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as aforesaid; then such offender or offender

 shall forfeit the plate or plates on which sucl

 map, chart, musical composition, engraving

 cut, or print, shall be copied, and also, all ant

 every sheet thereof so copied or printed, a

 aforesaid, to the proprietor or proprietors o

 the copyright thereof; and shall further for

 felt one dollar for every sheet of such map

 chart, musical composition, print, cut, or en

 graving,. which may be found in his or the

 possession, printed or published, or exposed

 to sale, contrary to the true intent and mean

 ing of this act; the one moiety thereof to thu

 proprietor or proprietors, and the other meie

 ty to the use of the United States, to be reco

 vered in any court having jurisdiction thereof

 Sec. 8. .1nd De n further enacted, Ina

 nothing in this act shall be construed to ex

 tend to prohibit the importation or vending

 printing, or publishing, of any map, chart

 book, musical composition, print, or engrav'

 ing, written, composed, or made, by any per son not being citizen of the United States nor resident within the jurisdiction thereof.

 Sec. 9. find De it further enacted, That any person or persons, who shall print or publish any manuscript whatever, without the consent of the author or legal proprietor first obtained as aforesaid, if such author or proprietor be citizen of the United States, or resident therein, shall be liable to suffer and pay, tothe author or proprietor, all dama- ges occasioned by such injury, to be recover ed by a special action on the case, founded upon this act, in any court having cognizance thereof; and the several courts of the United States empowered to grant injunctions to pre- vent the violation of the rights of authors and inventors, are hereby empowered to grant iniunctions in like manner. accordins to the principles of equity, to restrain such publica- ton of any manuscript as aforesaid.

 Sec. TO- find be n further enacted, That, if any person of persons shall be sued or pro- secuted, for any matter, act, or thing done under ol by virtue f this act, he or they may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence.

 Sec. II. find De # further enacted, That, if any person or persons, from and after the passing of this act, shall print or publish any book, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, not having legally acqulr- ed the copyright thereof, and shall insert or impress that the same hath been entered ac- cordng to act of Congress, or words pur- porting the same, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay one hundred dollars; one moiety thereof to the person who shall sue for the same. and the other to the use of the United States, to be recovered by action of debt, in any court of record having cognizance thereof.

 Sec 12. And De t further enacted, That, in all recoveries under this act, either for damages, forfeitures, or penalties, full costs shall be allowed thereon, any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstand- ing.

 Sec. IS. .And be h further enacted, That no action or prosecution shall be maintained, in any case of forfeiture or penalty, under H.. ,I,al lpar, menced within two years after the cause of action shall have arisen.

 Sec. IA. find De H .further enacted, That the "Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned" !" passed May thirty-frst, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and the act supplement tary thereto, passed April twenty ninth, one eight hundred and two, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed: saving, always, such rights as may have been obtained in con formIty to their provisions

 Sec. Is. find 6e n further enacted, That all and several the provisions of this act, in tended for the protection and security of copy rights, and providing remedies, penalties, and in case of violation thereof, shall be held and construed to extend to the bene- fit of the legal proprietor or proprietors of each and every copy-right heretofore obtain ed, according to law, during the term thereof, in the same manner as if such copy-right had been entered and secured according to the d- rections of this act.

 Sec. Is. find De n further enacted, That whenever copyright has been heretofore obtained by an author or authors, inventor, designer, or engrayer, of any book, map, chart, print, cut. or engraving, or by pro prietor of the same: if such author or authors, or either of them, such inventor, designer, or engraver, be living at the passage of this act, then such author or authors, or the survivor of them, such inventor, engraver, or design CT, shall continue to have the same exclusive right to his book, chart, map, print, cut, or engraving, with the benefit of each and all the provisions of this act for the security thereof, for such additional period of time as will, together with the time which shall have elapsed from the first entry of such copy right, make up the term of twenty eight years, with the same right to his widow, child, or children, to renew the copy right at the expiration thereof, as is above provided in relation to copy-rights originally secured un- der this act. And if such author or authors, inventor, designer, or engraver, shall not be living at the passage of this act, then, his or their heirs, executors and administrators, shall be entitled to the like exclusive enjoy ment of said copyright, with the benefit of each and all the provisions of this act for the security thereof, for the period of twenty eight years from the first entry of said copy right, with the privilege of renewal to the widow, child, children, of author or au- thors, designer, inventor, or engrayer, as is provided in relation to copyrights originally secured under this act: Propidcd, that this act shall not extend to any copy-right hereto fore secured, the term of which has already expired. APPROVED, February 3, 1881.