§ MR. BILLSON (Halifax)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will give the relative number or percentage of patent specifications with drawings to those without drawings, both for provisional protection and for sealed patents, for the year 1896; and will he state the approximate price paid by the Patent Office for lithographing (or otherwise printing) the drawings for the aforesaid specifications both for the provisional protection and for the sealed patents?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADEI will endeavour to supply the honourable Member with this information as nearly as possible in the form in which it is asked for.