Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-01-06
10 the Flour and Rice MillerS
OF TIE LIMITED GTaTES

A. EN- FLEMEN,-it appears that ma
VA ny have refused to pay Tor license
to use my improvements in the art of
manufacturing 1our, and 10 lessening the
labor in lice mills, waiting the decision
of the United States courts while many
others have paid freely the sums l de-
manded for my license; there can exist
no reason why some should pay and O
theirs be exempt. There has already been
q sufficient no uber of decisions establish
lug the law, that each infringer is liable
to pay reble my ar.nai damages, which
caanot be rated at less than the value of
the use OF M property during the in
friOgement. | have expended the great
est part of long, arduous, and indeiaii-
gable lie in study and exert tons to invent
aud introduce into useful oper alton seve-
raj important aud 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, unjusti6dbe
opposition, wasting the profits of those IL
operation. which had intended to apply
to put others ia operation which had
discovered; but which now lay dormant,
to my great mortifcation and the public
injury. come into the courts claiming
remuneration for my time and labur-
the great expenses that 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 70 Instruct
miliwrights to make, and millers to use
them. The law coutempates that shalt
receive ample remuneration, and by it !
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 full price Of
the labor aud boarding saved by the use
of my improvements in one year only,
with lawful interest until paid; but 10
those who inIringed 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 (equal
to the hrst price h, new sun becn;ui Z
due, aud Running on. interest also; and
SO Oh, the ED day Of January in each
and every year thereafter u new sum
saved Ia labor and boarding becomes due,
aud 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
l can receive of them to meet the ex
penses which they have compelled me to
incur. 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 infliaser,
without giving them another call.
Those who wish 10 purchase licenses
may apply to John Love, esq. Buckiand,
Prince William county, or to capt. John |
Moody, Richmond, Va.
OLIVER EVANS.
NorE.-Persons using Mr.. Evans
improvements, or parts Of them, unpaid
for, will be sued if they do not discharge
the claim on application. MIR. William
II. Alexander has, under my authority
IRON Mr.. Evans, been empowered TO- re.
ceive payments and deliver licenses to
use his improvements. Payments, there
tore, made to him, John Moody, or my
self, will done be valid, aud save the ex-
pense OF suit and treble damages. to the
defendants. JOHN LOVE.
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