Chapter V. to further regulate the Publication of the Specifications and Drawings of the Patent-Office
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CHAP. V.— An Act to further regulate the Publication of the Specifications and Drawings of the Patent-Office.March 24, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatPublication of specifications and drawings of the patent-office.Vol. xvi. p. 590. if, in the judgment of the joint committee on printing, the provisions of the joint resolution providing for publishing specifications and drawings of the patent-office, approved January eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, can be performed under the direction of the commissioner of patents moreFORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 1871.3 advantageously than in the manner provided in said joint resolution, it shall be so done, under such limitations and conditions as the joint committee on printing may from time to time prescribe. Sec. 2. ThatPrice of printed copies of specifications and drawings of patents when uncertified, &c. the price of the printed copies of specifications and drawings of patents, when uncertified, shall be determined by the commissioner of patents, ten cents being hereby fixed as the minimum, and fifty cents as the maximum price of the same; certified copies to be sold at the price fixed by the patent act of eighteen hundred and seventy.
Approved, March 24, 1871.