Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-08-15
BY AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY
SECOND CONGRESS.
PUBLIC No. 65.1

nN hCI NoHCeFulHS EdteHtS iOT useful IuVBuCOuSs
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
seseatatipes Of the United States of America IN
Congress Assembled, That it shall be the duty
Of the Secretsry of State annually, in the month
Of January, to report to Congress, and to publish
an two of the newspapers printed in the city OF
Washington, list of all the patents for discn>e
ries, inventions, and improvements, which shaii
have expired within the year Immediately prece-
ding, with the names of the patenees, alphabet
cally arranged.
Sec. 2. And be 1t further enacted, That appii-
cation to Congress to prolong or renew the term
of patent, shall be made before lis expiration,
and shall be notified at least once month, for
three months before its presentation, in two news
papers printed in the city of Washington, and in
one OF the newspapers in which the laws of the
United States shall be published in the State Or
Territory in which the patentee shall reside.
The petition shall set forth par cularly the
grounds of the application. 1t shall be verified
by oath; the evidence in its support may be taken
before any Judge justice Of the peace; it shall
be accompanied by statement of the ascertain
ed value of the discovery, invention or improve
ment, and of he receipts and expenditures of the
patentee, as to exhibit the profit or loss arising
therefrom.
Sec. 3. And be 1t further enacted, That wher-
ever any patent which has been heretofore, or
shall be hereafter, granted to any inventor in
pursuance of the act of Congress, entitled "An
act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to
repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose"
passed on the twenty first day of February, in
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and ninety three, or of any of the acts supple
mentary thereto, shall be invalid or imperative,
by reason that any of the terms conditions,
prescribed in the third section of the said first
mentioned act, have not, by inadvertence, acct
dent, or mistake, and without any fraudulent or
deceptive intention, been complied with on the
part of the said inventor, it shall be lawful for
the Secretary of State, upon the surrender to him
oil such patent, to cause a new patent to be grant
ed to the said inventor for the same invention for
the residue of the period then unexpired, for
which the original patent was granted, upon his
compliance with the terms and conditions pre-
scrbed in the said third section of the said act.
And, in case of his death, or any assignment by
him made of the same patent, the like right shall
vest in his executors and administrators, or as
signee or assignees: Provided howeper, Tha.
such new patent, granted, SHALL in all respects,
be liable to the same matters of objection and de-
fence as any original patent granted under the
said first mentioned act. But public use or
privilege of the. invention patented, derived
from or after the grant of the original patent,
either under any special license of the inventor,
OF without the consent of the patentee that there
shall be free public use thereof, shall, in any
manner, prejudice his right of recovery for any
use or violation of his invention after the grant
of such new patent aforesaid
A. STEVENSON,
Speaker of The House of Representatives.,
&C. CALHOUN,
Tice President Of the United States,
and President Of the Senale
Approved, July 3, 1889.
ANDREW JACKSON.