registered at the préfecture; a register also kept at the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. In the Colonies, assignments are registered at the office of the Director of the Interior.

251. SPECIFICATIONS, INSPECTION AND COPIES OF.-Inspection fee, at the Ministry of Commerce and Public Works; copies on payment of twenty-five francs; drawings extra; copies of certificates of addition twenty francs.

252. LIST OF PATENTS DELIVERED.-Published monthly within six months of the date of application; also in the Commissioners of Patents' Journal.

253. SPECIFICATIONS PUBLISHED.-After payment of the second annual fee, in full or in the form of extracts. Kept at the Secrétariat of the Préfecture of each Department, also at the Public Free Library of the Patent Office, together with alphabetical and subject-matter indexes of all the specifications published under the old law of 1791 and new law of 1844.

254. ORIGINALS OF SPECIFICATIONS, (MODELS.)-Deposited, at the expiration of the patent, in the library of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers.

255. JURISDICTION AND LOCAL PROCEEDINGS.-Actions to be tried before the Tribunaux Civils de Première Instance, according to article 405 and following of the Code Civil; in the Colonies, before the court of appeal. Fines for infringement, from £4 to £80, with seizure of the goods or machines, damages to the patentee, and costs of publication of judgment; in case of a second offense, imprisonment of from one to six months, according to article 463 of the Penal Code.

256. PROCEEDINGS TO OBTAIN A PATENT.-The appli

cant must deposit at the office of the Secretary of the Prefect of the Seine, (au Secrétariat de la Préfecture,) or in the provinces at the departmental prefectures, a sealed packet, containing the following documents, which must be in the French language, and without alterations or interlineations; any words erased must be counted and verified with the initials of the applicant and references to the pages; and when stating weights or measures those only must be employed which are decreed by the law of the 4th July, 1837:

1. A letter to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, containing a request for a patent.

2. A description of the discovery, invention, or application forming the subject of the patent.

3. A duplicate of the same.

4. The drawings or patterns necessary for understanding the description.

5. A duplicate of the same.

6. A list of the above documents.

The request for a patent must be limited to one principal object, with its constituent details and proposed application.

It shall mention the number of years for which the patent is solicited, and contain neither restrictions, conditions, nor reserves.

It shall indicate by a title the summary and precise designation of the object invented.

The drawings must be traced in ink, according to a metrical scale.

All the documents must be signed by the applicant or his agent. An agent must be authorized by a written power of attorney. This power ought, according to the

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, Commerce, 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

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.

SEC.

259. Law, date, and where recorded. 264. Documents required, and where

259. LAW, DATE, AND 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.

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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