Chapter CC. *for the Relief of Sylvanus Sawyer and William E
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CHAP. CC.— An Act *for the Relief of Sylvanus Sawyer and William E. Hard*. March 2, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Patents of Sylvanus Sawyer, and that of William E. Ward may be extended. That the commissioner of patents, upon due application made to him, is authorized to extend the patents of Sylvanus Sawyer, for an improvement in machinery for cutting rattan, dated June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and which expired on the twenty-fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and the patent of William E.
Ward, for an improved machine for making rivets and screw blanks, dated December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and which expired on the twenty-eighth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, upon the same evidence and principles as if applications had been made to him by said patentees respectively, in due time prior to the expiration of said patents: *Provided*,Proviso. That in case the commissioner on due inquiry shall extend such patents or either of them, that all persons who shall have made use of said inventions or machines, or either of them, between the periods of the expiration of said patents and the extension of the same by the commissioner, shall be relieved from all liability for said use.
Approved, March 2, 1867.