guaranty from the Government either as to the reality, the novelty, or the merit of the invention, or the accuracy of the description.

257. FORM OF FRENCH LETTERS PATENT.

Patent of Invention without guaranty of the Government.

The Minister Secretary of State, at the Department of Agriculture, Com. merce, and Public Works, considering the law of the 5th July, 1844, considering the declaration made on the at forty minutes past three, at the office of the Secretary General of the Preference of the Department of and which establishes the delivery made

by

of an application for a patent of invention for [title of the patent], decrees as follows:

ART. 1. A patent of invention for ..

years, to begin from

for [title] is herewith delivered to

without previous examina

tion, at his own risk, and without guaranteeing either the reality, novelty, or merit of the invention, or the correctness of the description.

ART. 2. The present decree constituting letters patent is delivered to prove his title. This decree will be accompanied with one of the duplicates of the description delivered in support of the application, the conformity between the descriptive documents having been duly established. PARIS, the

For the Minister and by Delegation the Director of the Commerce of the Interior. [Signed] E. JULIEN.

For true copy,

[L. S.]

The Chief Clerk,

L. SMITH.

XXIII. Greece.

258. Government may grant privileges for inventions.

258. GOVERNMENT MAY GRANT PRIVILEGES FOR INVENTIONS. According to a law passed in 1843 the Government is empowered to grant privileges for inventions, subject to the approbation of the Senate.

SEC.

XXIV. British Guiana.

259. Law, date, and where recorded.

260. Kinds of patents.

261. Previous examination.

262. Duration.

263. Government fees.

259. LAW, DATE, AND

SEC.

264. Documents required, and where

to be left.

265. Assignments.

266. Originals of specifications, &c. 267. Other legal provisions.

WHERE RECORDED.-Ordinance No. 13, of the year 1861. (See Commissioners of Patents' Journal, vide supra 71, No. 798, An., 1861.)

260. KINDS OF PATENTS.-Letters patent to the true and first inventor; disclaimer and alterations; under the seal of the colony. English patents not to be affected by this ordinance.

261. PREVIOUS EXAMINATION.-By the Attorney General as to correctness of description.

262. DURATION. Fourteen years. Patents to expire if before the end of the first seven years the required. stamp duty has not been paid. Letters patent for foreign invention not to continue after expiration of foreign patent. Extension of original to another term not exceeding seven years by six months' previous notice.

263. GOVERNMENT FEES. To be paid at the Attorney General's office: On examining provisional specification to be paid on filing petition, $25; on reporting an application for letters patent after notice to proceed, $25; on giving notice of disclaimer or alterations, $25; on entering caveat, $25. Stamp duties to be paid at the Government Secretary's office: On notice to proceed, $5; on the sealing of the letters patent, $20; on the letters patent or a duplicate thereof before the expiration of the seventh year, $100; on petition for confirmation or prolongation. of patent, $50; on the sealing of grant confirming or prolonging letters patent, $100. Fees to be paid at the Register office: On recording letters patent, 5 cents; on depositing complete specification, including copy, $15; on entering disclaimer or alteration, including copy and notification in the official gazette, $10; on entering caveat, including copy and notification in the official gazette, $10. For copy of any of the before-mentioned documents, or of any provisional specification deposited, per page, 25 cents. On inspecting register of patents, for each patent and all documents connected therewith, 48 cents. (N. B. For copies of drawing, extra.)

264. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED, AND WHERE TO BE LEFT.Petition, affidavit, and provisional (or complete) specifi

cation, by inventor or his proxy, to be left at the office of the Government Secretary for provisional protection during twelve months. Provisional protection and notice to proceed to be advertised in the official gazette. Warrant to be issued after one month's notice.

265. ASSIGNMENTS.-Registered as above.

266. ORIGINALS OF SPECIFICATIONS, DISCLAIMERS, DRAWINGS, &c.—To be copied in the register of patents at the end of twelve months, and kept at a proper office, with indexes, &c., for public inspection.

267. OTHER LEGAL PROVISIONS.-Letters patent not to prevent the use of invention in foreign ships resorting to ports in the colony, (provided English ships enjoy the same privilege in the respective foreign ports.)

268. LAW, DATE, AND WHERE RECORDED.-Act XV, An., 1859. Dated Osborne, 19th March, 1859. Promulgated in India on the 21st May, 1859. (See Commissioners of Patents' Journal, vide supra 71, Nos. 552 and 578.)

269. KINDS OF PATENTS.-Exclusive privileges granted to the original inventor, whether a native or alien, or his

authorized agent in India, subject, however, to any such conditions and restrictions as the Governor General may think expedient.

270. DURATION.-Fourteen years from the date of filing the specification.

271. GOVERNMENT FEES.-A stamp duty of one hundred rupees on the petition for leave to file a specification, and a reasonable fee for an inquiry and report, if any, on the petition.

272. DOCUMENTS REQUIRED AND WHERE TO BE Left.— A petition of the inventor, or his authorized agent in India, to the Governor General of India in Council, for leave to file a specification; a declaration of the original inventor, or, if absent, of his agent; a specification, with drawings, (five copies,) within six months of the order authorizing the filing of the specification. To be left with the Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department.

273. EXTENSION.-By the Governor General in Council, for a further term, not exceeding fourteen years from the expiration of the fourteen years, upon petition, to be presented at any period not more than one year and not less than six calendar months before the expiration of the exclusive privilege.

274. DISCLAIMER.-Petitioner, after the filing of his specification, may apply for leave to file amended specification, having the same effect as the specification first filed.

275. SPECIFICATIONS, INSPECTION AND COPIES OF.-At the Government of India in the Home Department, of Bengal, of Fort St. George, of Bombay, of the Northwestern Provinces. Open to public inspection on pay