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THE

STATUTES AT LARGE

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

FROM

DECEMBER, 1895, TO MARCH, 1897,

AND

RECENT TREATIES, CONVENTIONS, AND EXECUTIVE PROCLAMATIONS,

WITH

AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS
OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS.
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EDITED, PRINTED, AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF
CONGRESS, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

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VOL. XXIX.
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WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1897

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FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 3, 4. 1896, 1897.            481
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      CHAP. 4.—An Act To amend title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes,
relating to copyrights.

      Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-nine hun-
dred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby,
amended so as to read as follows:
      "SEC. 4966. Any person publicly performing or representing any
dramatic or musical composition for which a copyright has been

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482            FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 4,5. 1897.
obtained, without the consent of the proprietor of said dramatic or
musical composition, or his heirs or assigns, shall be liable for damages
therefor, such damages in all cases to be assessed at such sum, not less
than one hundred dollars for the first and fifty dollars for every subse-
quent performance, as to the court shall appear to be just. If the
unlawful performance and representation be willful and for profit, such
person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
be imprisoned for a period not exceeding one year. Any injunction
that maybe granted upon hearing after notice to the defendant by any
circuit court of the United States, or by a judge thereof, restraining
and enjoining the performance or representation of any such dramatic
or musical composition may be served on the parties against whom
such injunction may be granted anywhere in the United States, and
shall be operative and may be enforced by proceedings to punish for
contempt or otherwise by any other circuit court or judge in the United
States; but the defendants in said action, or any or either of them, may
make a motion in any other circuit in which he or they may be engaged
in performing or representing said dramatic or musical composition to
dissolve or set aside the said injunction upon such reasonable notice to
the plaintiff as the circuit court or the judge before whom said motion
shall be made shall deem proper; service of said motion to be made on
the plaintiff in person or on his attorneys in the action. The circuit
courts or judges thereof shall have jurisdiction to enforce said injunction
and to hear and determine a motion to dissolve the same, as herein pro-
vided, as fully as if the action were pending or brought in the circuit
in which said motion is made.
      "The clerk of the court, or judge granting the injunction, shall, when
required so to do by the court hearing the application to dissolve or
enforce said injunction, transmit without delay to said court a certified
copy of all the papers on which the said injunction was granted that
are on file in his office."
      Approved, January 6,1897.

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Transcription by: Megan Wren