Chapter X. for the Relief of Thomas Blanchard
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Chap. X.— An Act for the Relief of Thomas Blanchard. Feb. 15, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Patent of Thomas Blanchard for cutting irregular forms out of wood, brass, or iron, &c., extended for 14 years, from 20th January, 1848. That the Commissioner of Patents be, and he is hereby, required to extend to Thomas Blanchard, a citizen of the United States, his executors and administrators, his patent for a machine for turning or cutting irregular forms out of wood, iron, brass, or other materials or substance which can be cut by ordinary tools, for and during the term of fourteen years from the twentieth day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-eight, the day on which said patent will expire, in which extension the Commissioner may include any improvements in said machine made by the said Thomas Blanchard prior to the date of such extension, on his paying into the treasury, to the account of the patent fund, the duty required by the eighteenth section of the act of Congress entitled “An Act to promote the Progress of the useful1836, ch. 837.
Arts, and to repeal all Acts and Parts of Acts heretofore made for that Purpose,” approved July the fourth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-six, on applications for the extension of patents: *Provided*,Proviso. That such extension shall inure to the use and benefit of the said Thomas Blanchard, his executors and administrators, and to no other683684TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 11, 12, 14. 1847 persons whomsoever, except that a bona fide assignee of the invention, by virtue of an assignment from the patentee heretofore made, shall have the benefit of this act upon just, reasonable, and equitable terms, according to his interest therein.
And if the said Thomas Blanchard, his executors or administrators, cannot agree with such assignee, the terms shall be ascertained and determined by the Circuit Court of the United States for the district in which such assignee resides, to be decreed upon a bill to be filed by such assignee for that purpose: *And provided, further*, That no assignee shall have the benefit of this act unless he shall, within ninety days from the date of its passage, agree with the said Thomas Blanchard, his executors or administra-tors, as to the consideration upon which he is to have it, or file his bill in the circuit court aforesaid, in order that the amount to be paid therefor, and the terms of such payment, may be decreed in conformity with the intent and meaning of this act: *Provided*, That the rights of the United States to use said invention, obtained by assignment or contract with said Blanchard, shall be and are hereby reserved to the same extent as they would have been if this act had not been passed.
Approved, February 15, 1847.