LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COPYRIGHT ENACTMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 1783-1906 Compiled by THORVALD SOLBERG REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS COPYRIGHT OFFICE BULLETIN NO. 3 SECOND EDITION, REVISED 2,000-15-vii-1906 WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1906 2642 45 set a No.3 LIBRARY PREFATORY NOTE TO SECOND EDITION. COPYRIGHT OFFICE, Washington, D. C., July 15, 1906. The present edition of Copyright Office Bulletin No. 3, "United States Copyright Enactments," has been carefully revised, corrected, and brought down to date by the inclusion of such copyright laws as have been passed and such Presidential proclamations relating to copyright as have been issued since the printing of the last edition. It has been enlarged by the addition of the recent State laws enacted to protect dramatic and musical works; of new matter relative to copyright in the territorial possessions of the United States, and (in an Appendix) of some explanatory notes, including the decisions of the Treasury Department and the opinions of the AttorneysGeneral in relation to copyright. It is a pleasant duty in printing this edition to acknowledge the helpful suggestions and assistance received from many persons interested in copyright, more especially from Augustus T. Gurlitz, Esq., of the New York bar; Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, of New Haven, Conn.; Edmund A. Whitman, Esq., of Messrs. Elder & Whitman, of Boston; Charles P. Montgomery, Esq., of the Customs Division of the Treasury Department, and Harry P. Mawson, Esq., of the American Dramatists Club of New York. HERBERT PUTNAM, Librarian of Congress. THORVALD SOLBERG, M'732821 3 |