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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · March 3, 1839 · Chapter CXXIX

Chapter CXXIX. *for the relief of John Plane.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Commissioner of Patents be, and he is hereby, empowered to issue to John Blanc, a native of France, but nowA new patent to issue for a machine called a “Marsh Drainer.” a citizen of the United States, a new patent for a mac

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Chap. CXXIX.— An Act *for the relief of John Plane.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the Commissioner of Patents be, and he is hereby, empowered to issue to John Blanc, a native of France, but nowA new patent to issue for a machine called a “Marsh Drainer.” a citizen of the United States, a new patent for a machine, the invention of said Blanc, called a “Marsh Drainer,” (said Blanc having obtained a patent therefor on the second day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-six, which patent was destroyed by fire on the eighth day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,) in the same manner and under the same regulations as provided by law had said patent been destroyed prior to the fifteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
Approved, March 3, 1839.
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