Chapter CDXXXIX. for the Relief of Chester C
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CHAP. CDXXXIX.— An Act for the Relief of Chester C. Tolman. June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Commissioner of PatentsApplication of Chester C. Tolman for extension of patent to be reheard, &c. be, and is hereby, authorized to consider, rehear, and determine the application of Chester C. Tolman for the extension of his letters-patent for an improvement in gimlets, issued to him the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and numbered thirteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, for the term of seven years, from the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, upon the same evidence and principles, and with the same effect, as if the application for extension had been made and the evidence therein filed in the Patent Office, within 690 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 439–442. 1872. the time prescribed by law, prior to the expiration of said patent, and as Proviso.if no hearing had ever occurred for such extension: *Provided,* That in case said extension shall be granted no person shall be held liable for damages for infringement of said patent, or for sale or use of said improvement, between the date of the expiration of the original patent and the date of such extension. Approved, June 10, 1872.