THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1227

towards the North by lines one thousand two hun-in pursuance and exercise of the above-recited
dred and twenty-five (1225) links, seven hundred
power and authority, doth hereby make the follow-
(700) links, two hundred and seventy (270) links,
ing rules and regulations for the purposes of the
four thousand three hundred (4300) links, five hun-
said Act, in lieu of the rules and regulations made
dred and fifty (550) links, ninety (90) links, two
on the twentieth day of September, one thousand
hundred and twenty-five (225) links, six hundred and
eight hundred and seventy-one, and the fourteenth
seventy-five (675) links, one thousand three hundred
day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
and fifty (1350) links, two hundred and twenty-five
three, which are hereby repealed, except as to all
(225) links, three hundred (300) links, four hundred
proceedings, acts, matters, and things lawfully done,
(400) links, two hundred and fifty (250) links, two
taken, or commenced under the said regulations, or
hundred (200) links, one thousand nine hundred and
any of them :----
fifty (1950) links, and one thousand eight hundred
PATENT OFFICE.
(1800) links; towards the East by a line one thou-

1. For the purposes of "The Patents Act, 1870"
   sand five hundred (1500) links to the Strand, thence
   (hereinafter called "the said Act), there shall be
   along the Strand fifty (50) links; thence by Suburban
   attached to the Colonial Secretary's Office, at Wel-
   Section No. 96, by the middle of Stanley Street from
   lington, an office which shall be the office of the
   the south-western angle of Section No. 11 of the
   Patent Officer, and which shall be called the Patent
   City of Auckland to the junction of Stanley Street
   Office.
   with Grafton Road, by the middle of Grafton Road
   The Patent Office shall be the office or place for
   from the junction of Stanley Street to the northern
   the purposes mentioned or referred to in the seventh,
   boundary of Lot No. 41 of Suburban Section No. 3,
   nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-third, twenty-ninth,
   by the northern boundary of said Lot No. 41 and
   thirtieth, and thirty-first sections of the said Act.
   northern boundary of Lot No. 8 of Suburban Section
2. For the purposes of the said Act, and par-
   No. 15, by the middle of Symonds Street from the
   ticularly for those specified in the seventh, nine-
   north-western angle of said Lot No. 8 to the junction
   teenth, twentieth, twenty-third, twenty-fourth,
   of the Karangahape Road; towards the South by
   twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first, thirty-second,
   the middle of Karangahape Road from Symonds
   and thirty-fourth sections of the said Act, there
   Street to the junction of Ponsonby Road and by the
   shall be an officer who shall be called the Registrar
   middle of Ponsonby Road; and again on the West
   of Patents, and who shall have the care and custody
   by the middle of Franklin Street to the original
   of all registers and documents in the Patent Office,
   high-water mark of Freeman's Bay, the starting
   and to whom all notices or instruments required or
   point: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.
   authorized by the said Act or these regulations may
   Given under the hand of His Excellency the
   be delivered.
   Most Honorable George Augustus Con-
   The person now fulfilling the office of Registrar of
   stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
   Patents shall be deemed to have been appointed
   Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and
   hereunder.
   Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the
3. The Patent Office will not correspond, and there-
   County of York, in the Peerage of the
   fore all business with it must be transacted per-
   United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave
   sonally by the applicants or by their agents; and,
   of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
   upon any application or hearing, the applicant may
   in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
   appear personally or by agent.
   Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
   LETTERS PATENT.
   Council; Knight Grand Cross of the Most
4. Every specification relating to applications for
   Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
   Letters Patent shall be subject to the following con-
   Saint George; Governor and Commander-
   ditions :----
   in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
   (1.) It must be written in a large, legible hand,
   of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
   or printed in fair legible type, and shall be in
   and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued
   the form contained in the First Schedule to
   under the Seal of the said Colony, at
   the said Act, or to the like effect.
   Christchurch, this fifth day of September,
   (2.) It shall be written bookwise upon both
   in the year of our Lord one thousand
   sides of one or more skins of parchment, and
   eight hundred and seventy-eight.
   every page thereof shall be twenty inches in
   G. S. WHITMORE.
   length by fifteen inches in breadth.
   GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
   (3.) The title of the invention must state dis-
   Rules and Regulations under "The Patents Act,
   tinctly and specifically the nature and object
   1870." of the invention, and every specification must
   NORMANBY, Governor.
   be limited to one invention.
   ORDER IN COUNCIL.
   (4.) After describing the details of the invention
   At the Government House, at Wellington, this
   with precision, it shall contain a distinct claim
   second day of September, 1878.
   for the especial novelty thereof, and
   Present:
   (5.) A declaration that no Letters Patent have
   HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
   been applied for elsewhere by the applicant
   WHEREAS by the sixth section of "The Patents
   for the invention in respect of which the
   Act, 1870," it is enacted that it shall be law-
   application is made.
   ful for the Governor in Council from time to time
5. Every copy of any specification shall be legibly
   to make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent
   written upon pages of foolscap paper, and
   with the provisions of the said Act, as may appear
   upon one side only of each page.
   to be necessary and expedient for the purposes of the
6. The drawings (if any) accompanying such
   said Act:
   specification shall be made upon parchment
   Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor,
   or tracing cloth, and the following directions
   by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
   must be observed in making copies of draw-
   tive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, and
   ings:----
   a. Drawing paper, tracing paper, or tracing
   cloth may be used; should be as white, clean,
   and smooth as possible, and should be rolled
   up and not folded.