at country he is a citizen.

SECTION 6. On filing of any such application and the payment of the fees
required by law, the Commissioner of Patents shall examine the alleged
new invention or discovery, and if upon such examination it shall appear
that the claimant is justly entitled to a patent under the law and that
the same is sufficiently useful and important, he shall report
accordingly to the Minister of Interior, who shall cause a patent to be
issued therefor.

SECTION 7. Any person who makes any new invention or discovery, and
desires further time to mature the same, may on payment of the fees
required by law, file in the Interior Department a _caveat_ setting
forth the design thereof and its distinguishing characteristics, and
praying protection of his right until he shall have matured the
invention. Such _caveat_ shall be preserved in secrecy and shall be
operative for the term of one year from the filing thereof.

SECTION 8. The Commissioner of Patents shall be appointed by the
Minister of Interior and shall examine and report on all applications
for patents and shall receive for such services a fee of twenty dollars
for each application examined and reported by him, which fee shall be
paid by the applicant in advance. In addition to this fee the following
fees shall be charged all applicants for patents, upon filing each
original application for a patent, five dollars; and upon issuing a
patent, five dollars; and five dollars shall be charged for the filing
of a _caveat_.

SECTION 9. This Act shall take effect and become a law from and after
its publication, and "An Act to amend Section 255 and 256 of the Civil
Code, and add a new Section to the Civil Code to be numbered Section
256a," approved the twenty-second day of June, A. D. 1868, is hereby
repealed.

Approved this twenty-ninth day of August, A. D. 1884.

KALAKAUA REX.

[A] Amended to read "fifteen." Act 27, Laws of 1896.

AN ACT

TO AMEND AN ACT TO REGULATE THE ISSUING OF PATENTS, APPROVED THE
TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1884.

_Be it Enacted by the King and the Legislature of the
Hawaiian Kingdom_:

SECTION 1. That the said Act shall be amended by the addition thereto of
five new Sections, to be numbered Sections 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, to
read as follows:

"SECTION 10. The Commissioner of Patents is hereby authorized to
administer oaths for all purposes connected with the business of his
of