Chapter CXCV. for the Relief of Samuel N
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CHAP. CXCV.— An Act for the Relief of Samuel N. Miller.July 20, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Samuel N. Miller, whoSamuel N. Miller may apply for extension of patent. obtained a patent for an improved compound anchor, dated the twenty-ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for fourteen years, which expired on the twenty-ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be authorized to apply to the commissioner of patents for the extension of said patent for seven years, under the regulations now in force in relation to the extension of patents; and the commissioner of patents is hereby 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 applications for extensionProviso. be made within sixty days after 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,* ThatProviso. nothing herein shall be so construed as to hold responsible in damages any person who may have manufactured or used the said improved compound anchor between the expiration of the said patent and the approval of this act.
Approved, July 20, 1868.