Chapter CDXLI. for the Relief of Charles P
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CHAP. CDXLI.— An Act for the Relief of Charles P. S. Wardwell. June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Claim of Charles P. S. Ward well for extension of letters-patent may be entertained, &c. That the commissioner of patents be, and hereby is, authorized to entertain, consider, and decide upon the application of Charles P. S. Wardwell, for extension of letters-patent granted to the said Ward well for an “improved circular-saw machine or bench,” bearing date the tenth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, in the same manner, upon the same evidence, and to the same effect as if said application had been filed in due form and within Provisos.the time prescribed by law: *Provided,* That the application be made within sixty days from the passage of this act:
And provided further, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to hold responsible in damages any person who may have manufactured, applied, or used said improvement between the expiration of the said patent and the approval of this act. Approved, June 10, 1872.