, 1872-12-04

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During the last fiscal year public lands were
disposed of as follows:
Acres.
Cash sales. 1,s7o, 32015
Located with military warrants. 380, 60oO
Taken for homestesds. GIL 1892 "A
Located with college scrip. 337
Grants to wagon-roads. A65,34
Approved to States as swamp. T 255 19
Indian scrip locations. $4,000
Total. IL, ,se4, 1854
q quantity greater by 1.099, ,270.25 acres than
was disposed of the previous year. The cash
receipts under various heads amounted to
E3,21s 100 During the same period there were
SURVEYED @. COS acres, which, added to the
quantity already surveyed, amounts to 583, ,s64,
$50 acres. leaving unsurveyed an area of 1,251,
533 3620 acres.
The reports Of the United States Surveyors
General all make mention Of the fruitfulness of
the soil during the past season, and the increas-
ed yield OF all manner Of produce. Even in
those States and Territories where mining is the
principal pursuit, the agricultural products
have SO far exceeded the local demand as to
cause large shipments Of cereals to the Eastern
States. The Commissioners suggestions in
reference to the propriety of consolidating into
one statute the principal features Of the Pre-
emption and Homestead LAWS: are, in my judy
msnt, specially worthy Of the attention OF Con-
grees.
Needed reforms have been made in the con-.
dition Of the Patent Office during the last year,
the most noticeable and important of which is
the aboItioa Of the old form Of Patent Office
reports. and the substitution therefor. of the
es the old reports were, and published from two
to three years after the date of the issue OF the
patents reported in them, their discontinuance
seemed to greatly alarm the inventors and manu-
their restoration, or an adequate: substitute,
was SO great as to require prompt
action in that direction. During tie
last session Of Congress authority was
given for the publication Of the Patent Office
Official Gazette comprising tie Commissioners
and the Circuit Courts in patent cases, all
changes in the rules and practice Of the office.
notice OF Ill applications for extension of
patents, q brief of the specifications, and tie
with such Illustrations, taken from the drawings
Of the patents, as would give to the public
clear idea Of what is patented. It will thus he
seen that these publications embrace very much
more than WAS contained in the old Patent Office
reports; and, instead Of being two OF three
years behind date, as the old reports were, they
are issued within three days Of the delivery Of.
the letters patent. This work seems to meet
the demand and is received with universal
favor.
The number of applications for patents, in
Guiding Reissues and designs, during the year
ended Sept. 80, 1872. was L, ,587; tho number Of
applications for extension OF patents, 254; the
number OF applications for the registering Of
trademarks was 589. During the same tim there
we're issued ,626 patents, 233 extensions, 556
certificates Of registry Of trademarks. and 5, 100
.ayeats have been fled. This shows small in
:rease over the number of the preceding year.
The fees received during the game period, from
IL sources, amounted to SOU, 954.86. and the
Total expenditure to S62s, so, making the
receipts in excess Of the expenditures to the
auount.of ST., ,400.96.~
It will at once be perceived that the addition
of about 10000 applicants for patents every
Over 200, 900 applications for patents have been
fled since 1886, and about 133, 900 patents have
been granted The drawings, models, and files
ACCOMPANYING these applications, must be so
them. otherwise there would be constant danger
of duplicating patents upon the same invention,
and each years accumulation adds largely to the
danger. The Office is now being administered
general organization adopted at its Inauguration,
when only from 100 to 500 applications we're
made per annum.
The Office has outgrown the plan Of organiza-
tion that was sufficient for it then, and q new
organization has become absolutely necessary
to secure to inventors and the country the -bene-
fits of our patent System. invite attention to
the conamunic cation forwarded to Congress- sug-
gesting reorganization Of the Patent Office.
The Commissioner urges the importauce OF q
ment of tho Interior. This matter is embraced
in the bill now panding before Congress for 3
reorganization Of the Bureau Another subject
to which attention is earnestly invited is the ne
Patent Office plan has been devised by
which it is thought the model-gallery will be
sufficient, in ell time to come, to store such
models as it may be desirable to retain in the
Office, but for the working force and the neces.
sary files Of the Office there is great want of
room. It is impossible to transact the business
of the Office, with safety to the inventors or the
manufacturing interests of the country, except
ing with more room in which to arrange the files
and drawings that must be consulted hourly in
the transaction of Office buBiness.
= PExs1oSs-
There are now On the pension rolls the names
Of 578widows Of soldiers who served in the Revo-
lutionary War, q decrease Of 56 since fthe last
children Of soldiers who served in the wars sub
eequent to the Revolution and prior to the late
Rebellion, excepting the war of 1912, are borne
On the rolls, being 81 less than the preceding
year.
During the last fiscal year there we're examined
and allowed 6, ,317 original applications for inVa-
lid pensions of soldiers, at an annual aggregate
rate of $424, ,626.50, and SIG applications for
increased pension OF invalid soldiers, at an
st$SsGns t$s ssns pssrod ssafd rs org1a PENSIONS to
owe, orphans, and dependent relatives Of SOL
diers, were allowed at an aggregate annual rate
OF $3.50, ,798, and 290 applications OF the same
class for increase Of pension were admitted, at
total annual rate Of SIS, ,s53.35. The number of
claims, original and increase, admitted
the ' annual amount of pensions
thus granted YVES 81 ,652, 1886. On the 30th day
Of June, 1872, there we're on the rolls the N names
OF IS, ,405 invalid military pensioners whose pen,
sione annually amounted to 1851, ,854.91, and
1883 widows, orphans, and dependent relatives
OF soldiers, whose yearly pensions amounted to
914, sec, ,778.39, making an aggregate of 2o8, ,923
army pensioners, at q total annual rate Of S23,-
42,6Ss. 80. The whole amount paid during the
last fiscal year to invalid military pensioners was
$40, ,145, ,145.49, and to widows, orphans, and de-
pendent relatives, $17 ,2G6, .02, making grand
total OF 927, AL, ,301 ST. which includes the -e1-
penses OF disbursement.
During the same year, there were examined
and allowed Isl original applications fol invalid
navy pensions, at an aggregate annual rate Of
$14,552; 68 applications of the same class for
increase of pension, at . total yearly rate Of
IS, 9l5; 124 new applications of widows, or
phans, and dependent relatives Of those who
died in the navy; at an aggregate yearly
rate OF s1s, ,494; and 6 pensions Of the same
class we're Increased at an annual rate Of
1864. On the 90th day Of June, 1872, there
we're borne on the rolls Of navy pensioners the
names Of / ,449 inyalids, at an annual aggregate