Chapter XXXVI. authorizing the Secretary of State to issue Letters Patent to Richard Willcox
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Chap. XXXVI.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of State to issue Letters Patent to Richard Willcox. April 5, 1820. *Be it enacted, &c., * Letters patent for a rotary portable oven to be issued. That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to issue letters patent to Richard Willcox, for his invention of a rotary portable oven, and for his improvements of the ovens now in use; and also for his several inventions and improvements in the process of distillation, and modes and means of conducting the same, upon his complying with the directions of the act, entitled Act of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11.Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25.“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 Richard Willcox had resided two years within the United States.
Approved, April 5, 1820.