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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 27 STAT. · March 3, 1893 · Chapter 215

Chapter 215. relating to copyrights

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CHAP. 215.— An Act relating to copyrights.March 3, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Copyrights.Extension of time limit for delivery of copies to Librarian of Congress, etc. That any author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book, or other article entitled to copyright, who has heretofore failed to deliver in the office of the Librarian of Congress, or in the, mail addressed to the Librarian of Congress, two complete copies of such book, or description or photograph of such article, within the time limited by title sixty, chapter three,[R.
S., title LX, chap. 3. p. 958](/us/rs/tLX/s/chap3/p958). of the Revised Statutes relating to copyrights, and the acts in amendment thereof,Vols. 18, p. 78; 22, p. 181; 26. p. 1106. and has complied with all other provisions thereof, who has, before the first day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-three, delivered at the office of the Librarian of Congress, or deposited in the mail addressed to the Librarian of Congress two complete printed copies of such book, or description, or photograph of such article, shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of said title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes and the acts in amendment thereof.
Approved, March 3, 1893.
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