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148 6. The Census, Statistics and the Registration of Statistics;

7. Patents of Invention;

8. Copyright;

9. Industrial Designs and Trade Marks.

6. The Governor in Council may at any time assign any other duty or power to the Minister of Agriculture, and may also assign any of the duties or powers hereinbefore enumerated to any other Member of the Privy Council of Canada.

7. The Minister of Agriculture shall make and submit to the Governor an annual report of the proceedings of his Department, to be laid before both Houses of Parliament within twenty-one days from the commencement of each session.

8. The Act of the Legislature of the late Province of Canada, passed in the twenty-fifth year of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter seven, is hereby repealed,—and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act, in so far as they are inconsistent herewith, are also repealed.

[Assented to 22nd May, 1868.]

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. The Minister of Agriculture shall cause to be kept in his Office, a book to be called the "Register of Copyrights" in which proprietors of literary, scientific, and artistical works or compositions, may have the same registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

2. The Minister of Agriculture may, from time to time, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, make such rules and regulations, and prescribe such forms, as may appear to him necessary and expedient for the purposes of this Act; such regulations and forms being circulated in print for the use of the public shall be deemed to be correct for the purposes of this Act, and all documents, executed according the same and accepted by the said Minister of Agriculture, shall be held valid so far as relates to all official proceedings under this Act.

3. Any person resident in Canada or any person being British subject, and resident in Great Britain or Ireland, who is