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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · Mar. 3, 1887 · Chapter 442

Chapter 442. for the relief of Samuel M

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CHAP. 442.— An Act for the relief of Samuel M. Gaines.Mar. 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the'Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Samuel M. Gaines. That the letters patent numbered eighty-five thousand two hundred and ninety-nine dated December twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, which were granted by the Patent Office of the United States to Samuel M. Gaines, of Glasgow, Kentucky, for the period of seventeen years from the date of the original grant, “method of teaching the rudiments of chemistry,” be, and are hereby, referred to the Commissioner of Patents, to hear and determine the facts as to whether they shall be continued in force for the period of seven years from the twenty-ninth day of December, eighteen 969 hundred and eighty-five; and the Commissioner of Patents is hereby authorized and empowered to grant an extension of the patent hereinExtension of patent authorized. described for the period herein named.
Approved, March 3, 1887.
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