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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · April 17, 1872 · Chapter CIV

Chapter CIV. to authorize William C, Jardine to make Application to the commissioner of Patents for the Issue of a Patent for his Improvement in Brake and Rest for Carts

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CHAP. CIV.— An Act to authorize William C, Jardine to make Application to the commissioner of Patents for the Issue of a Patent for his Improvement in Brake and Rest for Carts.April 17, 1872. WhereasPreamble. William C. Jardine’s application for improvement in brake and rests for carts was passed for issue September eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, but by the neglect of his agent application and payment for the issue of the same was not made within the the time required by law:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatPatent may issue to William C. Jardine for, &c., if, &c. William C. Jardine be authorized to make application to the commissioner of patents for the issue of a patent for his improvement in brake and rest for carts, and that the commissioner of patents be authorized to issue a patent for the same if he should deem it right and proper: *Provided,* TJiat such application be made and the proper fees be paid within oue year from the passage of this act, any thing in the proviso contained in the thirty-fifth section of the act entitled1870, ch. 230, § 35.Vol. xvi. p. 202.Certain intervening rights not affected.
“An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutes relating to patents and copyrights,” approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy, to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided,* That the issue of such patent shall not54FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 104, 111, 112, 113. 1872. affect the right to use said patented improvement of any person who, since the eleventh day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and prior to the approval of this act, may have procured, and at the time of such approval shall be using, said patented improvement.
Approved, April 17, 1872.
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