Chapter LXXII. *for the Relief of Delia A
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CHAP. LXXII.— An Act *for the Relief of Delia A. Jacobs, late Delia A. Fitzgerald*. Feb. 22, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That Delia A. Jacobs (lateDelia A. Jacobs may apply for an extension of patent. Fitzgerald) administrator of Jesse Fitzgerald, deceased, who obtained a patent for an improved method of dressing treenails, dated twenty-eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, for fourteen years, which expired on the twenty-eighth August, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be authorized to apply to the commissioner of patents for the 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 of patents 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; *Provided*, That the application for extension be made withinApplication to be made within what time. thirty days after approval of this act, and the decision of the commissioner be rendered within ninety days from the filing of said application in the parent office; and *Provided, also*, That nothing herein shall be soProvisos. construed as to hold responsible in damages any person who may have manufactured treenails, or built or used machines containing the aforesaid improvement between the expiration of the patent and the approval of this act; and *Provided, also*, That the commissioner shall be satisfied before granting such *extension* [extension], that it will enure entirely to the benefit of said Delia A.
Jacobs. Approved, February 22, 1867.