Chapter CLV. *for the relief of Stephen P
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Chap. CLV.— An Act *for the relief of Stephen P. IP. Douglass.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That on application of Stephen P. W. Douglass, a citizen of the state of New York, for a patent for a machine denominatedPart of the oath required in obtaining a patent may be dispensed with. a “maintaining power,” of which said machine said Douglass claims to be the inventor, assisted by one Hazard Knowles, the Commissioner of patents be, and he is hereby, empowered to dispense with that clause of the oath or affirmation required by law of said Douglass “that he does verily believe that he is the original and first inventor of said machine,” for which he solicits a patent; he, the said Douglass first causing to be recorded in the said Patent Office a deed, duly executed by said Hazard Knowles, bearing date the eighteenth day of January anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, by which deed the said Hazard Knowles did give, grant and convey all his right, title and interest to said Douglass, which he the said Hazard Knowles had, or might acquire to said invention.
Approved, March 3, 1839.