Inventions, A Carson (1864) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO VICESIMO OCTAVO

VICT 14:GINS

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NO. III.

AN ORDINANCE for securing to Alfred Carson, for a limited period, the exclusive Benefit of a certain Invention.

[11th July, 1884.]

"WHEREAS Alfred Carson, now or late of Fremantle, bathwhich invention he believes will be of great public utility withinrepresented that he has invented a new method of reaping,	Preamble.
this Colony, and hath requested that an Ordinance may be passed securing to him, his executors, administrators, and assigns the exclu- sive benefit of such invention for a limited time : Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia, and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

28° VICTORLE, No. 3.

Alfred Carson's Invention.

Exclusive benefit of in- THE said Alfred Carson, his executors, administrators , and assigns, shall have and enjoy, and the said Governor and Legislative Council hath and have hereby granted to him and them, the sole benefit and advantage of using such Invention or Discovery in the Colony, for and during the space of Fourteen years next after the passing of this Ordinance.

vention to be given to Alfred

Carson.

Remedy in ease exclusive 2.

IF any person, during the said term of fourteen years, shall, either directly or indirectly, do, make, use, or put in practice the said invention or any part of the same, or in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, or make, or cause to be made, any addition thereto, or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himself the Inventor or Devisor thereof, without the License of the said Alfred Cason, his executors, administrators, or assigns, the said Alfred Carson, his executors, administrators, and assigns shall have and be entitled to such and the like remedies against such person, both at law and in equity, as the grantee in England of any Letters Patent for any invention would be entitled to in the like case by the Law of England. •

benefit is infringed.

Invention to be described 3. IF the said Alfred Carson shall not particularly describe and

in an Instrument, and cer-

tain forms to be complied	ascertain the nature of such invention or discovery, and the manner
with in 12 months from pas-	in which the same is to be used, by an Instrument in writing under
sing of Ordinance.	his hand, and cause the same to be delivered within twelve months after the passing of this Ordinance to the Colonial Secretary of the Colony, then all privileges and advantages hereby granted to the said Alfred Carson, his executors, administrators, and assigns shall utterly cease determine and become void, anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

THE said Colonial Secretary shall on the Tenth day of Tidy now next ensuing, or on any earlier day if required by the said Alfred Carson, his executors, administrators, or assigns, or his or their Attorney, break the seal of the said instrument in writing or specification, and record the same in his office.

Colonial Secretary to re- 4.

cord the Instrument.

If it should appear not to 5.

IF at any time during the said term of fourteen years it shall to the public use and exercise thereof, or that the said Alfred Carson is not the true and first inventor thereof or that the said invention is prejudicial or inconvenient to the subjects of our Lady the Queen in general, then all the privileges and advantages hereby granted to the said Alfred Carson, his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall

be a new invention or prove

prejudical to the public, pri-	be made to appear that the said invention is not a new invention as
vileges granted to cease.

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Alfred Carson's Invention.

utterly cease determine and become void, anything hereinbefore con-

tained to the contrary notwithstanding.

J. S. HAMPTON,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Passed the Legislative Council.

this 11th day of July, 1864.

G. E. HAMPTON,

Clerk of the Council.