An Act to substitute Stamp Duties for Fees on passing Letters Patent for Inventions, and to provide for the Purchase for the public Use of certain Indexes of Specifications.
WHEREAS it is expedient that the Fees payable in respect of Letters Patent for Inventions under the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852, and mentioned in the Schedule to such Act, be converted into Stamp Duties: Be it enacted, therefore, by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: