Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-01-16
To the Flour and Rice MiilerS
OF TIE UNITED STATES.


NEN rLEMEN,-lt appears that ma
w ny have refused to pay for license
to use my improvements i'll the art Of
manutactu ing flour. and in lessening the
labor in rice 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 ,easob why some should pay and
thers he exempt. There has already been
a sufficient nu nber If decisions establish
ing the law, that each intringer is liable
to pay treble my actual damages, which
cannot be rated at less than the value vi
the use Of my property during the in.
iringement. have expended the great
est part Of long, arduous, aud indefa'i-
gable lite in study and exertions to invent
and introduce into useful operation seve-
raj important aud highly useful improve
ments, from which great benefi,s are de.
rived to the users, and could have put
in operation many more equally useful,
but was prevented BY the unjustiiiabIe
opposition, wasting the profits Of those in
operation, which had intended to apply
to put others in operation which had
discovered; but which now lay dormant,
to my great modification and the public
injury. l come into the courts claiming
remuneration for my time aud labor
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, AID 70 instruct
milwrights 10 make, and millers to use
item. The law contemplates that shalt
receive ample remuneration, and by it l
was encouraged TO risk the great ex-
penses. l have repeatedly published that
the price of my license for the remainder
of the term should be, the full 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 iuilinsed my rights, and re.
fused to pay when called on, l would,
beginning with the year ending January
%, 1878, count the sum saved in labor
and boarding during the last year (equal
to the first price as new sum becoming
due, and running Oh interest also; and
so on, the 22d day OF January in each
aud every year thereafter new SUM
saved in LABOR and boarding becomes due,
aud runs on interest until license be pur-
chased, demanding the interest only OIL
all these SUING, leaving the principal III
the hands of the users; which IS the ieas,
/ can receive OF them 10 meet the ex.
penses which they nave compelled NE to
Incur. The above are now the only
terms on which my agents are instructed
to grant licenses, ana they are Instructed
to institute suits against all Inirfngers
without giving them another call.
rhuse who wish to purchase licenses
NAV apply to John Love, esq. auckland,
Prince William county, or IL capt. John
Moody, Richmond, Va.
OLIVER EVANS.
NorE.-Persons using MIR. Evans
improvements, or parts Of them, unpaid
Tor, will be sued If they do not d. charge
the Claim on appiica ion. Mr.. william
II. Alexander has, under my authority
from Mr.. Evans, been empowered toie-
cejye payments and deliver licenses to
| use his improvements. Payments, there
lore, made to him, John Moody, or nv
self, will atone DC valid, and save the ex-
pense OF sui, and treble damages 10 the
defendants. JoiiN 1--we.
! January LIN