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Certificate of registration-cont'd.

ed form for the said certificate, to bear the impression of the seal of the Copyright Office, and to be filled out in each case as above provided for; and he shall forthwith deposit the same in the United States mail, addressed to the said copyright proprietor.

Certificate of registration made evidence.

12. That the certificate of registration provided for above, or a copy of it, shall be authenticated, at any time after its date, upon the request of any person desiring it, and upon the payment of the prescribed fee of fifty cents, by a declaration (to be attached thereto, signed by the Register of Copyrights and sealed by the seal of his office), that the said certificate contains a true statement of all the facts of the registration made in the case of the copyright entry mentioned therein; and when so authenticated, by the attached declaration herein provided for, the said certificate shall be admitted in any court. as primâ facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

Index and catalogue of copyright entries.

13. That the Register of Copyrights shall have a manuscript card catalogue and index made of all copyright registrations, and shall print at intervals of not more than one month, the titles and descriptions of articles deposited and registered for copyright, under such arrangement and such division of classes as shall best conform to the subjectmatter and the uses of the catalogue. He shall have complete and thorough indexes prepared and printed covering all the titles and descriptions included in the catalogue printed each quarter, and an annual index as soon after the end of each year as possible, and at intervals of five years shall print, in the case of books, dramas, and music, complete, rearranged and indexed catalogues for each of these three classes, and at intervals of ten

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Index and catalogue of copyright entries-cont'd. years similar complete indexes of copyright registrations made in each of the other classes of copyright subjects. Upon the completion and printing of each five-year or ten-year catalogue or index, the Register of Copyrights shall have authority to destroy the original manuscript cards containing the titles and descriptions included in such printed five-year or ten-year volumes, representing entries made during such intervals.

Distribution and sale of the catalogues of copyright entries. 14. That the printed current catalogues shall be promptly distributed, as they are issued, to the collectors of customs of the United States, and to the postmasters of all post-offices receiving foreign mails; and the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster-General are hereby required to furnish to the Register of Copyrights lists of such collectors of customs and postmasters, and to revise such lists quarterly. The printed catalogues of copyright registrations provided for by this Act shall be furnished to all parties desiring them, at a price to be determined by the Register of Copyrights not exceeding five dollars per annum for the complete catalogues of copyright entries, and not exceeding one dollar per annum for the catalogues issued during the year for any one class of subjects. The five-year and ten-year consolidated catalogues and indexes shall also be supplied to all persons ordering them, at a price based upon the rules and regulations in force for determining the selling price of public documents at the time when the volumes are issued. All subscriptions, either for the current catalogues or for the five-year and tenyear volumes, shall be received by the Superintendent of Public Documents, who shall forward the said publications; and the moneys thus received shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States and accounted

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for under such laws and Treasury or other regulations as shall be in force at the time the moneys are received.

Inspection of Copyright Office record books, etc.

15. That the record books kept and preserved in the Copyright Office under the provisions of the copyright laws of the United States and of this Act, together with the indexes to such record books, and the applications for copyright registration, together with all articles deposited in the Copyright Office, shall be open to public inspection at convenient times; and copies may be taken of the copyright entries actually made in such record books, subject to such safeguards and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Register of Copyrights, and upon the payment of fees in accordance with the provisions of section of this Act.

False statements as to copyright entries.

16. That if any person shall willfully make or cause to be made false statements relative to any copyright entries, or if he shall willfully produce, or cause to be tendered in evidence, any paper which falsely purports to be a copy of an entry of copyright in the record books of the Copyright Office, he shall be liable to a penalty of hundred dollars.

Acceptance of money or gifts unlawful.

17. That if the Register of Copyrights, or the Assistant Register of Copyrights, or any person employed either temporarily or permanently in the Copyright Office in any capacity whatsoever, shall accept from any person, for service asked or rendered in the Copyright Office in relation to anything concerning copyright, any money other than the fees prescribed by this Act, and in the exact amount prescribed by this Act, or shall accept any gift whatsoever from such person, he shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense.

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Use to be made of copyright deposits.

18. That of the articles deposited in the Copyright Office under the provisions of the copyright laws of the United States or of this Act, the Librarian of Congress shall determine what books and other articles shall be transferred to the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, including the Law Library, and what other books or articles shall be placed in the reserve collections of the Library of Congress for sale or exchange, or be transferred to other governmental libraries in the District of Columbia for use therein.

Destruction of valueless deposits and other copyright accumulations.

19. That of any articles undisposed of as above provided, together with all titles or descriptions, as well as all correspondence relating thereto, the Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyrights jointly shall, at suitable intervals, determine what of these received during any period of years it is desirable or useful to preserve in the permanent files of the Copyright Office, and, after due notice as herein provided, may within their discretion cause such remaining articles and other things to be destroyed.

Provided, That there shall be printed in the Catalogue of Copyright Entries from February to November, inclusive, a statement of the years of receipt of such articles, and a notice to permit any author, or his assigns, to claim and remove, before the expiration of the month of November of that year, any thing found which relates to any of his productions deposited or registered for copyright within the period of years stated, not reserved or disposed of as provided for in sections 18 and 19 of this Act.

MEMORANDUM DRAFT.