at
shall Sue for the same, to be Recovered in any of Her Majesty's Courts
of Record at Westminster, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or
Information, in which no Wager of Law, Essoign, Privilege, or
Protection, or more than one Imparlance, shall be allowed.

And whereas many Persons may through Ignorance Offend against this Act,
unless some Provision be made whereby the Property in every such Book,
as is intended by this Act to be Secured to the proprietor or
Proprietors thereof, may be ascertained, as likewise the Consent of such
Proprietor or Proprietors for the Printing or Reprinting of such Book or
Books may from time to time be known; Be it therefore further Enacted by
the Authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act contained shall be
construed to extend to subject any Bookseller, Printer, or other Person
whatsoever, to the Forfeitures or Penalties therein mentioned, for or by
reason of the Printing or Reprinting of any Book or Books without such
Consent, as aforesaid, unless the Title to the Copy of such Book or
Books hereafter Published shall, before such Publication be Entered, in
the Register-Book of the Company of Stationers, in such manner as hath
been usual, which Register-Book shall at all times be kept at the Hall
of the said Company, and unless such Consent of the Proprietor or
Proprietors be in like manner Entered, as aforesaid, for every of which
several Entries, Six Pence shall be Paid, and no more; which said
Register-Book may, at all Reasonable and Convenient times, be Resorted
to, and Inspected by any Bookseller, Printer, or other Person, for the
Purposes before mentioned, without

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any Fee or Reward; and the Clerk of the said Company of Stationers,
shall, when and as often as thereunto required, give a Certificate under
his Hand of such Entry or Entries, and for every such Certificate, may
take a Fee not exceeding Six Pence.

Provided nevertheless, That if the Clerk of the said Company of
Stationers, for the time being shall Refuse or Neglect to Register, or
make such Entry or Entries, or to give such Certificate, being thereunto
Required by the Author or Proprietor of such Copy or Copies, in the
Presence of Two or more Credible Witnesses, That then such Person and
Persons so refusing, Notice being first duly given of such Refusal, by
an Advertisement in the Gazette, shall have the like Benefit, as if such
Entry or Entries, Certificate or Certificates had been duly made and
given; and