Chapter CXXIV. for the Relief of Martha M
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CHAP. CXXIV.— An Act for the Relief of Martha M. Jones, Administratrix of Samuel T. Jones.July 3, 1868. Whereas the commissioner of patents did on the twenty-third of February,Preamble. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, upon the petition of Martha M. Jones, administratrix of the estate of Samuel T. Jones, deceased, extend for the period of seven years, from the twenty-fourth of February aforesaid, the letters-patent of the United States granted unto the said Samuel T. Jones on the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for an invention in the manufacture of the white oxide of zinc, for which invention letters-patent had been granted unto him by the government of Great Britain, dated the twenty-third day of July, A.
D. eighteen hundred and fifty; and whereas doubts exist as to the power of the said commissioner to grant the said extension after the expiration of fourteen years from the date of the said foreign letters-patent: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the extension of said letters-patentExtension of patent to Martha M. Jones made valid. of the United States for the term of seven years from and376FORTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 124, 125, 126, 127, 128. 1868. after the expiration of fourteen years from the date of said foreign letters-patent be, and the same is hereby, declared to be valid and binding, and the power of the said commissioner to make the same is in all respects confirmed, and the said letters-patent of the United States are hereby declared to be, and to have been, by force of the certificate of extension thereon indorsed, duly extended for the period of seven years from the twenty-third day of July, A.
D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four: *Provided,* That this act shall not operate during the period between the dateProviso. of the English patent and the date of the original American patent. Approved, July 3, 1868.