14. Upon proof by the oath of one credible person before any justice of the peace, court, sheriff, or other person having jurisdiction in any proceeding under this Act that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any person has in his possession, or in any house, shop, or other place for sale, hire, distribution, or public exhibition, any copy, repetition, or imitation of any work of fine art in which, or in the design whereof, there shall be subsisting and registered Copyright under this Act, and that such copy, repetition, or imitation has been made without the consent in writing of the registered proprietor of such Copyright, it shall be lawful for such justice, court, sheriff, or other person as aforesaid before whom any such proceeding is taken, and he or they is and are hereby required to grant his or their warrant, to search in the daytime such house, shop, or other place, and if any such copy, repetition, or imitation, or any work which may be reasonably suspected to be such, shall be found therein, to cause the same to be brought before him or them, or before some other justice of the peace, court, sheriff, or other person as aforesaid, &c.

15. If any person, elsewhere than at his own house, shop, or place of business, shall hawk, carry about, offer, utter, distribute, or sell, or keep for sale, hire, or distribution, any unlawful copy, repetition, or colourable imitation of any work of fine art in which, or in the design whereof, there shall be subsisting and registered Copyright under this Act, all such unlawful articles may be seized without warrant, by any peace officer, or the proprietor of the Copyright, or any person authorised by him, and forthwith taken before any justice of the peace, court, sheriff, &c.

23. Under this Act there shall be kept at the hall of the Stationers’ Company by the registrar appointed by the said company for the purposes of the Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled “An Act to amend the Law of Copyright,” three several books or sets of books, which shall be called as follows:

(1.) The register of proprietors of Copyright in original drawings and pictures:

(2.) The register of proprietors of Copyright in original photographs and engravings:

(3.) The register of proprietors of Copyright in original works of sculpture.

In the first of such registers shall be entered a memorandum of every Copyright, or of any limited legal interest therein, to which any person shall claim to be entitled under this Act in any original drawing or painting, and also of any subsequent assignment of such Copyright or limited legal interest therein; and such memorandum shall contain a statement of the several particulars required by the form applicable for that purpose in Part I. of the third schedule to this Act; and in addition thereto the person registering shall annex to the memorandum under which he requires the entry to be made an outline, sketch, or photograph of the drawing or painting to which such memorandum refers, &c.

⁂ Again adverting to the case of Ireland, let it be remembered it was only so late as 1836 that an Act was passed “to extend the protection of Copyright in prints and engravings to Ireland.”

This Bill of Lord Westbury’s, after having been referred to a Select Committee of the House of Lords, has been withdrawn, but only for the present Session. The reason for withdrawal is found in amendments recommended by the Committee, one of which is that it should extend only to the United Kingdom and Channel Islands. The subjoined extracts from a printed defence of the Bill, by D. Roberton Blaine, Esq., will be read with interest, as showing how influential is the quarter whence the Bill emanates, and not less on account of their allusion to Patent-right and their other interesting contents.

This Bill has been prepared by direction of the Council of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in consequence of a memorial having been presented to the Council, signed by a considerable number of the most eminent artists and publishers resident in London....