The Copyright Act, 1836 — 6&7 Will. IV. C. 110
An Act to repeal so much of 54 Geo. III. c. 156 as requires the delivery of a Copy of every published Book to the Libraries of Sion College, the Four Universities of Scotland and of the King’s Inns in Dublin.
[20th August 1836.]
I. [Clause repealing 54 Geo. III. c. 156 in so far as it requires the delivery of books to the above libraries: Repealed Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1874.]
II. It shall be lawful for the Treasury from time to time to issue and pay out of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the person or persons or body politic or corporate, proprietors or managers of each of the aforesaid libraries, such an annual sum as may be equal in value to and compensation for the loss which any such library may sustain by reason of the said Act being repealed so far as relates to such library; such annual compensation to be ascertained and determined according to the value of the books which may have been actually received by each such library in such manner as the Treasury shall direct upon an average of the three years ending June 30, 1836.
III. The person or persons or body politic or corporate, proprietors or managers of the library for the use whereof any such book would have been delivered, shall and they are hereby required to apply the annual compensation hereby authorised to be made in the purchase of books of literature, science and the arts, for the use of and to be kept and preserved in such library. Provided always that it shall not be lawful for the Treasury to direct the issue of any sum of money for such annual compensation until sufficient proof shall have been adduced before them of the application of the money last issued to the purpose aforesaid.