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chona the rotatory power of the total alkaloids it con¬ 
tained should be determined. If the rotatory power be 
to the left and with great intensity, the cinchona is good 
for the manufacture of sulphate of quinine. If the devia¬ 
tion be but slightly to the left, or more particularly if it 
be to the right, it is unsuitable. 
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HOUSE OF COMMONS. 
Public Health Bill. 
A Bill with the above title was introduced into the 
House of Commons on the 21st March by Sir Charles 
Adderley, read a first time, and ordered to be printed. It 
has now been issued, and among its provisions are the 
following :— 
Clause 3 extends the provisions of the Nuisances Re¬ 
moval Act, 1863, to unwholesome tea and to all milk of 
any animal suffering from any contagious or infectious 
disease, as defined by the Contagious Diseases (Animals) 
Act, 1869, or from any tubercular disease, the person, sell- 
ino - the same is, on conviction before a justice, to be liable 
to & a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds , and the refund¬ 
ing of the purchase-money. 
Clause 5 provides that on complaint made by a medical 
officer of health, or by any inspector or other officer of a 
sanitary authority, a justice may grant a warrant to enter 
any building or part of a building, or other place in which 
there is reasonable ground for believing that any diseased, 
unsound, or unwholesome food is kept or concealed, and 
to search for, seize, and carry it away. 
Clause 6 adds to previous definitions of “nuisances,” 
any inhabited house or building without an adequate 
supply, or access to an adequate supply, of wholesome 
water ; any inhabited house or building admitting rain or 
other water so as to be injurious to health; any well or 
pump, public or private, likely to be used by human 
beings for drinking purposes, or for the. preparation of 
human food, the supply of water from which is unwhole¬ 
some and injurious to health ; any pool, ditch, gutter, 
watercourse, privy, urinal, cesspool, drain, or ashpit, inju¬ 
rious to health, and any drain inlet not properly trapped ; 
and any animal kept in such a situation as to be injurious 
to health. 
Clause 13 relates to returns from medical officers of 
health and poor law medical officers respecting sickness 
within their respective districts, and as to sickness under 
treatment in or in connection with any institutions within 
their respective districts established for the treatment of 
the sick, and maintained wholly or partly by voluntary 
subscriptions, or by endowments, or grants from the Con¬ 
solidated Fund, or by local rates. 
Clause 26 provides that “ Every sanitary authority shall 
cause the water supplied for drinking or domestic pur¬ 
poses within its district, whether by itself or by any water¬ 
works company or by any other person, to be analysed at 
such times and by such person as the Local Government 
Board may direct. For the purpose of obtaining samples 
of the water so supplied, any analyst or duly authorized 
officer of the sanitary authority may enter upon any lands 
occupied by such waterworks company or person so sup¬ 
plying water and may take and carry away samples, of 
the water so supplied, and any person refusing admission 
to or obstructing any such analyst or duly authorized 
officer as aforesaid in the performance of his duties under 
this section shall, in addition to any other punishment to 
which he may be subject, be liable to a penalty not ex¬ 
ceeding forty shillings 
On Thursday, May 8, Sir Charles Adderley moved the 
second reading of the Bill, and it was intimated that the 
Government were favourable to the measure, but it was 
opposed on the ground that it was inexpedient until the 
laws relating to public health were consolidated, and the 
discussion was eventually adjourned. 
Trade Marks Registration Bill. 
A Bill providing for and regulating the Registration of 
Trade Marks,—a subject concerning which we continually 
receive requests for information,—was brought in on the; 
21st of April, when it was read a first time and ordered 
to be printed. It has been drawn up by Mr. Arthur Peel 
and Mr. Chichester Fortescue. 
The Bill provides that any person who is entitled to 
the exclusive use of any lawful trade mark, and any per¬ 
son who intends to adopt and use any trade mark which 
can be adopted for exclusive use by him as a lawful trade 
mark, may (subject to certain exceptions), whether he is; 
a British subject or not, and whether he is resident or 
carrying on business or using such trade mark in the 
United Kingdom or elsewhere, register such trade mark, 
under its provisions. Upon the registry of a trade mark, 
and so long as such registry remains in force, the regis¬ 
tered owner of such trade mark is to be deemed entitled 
to the exclusive use of such trade mark so far as regards, 
the description of goods to which it is appropriated in the 
register. No person, however, is to be entitled to have 
any trade mark registered which in the opinion of the 
Board of Trade is not or cannot become a lawful trade 
mark ; or is the name of a person or style of a firm only, 
unaccompanied by a mark sufficient to distinguish it fronx 
the same name or style when used by another person or 
firm ; or is identical with a trade mark appropriated to 
the same class of merchandize and belonging to a different- 
owner, and already registered or received by the registrar 
for registry ; or so nearly resembles such trade mark as to- 
be likely to deceive. 
Application for registry is to be made in a prescribed 
form, and facsimiles of the proposed trade mark are to be- 
deposited with the registrar, who, after examination and 
publication, is to register the applicant as owner of that- 
particular trade mark. Such registration, however, is to 
be dependent upon the payment of a fee (five pounds), and 
only to be in force so long as an annual payment (one 
pound) is made. If the owner of any registered trade 
mark fails to pay the annual fee within one month after 
it is duly demanded by the registrar, the registrar is em¬ 
powered to strike it out of the register. If within three, 
months after such demand the owner pays the annual fee. 
to the registrar, together with a prescribed additional fee, 
the registrar may restore such trade mark to the register. 
If after the lapse of three months and not more than twelve 
months the Board of Trade be satisfied by the owner that 
the nonpayment of the fee arose accidentally, or from cir¬ 
cumstances beyond the control of the owner, it may make- 
an order restoring such trade mark to the register ; but at 
the expiration of twelve months from such demand, if the 
trade mark is not meanwhile restored to the register, the 
registered owner of such trade mark shall be deemed to. 
have abandoned and to have lost his right to the exclusive, 
use of such trade mark for the description of goods to 
which it is appropriated in the register. 
The registrar of trade marks, on the original registry of 
a trade mark, and at any time while the registry of. suclx 
trade mark remains in force, is, on application, to give to 
the registered owner a certificate, certifying that the trade 
mark therein specified is at the date of the certificate duly 
registered. 
A person is not to be entitled to have registered, more 
than one trade mark appropriated to the same description, 
of goods ; and various provisions are made for joint pro¬ 
prietorship, transfer, changes of address, additions to trade, 
mark, etc. Falsification of the register, obtaining registry 
by false representation, and forgery of certificates, are- 
misdemeanours under the Act, punishable by fine and 
imprisonment, and the necessary proceedings may be con¬ 
ducted in the manner prescribed in the Summary Juris¬ 
diction Acts. 
