SECTION 9. This Act shall take effect and become a law from and after its publication, and "An Act to amend Section 255 and 256 of the Civil Code, and add a new Section to the Civil Code to be numbered Section 256a," approved the twenty-second day of June, A. D. 1868, is hereby repealed. Approved this twenty-ninth day of August, A. D. 1884. KALAKAUA REX. [A] Amended to read "fifteen." Act 27, Laws of 1896. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT TO REGULATE THE ISSUING OF PATENTS, APPROVED THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1884. _Be it Enacted by the King and the Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom_: SECTION 1. That the said Act shall be amended by the addition thereto of five new Sections, to be numbered Sections 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, to read as follows: "SECTION 10. The Commissioner of Patents is hereby authorized to administer oaths for all purposes connected with the business of his office. "SECTION 11. If, upon the examination of any application for a patent, the Commissioner of Patents shall make a report adverse to the applicant, he shall furnish to the applicant, or his attorney, a written statement of his reasons for such report, and the applicant may thereupon amend his application, or, within ninety days thereafter, may appeal to the Supreme Court in Banco; and, if such appeal shall be made, said applicant shall file in the office of the Minister of the Interior, at least twenty days before the hearing by said Court, his reasons for appeal, specifically set forth in writing, and give to the said Minister of the Interior at least ten days' notice of the time and place of such hearing. "SECTION 12. The Court shall hear and determine such appeal, and shall file in the office of the Minister of the Interior a certificate of its decision, and such decision shall determine the further proceedings in the case. "If such decision be in favor of the applicant, the Minister of the Interior shall cause to be issued the patent applied for, or such modification thereof as shall be decided by said Court. "SECTION 13. Damages for the infringement of any patent may be recovered, by action on the case, in the Supreme Court, in the name of the party interested. And the party aggrieved shall also have his remedy, according to the course of equity, to enjoin such infringement, and to recover compensation therefor. "SECTION 14. The term infringement, as used in this Act, is defined to mean the making, using or vending of any patented article without the written consent of the owner of the patent thereon, or of his agent, authorized to grant such consent." SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect from and after the date of its approval. Approved this twenty-third day of June, A. D. 1888. KALAKAUA REX. BY THE KING: L. A. THURSTON, Minister of the Interior. ACT 27. AN ACT