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demand ought to be complied with, to order such information to
be given and such production to be made within a reasonable
time to be fixed by him.
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.
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