Chapter LVII. authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a Patent to Thomas Oxley
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Chap. LVII.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a Patent to Thomas Oxley. March 3, 1821. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to issue letters patent to Thomas Oxley, for hisPatent for his Land Clearing Machine to be issued.Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.Act of April 17, 1800, ch.25. invention of a machine and engine, called “The American Land Clearing Machine and Land Clearing Engine,” upon his complying with the directions of the act, entitled “An act to promote the progress of the useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,” and an act, entitled “An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees,” except so far as the said acts, or any part or parts of them, require a residence of two years within the United States, in like manner, in all respects, as if the said Thomas Oxley had resided two years within the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1821.