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relates to any of his productions deposited or registered for copyright within the period of years stated, not reserved or

disposed of as provided for in this Act: And provided fur- Manuscript

ther. That no manuscript of an unpublished work shall be copies to be

destroyed during its term of copyright without specific no- Preserved tice to the copyright proprietor of record, permitting him to claim and remove it.

Sec. 61. That the register of copyrights shall receive. Fees and the persons to whom the services designated are ren- dered shall pay, the following fees: For the registration of Fee for any work subject to copyright, deposited under the pro- registration visions of this Act, one dollar, which sum is to include a certificate of registration under seal : Provided, That in the Fee for case of photographs the fee shall be fifty cents where a cer- certificate tificate is not demanded. For every additional certificate of registration made, fifty cents. For recording and certi- Fee for f ying any instrument of writing for the assignment of copy- recording right, or any such license specified in section one, subsec- assignment tion (e), or for any copy of such assignment or license, duly Fee for copy certified, if not over three hundred words in length, one of assign- dollar ; if more than three hundred and less than one, thou- ™®'** sand words in length, two dollars; if more than one thou- sand words in length, one dollar additional for each one thousand words or fraction thereof over three hundred words. For recording the notice of user or acquiescence Fee for re- specified in section one, subsection (e), twenty-five cents cording no- for each notice if not over fifty words, and an additional ^'^ °^ '•®®' twenty-five cents for each additional one hundred words. For comparing any copy of an assignment with the record Fee for of such document in the copyright office and certifying the comparing same under seal, one dollar. For recording the extension assignment or renewal of copyright provided for in sections twenty- ^®® *°f three and twenty-four of this Act, fifty cents. For record- '®'^^^'*™S ing the transfer of the proprietorship of copyrighted arti- pgg f^^ cles, ten cents for each title of a book or other article, in recording addition to the fee prescribed for recording the instrument transfer of assignment. For any requested search of copyright office Fee for records, indexes, or deposits, fifty cents for each full hour search of time consumed in making such search: Provided, That