Chapter CI. for the Relief of Isaac Adams
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Chap. CI.— An Act for the Relief of Isaac Adams.August 16, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatCertain letters patent to Isaac Adams for printing presses extended to March 2, 1864. the letters-patent granted to Isaac Adams on the fourteenth day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty, for new and useful improvements in the printing-machine called the power printing-press, and also letters-patent granted to the said Adams on the second day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for additional improvements in the power printing press, be, and the same are hereby, renewed, revived, and extended, for the term commencing with the date of the passage of this act, andTHIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 102, 103, 104. 1856.463 ending on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the benefit of said Adams, his heirs and legal representatives; and the Commissioner of Patents is hereby directed, upon the presentation of said patents, and the payment of the fees and charges provided by law, to renew, revive, and extend said patents, by making a certificate on eachCertificate of this extension to be indorsed on patent and record.Effect of this extension. of said patents, or upon certified copies thereof, of such extension, in the name of the said Isaac Adams; and the said Commissioner is hereby directed to cause it to be entered on the record in the Patent-Office.
And the said patents, so renewed and extended, shall have the same effect in law as if originally granted for terms extending to the end of the term to which they are extended by this act, in the form herein provided: *Provided, however,* That said renewed and extended patents, respectively, shall be open to legal inquiry and decision, in the same manner as if issued under the general law relating to patents: *And provided, further,*Persons using the presses may continue to use them.
That all persons enjoying the lawful use of the improved machines so patented by the said Isaac Adams in his said patents, and the purchaser of any machine so in use, or lawfully constructed therefor, may continue to use the same as if this act had not been passed. Approved, August 16, 1856. Chapter CII: restoring Joshua Mercer to the Roll of invalid Pensioners. 11 Stat. 463 1856-08-16 Chapter CII Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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