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SATURDAY, September 4, 1790.]
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
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Con gre fs o f the United States
AT THE SECOND SESSION,
Begun and held at the City of
New Yoik> on Monday the
fourth of January, one
thousand seven hundred
and ninety.
Jin ACT* to promote the Prog refs
of ufeful Arts .
BE it enabled by the Senate and Hcufe of
of the United States of
uimerica, in Congrtjs ajjemblcd , That upon the
petition of any person or persons to the Se
cretary of State, the Secretary for the De
partment of War, and the Attorney-General
of the United States, setting forth, that he,
Pie, or they, hath or have invented oi dis
covered any ufeful art, manufacture, engine,
jnachine, or device, or any improvement
therein not before known or used, and pray
ing that a patent may be granted therefor, it
lhail and may be lawful to and for the said
jKtcretaty t>f th« Secretary f«r tjic Dei
partment of War, and the Attorney-General,
or any two of them., if they shall deem the
invention or difeovery fufficientiy ufeful and
important, to caufc letters patcut to be made
out in the name of the United States, to bear
tefte by the frefident of the United States,
jeciting the allegations and suggestions of the
said petition, and deferibiug the said invention
erdifeovery, clearly, truly, & fully, & there
upon granting to such petitioner or petition
ers, his, her, or their heirs, administrators or
afligns, for any term not exceeding fourteen
years, the foie and exclnfive right and liberty
of nuking, conftrurting, using, and vending
to others to he used, the laid invention or dif
covcry i which letters patent (hall be deliver
ed to the Attorney-General of the United
States, to be examined, who (hall, within
fifteen days next after the delivery to him, if
he shall find the fame conformable to this aft,
certify it to be so at the foot thereof, and pre -
fern the letters patent, so certified, to the
Trefident, who shall eaufe the seal of the
tJnited States to be thereto affixed, and the
fame (hall be good and available to the gran
tee or grautees by force of this art, to all
aud every intent and purpose herein contained,
and (hall be recorded in a book to be kept
for that purpose in the office of the Secretary
of State, and delivered to the patentee or fan
agent, and the deliviry thereof shall be en
tered on the record, and indorfed <m the pa
tent, by the said Secretary, at the time of
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tee oi granites of each patent fliall, at the
time of granting the (ante, . d,l '" r ‘?.' he
Beetetar, of State a fpecificattoii in writing,
containing a defctipii.il, accompanied with
draft*, or models, and explanations and mo
dele (if the nature of the invention or dtf.
cover, will admit of a model) «f the thing
or thing, b, him or them invented or dtf.
rovcicd, and deferibed aa alorefaid, lit the
f»id patents \ which fpteiHeitioii (hall be lo
canicular, »ud said models so exiirt, aa not
u,,|y to diflinguirti *M invent inn or dilcovery,
from other it»n|» before and used, but
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GEORGIA.
(killed in the art or manufartuie, whereof it
is a branch, nr wherewith it may be neared
connerted, to make, conftrurt, or use the
fame to the end that the public may have the
full benefit thereof, after the expiration of
the patent-term ; which fpecification fliall be
filed in the office of the said Secretary, and
certified copies thereof (hall be competent
evidence in all courts, and before all jurif*
dirtions, where any matter or thing, touching
or concerning fueh patent, right, or privilege,
(hall come in quedion.
And be it further enaQed , That upon the ap
plication of any person to the Secretary of
State, for a copy of any «>f such fpecification,
and for permission to have similar model or
models made, it (hall be the duty of the Se
cretary to give such copy, and to permit the
person, so applying for a firaiiar model or mo
dels, to take, or make, or eaufe the fame to
be taken or made, at the expence of such ap
plicant.
And be it further, That if any per
son or persons fliall devise, make, conftrurt,
use, employ, or vend within theft United
States, any art, manufacture, engine, ma
chine, or device, or any invention or im
provement upon, •* >t» any jrt,
engine, machine, or device, the foie and ex
clusive fight of which, (hall be so as aforefaid
granted by patent to any person or persons,
by virtue and in pursuance of this art, with
out the consent of the patentee or patentees,
their executors* adminifiratort, or affigus,
firft had and obtained in writing, every per
son so offending fliall forfeit and pay to the
said patentee or patentees* his, her, or their
executors, administrators or affigus, such da
mages as (hall be assessed by a jury, and more
over (hall forfeit ti the person aggrieved, the
thing or things so devised, made, conftrurt
ed, used, employed, or vended, coutrary to
the true intent of this art, which may be re
covered iu an artiou on the caie, founded on
this art.
And be it further enabled, That upon oath
or affirmation made before the Judge of the
Diftfirt Court, where the defendant resides,
that any patent which (hall be issued in puf
fuance of this art, was obtained surreptitious
-1 y by, or upon falfe suggestion, and motion
made 10 the said Court, within one year af
ter issuing the said patent; but not afterwards,
it shall and may be lawful to and for the Judge
of the said Diftrirt Court, if the matter al
leged (hall appear to him to be fufficient, to
grant a rule that the patentee or patentees,
bis, her, or their executors, administrators,
or assigns, (hew eaufe why process (hould not
issue against him, her, or them, to repeal
such patents j and if fufficient eaufe fliall not
be (bewu to the contrary, the rule (hall be
made absolute, and theteupon the said Judge
fliall order process to be issued as aforefaid,
against such patentee or patentees, his, her,
or their executors, admioirt ratorß » or affigns*
Anti in case no fufficient eaufe fliall be fliewn
to the contrary, or if it ft>U «W«~r that the
patentee wa. no. t h, fitft and true .nv.utor or
’ Hifeoverer, Judgment rtta I be rendered bp
such Court for the repeal of such patent or
p, teittet and if the par.p, at whofa complaint
the proved issued. (hall *'"J ,
aeainfl him, he tht'l par a I .
defendant th.ll be puttu ‘
to be taxed bp tbe Coutt, and leodvatad tu
fur h manner as cnft* expended by defendants,
Ihall be recovered in due course of law.
r, And be it further' enaded, That in all ac*
tions to be brought by such patentee or pa«
tentees, his, her;-or their executors, admi
niftiators, or afligns, for any penalty incur
red by virtue of this ad, the said patents or
fpecifirations (hall be puma facte evidence,
that the said patentee-or patentees, was or
were the Just and true inventor or invent ura # '
difcoveier or difeoverers of the thin< (o fpe
cified, and that the fame is truly fpecified |
but that nevertheless, the defendant or de
fendants may plead the general iflue, and give
this ad, and any fpicial matter whereof no
lice in writing ftiall have been given to the
plaintiff, or his attorney, thirty days befoie
the trial, in evidence, tending to prove that
the fpeciftcation filed by the plaiutiff doe* not
contain the whole of the truth concerning hte
invention or difeovery j or that Jt contains
more than is neceft’ary to pfodnee the erfed
defenbed y and if the concealment ot p rt,
or the additiou of more than is iv,'
ihall appear to have been intended to milk id*
or shall actually wiiltad the publi'c, so at the
effect defenbed cannot be produced by the
means fpccified. then, and in such cases, the
verdict and judgment /haU be tor rn# de
fendant. *
And be it further enacted* That fuel pa
tentee as aforefaid, (hall, before he rererve*
his patent, pay the following fees to the fe
deral officers employed in making out ami
performing the fame, to wit s For receiving
aud filing the petition, fifty Cents; for filing
fpecifieations, per copy sheet containing one
hundred words, ten cents; for making out
patent, two dollars for fixing great seal, On®
dollar ; for inddrfing the day of
the fame to the patentee, including all inter
mediate fervicce, tweuty cents.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENffURG,'
iipeaket of the House of Rrprtjtnmivvti*
JOHN ADAMS, yicr-PreJideni of bt
Uttited Stat e, and Prtfidtnt oj the Senate*
Approved April to, 1790*
G EOR G E WASH IN G t ON, Prcjtdirii
of tbe United buttes*
(True Copy.)’ „ f f . *
THOS JEFFERSON, Secretary of St die.
} BERLIN, May i*V
TH E march of our troops is hot* quite
certain. Early in the morning of the
lift inftaut, orders were received from Potf
damforthe gtrards to march the next moTtnngi;
aud proceed the 27th to Silesia ; the three re
giments of Generals Mollendorff, Rorufeldg
and Lignowifkv, will join them. ;
When the King of Frafire* obfetvdd, that
an observation fleet <ff 1 4 ih p» ot the In*
was immediately venting on aceounr of the
hot press in England, and their expected rup
ture with -«J>ain, and defied the AfW
fem'rly <0 decree for the ne- effuy tXpenced
thereof, M. Delamr*e brought «»t> the M
hi wing queflino • bhitf (he K'hii hav* (W
power of ds<lir't»g war and mil* fig peace,
or mull it be invaded in the »• f -rrAf
fembly, or the people thetnfHve- * Mere. 4
i deUtfi cuius 4, bat uv.mug was dsuc-W*
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