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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · Feb. 9, 1870 · Chapter XV

Chapter XV. for the Relief of Alinzor Clark

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CHAP. XV.— An Act for the Relief of Alinzor Clark.Feb. 9, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the commissioner of patents,Patent of Alinzor Clark may be extended, if, &c. upon due application made to him, is authorized to extend the patent of Alinzor Clark for “fastening for hay and manure forks,” dated March the fifth, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty, and which expired on the fifth day of March, A.
D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, upon the same evidence and principles as if application had been made to him by the said patentee in due time prior to the expiration of said patent: *Provided,* That, in case the commissioner on due inquiry shall extend said patent, *that* all persons who shall have made use of said invention between the period of the expiration of said patent and the extension of the same shall be relieved from all liability for said use. Approved, February 9, 1870.
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