chapter 111, as above indicated. These two chapters have been amended

only by the act of 1898 placing copyrights, patents and trade marks under the jurisdiction of the Colonial Secretary, an officer provided for in the act, and the act of 1899 reducing the copyright fee of one dollar to twenty-five cents in the case of photographs. Copyright in Newfoundland is on the same general lines as in Canada, following in large part the precedent of the United States, and is for a term of twenty-eight years with renewal for fourteen years--local protection as distinguished from Imperial protection being given to works printed and published--or in the case of works of art, produced--within Newfoundland, on condition of registration with the Colonial Secretary and deposit with him of two copies of a printed work, bearing statutory copyright notice, or of the description of a work of art,--which work must bear the signature of the artist,--one of the two copies being for the use of the Legislative Library.

{Sidenote: British West Indies, etc.}

In the British West Indies, Jamaica has domestic legislation of 1887 under the Imperial act of 1886, for the British term, requiring the deposit at an office notified in the Jamaica _Gazette_ of three copies within one month from publication--one for the British Museum, one for official use, and one for a designated public library. The Governor may declare one copy sufficient where deposit of three copies would inflict injury. Trinidad, under an ordinance of 1888, provides similarly for the deposit of three copies in the office of a Registrar of copying rights, with optional but not obligatory registration of playright. The minor British islands in the West Indies, the Bahamas, British Guiana and British Honduras, seem not to have provided local legislation, but remain exclusively under Imperial law.

{Sidenote: Australian code of 1905}

The copyright act, 1905, of the Commonwealth of Australia, assented to December 21, 1905, is a comprehensive code superseding previous copyright legislation by the several states formerly separate colonies, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, although it preserves the rights in existing copyrights taken out under the several state acts. International copyrights under acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and state copyrights may be registered under this act and then enforced throughout the Commonwealth. This act covers (Part III) literary, musical and dramatic copyright and separately (Part IV) artistic copyright. Part I, preliminary, deals with definitions, and Part II with administration.