Chapter XXVIII. *for the Relief of Pierpont Seymour, of East Bloomfield, New York*
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CHAP. XXVIII.— An Act *for the Relief of Pierpont Seymour, of East Bloomfield, New York*. Jan. 25, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Application of Pierpont Seymour for extension of patent may be heard and granted, if, &c. That the commissioner of patents is hereby authorized and required to hear and decide the application of Pierpont Seymour, of East Bloomfield, in the State of New York, for an extension of the letters-patent granted to him by the United States on the twenty-fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, for an improvement in seed planters, or grain drills, and shall have power to extend said patent for the term of seven years, with the same effect that such extension might have been granted had the said Pierpont Seymour400FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 28, 29. 1871. made application for such extension, and paid the fee required by law, within the time prescribed by law, upon the notice and under the regulationsProviso. prescribed by law and the rules of the patent office: *Provided*, That no damages shall be collected of any person for an infringement of said patent between the time of the expiration of said patent and the time of the renewal of the same. Approved, January 25, 1871.