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 bep. 12 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, 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, if the same shall have been published, or, if the same shall not have been published, a copy of the title thereof. All such copies shall be preserved in the Department of the Interior, and all such titles shall be recorded in a book, to be kept for that purpose, in said Department. If the said map, book, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, or statue, or, if the said model or design, intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, shall not have been published at the time of filing said application, the person or persons making said application shall, in order to the validity of the certificate of copyright, provided in Section 4 of this Act, deliver or cause to be delivered to the Minister of the Interior, a copy of such map, book, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, or statue, or of the model or design intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, within one month after the publication thereof in this Kingdom.

Section 3. Upon filing such application the applicant shall pay to the Minister of the Interior a fee of five dollars.

Section 4. Upon the filing of such application so accompanied, and the payment of such fee, the Minister of the Interior shall cause to be issued to the applicant a Certificate of Copyright, under the seal of the Department of the Interior, granting to him and to his heirs, executors, administratorsp. 13 and assigns the exclusive right to print, re-print, publish, use and vend the said map, book, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, or statue, or the said model or design intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, throughout the Hawaiian Kingdom, for the term of twenty years from the date thereof.

Section 5. No person shall maintain an action for the infringement of his copyright, unless he shall give notice thereof by inserting in each copy of his map, book, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, or statue, or in his model or design, intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, on the title page, or on the page immediately following it, if it be a book, or if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing or statue, or model or design intended to be perfected and completed as a work of the fine arts, by inscribing upon some visible portion thereof, or of the substance on which the same shall be mounted, the words "Hawaiian Copyright," and the name of the person to whom the Certificate of Copyright was issued, and its date, thus: "Hawaiian Copyright by A. B., June 10, 1888."

Section 6. In the construction of this Act the words "print," "cut," and "engraving," shall be applied only to pictorial illustrations, or works connected with the fine arts, and no prints or labels designed to be used for any other articles of manufacture shall be certified under the Copyright Law.

Section 7. An Act entitled "An Act to Encourage Learning in this Kingdom by Securing the Copies of Charts, Maps and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies,"p. 14 approved the thirty-first day of December, 1864, and all other laws, and parts of laws, in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.

Section 8. 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.

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