Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-01-12
LAWS OF TIE UNITED STATES.
JOINT RESOLUTION providing for publishing
SPECIFICATIONS And drawings Of Patent Ofice.
IApproved January II. Is7I.]

De 20 reiolred by the Ssrate aud Hoase Of Repre-
sentatires Of che United SGtes Of America 'n
Congress cssrHLief.
lions and Of The cngravln:s heretofore accompany
Ing the annual report Of the Commissioner Of Pat
ents be discontinued after the plbllcaiion OF taat
nine, for which the plates have already been pre-
pared and that, In lieu thereof, the Commissioned
lie authorized 70 have printed. E' grailit0ns distrl-
button, no. TO exceed one hundred and fifty copies
Of the complete Specifications and drawings OF each
pstcn: subsequently issued. together with suitable
indexes 20 b. issIirri I;om time TO time. ono copy, TO
every Stat. AMI Territory, one for the Ike purpose
In the clerks Office al the District Court OF each jul
dlclal District Of the United States. except when
such Offices arc located IN State or Territorial capi-
tolls, and one ia the library oil Congress, which copies
shall be taken anu received IN all Courts Ms evidence
OF nl matters therein contained. and shall be cert:
He'd TO under the hand OF the Commissioner md seal
OF the Patent Office, and shall be taken and received
In all courts as evidence, said copies not 10 be taken
from said Repositories for any other purpose than TO
be used as evidence; and the Commissioner Of Pat
ents Is hereby authorized and directed To have print
ed such additional numbers OF copies Of spccillca-
lions and drawings, certified al here!nbcforc pro-
vldcd. at n price not to exceed the contract price 'Or
such drawings, for sale, ~ may be warranted by the
actual demand for the same: and COHinisthc siOncr
Is also hereby authorized 10 furnish a complete set
Of such specifications and drawings 10 any public
library which viii pay for binding the same Into vol
umes to correspond with those In the Patent ONCE,
and tor the transportation OF the same. md which
shall also provide proper custody for the SAME. with
convenient access for the public thereto, under such
regulations rs the Commissioners shall doom rcasOn-
able; and provided also. that all contracts for max
Ing copies Of drawings shall he made under the pro-.
visions OF chapter one hundred AMI nty-ilyc. sec.
ti0n nine. OF Ac! or Congress approved June twenty
five, eighteen hundred and sixty-iOur. which reads
as iollOws: Sec. =. And he II further enacted. that
all lltho:rarhlnc ana engraving, wlierc the probable
total Cost OF the maps or plates Illustrating or nc
cOmpanylns any work exceeds two hundred AMI
nay dollars, SlHl. be awarded TO the west and best
bidder Tor the Interests of the Government, due re
gard being paid TO the execution OF the work. after
due advertisement by the superintendent Of Public
Pointing. under the direction Of the Joint Commit
tee IN Printing; provided. that the Joint Committee
on Public Printing be authorized 10 empower tho
Superintendent Of Public Printing to make immedi.
ate contracts for engraving, whenever In their Opir.
lon the cSiccncieS Of Inc public service viii not JUS
tify waiting Oraircrtiscnent Hnd award"