Chapter CDXIV. for the Relief of Sarah S
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CHAP. CDXIV.— An Act for the Relief of Sarah S. Trapp, Executrix of William Trapp, deceased.June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the letters-patent grantedLetters-patent heretofore granted to William Trapp, extended in the name of Sarah S. Trapp, his executrix; to William Trapp, a citizen of the United States, dated the first day of October, eighteen hundred and forty-five, surrendered and re-issued on the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and extended by the commissioner of patents for seven years from the first day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and again surrendered and re-issued in two several divisions or patents numbered, respectively, nineteen hundred and forty-six and nineteen hundred and forty-seven, for new and useful improvements in barrel machinery, be, and the same is and are hereby, renewed, revived, and extended for the term of seven years from and after the passage of this act; and the commissioner of patents is hereby directed, upon the presentation of said patents or re-issues, numbered, respectively, nineteen hundred and forty-six and nineteen hundred and forty-seven, or certified copies thereof, by making a certificate upon such patent or re-issue, or certified copy thereof, of such extension (the lawful fees being first paid therefor), in the name of Sarah S.
Trapp, executrix of said William Trapp; and the commissioner of patents is hereby directed to cause the same to be entered of record in the patent-office; and the said patents so renewed, revived, and extended shall have the same effect in law as if originally granted for terms extending to the end of the term to which they are extended by this act; *Provided, however,*to be open to legal inquiry, &c. That such renewal or extended patents, respectively, shall be open to legal inquiry and decision in the same manner as if issued under the general law regulating the granting of patents: *And provided further,* that no person, firm, or corporation shall be liable for any damage orno damage for use prior, &c. royalty for having made, vended, or used said improvements in said patents specified prior to the passage of this act; and any such person, firm or corporation having made or purchased and used said improvement since the expiration of the said patents shall be entitled to use the same without liability during the term of said extension.
Approved, June 10, 1872.