Chapter XL. for the Relief of the Heirs of Almond D
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Chap. XL.— An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Almond D. Fisk, deceased.Feb. 17, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Phebe Ann Fisk, asExtension of the patent to Almond D. Fisk may be applied for. executrix of Almond D. Fisk, deceased, who obtained a patent for a “new and useful improvement in coffins,” dated the fourteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for fourteen years, which has now expired, be authorized to apply to the commissioner of patents for an extension of said patent for seven years, under the rules and regulations now in force for the extension of patents, as if she had made application previous to its expiration, as required by law; and the Commissioner is directed to investigate and decide the application for extension on the same evidence and in the same manner as other applications for extension are decided, notwithstanding the surrender and reissue of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty: *Provided,* That the application for extension be made within thirty days from the approval of this act, and the decision of the commissioner be rendered within ninety days from the filing of said application in the patent office: *And provided, also,* That nothing herein shall be so construed as to hold responsible in damages any persons who may have manufactured coffins containing the aforesaid improvements between the expiration of the patent and the approval of this act.
Approved, February 17, 1865.