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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · April 19, 1888 · Chapter 126

Chapter 126. to give validity to certain patents for inventions which were irregularly executed

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CHAP. 126.— An Act to give validity to certain patents for inventions which were irregularly executed.April 19, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Patents.Signature of Assistant Secretary of the Interior valid to certain patents. That all patents for inventions signed by David L. Hawkins, Second Assistant Secretary. of the Interior, or any other Assistant-Secretary of the Interior, shall have the same force, effect, and validity as though the same had been signed by the Secretary of the Interior in person at the date on which they were respectively executed. Approved, April 19, 1888.
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