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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · Jan. 10, 1873 · Chapter XXXI

Chapter XXXI. for the Relief of James C

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CHAP. XXXI.— An Act for the Relief of James C. Cooke. Jan. 10, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * James C. Cooke may apply for extension of patent. That the commissioner of patents is hereby authorized to hear the application of James C. Cooke for an extension of the patent heretofore granted him on the fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, for an improvement in manufacturing webbing, and numbered twenty-two thousand five hundred and twenty-eight, and to grant the extension of said patent for seven years from and after the fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in the same manner and to the same effect as if the said Cooke had applied for said extension ninety days before the expiration of said patent.
Approved, January 10, 1873.
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