CERTAIN IMPROVED STATISTIC AND DESCRIPTIVE MAPS
Year: 1852

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
VINCENT MELCHIOR RAYMONDI, of Paris, France, Machinist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of
January, in the fifteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Vincent Melchior
Raymondi, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph Vincent Melchior
Raymondi, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Joseph Vincent Melchior Raymondi, my exors, admors, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercice, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland called England, Her Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed,. and also in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney,
Sark, and Man, and in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad,
the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVED STATISTIC AND DESCRIPTIVE MAPS;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Joseph Vincent
Melchior Raymondi, shall particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large-appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Vincent Melchior Raymondi, do hereby declare that the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to
say:
My Invention consists in combining abbreviative tables for publishing
advertisements by which much space is economized, and a clearer and more
intelligible reading is obtained. In advertisements, and other analogous modes
of publishing the demand and supply of services and commodities, a great and
superfluous repetition takes place of words having the same import, whilst, on
the other hand, useful and necessary information is often withheld to avoid too
expensive an insertion. By this Invention only one mention is made of
matters connected with the same general object or explaining one common
end, and all the different data and particulars are clearly and fully laid down.
I divide the tables into different classes according to the nature of the subject.
The general object of each class of tables is expressed at the heads by words
in full, and divided according to need; the data and particulars of the different
cases are represented by figures and letters of conventional signification set
under and corresponding with the words in each of the headings. By this
means the substance of an advertisement consisting of several lines of text
may be given in one single line. In order to simplify my Invention, herein
annexed are two separate tables, and the same principle may be applied to any
other kind or class of advertisements. The tables may be modified in form,
dimensions, and arrangement, according to the usages of the country and the
nature of the application. This mode of publicity may be applied to persons
and things, to trades and professions, to property and estates, to commerce
and industry, and to advertisements of many kinds. The first table shews the
application of the Invention to apartments, houses, and property, &c.; the
second table shews the application of the Invention to persons in search of
employment, such as, servants out of place. Another method of publishing
apartments to be let, consists in giving drawings of the same of small dimen-
sions, showing the position they occupy; this method may be employed either
alone or combined with the table. One of the combinations of this system of
advertisements consists in alphabetical and numerical tables for avoiding the
useless repetition of names of streets in books and other works by means of
numbered catalogues; it may also be employed for representing the names of
streets and neighbourhoods, and in that case the table is set at the foot of the
page. This mode of publishing intelligence may be exclusive or reciprocal.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner

page_text: in which the same is to be carried out, I wish it to be understood that what I
claim as my said Invention, and intended to be protected by the said Letters
Patent, is the combination of abbreviating tables for publishing advertisements
at a smaller cost and with greater effect than by the mode hitherto employed,
as herein described and referred to.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Vincent Melchior Raymondi, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Taken and acknowledged by Joseph Vin-
cent Melchior Raymondi (party here-
to) at the Office of Her Brittanic
Majesty's Consul in Paris, this Twenty-
first day of July, 1850, before me,
J. V. M. (L.B.) RAYMONDI.
Consul's
Seal.
THOMAS PICKFORD,
Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Paris.
This is the Specification marked A., referred to in the affidavit of Henry
Gilbee, sworn before me, this 26th day of July, 1852.
J. JEFFERSON.
Henry Gilbee, Clerk to Mr Peter Armand Le Comte de Fontainemoreau,
of 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex, maketh oath and
saith, that he is acquainted with the manner and character of the handwriting
of Thomas Pickford, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Paris, in the Republic
of France, and this deponent further saith that the signature" Thomas
Pickford," set, subscribed, or written in the margin of the Specification here-
unto annexed, marked A., and dated the Twenty-first day of July instant, and
purporting to be executed by Joseph Vincent Melchior Raymondi, of Paris,
whereby it is stated that the Specification was acknowledged by him, the said
Joseph Vincent Melchior Raymondi, before the said Thomas Pickford, on the
said Twenty-first day of July, at Paris aforesaid, is of the proper handwriting
of the said Thomas Pickford.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the oath of Henry Gilbee, the
Specification aforesaid was enrolled word for word as above written And also
the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.