A NEW MANURE FOR PREVENTING THE VINE AND OTHER DISEASES ARISING FROM THE SOIL, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Anne Marie Macé, Widow of Georges Fremont,
Proprietress of the Rue des Colonnes, No. 4, in the City of Paris, in
the Empire of France, for the Invention of "A NEW MANURE FOR
PREVENTING THE VINE AND OTHER DISEASES ARISING FROM THE SOIL, AND
FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
Sealed the 29th May 1857, and dated the 9th December 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Anne Marie Macé at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the
9th December 1856.
I, ANNE MARIE MACE, Widow of Georges Fremont, Proprietress of the
Rue des Colonnes, No. 4, in the City of Paris, in the Empire of France, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW MANURE FOR
PREVENTING THE VINE AND OTHER DISEASES ARISING FROM THE SOIL, AND FOR OTHER
SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in employing the ashes of wood and charcoal, or
coal cinders, or other similar ashes, combined with human urine, in equal
proportions by measure. The mixture of the above-named substances constitutes
the "Fremont's manure." The use and purpose of such compost is similar
to that of any other artificial manure. For vines it is only requisite to apply
to the foot of each stock a compound of about two pints of ashes and two
pints of urine. For tilling land the quantity used may differ, according to

page_text: the quality of the soil to be operated upon, but the mixture must be the
same. Such manure destroys a quantity of insects noxious to the to the
products of the soil, and greatly improves the lands submitted to its action.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Anne Marie Macé in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th June 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANNE
MARIE MACE, Widow of Georges Freemont, Proprietress of the Rue des
Colonnes, No. 4, in the City of Paris, in the Empire of France, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Anne Marie Macé, IIer special licence that I, the said Anne Marie Macé, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Anne
Marie Macé, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW MANURE FOR
PREVENTING THE VINE AND OTHER DISEASES ARISING FROM THE SOIL, AND FOR OTHER
SIMILAR PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, tho said Anno
Marie Macé, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their bands and seals, should particularly describo
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and inmediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Anne Marie Macé, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in employing the ashes of wood and charcoal, or
coal cinders, or other similar ashes, combined with human urine, in equal

page_text: proportions by measure. The mixture of the above-named substances constitutes
what I call "Fremont's manure."
The use and purpose of such compost is similar to that of any other artificial
For vines it is only requisite to apply to the foot of each stock a
compound of about two pints of ashes and two pints of urine. For tilling
Jand the quantity to be used may differ, according to the quality of the soil
to be operated upon, but the mixture must be in the proportions or about the
proportions before named. Such manure destroys a quantity of insects
noxious to the products of the soil, and greatly improves the lands submitted
to its action.
Having thus described my Invention, I claim the use and application of
the combined materials herein-before referred to for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, tho said Anne Mario Macé, havo hereunto set
my hand and seal, this First day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
ANNE MARIE MACÉ. (L.B.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Anne Marie Macé, in
the presence of
POLD, Sworn Interpreter,
Rue de la Bourse, No. 3, Paris.