Chapter CII. to amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the Progress of the useful Arts."March 3, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatRenewal of oath
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Chap. CII.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the Progress of the useful Arts."March 3, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatRenewal of oath.Repeal of part of 1836, ch. 102, §7.Vol. v. p. 119. so much of section seven of the act entitled “An act to promote the progress of the useful arts.” approved July four, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as requires a renewd of the oath, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That,Reduction of pay of examiners ana clerks, may be made up. whereas, the falling off of the revenue of the patent-office required a reduction of the compensation of the examinera and clerks, or other employees in the office after the thirty-first day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, that the commissioner of patents be, and he is hereby, authorized, whenever the revenue of the office will justify him in so doing, to pay them such sums, in addition to what they shall already have received, as will make their compensation the same as it was at that time.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatDate of patents. every patent shall be dated as of a day not later than six months after the time at which it was passed and allowed, and notice thereof sent to the applicant or his agent. AndIf final fee is not then paid, patent to be withheld, and the invention become public property.Proviso. if the final fee for such patent be not paid within the said six months, the patent shall be withheld, and the invention therein described shall become public property, as against the applicant therefor: *Provided,* That in all cases where patents have been allowed previous to the passage of this act, the said six months shall be reckoned from the date of such passage.
Approved, March 3, 1863.