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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 30 STAT. · March 2, 1899 · Chapter 410

Chapter 410. For the relief of the Berdan Firearms Manufacturing Company

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Chap. 410: For the relief of the Berdan Firearms Manufacturing Company. Chapter 410 30 Stat. 1549 1899-03-02 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 3 private chap. 410.— An Act For the relief of the Berdan Firearms Manufacturing Company.March 2, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Berdan Firearms Berdan Firearms Manufacturing Company.
May prosecute certain suit in Court of Claims. Manufacturing Company be, and the said company is hereby, authorized to institute a suit in the Court of Claims against the United States and for the benefit of Mrs. Mary Kimball Berdan, the widow of Hiram Berdan, the inventor of certain devices described and claimed in a patent issued to the said company, dated March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and numbered eighty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-six; said suit to be instituted for the use by the United States of the said devices from March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, to July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one; and the bar of the statute of limitations is hereby waived and the suit may be prosecuted to final judgment, as the suit might have been prosecuted if it had been instituted within six years from the time when, as is alleged, the said devices were used by the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1899.
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