Chapter L. for the Relief of Tobias J
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CHAP. L.— An Act for the Relief of Tobias J. Kindleberger.April 6, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Tobias J. Kindleberger,Tobias J. Kindleberger may apply for extension of patent. or his assigns, have leave to make application to the commissioner of patents for an extension of the letters-patent, for an improvement in cider mills, issued to said Tobias J. Kindleberger for the term of fourteen years from the twenty-ninth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and reissued August twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in the same manner as if the petition for said634FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 50, 51, 52, 53. 1870. 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 said patent: *Provided,* That inProviso. case said extension shall be granted, no person shall be held liable for damages for infringement of said patent or for sale or use of said improvement, between the date of the expiration of the original patent and the date of such extension.
Approved, April 6, 1870.