Chapter CCXV. *to extend to, and for the Benefit of Elisa Wells, Letters Patent heretofore issued to Henry A
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CHAP. CCXV.— An Act *to extend to, and for the Benefit of Elisa Wells, Letters Patent heretofore issued to Henry A. Wells, deceased*. March 2, 1867. Whereas, Henry A. Wells, late of the city of New York, did obtain letters patent of the United States for valuable “improvements in theCertain letters patent extended to Eliza Wells. process of and machinery for making hat bodies,” which letters patent bore date the twenty-fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and were granted for the terra of fourteen years from said date; and whereas the said Henry A.
Wells departed this life on the twenty-seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, leaving Eliza Wells, of the said city of New York, his widow, to whom letters of administration on the estate of said Henry A. Wells were duly granted; and whereas the said letters patent were reissued to Charles St. John and others, assignees, in two divisions, one bearing date the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and numbered three hundred and ninety-six, and the other bearing date the seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and numbered four hundred; and whereas the said reissued letters patent were duly extended by the commissioner638THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 215, 216. 1867. of patents on the twenty-fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty, for the term of seven years from said last-mentioned date, for the benefit of the said Eliza Wells, administratrix as aforesaid; and whereas, on the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty, said reissued and extended letters patent were surrendered and again reissued to Henry A. Burr, assignee, in two divisions, numbered ten hundred and eighty-six and ten hundred and eighty-seven; and whereas said reissued letters patent, numbered ten hundred and eighty-six, were surrendered and again reissued on the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, said reissued letters patent being numbered thirteen hundred and eighteen; and whereas said extended term will expire the twenty-fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and whereas it appears that said invention is of great value and importance to the public, and that the said Henry A.
Wells in his lifetime, and the said Eliza Wells, administratrix as aforesaid since his decease, failed to receive from the use and sale of said invention a reasonable remuneration for the time, ingenuity, and expense bestowed upon the same, and the introduction thereof into use: Now therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled*, Patent extended.That the said reissued letters patent, numbered one thousand and eighty-seven, and bearing date the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty, and said reissued letters patent, numbered one thousand three hundred and eighteen, and bearing date the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be, and the same are hereby, extended to and for the benefit of the said Eliza Wells, as administratrix of the estate of the said Henry A.
Wells, deceased, for the further term of seven years from and after the twenty-fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Approved, March 2, 1867.