KM THE S'FA1?UTWES OF THE UNITED KINGD OM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 15 & 16 VICTORIA. 185?. 20394 LONDON: Printei by Her Majesty’s Printers; 1852. (Price 188. in Boards.) .1 A_;¢1).r185"2.'% 15° & 16° VIOTORIJE. 0.82, 83. 497 ' £ 40,200 0 0 For taking the Census. I 783 0 0 For British Ambassador’s House at Madrid, to 31st March 1853. l,595 0 0 For Earl of Shaftesbury’s Pension. 4,000 0 0 For Menai Straits. ’. § XXIII. Supplies to be applied only for the Purposes aforesaid. XXIV. Expenditure for Navy, Army, and Ordnance Services respectively to be confined to the separate Services for which granted. Treasury may, on Application, alter the proportionate Amounts for such a separate Services, provided the total Grant to each Department ¢ .- be not exceeded. XXV. Rules to be observed in the Application of the Sum appropriated to Half Pay. Not to prevent the receiving of Half Pay under any Act relating to the General or Local Militia, &c. Paymaster General, by Permission of the Treasury, may issue Half Pay to Ofiicers appointed to Civil Oflices since July 1828. An Account of the Number of Oflicers so receiving Half Pay to be laid before Parliament annually. XXVI. Treasury may authorize Military Officers in Civil Employments to receive Half Pay in certain Cases. XXVII. Persons concerned in issuing, paying, and receiving Money for Pay ment of Half Pay, without the requisite Oaths, indemnified. 14 Q 15 Vict. c. 101. XXVIII. Half Pay allowed to Ofiicers of the Manx Fencibles. XXIX. Half Pay Allowances to Chaplains of Regiments not holding Ecclesi astical Benefices derived from the Crown. XXX. Surplus of Sum by 14 <9 15 Vict. c. 101. appropriated to Half Pay‘ Oflicers to be disposed of as Her Majesty shall direct. XXXI. Widows, &c. claiming Pensions to make required Declaration. Declarations to be made as in 5 6 W. 4. c. 62. XXXII. specified <5‘ C A P. LXXXIII. An Act for amending the Law for granting Patents for Inventions._ [lst July 1852.] ‘ it HEREAS is expedient to amend the Law concerning ‘ :’ “Z Letters Patent for Inventions Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows : p I. The Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, Her Majesty’s Certain Persons Attorney General for England, Her Majesty’s Solicitor General ¢°'\Sti1\_"e_d for England, the Lord Advocate, Her Solicitor General Majesty’s Cf°I“;"“‘$"t‘s"'f‘el'_'s for Scotland, Her Majesty’s Attorney General for Ireland, and ‘inveztf-fins,” Her Majesty's Solicitor General for Ireland, for the Time being Three of whom respectively, together with such other Person or Persons as may may act, the be from Time to Time appointed by Her Majesty, as herein-after Chancellor 01' the mentioned, shall be Commissioners of Patents for Inventions ; and 1IV{1“1s]‘e‘;);’.fmg it shall be lawful for Her Majesty from Time to Time, by Warrant 0::' under Her Royal Sign Manual, to appoint such other Person or Persons as She may think fit to be a Commissioner or Commis sioners as aforesaid; and every Person so appointed shall con tinue such Commissioner during Her Majesty’s Pleasure ;.and all 4 D d the 408 C.83. 15° & 16° VICTORIJE. A.D.1852. the Powers hereby vested in the Commissioners may be exercised by any Three or more of them, the Lord Chancellor or Master of the Rolls being One. _ ':-\ Seal of the Com II. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners to cause a Seal to missionersi be made for the Purposes of this Act, and from Time to Time to vary such Seal, and to cause to be sealed therewith all the Warrants for Letters Patent under this Act, and all Instruments and Copies proceeding from the Ofiicc of the Commissioners, and all Courts, Judges, and other Persons whomsoever shall take notice of such Seal, and receive Impressions thereof in Evidence, in like lVIanner as Impressions of the Great Seal are received in Evidence, and shall also take notice of and receive in Evidence, without further Proof 01‘ Production of the Originals, all Copies or Extracts, certified under the Seal of the said Otlice, of or from Documents deposited in such Otiicc. Commissioners III. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners from Time to Time to make Rules to make such Rules and Regulations (not inconsistent with the andRegulations, Provisions of tl1is respecting the Business of their Oflice-, and which shall be Act) all Matters and Things which under the Provisions herein con laid before Par liament. tained are to be under their Control and Direction, as may appear to them necessary and expedient for the Purposes of this Act; and all such Rules shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Fourteen Days after the making thereof, if Parliament be and Parliament be not then Commissioners sitting, if sitting within Fourteen Days to report annu after the next Meeting of Parliament; and the Commissioners ally to Parlia shall cause a Report to be laid annually bcfore‘Parlia.ment of all ' merit. the Proceedings under and in pursuance of this Act. Tren sury to pro IV. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s ‘ vide Offices. Treasury to provide and appoint from Time to Time proper Places or Buildings for an Office or Oflices for the Purposes of this Act. Commissioners, V. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners, with the Consent with Consent of of the Commissioners of the Treasury, from Time to Time to Treasury, to ap appoint for the Purposes of this Act such Clerks and Otficers Clcrks,&c. point as the Commissioners ma.y think proper; and it shall be lawful for the Commissioners from Time to Time to remove any of the Clerks and Oflicers so appointed. - Petition and VI. Every Petition for the Grant of Letters Patentfor an Declaration to Invention, and the Declaration required to accompany such Peti be accompanied tion, shall be left at the Office of the Commissioners, and there with a Provi shall be left therewith a Statement in Writing, herein-after called sional Specifi the Provisional Specification, signed or on behalf of the cation by Applis cant for Letters Patent, describing the Nature of the said Inven tion; and the Day of the Delivery of every such Petition, Declara tion, and Provisional Specification shall be recorded at the said Oilicc, and endorsed on such Petition, Declaration, and Provisional Specification, and a Certificate thereof given to such Applicant or his Agent; and all such Petitions, Declarations, and Provisional Specifications shall be preserved in such Manner as the Commis sioners may direct, and a Registry thereof and of all Proceedings thereon kept at the Ofiice of the Commissioners. Applications to VII. Every Application for Letters Patent made under this be referred to_ Act shall be referred by the Commissioners, according to such Law Oflicer. Regulations as they may think fit to make, to» One -of the Law 1 . " ' . I .. ~ - "A Ofiicers. , re 11-r n ’. "J U! ."_'f- . VIII. The A;D.l852- 15° & 160 VICTORIJE. C. 83. 5109 E ‘u-VIII. The Provisional Specification shall be referred to the The Provisional Law Oflicer, who shall be at liberty to call to his Aid such scientific Specification to or other Person as he may think fit, and to cause to be paid to be referred to the LawOfii car, such Person the Applicant such Remuneration as‘ the by Law who, ifsatisfied, Oflicer shall appoint; and if such Law Ofiicer be satisfied that the may give a. Provisional Specification describes the Nature of theltivention, he Certificate of shall allow the same, and give a Certificate of his Allowance, and his Allowance, such Certificate shall be filed in the Office of the Conlmissioners, which shall be filed. and thereupon the Invention therein referred to may, during tlie Term of Six Months from the Date of the Application for Letters Patent for the said Invention, be used and published withbut Prejudice to any Letters Patent to be granted for the same, and such Protection from the Consequences of Use and Publication is herein-after referred to as Provisional Protection : Provided armys, that in case the Title of the Invention or the Provisional S _eei' fication be too large or insuflicient, it shall be lawful for the '~"aw / Ofiicer to whom the same is referred to allow or require the some ' to be amended. ‘ IX. The Applicant for Letters Patent for an Invention,'instead Inventor may of leaving with the Petition and Declaration a Provisional Spc'ci’ deposit, in lieu fication as aforesaid, may, if he think fit, file with the said Petition of a. Provisional Specification, and Declaration an Instrument i11 Writing under his Hand and a Complete Seal (herein-after called a Complete Specification), particularly Specification, describing and ascertaining the Nature of thesaid‘ Invention, and such Deposit to in what Manner the same is to be performed, which Complete confer for a limited Time Specification shall be mentioned i11 such Declaration, and the Day the like Rights of the Delivery of every such Petition, Declaration, and Complete as Letters Specification shall be recorded at the Oflice of‘ the Commissioners, Patent. M and endorsed on such Petition, Declaration, and Specification,‘ and \L a Certificate thereof given to such Applicant ‘or his Agent, and ~ I thereupon, subject and without Prejudice to ‘the Provisions‘herein 1- '1 i .