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(4.) After describing the details of the invention with precision, it shall contain a distinct claim for the especial novelty thereof, and (5.) A declaration that no Letters Patent have been applied for elsewhere by the applicant for the invention in respect of which the application is made. (6.) Every copy of any specification shall be legibly written upon pages of foolscap paper, and upon one side only of each page. (7.) The drawings (if any) accompanying such specification shall be made upon parchment or tracing cloth, and the following directions must be observed in making copies of drawings:— a. Drawing paper, tracing paper, or tracing cloth may be used ; should be as white, clean, and smooth as possible, and should be rolled up and not folded. b. The drawings should be made with Indian ink freshly rubbed down, quite black, free from grit and glaze. Pale ink must on no account be used. No colour but black is allowed. All lines, writing, figures and letters must be clearly and firmly drawn, so as to allow of their being visible when considerably reduced by the process of photo-lithography. All shading must be by black lines sufficiently wide apart for the purpose aforesaid. 5. The notice of an intention to proceed with an application for Letters Patent must be delivered at the Patent Office at least ninety days before the expiration of the period of protection. 6. When in any case the Patent Officer deems it expedient, he may make an order that the applicant or his agent, and the objector or his agent, shall deposit before the hearing such sum as the Patent Officer may think fit to meet any costs of the hearing, or costs connected therewith or incident thereto. 7. When an applicant is desirous of submitting an amended specification or drawing for the allowance of the Patent Officer, such amended specification or drawing must bo left at the Patent Office at least five days preceding the day of hearing. 8. No amendment or alteration at the instance of the applicant will be allowed in any specification or drawing after the specification shall have been registered, except on the hearing of the application for Letters Patent, and then only in the cases permitted by the proviso to the seventh section of the said Act, or for the correction of merely clerical errors, or of omissions made per incuriam. 9. The Patent Officer, or in case of his illness or absence from Wellington, the Eegistrar of Patents, shall have power to adjourn from time to time the hearing of any application for Letters Patent. 10. In the event of any accidental default in the publication of any appointment as required by the tenth section of the said Act, it shall be lawful for the Patent Officer to order that tho default may be rectified in such manner as he shall think fit; but nothing herein shall be deemed to authorize an extension of time beyond the period of six months from the date of deposit of the specification. 11. Notwithstanding the issue of the Patent Officer's warrant, no Letters Patent shall be prepared until application in writing shall have been made by the applicant or his agent for the preparation of the Letters Patent, and until the fee payable on obtaining Letters Patent shall have been paid. 12. If any Letters Patent be lost or destroyed, duplicate Letters Patent of tiro like tenor and effect, and sealed and dated as of the same day as such lost or destroyed Letters Patent, may be issued upon evidence of such loss or destruction being produced to the satisfaction of the Patent Officer. The fee of ten shillings shall be paid on making application for new Letters Patent, and the fee of two pounds on obtaining the same. Letters of Eegistration. 13. Every application for Letters of Eegistration shall be accompanied by— (1.) A certified copy of the original Letters Patent and specifications and drawings (if any) : (2.) By a duplicate copy of such specification and drawings : (3.) By a statutory declaration, by a person conversant with the laws of the country or colony in which the said Letters Patent have been granted, that he has searched the Eegistry of Patents in the country or colony in which the patent has issued, and that such Letters Patent are, according to the laws of that country or colony, still in force, and not assigned or parted with : Such declaration shall be made by some person other than the person claiming Letters of Eegistration. (4.) By a statutory declaration by the applicant that he is the person named in the original Letters Patent or Letters of Eegistration, and the bond fide holder thereof : (4.) Provided that if the applicant be the assignee of the Letters Patent, or of any interest therein which would entitle him to Letters of Eegistration, he shall furnish, in lieu of the said declarations, a certified copy of the deed of assignment, and a statutory declaration that he is the person named in the copy deed, and that it is a true copy of the original deed. 14. The directions contained in Eegulation No. 4, as to writing, material, and size of specifications, shall apply to all manuscript specifications accompanying applications for Letters of Be»istration. The directions as to copies of such specifications shall apply to the duplicate required of such specifications; and the directions as to drawings and copies of drawings shall apply to tho drawings and duplicates of drawings (if any) accompanying such specifications. Printed specifications and drawings of any size and on paper will bo received if the duplicates of drawings are capable of being photo-lithographed.

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