MR. SAMUELSONasked Mr. Attorney General, Whether he will, before the Second Reading of the Patents for Inventions (No. 2) Bill, lay upon the Table a Statement showing, in respect of each year from 1870 to 1878 inclusive, the number of Patents then in their fourteenth year, the number of applications to the Privy Council for prolongation, and the number of prolongations actually granted?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir JOHN HOLKER), in reply, said, that he would lay on the Table, as soon as he obtained it, the statement referred to in the hon. Member's Question. He should not like to promise, however, that if he had an opportunity of taking the second reading of the Patents for Inventions (No. 2) Bill he would forego the advantage, merely because the statement was not ready.