§ MR. SEXTONasked the President of the Board of Trade, What department is responsible for the failure, since 1877, to supply to the Public Record Office, Four Courts, Dublin, the Annual Index to the Register of Patents applied for and granted in the United Kingdom; and, whether the indices in question will be now supplied?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEsaid, that his right hon. Friend had asked him to answer this Question for him. The Act of Parliament required all these specifications to be enrolled; but that statutory obligation had not been extended to indexing. The omission since 1877 had been accidental, and would be at once remedied. His right hon. Friend added that copies of the specifications had been sent to Trinity College, Dublin, and also to the National Library, Kildare Street, where they could be seen free of charge.