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act, either for damages, forfeitures, or penalties, full costs shall be al-lowed thereon, any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstand-ing-

Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That no action or prosecution shallbe maintained, in any case of forfeiture or penalty under this act, unlessthe same shall have been commenced within two years after the causeof action shall have arisen.

Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That the “Act for the encourage-ment of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, tothe authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein men-tioned,” passed May thirty-first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety,and the act supplementary thereto, passed April twenty-ninth, one thou-sand eight hundred and two, shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed:saving, always, such rights as may have been obtained in conformity totheir provisions.

Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That all and several the provisionsof this act, intended for the protection and security of copyrights, andproviding remedies, penalties, and forfeitures, in case of violation thereof,shall be held and construed to extend to the benefit of the legal proprie-tor or proprietors of each and every copyright heretofore obtained, ac-cording to law, during the term thereof, in the same manner as if suchcopyright had been entered and secured according to the directions ofthis act.

Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That, whenever a copyright hasbeen heretofore obtained by an author or authors, inventor, designer, orengraver, of any book, map, chart, print, cut, or engraving, or by a proprie-tor of the same: if such author or authors, or either of them, suchinventor, designer, or engraver, be living at the passage of this act, thensuch author or authors, or the survivor of them, such inventor, engraver,or designer, shall continue to. have the same exclusive right to his book,chart, map, print, cut, or engraving, with the benefit of each and all theprovisions of this act, for the security thereof, for such additional periodof time as will, together with the time which shall have elapsed from thefirst entry of such copyright, 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 under this act. And if such author or authors,inventor, designer, or engraver, shall not be living at the passage of thisact, then, his or their heirs, executors and administrators, shall be enti-tled to the like exclusive enjoyment of said copyright, with the benefitof each and all the provisions of this act for the security thereof, for theperiod of twenty-eight years from the first entry of said copyright, withthe like privilege of renewal to the widow, child, or children, of authoror authors, designer, inventor, or engraver, as is provided in relation tocopyrights originally secured under this act: Provided, That this actshall not extend to any copyright heretofore secured, the term of whichhas already expired.

Approved, February 3, 1831.

Limitation ofaction.

Repeal of actof May 31,1790, ch. 15.

Act of April29,1802, ch. 36.

Provisions ofthis act for se-curity of copy-rights, &c. toextend to exist-ing copyrights.

Extension ofexisting copy-rights.

Proviso.

Statute II.

Chap. XVII. —An Act to amend the act for taking the fifth census, (a) Feb. 3, 1831.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of MarchStates of America, in Congress assembled , That it shall and may be law- 1830, ch. 40.ful for such of the assistants to the marshals in the respective states andterritories, who have not, before the passage of this act, made their re-

(a) An act for the apportionment of representatives among the several states, according to the fifthcensus, May 23, 1832, ch. 91.

Resolution for the distribution of the returns of the fifth census, July 3, 1832.