Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-01-14
To the Flour and Rice MillerS
OF THE UNITED SI.4IES.

10 the Flour and Rice MilierS
OF THE UNITED SIXTIES.
~ NrLEMEN,-lt appears that ma.
VI ny have refused to pay for license
to use my improvements in the art OF
manufacturing flour, and in lessening the
labor in rice mills. waiting the deci,ion
Of the United States courts; while many
others have paid freely the sums l de-
mandcd fur my license; there can exist
no reason why some should pay aud
theirs be exempt. There has already been
a suffirient number of decisions establish,
ing the Jaw, that each iniringer is liable
TO pay treble my actual damages, which
cannot be rated at less than the value Of
the use Of my property during the in
friagement. have expended the great
est part Of long, avduous, and indetali-
gable life in study aud exertions to invent
and intro, uce into useful operation seve-
raj important ard highly useful improve.
ments, from which great benefits are de-
rived to the Users, and could have put
in operation many more equally useful,
but was prevented by the unjusti6Able
opposition, wasting the profits Of those in
operation, which had intended to apply
to put others 10 operation which had
discovered; but which now lay dormant,
to my great murtlicativn aud the public
injury. | come into the courts claiming
remuneration for my time aud labor
the great expenses that 1 have incurred
in advertising repeatedly over the Uni
ted states, aud in my agents travelling
Tor many years to make the utility Of the
improvements known, ard 10 Instruct
mlllwrights 10 make, and millers to use
them. The law contemplates that | shall
receive ample remuneration, and by it l
was encouraged to risk the great ex-
penSes. have repeatedly published that
the price of my license for the remainder
Of the term should be, the tull price Of
the labor and boarding saved BY the use
Of my improvements in one year only,
with lawful interest until paid but to
those who infringed my rights, and re.
fused to pay when called on, ! would,
beginning with, The year ending January
90, 1918, count the sum saved in labor
and boarding during the last year (equai
to the first price, as a new sum becoming
due, and running on interest also; and
SO on, the esd day OF January in each
and every year thereafter a new sum
saved in labor and boar ding becomes due,
and runs Oh Interest until license be pur-
chased, demanding the interest only on
all these sums, leaving the principal in
the hands of the users which is the least
can receive of them to meet the ex
penses which they have compelled me to
i,cur. The above are now the only
terms on which my agents are instructed
to grant licenses, and they are instructed
to institute suits against all inIIiBgers
without giving them another call.
Those who wish to purchase licenses
may apply to John Love, esq. Buckiand,
Prince William. county, or to capt. John
Moody, Richmond, Va.
OLIVER EVANS.
NeTE.-Persons using Mr.. Evans
improvements, or parts Of them, unpaid
for, will be sued if they do not discharge
the claim on application. Mr.. William
II. Alexander has, under my authority
from MIR. Evans, been empowered to re.
ceiye payments and deliver licenses to
use his improvements. Payments, there
tore, made to him, John Moody, or my
self, will alone be valid, and save the ex.
pense of suit and treble damages to the
defendants. JOHN LOVE.
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