Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-06-23

tca IN Congress assembled, That there be is
sued under the direction of the Secretary oil
the Treasury register TO the brig Encafna-
cion, formerly Danish vessel, but now own
ed by John B. Brown, Jedediah Jewett, and
Mark P. Emory, of Portland, in The State oi
Maine, citizens of the United States. the said
vessel having sustained great damage on a
voyage from st. Thomas to Portland, and the
aforesaid owners having caused the said YES
sci to be paired and reftted for sea at great ex.
pense: Provided, it shall be proved to the sat-
isfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that
the cost of the repairs and re6tting said YES
sci in the United States exceeds three fourths
of the original cost of building vessel OF the
same tonnage in the United States.
Approved May II, 1913.
[PUBI1c-No. 34.l-An act TO provide addi-
tlonal examiners in the Patent Office, and
for other purposes.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of the United States of Amer.
be appointed, in the manner provided in the
second section of the act entitled g An act to
promote the progress of useful arts, and to re
peal all acts and parts of acts heretofore made
for that purpose" approved July fourth, eigh-
! 'SCi tDH ~ 'ciA, wv pIIhS'
aminers, and two assistant examiners, in ad-
diton to the number of examiners now en-
ployed in the Patent Office and that hereafter
each of the principal examiners employed in
the Patent Office shall receive an annual saIa-
ry of twenty-five hundred dollars, and each OF
the assistant examiners an annual salary OF
fifteen hundred dollars Provided, That the
power to extend patents, now vested IN the
hoard composed of the Secretary of State
Commissioner of Patents, and Solicitor of the
Treasury, by the eighteenth section of the act
approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and
thirty-siX, respecting the Patent Office, shall
hereafter be vested solely in the Commission
er Of Patents; and when application is made
to him for the extension of patent according
to said eighteenth section, and sixty days no.
tice given thereof he shall refer the case to
the principal examiner having charge Of the
class of inventions to which said case belongs.
who shall make full report to said Commits
sioner of the said case, and particularly wheth-
er the invention or improvement, secured in
the patent, was new and patentable when pat
ented and thereupon the said Commissioner
shall grant or refuse the extension of said pat
ent, upon the same principles and rules that
have governed said board but no patent shall
be extended for a longer term than seven years.
Sec. 2. And be 1T further enacted, That
hereafter the Commissioner of Patents shall
require fee Of one dollar for recording any
assignment. grant, or conveyance, of the whole
or any part of the interest in letters patent or
power of attorney, or license TO make or use
the things patented, when sucn instrument
shall not exceed three hundred words; the
sum of two dollars when it shall exceed three
hundred and shall not exceed one thousand
words and the sum of three dollars when II
shall exceed ore thousand words which fees
shall in all cases be paid in advance.
Sec. 3. Ind be 1t further enacted, That there
shall be appointed in manner aforesaid two
clerks, to be employed in copying and lecor-
ding, and in other services in the Patent Of
flee, who shall each be paid salary Of one
thousand two hundred dollars per annum.
Sec. 4. And be at further enacted, That the
Commissioner of Patents is hereby authorized
to send by mail, free of postage, the annual
reports of the Patent Office, in the same man.
ner in which he is empowered to send letters
and packages relating to the business of the
Patent Office
Approved May 81, 1913.
[PUBLIC-No. 35. IAN act extending privl-
leges 10 American vessels engaged in GER
tain mentioned trade, and for other pur-
poses.
Be It enacted By the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer-
lea an Congress assembled, That it shall here
after be lawful for any steamship, or other
vessel, on being duly registered in pursuance
of the laws of the United States, to engage in
trade between one port in the United States,
and one or more ports within the same, with
the privilege Of touching at one or more fora
cign ports during the voyage, and land and
take in thereat merchandise, passengers, and
their baggage and letters and mails Provided,
That all such vessels shall be furnished by
the collectors of the ports at which they shall
take in their cargoes in the United States, with
certified manifests setting forth the particulars
of the cargoes, the marks, number of packa-
ges, by whom shipped, to whom consigned, at
what port TO be delivered designating such
goods as are entitled to drawback, or to the
privilege of being placed in warehouse; and
the masters of all such vessels shall, on their
arrival at any port of the United States from
any foreign port at which such vessel may
have touched, as herein provided, conform to
the laws providing for the delivery of mani
tests, of cargo, and passengers taken on board
at such foreign port, and all other laws regu-
lating the report and entry of vessels from
foreign ports, and be subject to all the penal
ties therein prescribed.
Sec 2. And be 1t further enacted, That all
vessels and their cargoes, engaged in the trade
referred to in this act, shall become subject 10
the provisions of existing collection and rev.
enue laws on arrival in any port in the United
States: Provided, That any foreign goods,
wares, or merchandise, taken in at one port
of the United States, to be conveyed in said
vessels to any other port within the same, Ell
tier under the provisions of the warehousng
act of the sixth August, eighteen hundred and
forty-six, or under the laws regulating the
transportation coastwise OF goods entitled to
drawback. as we'll as any goods, wares, or
merchandise not entitled 10 drawback, but on
which the import duties chargeabIe by law
shall have been duly paid, shall not become
subject TO any impost duty by reason OF the
vessel in which they may arrive having
touched at foreign port during the voyage,
in pursuance of the privilege given in this
| act.
Approved May 27, 1913.
1PUBL1c-No Sc IAN act explanatory OF
the act entitled &c An act to raise, for lin
tied time, an additional military force, and
for other purposes approved eleventh Feb
ruary, eighteen hundred and forty seven.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
REPRESENTATIVES of the United States of Amer