Chapter CXXV. *in Relation to fraudulent Trade-marks upon foreign Watches*
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CHAP. CXXV.— An Act *in Relation to fraudulent Trade-marks upon foreign Watches*. March 3, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, No watches, &c. of foreign manufacturers, simulating the name, &c. of domestic manufacturers, to be entered at custom-houses unless, &c. That from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, no watches, watch cases, watch movements, or parts of watch movements, of foreign manufacture, which shall copy or simulate the name or trade-mark of any domestic manufacturer, shall be admitted to entry at the custom-houses of the United States, unless such domestic manufacturer is the importer of the same.
Sec. 2. Trade-marks of domestic manufacturers of watches to be recorded, &c. That domestic manufacturers of watches, who have adopted trade-marks, may cause to be recorded in the treasury of the United States, in a book to be kept for that purpose, and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, theirFORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 125–127. 1871.581 names, residences, and descriptions of trade-marks, and furnish to the Secretary fac-similes of such trade-marks; and it shall be the duty of theCopies of trade-marks to be sent to collectors.
Secretary to transmit one or more copies of the same to each collector or other proper officer of the customs of the United States, to be used, by such officers in the execution of the first section of this act. Approved, March 3, 1871.