Non-delivery

of books by
printer

Non-supply
of books by
publisher.

I-xemption.

Ch. 31. No. 16.] Copyright.

trade advertisement, which shall be printed or lithographed
in the Colony, together with all maps, prints, or other
engravings belonging thereto, finished and coloured in the
same manner as the best copies of the same shall be produced,
shall, within one month after the day on which any such
book shall first be delivered out of the press, and notwith-
standing any agreement (if the book be published) between
the printer and the publisher thereof, be delivered free of
any charge, claim, or demand whatsoever by the printer,
bound, sewed, or stitched together, and upon the best paper
on which the same shall be printed or lithographed, to the
Colonial Secretary. The publisher or other person em-
ploying the printer shall, at a reasonable time before the
expiration of the said month, supply him with all maps,
prints, and engravings, finished and coloured as aforesaid,
which may be necessary to enable him to comply with the
requirements aforesaid. The Colonial Secretary shall there-
upon give a receipt in writing for the copies so received.

4. One of such copies shall be transmitted to the Secretary
of State, another copy shall be disposed of as the Governor
in Council shall from time to time, by general or special
order direct, and the remaining copy shall be deposited in
such Public Library, or be otherwise disposed of, as the
Governor shall from time to time determine.

5. very printer who neglects to deliver three copies
of any such book as is referred to in section 3 to the Colonial
Secretary in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, shall be
liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of twenty-four
dollars.

6. Every publisher or other person employing any such
printer w ho neglects to supply him with maps, prints, or
engravings finished and coloured as aforesaid, which may
be necessary to enable such printer to comply with the
provisions of section 3, shall be liable, on summary con-
viction, to a fine of twenty-four dollars.

7. The Governor in Council may, by notification in the
Royal Gazette, exclude any class of books from the operation
of the whole or any portion of Part I. of this Ordinance.