Chapter XIV. for the Relief of Horace Smith and D
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CHAP. XIV.— An Act for the Relief of Horace Smith and D. B. Wesson, or their Assigns.Feb. 25, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Horace Smith and D. B.Smith & Wesson may apply for extension of patent. Wesson, or their assigns, have leave to make application to the commissioner of patents for an extension of the letters patent for improvement in repeating fire-arms issued to said Horace Smith and D.
B. Wesson for the term of fourteen years from the fourteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and reissued on the tenth day of October of the same year, in the same manner as if the petition for said extension had been filed at least ninety days prior to the expiration of said patent; and that the commissioner be authorized to consider and determine said application in the same manner as if it had been filed ninety days before the expiration of the said patent.
Approved, February 25, 1868.