Chapter 93. for the relief of Elon A
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CHAP. 93.— An Act for the relief of Elon A. Marsh and Minard Lefever.Feb. 3, 1887. Whereas, heretofore, to wit, on the twenty-eighth day of December,Preamble. anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty, in due form of procedure and in all legal respects, letters patent numbered two hundred and thirty-six thousand and fifty-two of the United States of America were duly granted and issued to Elon A. Marsh and his assignee, Minard Lefever, of Battle Creek, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, one of the United States, for a new and useful improvement in steam-engine valve-gear, save that the said letters patent were not, by accident or mistake, at the said time of issuing, to wit, on the twenty-eighth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty, signed,as by law required, by the Secretary of the Interior; and Whereas the said-named letters patent were afterward, to wit, on the twenty-fourth day of February, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-two, but not before, duly signed by the then Acting Secretary of the Interior:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Elon A. Marsh and Minard Lefever.Patent for steam-engine valve-gear to issue as from Dec. 28, 1880., That the letters patent named in the preamble of this act are hereby and by this act made legal, valid, complete, and operative, in law and equity, from the twenty-eighth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty, to the same extent and for the same term that the same would have been legal, valid, complete, and operative if the signature of the Secretary of the Interior had, at the time of the sup posed issue of said letters patent on the day aforesaid, been placed thereon, and the omission of said signature thereon *Proviso*.Pending suits not affected.had not occurred. *Prodded, however*, That the provisions of this act shall not be held or construed to apply to or affect any suits now pending, nor any cause of action arising prior to its passage.
Approved, February 3, 1887.