Chapter CDXIII. for the Relief of James D
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CHAP. CDXIII.— An Act for the Relief of James D. Willoughby, of Vineland, New Jersey. June 8, 1872. Whereas letters-patent of the United States were issued to James D.Preamble. Willoughby for an improvement in seed-planters, August third, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, number twenty-one thousand one hundred and two, which said letters-patent do expire August third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two; and whereas James D. Willoughby aforesaid, the inventor, did visit Washington city on or about April tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for the purpose of applying for extension of his said letters-patent, and that the time allotted by law in which to make his said application was limited to May third, instant; and whereas the said James D.
Willoughby was, upon his arrival, prostrated with an attack of brain-fever until the time allotted had passed in which to make his said application according to law; and whereas his failure to so apply was caused by no fault or negligence of his own: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That James D. Willoughby, toJames D. Willoughby may apply for extension of patent. whom letters-patent of the United States, dated August third, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, number twenty-one thousand one hundred and two, were issued for an improvement in seed-planters, and which said letters-patent do expire August third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be permitted, within ten days from the date at which this act becomes a law, to file in the patent-office his application for an extension of his letters-patent; and that the law which requires the commissioner to give sixty days’ public notice in the papers of the application for the extension of said letters-patent be, and is hereby, suspended in this case, so far as to require the commissioner to give such public notice as long before his action upon the case as the limited time now left will permit.
Approved, June 8, 1872.