thereof, if in his opinion the fame was incurred without wilful negligence or any intention of fraud, and to direct the profecution, if any fhall have been inftituted for the recovery thereof, to ceafe and be difcontinued, upon fuch terms or conditions as he may deem reafonable and juft. Provided, That nothing Not to afherein contained fhall be conftrued to affect fect cafes of previous in the right or claim of any perfon, to that part formation. of any fine, penalty or forfeiture, incurred by breach of either of the laws aforefaid, which fuch perfon may be entitled to by virtue of the faid laws, in cafes where a profecution has been commenced, or information has been given before the paffing of this act; the amount of which right and claim fhall be affeffed and valued by the judge of the district, in a fummary manner. ance of the Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Continuact fhall continue and be in force until the act. end of the next feffion of Congrefs, and no longer. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, APPROVED, May twenty-fixth, 1790: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XIII. An Act to continue in Force an Act paffed at the laft Seffion of Congress, entitled," An Act to regulate Proceffes in the Courts of the United States." (EXPIRED.) CHAPTER XIV. An Act for the Government of the Territory of the United States, fouth of the River Ohio. (EXPIRED.) Authors of maps, books; CHAPTER XV. An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by fecuring the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of fuch Copies, during the Times therein mentioned." Section 1. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the charts and United States of America in Congrefs affembled, That from and after the paffing of this act, the author and authors of any map, chart, book or books already printed within thefe United States, being a citizen or citizens thereof, or refident within the fame, his or their executors, administrators or affigns, who hath or have not transferred to any other perfon the and pur from them publication &c. copy-right of fuch map, chart, book or books,' fhare or fhares thereof; and any other perfon or perfons, being a citizen or citizens of thefe United States, or refidents therein, his or their executors, administrators or affigns, chafers who hath or have purchased or legally acquired to have the the copy-right of any fuch map, chart, book foleright of or books, in order to print, reprint, publifh or &c. for 14 vend the fame, fhall have the fole right and years; liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing and vending fuch map, chart, book or books, for the term of fourteen years from the recording recording the title thereof in the clerk's office, as is the title, herein after directed: And that the author and authors of any map, chart, book or books already made and compofed, and not printed or publifhed, or that fhall hereafter be made and compofed, being a citizen or citizens of these United States, or refident therein, and his or their executors, adminiftrators or affigns, fhall have the fole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing and vending fuch map, chart, book or books, for the like term of fourteen years from the time of recording the title thereof in the clerk's office as aforefaid. And if, at the expiration of the faid term, the author or authors, or any of them, be living, and a citizen or citizens of thefe United States, or refident therein, the fame exclufive right shall be continued further to him or them, his or their executors, admi- term of 14 niftrators or affigns, for the further term of years; fourteen years: Provided, he or they caufe the title thereof to be a fecond time re- recording corded and publifhed in the fame manner as is herein after directed, and that within fix months before the expiration of the first term of fourteen years aforefaid. they fhall Alfo, if liv ing at the end of that term, to have the the title, &c. Other per without the author how to be against and ; Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if fons print- any other perfon or perfons, from and after ing, &c. the recording the title of any map, chart, confent of book or books, and publishing the fame as aforefaid, and within the times limited and proceeded granted by this act, fhall print, reprint, pubpunished. lifh, or import, or caufe to be printed, reprinted, published, or imported from any foreign kingdom or state, any copy or copies of fuch map, chart, book or books, without the confent of the author or proprietor thereof, first had and obtained in writing, figned in the prefence of two or more credible witnesses or knowing the fame to be fo printed, reprinted, or imported, fhall publish, fell, or expofe to fale, or caufe to be published, fold, or expofed to fale, any copy of fuch map, chart, book or books, without fuch confent firft had and obtained in writing as aforefaid, then fuch offender or offenders fhall forfeit all and every copy and copies of fuch map, chart, book or books, and all and every fheet and fheets, being part of the fame, or either of them, to the author or proprietor of such map, chart, book or books, who shall forthwith deftroy the fame: And every fuch offender and offenders fhall alfo forfeit and pay the fum of fifty cents for every fheet which fhall be found in his or their poffeffion, either printed or printing, publifhed, imported or expofed to fale, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, the one moiety thereof to the author or proprietor of fuch map, chart, book or books who fhall fue for the fame, and the other moiety thereof, to and for the ufe of the United States, to be recovered by action of debt in any court of record in the United States, wherein the fame is cognizable. Provided always, That fuch action be commenced within one year after the cause of action fhall arife, and not afterwards. on which fhall be ob Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no perfon fhall be entitled to the benefit of this Conditions act, in cafes where any map, chart, book or the benefit books, hath or have been already printed and of this act published, unless he fhall firft depofit, and in tained. all other cafes, unless he fhall before publication depofit a printed copy of the title of fuch map, chart, book or books, in the clerk's office of the district court where the author or proprietor fhall refide: And the clerk of fuch court is hereby directed and required to record the fame forthwith, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, in the words following, (giving a copy thereof to the faid author or proprietor, under the feal of the court, if he fhall require the fame.) "District of in the to wit: Be it remembered, That on the day of year of the independence of the United States of America, A. B. of the said district, hath depofited in this office the title of a map, chart, book or books, (as the cafe may be) the right whereof he claims as author or proprietor, (as the cafe may be) in the words following, to wit: [here infert the title] in conformity to the act of the Congrefs of the United States, intituled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by fecuring the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of fuch copies, during the times therein mentioned." C. D. clerk of the district of For which the faid clerk fhall be entitled to receive fixty cents from the faid author or proprietor, and fixty cents for every copy under feal actually given to fuch author or proVOL. I. |