Chapter CXVI. to authorize the issuing of Letters Patent to Richard Holden
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Chap. CXVI.— An Act to authorize the issuing of Letters Patent to Richard Holden. May 7, 1822. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized to issue letters patent to Richard Holden, of the city ofLetters patent to issue to him for an improvement in combining mechani cal powers. Philadelphia, for his invention of a new and useful improvement in the method of combining mechanical powers, so as to produce or increase the velocity of power of machinery, and to comunicate the same to various kinds of machinery which require projectile, reciprocating, or rotary, motion, upon his complying with all the provisions of the several acts relative to the issuing of letters patent for inventions and improvements, except so far as the said acts require a residence of two years in 278 SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 117, 120, 121, 123, 125. 1822. the United States, in like manner, and with the same effect, as if the said Richard Holden were a citizen of the United States. Approved, May 7, 1822.