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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · March 3, 1809 · Chapter XXXV

Chapter XXXV. to extend to Amos Whittemore and William Whittemore, junior, the patent right to a machine for manufacturing cotton and wool cards

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Chap. XXXV.— An Act to extend to Amos Whittemore and William Whittemore, junior, the patent right to a machine for manufacturing cotton and wool cards. March 3, 1809. *Be it enacted, &c., * That all the privileges and benefits granted to Patent right extended.Amos Whittemore, of the state of Massachusetts, in consideration of a machine invented by him for the manufacture of cotton and wool cards within the United States, by a patent issued from the Department of State, and bearing date the fifth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, be, and the same are hereby extended to Amos Whittemore, and William Whittemore, junior, as joint proprietors of the said machine, for and during the term of fourteen years, to commence on the fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.eight hundred and eleven; anything in the act entitled “An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,” to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 3, 1809.
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