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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 15 STAT. · March 29, 1867 · Chapter XVII

Chapter XVII. *to increase the Force in the Patent-Office.*March 29, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Additional principal and assistant exam That the commissioner of patents is authorized from time to time to appoint, in the m

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CHAP. XVII.— An Act *to increase the Force in the Patent-Office.*March 29, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Additional principal and assistant exam That the commissioner of patents is authorized from time to time to appoint, in the manner already 11provided for by law, such an additional number of principal examiners,iners may be appointed in the patent-office. first assistant examiners, and second assistant examiners, as may be required to transact the current business of the office with dispatch: *Provided,* That the whole number of such additional examiners shall notProviso. exceed four of each class, and that the total annual expense of the patent office shall not exceed its annual receipts.
Approved, March 29, 1867.
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