COPYRIGHT HEARINGS, DECEMBER 7 TO 11, 1906.

ALFRED B. KITTREDGE, OF SOUTH DAKOTA, Chairman.

MOSES E. CLAPP, OF MINNESOTA.
REED SMOOT, OF UTAH.

PHILANDER C. KNOX, OF PENNSYLVANIA.
STEPHEN R. MALLORY, OF FLORIDA.

MURPHY J. FOSTER, OF LOUISIANA.
ASBURY C. LATIMER, OF SOUTH CARO

LINA.

THOMAS B. ROBERTS, Clerk.

COMMITTEE ON PATENTS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

FRANK D. CURRIER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, Chairman.

SOLOMON R. DRESSER, PENNSYLVANIA.

JOSEPH M. DIXON, MONTANA.

EDWARD H. HINSHAW, NEBRASKA.

ROBERT W. BONYNGE, COLORADO.

WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL, OHIO.
ANDREW J. BARCHFELD, PENNSYL-
VANIA.

JOHN C. CHANEY, INDIANA.
CHARLES MCGAVIN, ILLINOIS.
WILLIAM SULZER, NEW YORK.

GEORGE S. LEGARE, SOUTH CAROLINA.
EDWIN Y. WEBB, NORTH CAROLINA.
ROBERT G. SOUTHALL, VIRGINIA.
JOHN GILL, JR., MARYLAND.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Text of copyright bill (S. 6330; H. R. 19853)

List of all persons present at hearings..

HEARING, Friday morning, December 7, 1906:

Statement of Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress

Statements by-

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F. W. Hedgeland

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R. R. Bowker, vice-president American (Authors' ) Copyright League.

Memorandum on the bill to secure intellectual property

Robert Underwood Johnson, secretary American (Authors') Copy-

right League.

W. A. Livingstone, president Print Publishers' Association of America.
Memorandum of the Print Publishers of America

C. P. Montgomery, customs division, Treasury Department
John McDougald, commissioner of customs, Canada

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International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, December 8,

1906..

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Arthur Steuart, chairman, copyright committee American Bar Asso-

ciation..

George Haven Putnam, secretary American Publishers' Copyright

League