and shall, if he fail so to do, make good to the Shipowner any Loss thereby occasioned to him. discharged LXIX. Upon the Production to the Wharf or Ware- Lien to be house Owner of a Receipt for the Amount claimed as due, on Proof of and Delivery to the Wharf or Warehouse Owner of a Copy Payment. thereof or of a Release of Freight from the Shipowner, the said Lien shall be discharged. on Deposit with Ware house Owner. Warehouse at the End of 15 Days, is given, Owner may LXX. The Owner of the Goods may deposit with the Lien to be Wharf or Warehouse Owner a Sum of Money equal in discharged Amount to the Sum so claimed as aforesaid by the Shipowner, and thereupon the Lien shall be discharged; but without Prejudice to any other Remedy which the Shipowner may have for the Recovery of the Freight. LXXI. If such Deposit as aforesaid is made with the Wharf or Warehouse Owner, and the Person making the same does not within Fifteen Days after making it give to the Wharf or Warehouse Owner Notice in Writing to retain it, stating in such Notice the Sum, if any, which he pay Deadmits to be payable to the Shipowner, or, as the Case may Shipowner. be, that he does not admit any Sum to be so payable, the Wharf or Warehouse Owner may, at the Expiration of such Fifteen Days, pay the Sum so deposited over to the Shipowner, and shall by such Payment be discharged from all Liability in respect thereof. LXXII. If such Deposit as aforesaid is made with the Wharf or Warehouse Owner, and the Person making the same does within Fifteen Days after making it give to the Wharf or Warehouse Owner such Notice in Writing as aforesaid, the Wharf or Warehouse Owner shall immediately apprize the Shipowner of such Notice, and shall pay or tender to him out of the Sum deposited the Sum, if any, admitted by such Notice to be payable, and shall retain the Remainder or Balance, or, if no Sum is admitted to be payable, the whole of the Sum deposited, for Thirty Days from the Date of the said Notice; and at the Expiration of such Thirty Days, unless legal Proceedings have in the meantime been instituted by the Shipowner against the Owner of the Goods to recover the said Balance or Sum or otherwise for the Settlement of any Disputes which may have arisen between them concerning such Freight or other Charges as aforesaid, and Notice in Writing of such Proceedings has been served on him, the Wharf or Warehouse Owner shall pay the said Balance or Sum over to the Owner of the Goods, and shall by such Payment be discharged from all Liability in respect thereof. if no Notice to Course to taken if retain is given. Notice to Days LXXIII. If the Lien is not discharged, and no Deposit After 90 is made as herein-before mentioned, the Wharf or Warehouse Owner may, and, if required by the Shipowner, Owner may by Public Auction. sell Goods shall, at the Expiration of Ninety Days from the Time when the Goods were placed in his Custody, or, if the Goods are of a perishable Nature, at such earlier Period as he in his Discretion thinks fit, sell by Public Auction, either for Home Use or Exportation, the said Goods or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the Charges hereinafter mentioned. Notices of Sale to be given. Monies arising how to be applied. LXXIV. Before making such Sale the Wharf or Warehouse Owner shall give Notice thereof by Advertisement in Two Newspapers circulating in the Neighbourhood, or in One Daily Newspaper published in London and in Óne local Newspaper, and also, if the Address of the Owner of the Goods has been stated on the Manifest of the Cargo, or on any of the Documents which have come into the Possession of the Wharf or Warehouse Owner, or is otherwise known to him, give Notice of the Sale to the Owner of the Goods by Letter sent by the Post; but the Title of a bonâ fide Purchaser of such Goods shall not be invalidated by reason of the Omission to send Notice as herein-before mentioned, nor shall any such Purchaser be bound to inquire whether such Notice has been sent. LXXV. In every Case of any such Sale as aforesaid from Sale, the Wharf or Warehouse Owner shall apply the Monies received from the Sale as follows, and in the following Order: 1. If the Goods are sold for Home Use in Payment of any Customs or Excise Duties owing in respect thereof: 2. In Payment of the Expenses of the Sale: 3. In the Absence of any Agreement between the Wharf or Warehouse Owner and the Shipowner concerning the Priority of their respective Charges, in Payment of the Rent, Rates, and other Charges due to the Wharf or Warehouse Owner in respect of the said Goods: Warehouse 4. In Payment of the Amount claimed by the Shipowner as due for Freight or other Charges in respect of the said Goods: 5. But in case of any Agreement between the Wharf or Warehouse Owner and the Shipowner concerning the Priority of their respective Charges, then such Charges shall have Priority according to the Terms of such Agreement: and the Surplus, if any, shall be paid to the Owner of the Goods. LXXVI. Whenever Goods are placed in the Custody Rent and of a Wharf or Warehouse Owner under the Authority of Expenses. this Act, the said Wharf or Warehouse Owner shall be entitled to Rent in respect of the same, and shall also have Power from Time to Time, at the Expense of the Owner of the Goods, to do all such reasonable Acts as in the Judgment of the said Wharf or Warehouse Owner are necessary for the proper Custody and Preservation of the said Goods, and shall have a Lien on the said Goods for the said Rent and Expenses. Owners LXXVII. Nothing in this Act contained shall compel Warehouse any Wharf or Warehouse Owner to take charge of any Protection. Goods which he would not be liable to take charge of if this Act had not passed; nor shall he be bound to see to the Validity of any Lien claimed by any Shipowner under this Act. Powers Local Acts. LXXVIII. Nothing in this Act contained shall take Saving away or abridge any Powers given by any Local Act to under any Harbour Trust, Body Corporate, or Persons whereby they are enabled to expedite the Discharge of Ships or the Landing or Delivery of Goods; nor shall anything in this Act contained take away or diminish any Rights or Remedies given to any Shipowner or Wharf or Warehouse Owner by any Local Act. CAP. LXVIII. An Act for amending the Law relating to Copyright in Works of the Fine Arts, and for repressing the Commission of Fraud in the Production and Sale of such Works. -[29th July 1862.] 'WHEREAS by Law, as now established, the Authors of Paintings, Drawings, and Photographs have no Copyright in such their Works, and it is expedient that the Law should in that respect be amended:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: hereafter sold to vest in the Author for I. The Author, being a British Subject or resident Copyright within the Dominions of the Crown, of every original in Works Painting, Drawing, and Photograph, which shall be or made or shall have been made either in the British Dominions or elsewhere, and which shall not have been sold or disposed of before the Commencement of this Act, and his Assigns, his Life shall have the sole and exclusive Right of copying, engrav- Seven ing, reproducing, and multiplying such Painting or Drawing, and the Design thereof, or such Photograph, and the Negative thereof, by any Means and of any Size, for the Term of the natural Life of such Author, and Seven Years and for Years after his Death. Not to pre tain Rights. after his Death; provided that when any Painting or Drawing, or the Negative of any Photograph, shall for the First Time after the passing of this Act be sold or disposed of, or shall be made or executed for or on behalf of any other Person for a good or a valuable Consideration, the Person so selling or disposing of or making or executing the same shall not retain the Copyright thereof, unless it be expressly reserved to him by Agreement in Writing, signed, at or before the Time of such Sale or Disposition, by the Vendee or Assignee of such Painting or Drawing, or of such Negative of a Photograph, or by the Person for or on whose Behalf the same shall be so made or executed, but the Copyright shall belong to the Vendee or Assignee of such Painting or Drawing, or of such Negative of a Photograph, or to the Person for or on whose Behalf the same shall have been made or executed; nor shall the Vendee or Assignee thereof be entitled to any such Copyright, unless, at or before the Time of such Sale or Disposition, an Agreement in Writing, signed by the Person so selling or disposing of the same, or by his Agent duly authorized, shall have been made to that Effect. II. Nothing herein contained shall prejudice the Right judice cer of any Person to copy or use any Work in which there shall be no Copyright, or to represent any Scene or Object, notwithstanding that there may be Copyright in some Representation of such Scene or Object. Assignments, Licences, etc., to be in Writing. of Copy Drawings, be kept at III. All Copyright under this Act shall be deemed Personal or Moveable Estate, and shall be assignable at Law, and every Assignment thereof, and every Licence to use or copy by any Means or Process the Design or Work which shall be the Subject of such Copyright, shall be made by some Note or Memorandum in Writing, to be signed by the Proprietor of the Copyright, or by his Agent appointed for that Purpose in Writing. Register of IV. There shall be kept at the Hall of the Stationers Proprietors Company, by the Officer appointed by the said Company right in for the Purposes of the Act passed in the Sixth Year of Paintings, her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Law of and Photo- Copyright, a Book or Books, entitled 'The Register of graphs to Proprietors of Copyright in Paintings, Drawings, and Stationers Photographs,' wherein shall be entered a Memorandum of Hall, as in every Copyright to which any Person shall be entitled under this Act, and also of every subsequent Assignment of any such Copyright; and such Memorandum shall contain a Statement of the Date of such Agreement or Assignment, and of the Names of the Parties thereto, and of the Name and Place of Abode of the Person in whom such Copyright shall be vested by virtue thereof, and of the 5 & 6 Vict. c. 45. Name and Place of Abode of the Author of the Work in which there shall be such Copyright, together with a short Description of the Nature and Subject of such Work, and in addition thereto, if the Person registering shall so desire, a Sketch, Outline, or Photograph of the said Work, and no Proprietor of any such Copyright shall be entitled to the Benefit of this Act until such Registration, and no Action shall be sustainable nor any Penalty be recoverable in respect of anything done before Registration. Enact ments of 5 & 6 Vict. 45, to apply to the Books to be kept under this Act. V. The several Enactments in the said Act of the Sixth Certain Year of her present Majesty contained, with relation to keeping the Register Book thereby required, and the Inspection thereof, the Searches therein, and the Delivery of certified and stamped Copies thereof, the Reception of such Copies in Evidence, the making of false Entries in the said Book, and the Production in Evidence of Papers falsely purporting to be Copies of Entries in the said Book, the Application to the Courts and Judges by Persons aggrieved by Entries in the said Book, and the expunging and varying such Entries, shall apply to the Book or Books to be kept by virtue of this Act, and to the Entries and Assignments of Copyright and Proprietorship therein under this Act, in such and the same Manner as if such Enactments were here expressly enacted in relation thereto, save and except that the Forms of Entry prescribed by the said Act of the Sixth Year of her present Majesty may be varied to meet the Circumstances of the Case, and that the Sum to be demanded by the Officer of the said Company of Stationers for making any Entry required by this Act shall be One Shilling only. fringement VI. If the Author of any Painting, Drawing, or Photo- Penalties graph, in which there shall be subsisting Copyright, after on Inhaving sold or disposed of such Copyright, or if any other of CopyPerson, not being the Proprietor for the Time being of right. Copyright in any Painting, Drawing, or Photograph, shall, without the Consent of such Proprietor, repeat, copy, colourably imitate, or otherwise multiply for Sale, Hire, Exhibition, or Distribution, or cause or procure to be repeated, copied, colourably imitated, or otherwise multiplied for Sale, Hire, Exhibition, or Distribution, any such Work or the Design thereof, or, knowing that any such Repetition, Copy, or other Imitation has been unlawfully made, shall import into any Part of the United Kingdom, or sell, publish, let to Hire, exhibit, or distribute, or offer for Sale, Hire, Exhibition, or Distribution, or cause or procure to be imported, sold, published, let to Hire, distributed, or offered for Sale, Hire, k |