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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · Feb. 21, 1828 · Chapter VII

Chapter VII. authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to Elizabeth H

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Chap. VII.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of State to issue a patent to Elizabeth H. Bulkley, widow of Chauncey Bulkley, deceased. Feb. 21, 1828. *Be it enacted, &c., * That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of StateA patent to be issued to the widow of C. Bulkley, deceased, for the invention of a plan for making shovels, &c. to issue letters patent to Elizabeth H. Bulkley, widow of Chauncey Bulkley, deceased, two-thirds of the proceeds to be in trust for the children of said Chauncey Bulkley, for the invention of a plan for making shovels, spades, and scythes, by welding iron and steel together, and rolling the same, alleged to have been discovered by the said Chauncey Bulkley, in his lifetime, upon the presentation at the Patent Office of the original specification and application, made out by the said Chauncey Bulkley, which patent shall have the same force and effect as if it had been granted to the said Chauncey Bulkley, himself.
Approved, February 21, 1828.
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