called Section 16.

"SECTION 16. Patents may be granted and issued and re-issued to the
assignee of the inventor or discoverer, but the assignment must first be
filed in the office of the Minister of the Interior. And in all cases of
an application by an assignee for the issue of a patent, the application
shall be made, and the specification signed as provided by law by the
inventor or discoverer. And in all cases of an application for a
re-issue of any patent, the application must be made, and the corrected
specification signed by the inventor or discoverer, if he is living."

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect from the date of its approval.

Approved this 12th day of May, A. D. 1896.

SANFORD B. DOLE,
President of the Republic of Hawaii.

AN ACT

TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF COPYRIGHTS.

_Be it Enacted by the King and the Legislature of the
Hawaiian Kingdom_:

SECTION 1. That from and after the date of the passage of this Act the
author of any map, book, chart, musical composition, print, cut,
engraving, photograph, painting, drawing or statue, or the author of any
model, or design, intended to be perfected and completed as a work of
the fine arts, or the heirs, executors or administrators of a deceased
author thereof, may procure a certificate of copyright therefor in the
manner hereinafter provided.

SECTION 2. Before anyone shall receive a certificate of copyright, an
application therefor shall be filed in the office of the Minister of the
Interior, verified by oath of the applicant, that such applicant is the
original and first author of the map, book, chart, musical composition,
print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, statue, model or
design, intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine
arts, upon which a certificate of copyright is applied for, or if such
application shall be made by the legal representative of a deceased
author, such representative shall make oath that he believes that the
said deceased author was the original and first author of the said map,
book, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph,
painting, drawing or statue, or the model or design intended to be
perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, and such applicant
shall state of what country he is a citizen. Such application shall be
accompanied by said oath, and by a copy of the said map, book, chart,