fice.

"SECTION 11. If, upon the examination of any application for a patent,
the Commissioner of Patents shall make a report adverse to the
applicant, he shall furnish to the applicant, or his attorney, a written
statement of his reasons for such report, and the applicant may
thereupon amend his application, or, within ninety days thereafter, may
appeal to the Supreme Court in Banco; and, if such appeal shall be made,
said applicant shall file in the office of the Minister of the Interior,
at least twenty days before the hearing by said Court, his reasons for
appeal, specifically set forth in writing, and give to the said Minister
of the Interior at least ten days' notice of the time and place of such
hearing.

"SECTION 12. The Court shall hear and determine such appeal, and shall
file in the office of the Minister of the Interior a certificate of its
decision, and such decision shall determine the further proceedings in
the case.

"If such decision be in favor of the applicant, the Minister of the
Interior shall cause to be issued the patent applied for, or such
modification thereof as shall be decided by said Court.

"SECTION 13. Damages for the infringement of any patent may be
recovered, by action on the case, in the Supreme Court, in the name of
the party interested. And the party aggrieved shall also have his
remedy, according to the course of equity, to enjoin such infringement,
and to recover compensation therefor.

"SECTION 14. The term infringement, as used in this Act, is defined to
mean the making, using or vending of any patented article without the
written consent of the owner of the patent thereon, or of his agent,
authorized to grant such consent."

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect from and after the date of its
approval.

Approved this twenty-third day of June, A. D. 1888.

KALAKAUA REX.

BY THE KING:
L. A. THURSTON,
Minister of the Interior.

ACT 27.

AN ACT

TO AMEND SECTIONS 2 AND 3 OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO
REGULATE THE ISSUING OF PATENTS," APPROVED AUGUST 29, 1884,
AND TO ADD TWO NEW SECTIONS TO SAID ACT, AS AMENDED BY AN
ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT REGULATING THE ISSUING
OF PATENTS," APPROVED THE 23RD DAY OF JUNE, 1888, TO BE
CALLED SECTIONS 15 AND 16.

_Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the Republic of Hawaii:_

SECTION 1. That Section 2 of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the
issuing of Pate