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(ft-tovrilii Constitutionalist.
BY GIIIEE & THOMPSON.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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Third door from ihe N. W. comer of Broad-Street.
Sales of LAND, hy Administrators, Executors, or
Guardians, are required, by law, to bo held on the
first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of
ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at
the Court-house in which the property is situate.—
Notice of these sales must be given in a public Ga
zette Kiily days previous to the day of sale.
Sales of NEGROES must be at public auction,on the
first Tuesday of the month, .between usual
hoursof sale, at the place of public sales in the coun
ty where the letters Testamentary, or Administra
tion or Guardianship, may have been granted, first
giving sixty days notice thereof, in one of the pub
fic Gazettes of this State, and at the door of the
Sourt-house where such sales are to be held.
Natice for the sale of Personal Property must be giv
en in like manner, forty days previous to day of sale.
Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Estate,
must be published for forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court o
Ordinary for leave to sell LAND, must be pub
lished for four months.
Notice for leave to sell NEGROES, must be publish
ed four months, before any order absolute can be
made hv the Court.
[BY AUTHORITY ]
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED AT THE TWEN
TY FOURTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION.
[Public. —No. 72.]
AN ACT to promote the progress of use
ful arts, and to repeal all acts and
parts of acts heretofore made for that
*• purpose.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House
i of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled , that
there shall be established and attached
to the Department of State, an office to
I be denominated the Patent Office; the
[chief officer of which shall be called the
[ Commissioner of Patents, to be appoint
|ed by the President, by and with the ad
vice and consent of the Senate,whose duly
it shall be, under the direction of the
Secretary of State, to superintend, exe
cute, and perform, all such acts and
things touching and respecting (he grant
ting and issuing of patents for new and
useful discoveries, inventions, and im
provements, as are herein provided for,
or shall hereafter be, by law, directed to
be done and performed, and shall have
the charge and custody of all the books,
records, papers, models, machines, and
all other things belonging, to said of
fice. And said Commissioner shall re
ceive the same compensalien as is al
lowed by law to the Commissioner of the
Indian Department, and shall be entitled
to send and receive letters and packages
by mail, relating to the business of the
office, free of postage.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That
there shall be, in said office, an inferior
officer, to be appointed by the said prin
cipal officer, with the approval of the
Secretary of Slate, to receive an annual
salary of seventeen hundred dollars, and
to be called the Chief Clerk of the Pat
ent Office; who in all cases during the
necessary abscence of the Commissioner,
or when the said principal office shall
become vacant, shall have the charge
and custody of the seal, and of the re
cords, books, papers, machines, models,
and nil other things belonging to the
said office, and shall perform the duties
of Commissioner during such vacancy.
And the said Commissioner may also,
with like approval, appoint an examining
clerk, at an annual salary of fifteen hun
dred dollars; two other clerks at twelve
hundred dollars each, one of whom shall
be a competent draughtsman; one other
rierk at one thousand dollars; a machi
list at twelve hundred and fifty dollars;
ind a messenger at seven hundred dol
lars. And said Commissioner, clerks,
ind every other person appointed and em
ployed in said office, shall be disqualified
and interdicted from acquiring or taking
except by inheritance during the period
for which they shall hold their appoint
ments, respectively, any right or inter
est, directly or indirectly, in any patent
for an invention or discovery which has
been, or may hereafter be, granted.
Section 3. And be it further enacted,
That the said principal officer, and every
other person to be appointed in the said
office, shall, before he enters upon the
duties of his office or appointment, make
oath or affirmation, truly and faithfully
to execute the trust committed to him.
And the said Commissioner and the chief
i clerk shall also, before entering upon
their duties, severally give bonds with
sureties to the Treasurer of the United
Stales, the former in the sum of ten thou
sand dollars, and the latter, in the sum of
five thousand dollars, with condition to
reader a true and faithful account to
him or his successor in office, quarter
ly, of all moneys which shall be by them
respectively received for duties on pat
ents, and for copies of records and draw,
ings, and all other moneys received by
virtue of said office.
Section 4. And he it further enacted.
That the said Commissioner shall cause a
seal to be made and provided for the said
office, with such device as the President
of the United States shall approve ; and
copies of any records, books, papers, or
drawings, belonging to the said office, un
der the signature of the said Commission
er, or, when the office shall be vacant,
under the signature of the chief clerk,
with the said seal affixed, shall be com
petent evidence in all cases in which the
original records, books, papers, or draw
ings, could be evidence. And any per
|on making application therefor, may
Jiave certified copies of the records, draw,
mgs. and other papers deposited in said
office, on paying, for the written copies,
the sum of ten cents for every page of
one hundred words; and for copies of
drawings the reasonable expense of ma
king the same.
Sec 5. And be it further enacted, That
all patents issuing from said office shall
be issued in the name of the United States,
and under the seal of said office, and be
signed by the Secretary of State, and
countersigned by the Commissioner of
said office, and shall be recorded, togeth
er with the descriptions, specifications,
and drawings, in the said office, in books
to be kept for that purpose. Every such
patent shall contain a short description
or title of the invention or discovery, cor
rectly indiciting its nature and design,
and in its terms grant to the applicant or
applicants, his or their heirs, administra
tors, executors, or assignes, for a term
not exceeding fourteen years, the full and
exclusive right and liberty of making,
using, and vending to others to be used,
the said invention or discovery, referring
to the specifications for the particulars
thereof, a copy of which shall be annex
ed to the patent, specifying what the
patentee claims as his invention or disco
very.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
any person or persons having discover
ed or invented any nowand useful art,
machine, manufacture, or composition of
matter, or any new and useful improve
ment of any art, machine, manufacture,
or composition of matter, not known or
used by others before his or their disco,
very or invention thereof, and not, at the
time of his application for a patent, in
public use or on sale, with his consent or
allowance, as the inventor or discoverer ;
and shall desire to obtain an exclusive
property, therein, may make application
in writing to the Commissioner of Patents,
expressing such desire, and the Commis
sioner, on due proceedings had, may
grant a patent therefor. But before any
inventor shall receive a patent for any
such new invention or discovery, he
shall deliver a written description of his
invention or discovery, and of the man
ner and process of making, constructing,
using, and compounding the same, in
such full, clear, and exact terms, avoid
ing unnecessary prolixity, as to enable
any person skilled in the art or science to
which it appertains, or with which it is
most nearly connected, to make, con
struct, compound, and use the same ; and
in case of any machine, he shall full}*
explain the principle and the several
modes in which he has contemplated the
application of that principle or character
by which it may be distinguished from
other inventions, and shall particularly
specify and point out the part, improve
ment, or combination, which he claims
as his own invention or discovery. He
shall, furthermore, accompany the whole
with a drawing, or drawings, and written
references, where the nature of the case
admits of drawings, or with specimens of
ingredients, and of the composition of
matter, sufficient in quantity for the pur
pose of experiment, where the invention
or discovery is of a composition of matter,
which descriptions and drawings, signed
by the inventor and attested by two wit.
nesses, shall be filed in the Patent Office;
and lie shall moreover furnish a model of
his invention, in all cases which admit of
a representation by model, of a conve
nient size to exhibit advantageously its
several parts. The applicant shall also
make oath or affirmation that he does ver
ily believe that he is the original and first
inventor or discoverer of the art, machine,
composition, or improvement, for which
he solicits a patent, and that he does not
know or believe that the same was ever
before known or used ; and also of what
county he is a citizen ; which oath or
affirmation may be made before any per
son authorized by law to administer oaths.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted,
That, on the filing of any such applica
lion, description, and specification, and
the payment ot the duty hereinafter pro
vided, the Commissioner shall make or
cause to be made, an examination of the
alleged new invention or discovery, and
if, on any such examination, it shall not
appear to the Commissioner that the same
had been invented or discovered by any
oilier person in this country prior to the
alleged invention or discovery thereof by
the applicant, or that it had been patented
or described in any printed publication in
this or any foreign country, or had been
in public use or on sale with the appli
cant’s consent or allowance prior to the
application, if the Commissioner shall
deem it to be sufficiently useful and impor
tant, it shall be his duty to issue a patent
therefor. But whenever, on such exam
ination, it shall appear to the Commission
er that the applicant was not the original
and first inventor or discoverer thereof,
or that any part of that which is claimed
as new had before been invented or dis
covered, or patented, or described in any
printed publication in this or any foreign
country, as aforesaid, or that the descrip
tion is defective and insufficient, he shall
notify the applicant thereof, giving him,
bneflv. such information and references
as may be useful in judging of the pro
priety of renewing his application, or of
altering his specification to embrace only
that part of the invention or discovery
which is new. In every such case, if the
applicant shall elect to withdraw his ap
plication, relinquishing his claim to the
model, he shall be entitled to receive back
twenty dollars, part of the duty required
by this act, on filing a notice in writing
of such election in the Patent Office, a
copy of which, certified by the Commis
sioner, shall be a sufficient warrant to the
Treasurer for paying back to the said ap
plicant the said sum of twenty dollars.
But if the applicant in such case shall
persist in h.s claim for a patent, with or
without any alteration of his specification.
he shall be required to make oath or affir
mation anew, in manner as aforesaid.
And if the specification and claim shall
not have been so modified as, in the opi
nion of the Commissioner, shall entitle
the applicant to a patent, he may, on ap
peal, and upon request in writing, have
the decision of a board of examiners, to
be composed of three disinterested per
sons, who shall be appointed for that pur
pose by the Secretary of State, one of
whom at least to be selected, if practica
ble and convenient, for his knowledge and
skill in the particular art, manufacture, or
branch of science to which the alleged in
vention appertains; who shall be under
oath or affirmation for the faithful and im.
partial performance of the duty imposed
upon them by said appointment. Said
board shall be furnished with a certificate
in writing, of the opinion and decision of
the Commissioner, stating the particular
grounds of his objection, and the part or
parts of the invention which he considers
as not entitled to be patented. And the
said board shall give reasonable notice to
the applicant, as well as to the Commis
sioner, of the time and place of their
meeting, that they may have an opportu
nity of furnishing them with such facts
and evidence as they may deem necessa
ry to a just decision ; and it shall be the
duty of the Commissioner to furnish to
the board of examiners such information
as he may possess relative to the matters
under their consideration. A*nd on an
examination and consideration of the mat
ter by such board, it shall be in their pow
er, or of a majority of them, to reverse
the decision of the Commissioner, cither
in whole or in part, and their opinion be
ing certified to the Commissioner, he shall
be governed thereby, in the further pro.
ceedings to be had on such application :
Provided, however, That before a board
shall be instituted in any such case, the
applicant shall pay to the credit of the
Treasury, as provided in the ninth section
of this act, the sum of twenty five dol
lars, and each of said persons so appoint
ed shall be entitled to receive for his ser
vices in each case, u sum not exceeding
ten dollars, to be determined and paid by
the Commissioner out of any moneys in
his hands, which shall be in full compen.
sation to the persons who may be so ap
pointed, for their examination and certifi
cate as aforesaid. »
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
whenever an application shall be made
for a patent which, in the opinion of the
Commissioner, would interfere with any
other patent for which an application may
be pending, or with any unexpired patent
which shall have been granted, it shall be
the duty of the Commissioner to give no
lice thereof to such applicants, or paten
tees, as the ease may be; and if either
shall be dissatisfied with the decision of
the Commissioner on the question of pri
ority of right or invention, on a hearing
thereof, he may appeal from such decis
ion, on the like terms and conditions as
are provided in the preceding section of
this act; and the like proceedings shall
be had, to determine which or whether
either of the applicants is entitled to re
ceive a patent as prayed for. But no
thing in this act contained shall be con
strued to deprive an original and true in
ventor of the right to a patent for his in
vention, by reason of his having previ
ously taken out letters patent therefor in a
foreign country, and the same having been
published, at any time within six months
hext preceeding the filling of his specifi
cation and drawing. And whenever the
applicant shall request it, the patent shall
take date from the time of the filling of
the specification and drawings, not how
ever exceeding six months prior to the ac
tual issuing of the patent: and on like
request, and the payment of the duty here
in required, by any applicant, hisspecifi
cation and drawings shall be filed in the
secret archives of the office until he shall
furnish the model and the patent be issu
ed, not exceeding the term of one year,
the applicant being entitled to notice of
interfering applications.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
before any application for a patent shall
be considered by the Commissioner as
aforesaid, the applicant shall pay into the
Treasury of the United States, or into the
Patent Office, or into any of the deposite
banks to the credit of the Treasury, if he
be a citizen of the United States, or an
alien and shall have been resident in the
United States for one year next preceding,
and shall have made oath ofhis intention
to become a citizen thereof, the sum of
thirty dollars; if a subject of the King of
Great Britain, the sum of five hundred
dollars; and all other persons the sum of
three hundred dollars; for which payment
duplicate receipts shall be taken, one of
which to be filed in the office of the Trea
surer. And the moneys received into
the Treasury under this act, shall con
stitute a fund for the payment of the sala
ries of the officers and clerks herein pro
vided for, and all other expenses oflhe
Patent office, and to be called the patent
fund.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted.
That where any person hath made, or
shall have made, any new invention, dis
covery, or improvement, on account of
which a patent might by virtue of this act
be granted, and such person shall die be
fore any patent shall be granted therefor,
the right of applying for and obtaining
such patent shall devolve on the executor
or administiator of such person, in trust
for the heirs at law of the deceased, in
case he shall have died intestate; but if
otherwise, then in trust for his devisees,
in as full and ample manner, and under
the same conditions, limitations, and re
strictions, as the same was held, or might
have been claimed or enjoyed by such
person in bis or her lifetime: and when
application for a patent shall be made by
AUGUSTA (Ga.) FRIDAY, AVGUST 12, 1836.
such legal representatives, the oath or
affirmation provided in the sixth section
of this act, shall be so varied as to be
applicable to them.
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted,
That every patent shall be assignable in
law, either as to the whole interest, or
any undivided part thereof, by any instru
ment in writing; which assignment, and
also every grant and conveyance of the
exclusive right under any patent, to make
and use, and to grant to others to make
and use, the thing patented within and
throughout any specified part or portion
of the United States, shall be recorded in
the Patent Office within three months
from the execution thereof, for which the
assignee or grantee shall pay to the Com
missioner the sum of three dollars.
Sec. 12. And be it further enacted,
That any citizen of the United States, or
alien who shall have been resident in the
United States one year next preceding,
and shall have made oath of his intention
to become a citizen thereof, who shall
have invented any new art, machine, or
improvement thereof, and shall desire
further lime to mature the same, may, on
paying to the credit of the Treasury, in
manner as provided in the ninth section
of this act, the sum of twenty dollars, file
in the Patent Office a civeat, setting forth
the design and purpos3 thereof, and its
principal and distinguishing characteris
tics, and praying protection ofhis right,
till he shall have matured his invention;
which sum of twenty dollars, in case the
person filing such cavcjut shall afterwards
take out a patent for this invention therein
mentioned, shall be considered a part of
the sum herein required for the same.
And such caveat shall be filed in the con
fidential archives of the office, and pre
served in secrecy. And if application
shall be made by any other person within
one year from the time of filing such
caveat, for a patent of any invention with
which it may in any respect interfere, it
shall be the duty of the Commissioner to
deposite the description, specifications,
drawings, and model, in the confidential
arehives of the office, and to give notice,
by mail, to the person filing the caveat,
ofsuch application who shall, within three
months after receiving the notice, if he
would avail himself of the benefit of his
caveat, file his description, specifications,
drawings, and model; and if, in the opinion
of the Commissioner, the specifications of
claim interfere with each other, like pro
ceedings may be had in all respects as are
in this act provided in the case of inter
fering applications : Provided, however.
That no opinion or decision of any board
of examiners, under the provisions of this
act, shall preclude any person interested
in favor of or against the validity of any
patent which has been or may hereafter
be granted, from the right to contest the
same in any judicial court in any section
in which its validity may come in ques
tion.
Sec. 13. And be it further enacted,
That whenever any patent which lias
heretofore been granted, or which shall
hereafter be granted, shall be inoperative
or invalid, by reason of a defective or in-,
sufficient description or specification, or
by reason of the patentee claiming in his
specification as his own invention, more
than he had or shall have a right to claim
as new; if the error has, or shall have
arisen by inadvertency, accident, or mis
take, and without any fraudulent or de
ceptive intention, it shall be lawful for the
Commissioner, upon the surrender to him
of such patent, and ihe payment of the
further duty of fifteen dollars, to cause a
new patent to be issued to the said inven
tor, for the same invention, for the resi
due of the period then unexpired for which
the original patent was granted, in ac
cordance with the patentee’s corrected
description and specification. And in
case of his death, o? ary assignment by
him made of the origina. patent, a similar
right shall vest in his executors, admini
strators, or assignees. And the patent,
so re-issued, together with the corrected
description and specification, shall have
the same effect and operation in law, on
the trial of all actions hereafter commen
ced for causes subsequently accruing, as
though the same had been originally filed
in such corrected form, before the issuing
of the original patent. And whenever
the original patentee shall be desirous of
adding the description and specification
of any new improvement of the original
invention or discovery which shall have
been invented or discovered by him sub
sequent to the date of his patent, he may,
like proceedings being had in all respects
as in the case of original applications,
and on the payment of fifteen dollars, as
hereinbefore provided, have the same an
nexed to the original description and
specification; and the Commissioner shall
certify, on the margin of such annexed
description and specification, the time of
its being annexed and recorded; and the
same shall thereafter have the same effect
in law, to all intents and purposes, as
though it had been embraced in the origi
nal description and specification.
Sec. 14. And be it further enacted,
•That whenever, in any action for dama
ges for making using, or selling the thing
whereof the exclusive right is secured by
any patent heretofore granted, or by any
other patent which may hereafter be
granted, a verdict shall be rendered for
the plaintiff in such aciion, it shall be in
the power of the court to render judg
ment for any sum above the amount tound
by such verdict as the actual damages
sustained by the plaintiff, not exceeding
three times the amount thereof, according
to the circumstances of the case, with
costs; and such damages may be recov
ered by action on the case, in any court
of competent jurisdiction, to be brought
in the name or names of the person or
persons interested, whether as patentee,
assignees, or as grantees of the exclusive
right within and throughout a specified
part of the United States.
Sec. 15. And be it further enacted,
That the defendant in any such action
shall be permitted to plead the general
issue, and to give this act and any special
matter in evidence, of which notice in
writing may have been given to the plain
tiff or his attorney, thirty days before
trial, tending to prove that the description
and specification filed by plaintiff does
not contain the whole truth relative to his
invention or discovery, or that it contains
more than is necessary to produce the
described effect; which concealment or
addition shall fully appear to have been
made for the purpose of deceiving the
public, or that the patentee was not the
original and first inventor or discoverer
of the thing patented, or of a substantial
and material part thereof claimed as new,
or that it had been described in some
public work anterior to the supposed dis
covery thereof by or had
been in public use, or on sale with the
consent and allowance of,the
before his application for a patent, or that
he had surreptitiously or unjustly obtain
ed the patent for that which was in fact
invented or discovered by another, who
was using reasonable diligence in adapt
ing and perfecting the same; or that the
patentee, if an alien at the time the pa
tent was granted, had failed and neglect,
ed for the space of eighteen months from
the date of the patent, to put and continue
on sale to the public, on reasonable terms,
the intention or discovery for which the
patent was issued; and whenever the de
fendant relies in his defence on the fact
of a previous invention, knowledge, or
use of the thing patented, he shall state,
in his notice of special matter, the names
and places of residence of those whom he
intends to prove to have possessed a prior
knowledge of the thing, and where the
same had been used: in either of which
cases judgment shall be rendered for the
defendant, with costs: Provided, however.
That whenever it shall satisfactorily ap
pear that the patentee, at the time of ma
king his application for the patent, believ
ed himself to be the first inventor or dis
coverer of the thing patented, the same
shall not be held to be void on account of
the invention or discovery or any part
thereof having been before known or used
in any foreign country, it not appearing
that the same or any substantial part
thereof had before been patented or des
cribed in any printed publication. And
provided, also. That whenever the plain
tiff shall (ail to sustain his action on the
ground that in his specification of claim
is embraced more than that of which he
was the first inventor, if it shall appear
that the defendant had used or violated
any part of the invention justly and truly
specified and claimed as new, it shall be
in the power of the court to adjudge and
award as to costs as may appear to be
just and equitable.
Sec. 16. And he it further enacted.
That whenever there shall be two inter
fering patents, or whenever a patent on
application shall have been refused on an
adverse decision of a board of examiners,
on the ground that the patent applied for
would interfere with an unexpired patent
previously granted, any person interested
in any such patent, either by assignment
or otherwise, in the one case, and any
such applicant in the other case, may
have remedy by a bill in equity; and the
court having cognizance thereof, on no
tice to adverse parties and other due pro
ceedings had, may adjudge and declare
either the patents void in the whole or in
part, or inoperative and invalid in any
particular part or portion of the United
States, according to the interest which
the parties to such suit may possess in the
patent or the inventions patented, and
may also adjudge that such applicant is
entitled, according to the principles and
provisions of this act, to have and receive
a patent for his invention, as specified in
his claim, or for any part thereof, as the
fact of priority of right or invention shall
in any such case be made to appear.—
And such adjudication, if it be in favor of
the right of such applicant, shall authorize
the Commissioner to issue such patent,
on his filing a copy of the ajudication,
and otherwise comply with the requisi
tions of this act. Provided, however,
That no such judgment or adjudication
shall affect the rights of any person ex
cept the parties to the action and those
deriving title from or under them subse
quent to the rendition of such judgment.
Sec. 17. And be iifurther enacted,
That all actions, suits, controversies, and
cases arising under any law of the Uni
ted Stales, granting or confirming to in
ventors the exclusive right to their in
ventions or discoveries, shall be original
ly cognizable,-as well in equity as at law,
by the circuit courts of the United Slates,
or any district court having the powers
and jurisdiction of a circuit court; which
courts shall have power upon bill in equi
ty filed by any party aggrieved, in any
such case, to grant injunctions, according
to the course and principles of courts of
equity,to prevent the violation of the rights
of any inventor as secured to him by any
law*of the United States, on such terms
and conditions as.said courts may deem
reasonable ; Provided, however. That
from all judgments and decrees, from any
such court rendered in the premises, a
writ of error or appeal, as the case may
require, shall lie to the Supreme Court of
the United States, in the same manner
and under the same circumstances as is
now provided by law in other judgments
and decrees of circuit courts, and in all
other cases in which the court shall deem
it reasonable to allow the same.
Sec. 18. And he it further enacted :
That whenever any patentee of an in
vention or discovery shall desire an ex-
t insion of his patent beyond the term of 1
its limitation, he may make application
t lerefor, in writing, to the Cbmmissioner
of the Patent Office, setting forth the
grounds thereof; and the Comissioner
shall, on the applicant’s paying the sum
of forty dollars to the credit of the Trea
sury, as in the case of an original appli.
cation for a patent, cause to be publish
ed, in one or more of the principal news
papers in the city of -Washington, and in
such other paper or papers as he may
deem proper, published in the section of
country most interested adversely to the
extension ofthe patent, a notice of such
application and of the time and place
when and where the same will be con
sidered, that any person may appear and
show cause why the extension should not
begranted. And the Secretary ofState,
the Commissioner of the Patent Office,
and the Solicitor of the Treasury, shall
constitute a board to hear and decide up
on the evidence produced before them,
both for and against the extension,
and shall sit for that purpose at the time
and place designated in the published
notice thereof. The patentee shall fur
nish to said board a statement, in writing,
under oath, of the ascertained value of
the invention, and ofhis receipts and ex
penditures, sufficiently in detail to exhib
it a true and faithful account of loss and
profit in any manner accruing to him
from and by reason of said invention.
And if, upon a hearing of the matter, it
shall appear to the full and entire satis
faction of said board, having due regard
to the public interest therein, that it is just
and proper that the term of the patent
should be extended, by reason ofthe nat
entee, without neglect or fault on his
part, having failed to obtain, from the
use and sale ofhis invention, a reasona
ble remuneration for the time, ingenuity,
and expense bestowed upon the same,
and the introduction thereof into use, it
shall be the duty of the Commissioner to
renew and extend the patent, by making
a certificate thereon of such extension,
for the term of seven years from and af
ter the expiration of the first term; which
certificate, with a certificate of said board
of their judgement and opinion as afore
said, shall be entered on record in the
Patent Office; and thereupon the said
patent shall h:\ve the same effect in law
as though it had been originally granted
for the term of twenty-one years. And
the benefit of such renewal shall extend
to assignees and grantees of the right to
use the tiling patented, to the extent of
their respective interest therein; Provi.
ded, however. That no extension of a
patent shall be granted after the expira
tionof the term for which it was originally
issued.
Sec. 19. And be it further enacted,
That there shall be provided for the use
of said office, a library ofscientific works
and periodical publications, both foreign
and American, calculated to facilitate the
discharge of the duties hereby required
of the chief officers therein, to be pur
chased under the direction of the Com.
mittee of the Library of Congress: And
the sum of fifteen hundred dollars is here
by appropriated, for that purpose, to be
paid out of the patent fund.
Sec. 20. And be it further enacted,
That it shall be the duty of the Commis
sioner to cuase to be classified and arrung
ed, in such rooms or galleries as may be
provided for that purpose, in suitable ca
ses, when necessary for their preserva
tion, and in such manner as shallbe con
ductlve to a beneficial and favorable dis
play thereof, the models and specimens
of compositions and of fabrics and other
manufactures and works of art, patented
or unpaiented, which have been, or shall
hereafter be deposited in said office. And
said rooms or galleries shall be kept open
during suitable hours for public inspec
tion.
Section 21. And he iifurther enacted.
That all acts and parts of acts heretofore
passed on this subject be, and the same
are hereby repealed : Provided, however,
That all actions and processes in law or
equity sued out prior to the passage of
this act, may be prosecuted to final judg
ment and execution, in the same manner
as though this act had not been passed,
excepting and saving the application to
any such action, of the provisions of the
fourteenth and fifteenth sections of this
act, so far as they may be applicable
thereto. And provided, also. That all
applications or petitions for patents, pend
ing at the time of the passage of this act,
in cases where the duty has been paid,
shall be proceeded with and acted on in
the same manner as though filed after the
passage thereof.
JAMES K. POLK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
W. R. KING,
President of the Senate, pro tempore.
Approved, July 4, 1836.
ANDREW JACKSON.
Office Augusta Insurance and Banking
Company.
20th April, 1836.
THE Board of Directors of this Bank have
determined to allow four per cent, interest
on Deposits on all sums of money not leas lhan
five hundred dollars—which may remain foi a
longer period than thirty days. Notice will be
required at the time the deposit is made should
the depositor wish to avail himself ot this ar
rangement.
In reference to the Insurance department, the
business will be conducted as heretofore, the
rates of Premium will be fixed in accordance
with a liberal view of the hazard proposed, and
the principle adopted by the Board of Directors
from the commencement of the Institution, “ u.
do business on as good terms as other good offi
ces.” The agents of the Company are fully au
thorised to pay ail losses promptly where ih<
risk is taken, when there is no objection to rin
nature of the claim—and every effort tv; I
made, consiS‘e:«t will.- equity I jus: ce, •• -
instate the insured, whether at home or aoruiij.
By order of the Board.
ROBERT WALTON, Sec’y &. Cash'r
April 22 160
VOE. XIV.-MEW SERIES, NO. 16.
GEORGE A. WALKER,
Is note opening at No. 285 Broad-street, ( store
formerly occupied by Mr. L. H. Hamilton,)
AN EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
BOOTS, SHOES, se.
THE Stock is entirely new, has been care
fully selected, and will be sold upon as
tavouraWe terms as can be obtained in this city
or Charleston. Merchants are respectfully re
quested to give his Goods an examination be
lore making* iheir purchaser.
Being about to relinquish the retail part of his
business— he will dispose of the Goods at hia
old stand. No. 231, at very low prices.
A P ri l 19 159
Eook at This.
fa'HE Subscriber wishing to retire from pub.
*- i' c business, will dispose of ihe unexpired
lease of the Hotel known as the MERCHANTS
® r MIOT’S HO FEE, with all the furniture and
fixtures attached to it ; situated in Charleston,
S. C. at the corner of King and Society streets.
It is as extensive and as well lurnished as any
Hotel in the city,—it is also one of the best
stands, being located in the center of all of the
principle Wholesale Stores. This establish,
ment is so well known through Georgia, that
any further discription of it is useless—persons
wishing to purchase this valuable establishment,
will do well to apply immediately. Terms will
be made know by applying to tht proprietor, and
possession can bo given at any time from the
Ist of August. CHAS. H. MIOF.
Charleston, July 6, 1836.
July 15 g
O” The Milledgeville Recorder and Macon
Messenger, will copy the above weekly for six
weeks, and send their accounts to C, H. Miol
for payment.
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber has purchased of Messrs.
J. &. D. Morrison, their entire stock of
GOODS—and will conduct the GROCERY
BUSINESS at the stand recently occupied by
them—corner Washinsion and Broad-streets.
HE HAS NOW IN STORE,
A complete assortment of GROCERIES—
which he offers for sale on accommodatin'*
terms. CHARLES A. GREINER.
April 29, 1836 162
Notice to Contractors.
JAMES RIVER AND KANAWHA CANAL.
PROPOSALS Will be received at the Office
of the James River and Kanawha Cota,
pany, in the City of Richmond, from the 15th to
23rd day of August, for the construction of all
the Excavation, Embankment and Walling, not
now under contract, together with nearly all
the Culverts and the greater portion of the Locks
between Lynchburg and Maiden’s Adventure.
The work now advertised embraces the twenty
miles between Columbia and the head of Maid,
ens’ Adventure Pond, the eight miles between
Seven Islands Falls and Scottsville, and about
twenty isolated sections, reserved at the former
letting, between Scottsville and Lynchburg.
The quantity of masonry offered is very gteat,
—consisting of about two hundred Culverts of
from three to thirty feet; nine Aqueducts, thirty,
five Locks, a number of Wastes, with several
farm and road Bridges.
General plans and specifications of all the
work, and special plana of the most important
Culverts and Aqueducts, will be found at the
offices of the several Principal Assistant Engi
neers on the line of the Canal.
The work will be prepared for examination
by the 25th July; but mechanics, well recom
mended, desirous of immediate employment, can
obtain contracts for the constructions of a num
ber of culverts at private letting.
Persons offering to contract, who are unknown
to the subscriber, or any of the Assistant Engi
neers, will be expected to accompany their
proposals by the usual certificate of character
and ability.
CHARLES ELLET, Jr.
Chief Engineer of the James River
and Canowha Company.
Note.—The Dams, Guard-Locks, most of
the Bridges, and a cumber of Locks and Culverts,
are reserved for a future letting. Persons visit
ing the li .; for the purpose of obtaining work,
would do well to call at the office of the Com
pany in the city of Richmond, where any infor
mation which they may desire will be cheerfully
communicated.
The valley of James River, between Lynch,
burg and Richmond, is healthy. C. E.Jr.
June 7 22*
Pendleton Academy.
lIIAVE made arrangements with the Trus
tees to take charge of this Institution. The
Academy will be opened on the first day of Au
gust. and Mathematical course
of studies will be such as to qualify youth for ad
mission into the South Carolina College; to
which French, Drawing, and the principles of
Music will be added, if desired by parents or
guardians. The Terms of Tuition, $lO per
quarter. Admission will be limited to such only
as can read and write, and know the four funda
mental rules of Arithmatic.
For qualifications I would refer to the Hon.
JOHN C. CALHOUN, in whoso family I have
been engaged as private tutor for the last seven
or eight months, and would remark further, that
I received my classical Education in England,
under the celebrated Dr. Valpy ; and was lor
more than three years student of Mathematics
under Mr. Staines, who was for many years
Professor of Mathematics in St. John’s College,
Cambridge: and I am a member of the Hono
rable Society of Lincoln’s Inn London.
The situation of Pendleton is so well known
for health and other advantages, that it is unne
cessary to say any thing in relation thereto, ex
cept that good boarding can be had on reasona
ble terms in the vicinity of the Academy.
I feel anxious faithfully to discharge the du
ties devolving on this situation ; and to promote
the morals, exercise, and health of the youth
who may be entrusted to my care, as well as to
advance their education.
Vacation from the 15th of December to the
15th of January, and from the 15th of June to
the 15th of July.
I have taken up my residence at Mrs. Lotion’s,
where I shall be ready to receive applications
fur admission to the Academy.
TH. WAYLAND,
July 29 w 4 12
The Greenville Mountaineer, and the Charles,
ton, Columbia and Augusta papers are request
ed to insert this advertisement weekly lor the
next month, and forward their accounts.
NfEW
LIVERY STABLES
AND CARRIAGE REPOSITORY,
Augusta, Georgia.
€1 MINfjER, respectfully informs his
I m friends, that he has Leased the Ware
house and Lot, known as Barton’s, late Mr.
John Rees, near the Planter’s Hotel—and has
all those superior buildings constructed into
Stables and Carriage Houses.—Has on hand—
and will keep, a general assortment of CAR.
RIAGES for sale of the latest fashions and best
finish. His connection in this branch of hia bu
siness, is such, as to induce him to believe, he
can offer greater inducements to the purchaser,
iban any like Establishment at the South. Has
Stables are ail D rt Stalls— wide, hiyh and airy;
can accommodate any pum
ery from Ito 209—price . 1!i tL*rs«,
longer or shorter time, ;>• s.— norses and
I -r rt- can bo
had ON THE HOST i:SABC-.v,v. Vt &M 3. Tile rr 0 -
pnetor pledges to
hfe rtuENUS " ... may patronise him.
May 21 5 GO