Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-03-21
LAWS oR I'VE United STATES.
JOINT RESOLUTION providing for publ.6hinG
specifications and drawings Of Patent Onicc.
[Approved January II. Is7I.l

Be IL re,olred Jy The Senate and Hoase cf Repre-.
sentatires Of The United States Of America IN
Congress assembled.
That the publication OF the abstracts OF spccliea-
tIons and OF the cngTavingS heretofore accompany
ing the annual report OF the Commissioner OF Pat
ents be discontinued after the publication OF that
portion ofthe report ior eighteen hundred and sixty
nine, for which the plates have already been pre-
pared and that, In lieu thereof, the Commissioner
be authorized TO have printed. fc' eratnit0us dlstr1-
button, not TO exceed one hundred AMI my copies
OF the complete specifications and drawings OF each
patent subsequently, Issued. together with suitable
indexes 20 be issued from time 10 time. one copy TO
be placed for free public inspection In each capitol Of
every State and Territory, one for the like purpose
In the clerks Office OF the District Court OF each Jul
dIcIal District Of the United States. except when
such offices arc located In State or Territorial capi-
tolls, and one In the library OF Congress, which copies
shall be taken anu received In oil Courts rs evidence
OF all matters therein contained. and shall be certl-
fed to under the hand OF the Commissioner and seal
OF the Patent Office. and shall be taken and received
In all courts as evidence. said copies not to be taken
from said repositories for any other purpose than 10
be used as evidence: and the Commissioner OF Pat
cnts 4, hereby authorized and directed TO have print
ed such additional numbers OF copies of specilca-
tiOns and drawings. certified Us hcrcinbcfOrc pro-
yIdcd, q, q price not TO exceed the contract price Tor
such drawings for sale. as may be warranted by the
actual demand for the same: and siOner
Is also hereby authorized 10 furnish o complete set
OF such specifications and drawings TO any public
library which will pay for binding the same Into VOL
umes 10 correspond with those In the Patent ONCE,
and for the transportation OF the same. and which
shall also provide proper custody Tor the same, with
convenient access for the public thereto. under such
regulations as the Commissioner shall doom reason
able; and provided also. that all contracts for max
Ing copies OF drawings shall be made under the pro-
visions Of chapter one hundred and ~nfty-lvc. Sec
tIon nine. OF Act OF Congress approved June twenty
five, eighteen hundred and s!Nty-iour, which reads
as follows: Sec. =. And be II further enacted, that
all IIthographlng and engraving, where the probable
total cost Of the maps or plates Illustrating or ac-
campaigning any work exceeds two hundred and
MY dollars, shall be awarded 10 the lowest and best
IIIIar for thR Interests nf tln (spynFunRnI dina "a
gard being paid 10 the execution Of the work, after
,luc advertisement by the Superintendent OF Public
Printing. under the direction OF the Joint Commit
tee on Printing; provided. that the Joint Committee
on Public Printing be authorized TO empower tho
Superintendent OF Public Printing to make immcdI.
ate contracts for engraving, whenever In their Opin.
lon the cxiseIcics of the public service VIII not Jus.
tify waiting for advertisement and award"