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# United States Code/Title 35/Chapter 16/Section 172

From the U.S. House of Representatives.
Section 172. Right of priority
The right of priority provided for by subsections (a) through (d) of section 119 of this title and the time specified in section 102(d) shall be six months in the case of designs. The right of priority provided for by section 119(e) of this title shall not apply to designs.

## Source

(July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 805; Pub. L. 103-465, title V, Sec. 532(c)(2), Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4987.)

## Historical and Revision Notes

Based on Title 35, U.S.C., 1946 ed., Sec. 32, part (R.S. 4887, amended (1) Mar. 3, 1903, ch. 1019, Sec. 1, 32 Stat. 1225, 1226, (2) June 19, 1936, ch. 594, 49 Stat. 1529, (3) Aug. 5, 1939, ch. 450, Sec. 1, 53 Stat. 1212).
This provision is taken from R.S. 4887 (see section 119) and made a separate section.

## Amendments
### 1994

Pub. L. 103-465 substituted “subsections (a) through (d) of section 119” for “section 119” and inserted at end “The right of priority provided for by section 119(e) of this title shall not apply to designs.”

#### Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 103-465 effective 6 months after Dec. 8, 1994, and applicable to all patent applications filed in the United States on or after that effective date, with provisions relating to earliest filed patent application, see section 534(b)(1), (3) of Pub. L. 103-465, set out as a note under section 154 of this title.
# United States Code/Title 35/Chapter 15/Section 162

From the U.S. House of Representatives.
Section 162. Description, claim
No plant patent shall be declared invalid for noncompliance with section 112 of this title if the description is as complete as is reasonably possible.
The claim in the specification shall be in formal terms to the plant shown and described.

## Source

(July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 804.)

## Historical and Revision Notes

Based on Title 35, U.S.C., 1946 ed., Sec. 33, part (R.S. 4888, amended (1) Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 94, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 958, (2) May 23, 1930, ch. 312, Sec. 2, 46 Stat. 376).
The first paragraph is the provision in R.S. 4888 (see section 112). The second paragraph is not in the statute but represents the actual practice.
# United States Code/Title 35/Chapter 16

From the U.S. House of Representatives.
Chapter 16. Designs
* Section 171. Patents for designs
* Section 172. Right of priority
* Section 173. Term of design patent
# United States Code/Title 35/Chapter 15

From the U.S. House of Representatives.
Chapter 15. Plant Patents
* Section 161. Patents for plants
* Section 162. Description, claim
* Section 163. Grant
* Section 164. Assistance of Department of Agriculture
# United States Code/Title 35/Chapter 15/Section 161

From the U.S. House of Representatives.
Section 161. Patents for plants
Whoever invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant, including cultivated sports, mutants, hybrids, and newly found seedlings, other than a tuber propagated plant or a plant found in an uncultivated state, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
The provisions of this title relating to patents for inventions shall apply to patents for plants, except as otherwise provided.

## Source

(June 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 804; Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1259, 68 Stat. 1190.)

## Historical and Revision Notes

Based on Title 35, U.S.C., 1946 ed., Sec. 31, part (R.S. 4886, amended (1) Mar. 3, 1897, ch. 391, Sec. 1, 29 Stat. 692, (2) May 23, 1930, ch. 312, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 376, (3) Aug. 5, 1939, ch. 450, Sec. 1, 53 Stat. 1212).
The provision relating to plants in the corresponding section of existing statute is made a separate section.

## Amendments
### 1954

Act Sept. 3, 1954, provided that plant seedlings, discovered, propagated asexually, and proved to have new characteristics distinct from other known plants are patentable.
# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 14

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
CONTENTS.
| article. | Page |
| I.—The Retrospective Address; delivered at the Thirteenth Anniversary meeting of the “ Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, ” held at Sheffield, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 30th and 31st, 1845. By Edward Charlton, M.D., Lecturer on the Practice of Physic in the School of Medicine and Surgery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. | 1 |
| II.—The Retrospective Address in Surgery, for the year 1844-5; delivered at the Thirteenth Anniversary Meeting of the “Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, ” held at Shemeld, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 30th and 31st, 1845. By Thomas P. Teale, Esq., F.L.S., Surgeon to the Leeds General Infirmary. | 63 |
| III.—On Grinders' Asthma. By Charles Fox Favell, M.D., Physician to the Sheffield Infirmary. | 143 |
| IV.—On the Inverted Displacement of the Urinary Bladder, with a Case. By John Green Crosse, Senior Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, &c. | 185 |
| V.—Report of the Reading Dispensary, for the years 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844. By Charles Cowan, M.D., E. & P., Physician to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, and Reading Dispensary. | 191 |
| VI.-A Statistical Report of the Surgical In-Patients of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, from its Establishment, May, 1839, to May, 1845. By George May, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Surgeon to the Royal Berkshire Hospital. | 213 |
| Officers and Council of the “ Provincial Medical and Surgical Association“ | 219 |
| Officers of the District Branches. | 235 |
| Honorary Members and Honorary Corresponding Members. | 239 |
| List of Members. | 241 |
# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 15

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
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| I.—An Experimental Inquiry into the Effects of Hydrocyanic Acid, produced upon Animal Life. By Thomas Nunneley, Esq., F.R.C.S.E., Surgeon to the Leeds Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Lecturer on Anatomy in the Leeds School of Medicine. | 1 |
| II.—Observations on the Operation of Ovariotomy. By George Southam, Esq., Surgeon to the Salford Royal Hospital and Dispensary, Manchester. | 93 |
| III.—Observations on the Pathology of Abscess of the Heart, with a Case. By J. H. Stallard, Esq., Surgeon to the Leicester General Dispensary. | 105 |
| IV.—The Retrospective Address, delivered at the Fourteenth Anniversary Meeting of the " Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Norwich, on Wednesday and Thursday, August 19th and 20th, 1846. By William Harcourt Ranking, M.D., Cantab., Physician to the Suffolk General Hospital. | 117 |
| V.—A Case of Large Secondary Prostatic Calculus, removed by Perinæal Incision. By T. Herbert Barker, M.D., Lond., Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and formerly House-Surgeon of the University College Hospital, London. | 325 |
| VI.—An Essay, Literary and Practical, on Inversio Uteri. Part II. By John Green Crosse, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.S., Senior Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, &c. | 243 |
| VII.—On Pathological Memorials; read at the Fourteenth Anniversary Meeting of the “Provincial Medical and Surgical Association," held at Norwich, on Wednesday and Thursday, August 19th and 20th, 1846. By sJames Paxton, M.D., Rugby | 353 |
| Appendix to Mr. Nunneley's Experimented Inquiry into the Effects of Hydrocyanic Acid upon Animal Life | 362 |
| Officers and Council of the "Provincial Medical and Surgical Association" | 373 |
| Officers of the District Branches | 389 |
| Honorary Members and Honorary Corresponding Members | 392 |
| List of Members | 395 |
# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 12

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
CONTENTS.
| article. | Page |
| Proceedings of the Association at Leeds | 5 |
| PART I. ||
| article. |
| I.—The Retrospective Address, delivered at the Eleventh Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Leeds, August 2nd and 3rd, 1843. By Thomas Shapter, M.D., Physician to the Dispensary, Exeter. (With a Plate.) | 12 |
| II.—Retrospective Address in Surgery, delivered at the Eleventh Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Leeds, August 2nd and 3rd, 1843. By William Hey, jun., Esq., Surgeon to the Infirmary, Leeds | 145 |
| PART II. ESSAYS AND CASES. ||
| III.—The Actual Process of Nutrition in the Living Structure demonstrated by the Microscope; and the Renewal of the Tissues and the Secretions from the Blood thereby illustrated. By William Addison, Esq., F.L.S., Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; of the Council of the Worcestershire Natural History Society; and Surgeon to H.R.H., the Duchess of Kent, Malvern. (With Plates.) | 235 |
| IV.—On the Changes induced in the Situation and Structure of the Internal Organs, under Varying Circumstances of Health and Disease; and on the Nature and External Indications of these Changes. By Francis Sibson, Esq., Resident Surgeon to the General Hospital near Nottingham. (With illustrative Diagrams.) | 307 ​ |
| V.—A Case of Aneurysm of the Poplitœal and Inguinal Arteries, on the same Side, successfully treated by Ligature of the External Iliac; with a few Remarks on the Dilating Forces of Aneurysmal Tumours, and on the Mode of applying Pressure to them. By J. H. James, Esq., Surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital, and Consulting Surgeon to the Exeter Dispensary. (With a Wood-cut.) | 573 |
| VI.—Case of Contracted Cicatrix after a Burn, relieved by Interposition of Sound Skin. By H. D. Carden, Esq., Surgeon to the Worcester Infirmary. (With Wood-cuts.) | 585 |
| Officers and Council of the Provincial Medical and Surgical. | 595 |
| Officers of the District Branches. | 612 |
| Honorary Members and Honorary Corresponding Members. | 615 |
| List of Members. | 618 |
# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 10

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
CONTENTS.
Part I. :
| article. | Page |
| I.—The Retrospective Address delivered at the Ninth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at York, August 4th and 5th, 1841. By Robert J. N. Streeten, M.D., Physician to the Dispensary, Worcester. | 5 |
| PART II. MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY. ||
| II.—On the Medical Topography of Exeter and the Neighbourhood, being a Sketch of the Geology, Climate, Natural Productions, and Statistics of that District. By Thomas Shapter, M.D., Physician to the Exeter Dispensary, Lying-in Charity, &c. (Continued from Vol. VII.) | 107 |
| III.—Observations on the Climate of Herefordshire compared with that of the Neighbourhood of London, with Meteorological Tables, &c. By Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Yorke. | 171 |
| IV. — Medical Topography of Shrewsbury and its Neighbourhood. By T. Ogier Ward, M.D. (Continued from Vol. IX.) | 189 |
| PART III. ESSAYS AND CASES. ||
| V. — Case of a Pin passing from the Appendix Vermiformis into the Bladder. By William Dashwood Kingdon, M.D., Physician to the Exeter Dispensary. (With a Plate.) | 198 |
| VI.—Case of Tumour developed in the midst of the Cauda Equina. By W. W. Fisher, M.D., Downing Professor of Physic, Cambridge. (With a Plate.) | 203 |
| VII.—Further Observations on the Variolæ Vaccinæ. By Robert Ceely, Esq., Surgeon to the Buckinghamshire Infirmary. {Illustrated with coloured Engravings from original Drawings.) | 209 |
| PART IV. REPORTS OF INFIRMARIES AND DISPENSARIES. ||
| VIII.—Report of Cases at the Chester General Infirmary during the Years 1838, 1839, and 1840. By Thomas Beavill Peacock, Esq., House Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, late House Surgeon to the Chester General Infirmary. | 277 |
# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 16

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
​Volume XVI contents part 1 is missing. ​
CONTENTS.
VOL. XVI. PART II. :
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| I.—On Anaesthesia and Anaesthetic Substances generally; being an Experimental Inquiry into their Nature, Properties, and Action, their comparative Value and Danger, and the best means of counteracting the effect of an over dose. By T. Nunneley, Esq., F.R.C.S.E., Senior Surgeon to the Leeds General Eye and Ear Infirmary, Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology, in the Leeds School of Medicine, &c. | 167 |
| II.—Memoir on the Medicinal Action of Arsenic; collected from the reported experience of the Members of the " Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, " and other sources. By Thomas Hunt, M.R.C.S., &c. | 383 |
| Officers of the Association. | 423 |
| Members of the Council. | 424 |
| Officers of the District Branches. | 438 |
| Honorary Corresponding Members. | 441 |
| List of Members. | 443 |
# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 18

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
CONTENTS.
| article. | Page |
| I.—Report on Burns and Scalds. By Samuel Crompton, Esq. With an Appendix, by G. W. Charleton, Esq., Resident Surgeon to the Gloucester Infirmary. | 1 |
| II.—The Address in Medicine, being an Essay on Associated and Secondary Diseases; read at the Eighteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Hull, August 7th and 8th, 1850. By Henry Cooper, M.D., Lond., F.R.C.S.E., Physician to the General Infirmary, Hull, and to the Hull and Sculcoates Dispensary; President of the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society. | 125 |
| III.—Observations with Hutchinson's Spirometer. By C. Radclyffe Hall, M.D., Torquay; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; late Physician to the Bristol General Hospital. | |
| IV.—On the Prognosis in Mental Disorders. By John Conolly, M.D. Physician to the Hanwell Asylum. | |
| V.—On Empiricism. By Jonas Malden, M.D., Senior Physician to the General Infirmary, Worcester, and Physician Extraordinary to the Worcester Dispensary, &c. | |
| VI.—The Address in Medicine; delivered at the Nineteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Brighton, on Thursday, August 14th, 1851. By William King, M.D., late Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London; Senior Physician to the Sussex County Hospital; Consulting Physician to the Brighton Dispensary. | 289 |
| VII.—Elephantiasis of the Scrotum; read at the Huntingdonshire Medico-Chirurgical Society, September 17th, 1850. By Wotton Isaacson, Esq., M.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Huntingdon Infirmary. (With late) | |
| VIII.—Case of Elephantiasis Grœcorum. By [Thomas Godfrey, Esq., M.R.C.S. (With Plate) | 251 |
| IX.—On the Nature and Treatment of those Diseases of the Ear which have hitherto been designated Otorrhoea and Otitis. By Joseph Toynbee, F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in England; Aural Surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital; and Consulting Surgeon to the St. George's and St. James's General Dispensary. | |
| X.—Address in Surgery; delivered at the Nineteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Brighton August 13th and 14th, 1851. By Benjamin Vallange, Esq. M.R.C.S., Senior Surgeon to the Sussex County Hospital. | |
| XI.—On the Causes of Mortality after Amputation of the Limbs. Part II. Diseases. By J. H. James, Esq., F.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital, and Consulting Surgeon to the Exeter Dispensary. | |
| XII.—An Essay on the Present Type and Character of Disease, as Contrasted with its General Features in the Early Part of the Present Century; read before the Nineteenth Annual General Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Brighton, August 13th and 14th, 1851. By Caleb Williams, Esq., F.R.C.S., Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the York School of Medicine, &c. | |
# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 19

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
CONTENTS.
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| I.—A Concise Practical Treatise on Neuralgia; its various Forms, Pathology, and Treatment. By Edwin Morris, M.D., Fellow, by Examination, of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Surgeon to the Spalding Union Infirmary, Spalding, Lincolnshire. | 1 |
| II.—The Address in Medicine, being a Treatise on Scrofula, delivered at the Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the “ Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, " held at Oxford, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 21 and 22, 1852. By M. A. Eason Wilkinson, M.D., Manchester. | 51 |
| III.—On the Occasional Local Origin of Constitutional Diseases. By Jonas Malden, M.D., Worcester. | 85 |
| IV.—A Statistical Report of Cases of Amputation, Lithotomy, and Hernia, in the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; read at the Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the “ Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, ” held at Oxford, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 21 and 22, 1852. By E. L. Hussey, Esq., one of the Surgeons to the Infirmary, Oxford. | 95 |
| V.—On the Excess of Urea in the Urine as a Pathognomonic Sign. By Cales Burrel Rose, Esq., Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, &c., Swaffham, Norfolk. | 117 |
| VI.—On the Pathology of Insanity. By John Hitchman, M.D., Superintendent Physician of the Derby County Asylum, late Medical Officer to the Female Department of the Hanwell Asylum, (and formerly Resident Physician to the Sanaterium, London,) Mickleover, Derbyshire. | 133 |
| VII.—The Address in Surgery, delivered at the Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the “ Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, ” held at Oxford, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 21 and 22, 1852. By James Torry Hester, Esq., Oxford. (With Wood Cuts) | 153 |
| VIII.—On the Medical Topography of Nottingham, read at the First Annual Meeting of the “Midland Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, ” June 3, 1852. By Joseph White, M.R.C.S., Edin., &c., Nottingham. (With Maps, &c.) | 171 |
| IX.—On the Production and Anatomical Characters of some Adventitious Structures, including those regarded as Malignant. By Thomas Hodgkin, M.D., London. | 200 |
| X.—Observations on Palpebral Tumours. By John Windsor, Esq., F.R.C.S., Senior Surgeon to the Manchester Eye Hospital, Manchester. | 212 |
| Officers of the Association. | i. |
| Members of the Council. | ii. |
| Officers of the District Branches. | xvi. |
| Honorary Corresponding Members. | xx. |
| Members. | xxiii |
# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 13

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
CONTENTS.
| article. | Page |
| I.—The Retrospective Address, delivered at the Twelfth Anniversary Meeting of the “ Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, " held at North. ampton, on Wednesday and Thursday, August 7th and 8th, 1844. By Charles Cowan, M.D., E. & P., Physician to the Royal Berkshire Hospital and Reading Dispensary. | 1 |
| II.—Retrospect of Anatomy and Physiology, for the year 1843-44; delivered at the Twelfth Anniversary Meeting of the “ Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, " held at Northampton, on Wednesday and Thursday, August 7th and 8th, 1844. By William Budd, M.D., Edin., Physician to St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol. | 143 |
| III.—The Varieties, Causes, Pathology, and Treatment, of the Inflammatory Affections of the Retina. By Edward Octavius Hocken, M.D., Physician to the Blenheim Street Infirmary and Free Dispensary, &c. | 241 |
| IV.—An Essay, Literary and Practical, on Inversio Uteri. By John Green Crosse, Senior Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, &c. (With Plate and Wood-cuts) | 285 |
| V.—Case of Congenital Malformation of the Urinary Organs; read at the Anniversary Meeting of the “ Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, ” at Northampton, Thursday, August 8th, 1844. By Henry Giles, Esq (With a Plate) | 351 |
| Officers and Council of the “ Provincial Medical and Surgical Association" | 353 |
| Officers of the District Branches | 368 |
| Honorary Members and Honorary Corresponding Members | 372 |
| List of Members | 375 |
# Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 17

Published on the behalf of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
CONTENTS.
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| I.—The Address in Medicine, being an Essay on the principal Causes which unite,in Producing and Diffusing Disease; read before the Seventeenth Annual General Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Worcester, August 1st and 2nd, 1849. By Charles William Bell, M.D., Knight Commander of the Persian Order of the Lion and Sun; Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary; Consulting Physician to the Ardwick and An coats Dispensary; late Physician to Her Majesty's Embassy to Persia, in Medical charge of the British Detachment serving in Persia; late Physician to the Royal Household of Persia, and to the Persian Armies ; formerly House Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. | 1 |
| II.—On the Causes of Mortality after Amputation of the Limbs. By J. H. James, Esq., F.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital, and Consulting Surgeon to the Exeter Dispensary. | 49 |
| III.—A Case of the High Operation of Lithotomy. By George Murray Humphry, Esq., Surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. | 103 |
| IV.—An Essay on Tuberculous Deposition in the Kidney. By P. Martin Duncan, M.B,, (Londin), Physician to the Essex and Colchester Hospital, Colchester. (With Plate and Cuts) | 113 |
| V.—Report of the Medical and Surgical Cases treated in the Wards of the Bristol Infirmary during the Years 1848 and 1849. By Henry Augustus Hore, Esq., House Surgeon. | 147 |
| VI.—On the Crises which Excite and Influence Respiration in Health and Disease. By Francis Sibson, M.D. F.R.S., Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London. | 181 |
| VII.—On Gangrene of the Lung. By Francis George Probart M.D. Edin., Senior Physician of the Suffolk Hospital. | 351 |
| VIII.—Case of Plastic Bronchitis. By Humphry Sandwith, M.D., Physician to the Hull General Infirmary. (With Plate) | 357 |
| IX.—On the Action of the Muscular Coat of the Bronchial Tubes in Respiration, and on the Exciting Cause of Inspiration en of Expiration. By C. Radclyffe Hall, M.D., Torquay, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; late Physiciab to the Bristol. | 367 |
| Officers and Council of the Association. | 387 |
| Officers of the District Branches. | 402 |
| Honorary Member and Honorary Corresponds. | 405 |
| General List of Members. | 407 |
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/3rd Session/Resolution 9

​IX. Resolutions, expressive of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry and good conduct of Commodore D. T. Patterson, and Major D. Carmick, and the officers, seamen, and marines under their command, in the defence of New Orleans.
Commodore D. T. Patterson.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That Congress entertain a high sense of the valour and good conduct of Commodore D. T. Patterson, of the officers, petty officers and seamen attached to his command, for their prompt and efficient co-operation with General Jackson, in the late gallant and successful defence of the city of New Orleans, when assailed by a powerful British force.
Major Daniel Carmick.Resolved, That Congress entertain a high sense of the valour and good conudct of Major Daniel Carmick, of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and marines, under his command, in the defence of the said city, on the late memorable occasion.
Approved, February 22, 1815.