APPENDIX A IX 
there may be specially imported for the bona fide use of the public free 
libraries, of the university and college libraries, and law libraries of any 
duly organized law institution or society for the use of its members. 
The officer appointed to receive proofs of licences under this section 
shall satisfy himself that every owner giving such proof is entitled to 
give the same. 
Where a licence has been granted under this section for any British 
possession any copy of the book produced subject to such licence shall, 
if found in any other part of Her Majesty’s dominions, be deemed a 
pirated copy, and be treated accordingly. 
In October, 1899, Mr. G. Herbert Thring, Secretary of the Authors’ 
Society in England, and Mr. Gilbert Parker, also representing the Eng- 
lish Authors’ Society, came out to Canada and had an interview with 
Sir Wilfrid Laurier and other members of the Government. I believe 
that they pressed upon the Government the advisability of legislation in 
the direction proposed by the Canadian Authors’ Society. Other similar 
representations were afterwards made to the Government by various 
bodies interested in the subject. 
Anticipating the passing of Lord Monkswell’s Bill, the Canadian 
Government has introduced a Bill backed by Mr. Fisher, Minister of 
Agriculture, which, if it becomes law, will have the effect of enabling 
Canada to avail herself of the powers explicitly conferred upon her by 
the English Bill and will enable Canadian authors as well as English 
authors to treat Canada as a separate market—thus giving them an ad- 
ditional source of remuneration for their work and enabling them to 
avoid giving up the Canadian market practically for nothing as hitherto 
they have almost been obliged to do. 
It is hoped that the new measure will not be without important 
effects upon the trades in Canada that are necessarily interested. If 
reasonable expectations are not falsified, results similar to those which 
followed the conclusion of the copyright arrangement between the United 
States and Great Britain, will follow in Canada, results that should be 
of great benefit alike to authorship and to publishing in this country. 
Iam yours, very faithfully, 
JAMES MAVOR. 
