Chapter CCXCI. to extend Letters-patent granted to John Bachelder
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CHAP. CCXCI.— An Act to extend Letters-patent granted to John Bachelder.July 14, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the letters-patent grantedPatent of John Bachelder extended. to John Bachelder, dated May eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, for an improvement in sewing mechanism, as reissued December twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, be, and the same are hereby, extended, for the benefit of the said John Bachelder, his heirs and legal representatives, for seven years, from and after the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy: *Provided, however,* That said extended patent shall be open to legal inquiry and decision, in the same manner as if issued under the general law relating to patents: *And provided also,* That allProvisos. persons who have purchased said sewing mechanism since the expiration of said patent may continue to use the said mechanism so purchased, the same as if this act had not passed.
Approved, July 14, 1870.