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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



of the Judges, before whom such 

 writ is returnable, may examine 

 into the truth of the facts set forth 

 in such return ; that process of 

 contempt may be awarded in va- 

 cation against persons disobeying 

 writs of habeas corpus, in cases 

 within the stat. 31 Car. II. 



Abstract of an Act to amend the 

 several Acts for the Encourage- 

 ment of Learning, by securing 

 the Copies and Copyright of 

 Printed Books, to the Authors of 

 such Books, OT their Assigns. 



Tlie provisions of the Act of 

 8th of Queen Anne, and the 41 st 

 of his present Majesty are repealed 

 as far as relates to the delivery of 

 copies to public libraries. Enacts, 

 instead, that eleven printed copies 

 of every book, upon the paper 

 upon which the largest number is 

 printed for sale, with the maps 

 and prints belonging thereto, shall 

 be delivered, on demand made in 

 writing within twelve months after 

 publication, by authorized persons 

 of the following libraries, viz. The 

 British Museum, Sion College, the 

 Bodleian at Oxford, the public 

 Library at Cambridge, the Library 

 of the Faculty of Advocates at 

 Edinburgh, the Libraries of the 



four Universities of Scotland, 

 Trinity College and the King's Inn 

 Libraries at Dublin, to the ware- 

 hous^e-keeper of the company of 

 Stationers, under the penalty, on- 

 default, of five pounds for each 

 copy, besides the value of the 

 copy. No copy of a subsequent 

 edition without addition or altera- 

 tion to be demanded, and addi- 

 tions to be printed separately and 

 delivered. With respect to copy- 

 right. Authors and their Assigns 

 to have the sole liberty of printing 

 and reprinting for twenty-eight 

 years commencing from the first 

 publication, and if the Author be 

 living at the end of that period, 

 for the residue of his life. In 

 order to ascertain the publication 

 of books of which copies as above 

 are demandable, the title and name 

 of the publisher of each shall be en- 

 tered at Stationers'-hall within a 

 month after publication, and one 

 copy shall be sent to the British 

 Museum ; and lists of all such 

 entered books shall from time to 

 time be transmitted by the ware- 

 house keeper of Stationers'-hall to 

 the persion authorized by the 

 above libraries. Authors of books 

 already published now living and 

 possessed of copy-right, to have 

 the benefit of the extension of 

 right above specified. 



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