before the expiration of the term of provisional protection the application shall be deemed to be abandoned; subject, however, to the power of the Attorney-General to extend the time as provided" by rules and regulations made, or to be made, under the authority of the 3rd section of this Law.

2. Section 7 of said Law No. 4, 1870, shall apply only to complete specifications, and such complete specifications, after the delivery by the Attorney-General of the appointment therein referred to, shall be opened to inspection by any person on payment of the fees provided in Schedule 8 of that Law.

3. Section 11 of said Law No. 4, 1870, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following proviso:

Provided, however, that if in any case by accident, mistake, or inadvertence a patentee fails to make any prescribed payment within any prescribed time, he may apply to the Registrar of Patents for an enlargement of the time for making such payment; and the Registrar of Patents, if satisfied that the failure has arisen from any of the above-mentioned causes, shall, on payment of the prescribed fee for enlargement as provided by Schedule 8, enlarge the time accordingly for any time not exceeding six months.

4. Schedule 8 of the said Law No. 4, 1870, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following item, that is to say:

Enlargement of time, 21. 2s.

5. This Act and Laws No. 4, 1870, No. 5, 1871, and No. 32, 1884, shall be read and construed together as one Act.

Given at Government House, Natal, this 1st day of July, 1895.

By command of bis Excellency the Governor,

JOHN ROBINSON, Colonial Secretary.

ACT of the Government of Natal, to authorize in certain cases the temporary Detention in and Conveyance through Natal of Criminals surrendered by one Foreign State to another. [No. 3.]

[July 1, 1895.] (L.S.) WALTER HELY-HUTCHINSON, Governor.

WHEREAS it is expedient to authorize in certain cases the temporary detention in and conveyance through this Colony of persons accused or convicted of an extradition crime committed within the jurisdiction of a foreign State, and who may be surrendered, or about to be surrendered by one foreign State to another:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and · Legislative Assembly of Natal, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as The Extradition Act, 1895."

2. This Act shall apply only to such criminals and crimes as are extraditable under any Extradition Treaty in force for the time being between Great Britain and Germany.

3. A requisition for the Governor's permission for the transfer through and from this Colony of any criminal, whether accused or convicted of any crime to which this Act applies, and for whose extradition a warrant has been issued in a Colony, State, or territory in South Africa, shall be made on behalf of the Government of such Colony, State, or territory to the Colonial Secretary of this Colony; and the Governor may, on production of an order or other judicial document showing that the extradition sought is for a crime to which this Act applies, and that such extradition has been granted by or applied for to the Colony, State, or territory from whence such criminal is to be taken, grant such permission under the hand of the said Colonial Secretary: Provided that no such permission shall take effect until such extradition has been actually granted by the Government of such last-mentioned Colony, State, or territory.

4. It shall be lawful for the person charged with the custody of any criminal, whose transfer through and from this Colony is authorized under this Act, to hold in custody and convey such criminal through and from this Colony pursuant to the Governor's permission as hereinbefore provided; and the gaoler or other chief officer of any gaol in this Colony, on request of any person having the custody of a criminal so being transferred through this Colony, and on payment or tender of a reasonable amount for expenses, shall receive such criminal and detain him for such reasonable time as may be requested by the said person for the purpose of the transfer of such criminal through and from this Colony under the provisions of this Act.

5. If a criminal, whilst being transferred from one State to another through this Colony, pursuant to the provisions of this Act, escapes out of any custody to which he may be delivered, it shall be lawful to retake him in the same manner as any person accused of any crime against the laws of the Colony may be retaken.

6. The Governor in Council may make orders, rules, and regulations for the purposes of this Act, and revoke or vary any order, rule, or regulation so made, and every order, rule, and regulation so made, shall, while in force, have the same effect as if enacted in this Act.

7. All orders, rules, and regulations made under the foregoing

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section shall be published in the "Natal Government Gazette,' and shall be laid before the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly as soon as may be after they are made.

8. Whenever the Governor shall, by Proclamation in the "Natal Government Gazette," declare that a Treaty exists between Great Britain and any foreign country for the mutual extradition of fugitive criminals, and that such Treaty contains reciprocal provisions similar to the provisions of this Act, this Act shall apply in respect of such foreign country as if such foreign country were named in the second section of this Act as Germany is therein named.

Given at Government House, Natal, this 1st day of July, 1895. By command of his Excellency the Governor,

JOHN ROBINSON, Colonial Secretary.

ACT of the Government of Natal, to secure the Right of Property in Telegraphic and other Messages.

[No. 36.]

[September 21, 1895.]

(L.S.) WALTER HELY-HUTCHINSON, Governor. WHEREAS it is expedient to secure the right of property in telegraphic messages:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Natal, as follows::

1. Whenever there shall be received at any office of the Telegraph Department any messages transmitted by telegraph for the purpose of publication in any newspaper or other printed paper, printed or published in the Colony of Natal, no person or persons shall, without the consent, in writing, of the person or persons, or the proprietor or proprietors of such newspapers, to whom such message shall be addressed, or his or their agent thereto lawfully authorized, print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, such telegraphic message, or the substance thereof, or any extract therefrom, until after a period of seventy-two hours from the time of the first publication of such message by the person or persons entitled to publish the same: Provided that such period shall not extend beyond fifty hours from the time of the receipt as aforesaid at such office of such message (Sundays excepted): Provided further that the publication of the whole or any part of such telegraphic message, or of the substance thereof, or (excepting the publication

Amended by Act No. 4 of 1896, page 893.

of any similar message in like manner sent and lawfully received by the person or newspaper publishing the same) of the intelligence therein contained, shall be deemed to be a publication thereof.

2. If any person or persons print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, any matter contrary to the provisions of this Act, he or they shall, upon conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding 201., and, in default of payment of such fine, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, and any person or persons who shall be convicted of any subsequent offence against this Act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 401., and, in default of payment of such fine, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

3. Every telegraphic message published under the protection of this Act shall be published under the heading of "By telegraph" or "Telegrams," and the day of its dispatch shall be stated, and such statement, together with date of publication, shall be primá facie evidence of the dispatch and publication respectively of such

message.

4. During the period of fifty hours above mentioned, no intelligence protected by this Act, shall be transmitted by telegraph to any person or persons for publication by or on behalf of any person or persons, other than the proprietor or proprietors of the newspaper, who, under the provisions of this Act, shall be entitled to the exclusive use of such intelligence, and any person or persons contravening the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, as in the second section mentioned, be liable to a penalty of not exceeding 201. for the first offence, and not exceeding 401. for any subsequent offence, and, in default of payment of fines, to imprisonment as aforesaid.

5. In any prosecution under this Act, the production of any document which purports to be such a telegraphic message as is by this Act protected, and which purports to have been delivered to the newspaper or person or persons lawfully entitled to receive the same by the Telegraph Department, shall be prima facie evidence that such message is a message within the meaning of this Act.

6. The protection provided in section 1 of this Act to messages transmitted by telegraph, shall extend also to messages transmitted by pigeon and other special dispatch.

7. This Act may be cited as "The Telegraphic Messages Copyright Act, 1895."

Given at Government House, Natal, this 21st day of September,

1895.

By command of his Excellency the Governor,

JOHN ROBINSON, Colonial Secretary.

ACT of the Government of Natal, to amend " The Extradition

[No. 4.]

Act, 1895."*

[May 23, 1896.]

(L.S.) WALTER HELY-HUTCHINSON, Governor. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend "The Extradition Act,

1895:"

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Natal, as follows:

1. Section 8 of "The Extradition Act, 1895," is hereby amended by deleting the following words, that is to say:

"And that such Treaty contains reciprocal provisions similar to the provisions of this Act;"

And by substituting in place thereof the words following, that is to say:

"And that it is intended to apply this Act in the case of such foreign country."

Given at Government House, Natal, this 23rd day of May, 1896.

By command of his Excellency the Governor,

JOHN ROBINSON, Colonial Secretary.

ACT of the Government of Natal, to protect the Rights of
Authors of Literary and Artistic Works.†

[No. 9.]

[June 1, 1896.] (L.S.) WALTER HELY-HUTCHINSON, Governor. WHEREAS it is expedient to protect the rights of authors of literary and artistic works:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Natal, as follows:

1. This Act shall take effect from and after a date to be proclaimed by the Governor, and may be cited for all purposes as "The Copyright Act, 1896."

2. Ordinance No. 14 of 1856 is hereby repealed.

3. In the construction of this Act—

The expression "literary and artistic work" means every book,

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+ Repealed and re-enacted by Act No. 17 of 1897, which will be given in a subsequent volume.