CHAP. 96.

An Act to confer on the Commissioner of Patents certain powers for the relief of the Mycenian Marble Company of Canada (Limited).

[Assented to 29th June, 1897.]

HEREAS the Mycenian Marble Company of Canada Preamble. (Limited) has, by its petition, represented that on and prior to the second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, it was, by divers mesne assignments, the holder and owner of letters patent under the Great Seal of Canada, dated the third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, for an improvement in artificial marble, being patent number thirty-five thousand six hundred and ninety-six; that on or before the expiration of the first five years of the said letters patent, which were granted for a term of fifteen years (only the partial fee for the first five years being paid upon the issue thereof), the said Mycenian Marble Company of Canada (Limited) was entitled, upon application therefor, to a certificate of renewal of the same as provided by the twenty-second section of The Patent R.S.C., c. 61. Act, chapter sixty-one of the Revised Statutes of Canada; that the said Mycenian Marble Company of Canada (Limited), and others had, prior to the said second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, invested large sums of money in the purchase of the said letters patent, and in the manufacture of artificial marble thereunder; that the said Company inadvertently omitted to make such application and to pay the further fee required for the renewal or extension of the said patent; that it was the intention of the said Company to make such application and to pay such fee, and that the omission was caused solely by the inadvertence of the officer of the Company whose duty it was to make such application; that on and after the third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, the Commissioner of Patents could not then accept the further fee and grant such renewal certificate; and whereas the said Company has petitioned for an Act authorizing the Commissioner of Patents to receive the application of the said Company and the fee for the remainder of

R.S.C., c. 61.

of Patents may extend duration of

letters patent.

the term of fifteen years for which the said letters patent were conditionally granted, and to grant and issue to the said Company the certificate of payment provided by The Patent Act, and an extension of the term of such letters patent in as ample a manner as if application had been duly made within five years from the date of such letters patent, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in The Patent Act, being chapter sixty-one of the Revised Statutes, or in the Commissioner letters patent mentioned in the preamble, the Commissioner of Patents may receive from the Mycenian Marble Company of Canada (Limited), the application and usual fee for a renewal or extension of the said letters patent for the remainder of the term of fifteen years from the date thereof, and grant and issue to the said Mycenian Marble Company of Canada (Limited), the certificate of payment or of renewal provided by The Patent Act, and an extension of the period of the duration of the said letters patent to the full term of fifteen years, in as full and ample a manner as if application. therefor had been duly made within five years from the date of the issue of such letters patent.

OTTAWA Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.

CHAP. 97.

An Act for the Relief of Adeline Myrtle Tuckett

Lawry.

[Assented to 21st May, 1897.]

HEREAS Adeline Myrtle Tuckett Lawry, of the city of Preamble. Hamilton, in the county of Wentworth and province

of Ontario, wife of Thomas Henry Lawry, of the same place, manufacturer, hath by her petition set forth that, on the twenty-ninth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, she was lawfully married, at the said city of Hamilton, to the said Thomas Henry Lawry; that they cohabited together as husband and wife until the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, when she learned that he had committed adultery with a certain woman; that he has committed adultery on several occasions; that she has ever since continued to live apart from him; and whereas she has humbly prayed that the said marriage be dissolved and that she may be authorized to marry again and that such further relief may be afforded her as is deemed meet; and whereas she has proved the said allegations of her petition and it is expedient that the prayer thereof should be granted: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

dissolved.

1. The said marriage between the said Adeline Myrtle Marriage Tuckett Lawry and Thomas Henry Lawry, her husband, is hereby dissolved and shall be henceforth null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

2. The said Adeline Myrtle Tuckett Lawry may at any time Right to hereafter marry any man whom she might lawfully marry if marry again. the said marriage with the said Thomas Henry Lawry had not

been solemnized.

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.