TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 162. 1832.
For the salary of the surveyor, two thousand dollars.
For the salary of the clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: Pro-vided, That the salary of the said officers shall not commence until theyshall be ordered into service.
For other expenses of the survey of boundary required by the saidtreaty, including the purchase of instruments, wages to persons employed,and other contingencies, ten thousand dollars.
Approved, July 3, 1832.
Chap. CLXII .—An Act concerning patents for useful inventions, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of theSecretary of State, annually, in the month of January, to report to Con-gress , and to publish in two of the newspapers printed in the city ofW ashington, a list of all the patents for discoveries, inventions, and improve-ments, which shall have expired within the year immediately preceding,with the names of the patentees, alphabetically arranged.
Sec. 2. And be it f urther enacted, That application to Congress to pro-long or renew the term of a patent, shall be made before its expiration,and shall be notified at least once a month, for three months before itspresentation, in two newspapers printed in the city of Washington, andin one of the newspapers in which the laws of the United States shallbe published in the state or territory in which the patentee shall reside.The petition shall set forth particularly the grounds of the application.It shall be verified by oath; the evidence in its support may be takenbefore any judge or justice of the peace; it shall be accompanied by astatement of the ascertained value of the discovery, invention, or im-provement, and of the receipts and expenditures of the patentee, so asto exhibit the profit or loss arising therefrom.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That wherever any patent which hasbeen heretofore, or shall be hereafter, granted to any inventor in pursu-ance of the act of .Congress , entitled “ An act to promote the progressof useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,”passed on the twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord, onethousand seven hundred and ninety-three, or of any of the acts supple-mentary thereto, shall be invalid or inoperative, by reason that any of theterms or conditions prescribed in the third section of the said first men-tioned act, have not, by inadvertence, accident, or mistake, and withoutany fraudulent or deceptive intention, been complied with on the part ofthe said inventor, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of State, upon thesurrender to him of such patent, to cause a new patent to be granted tothe said inventor for the same invention for the residue of the periodthen unexpired, for which the original patent was granted, upon his com-pliance with the terms and conditions prescribed in the said third sectionof the said act. And, in case of his death, or any assignment by himmade of the same patent, the like right shall vest in his executors andadministrators, or assignee or assignees: Provided, however, That suchnew patent, so granted, shall, in all respects, be liable to the same mat-ters of objection and defence as any original patent granted under thesaid first-mentioned act. But no public use or privilege of the inventionso patented, derived from or after the grant of the original patent, eitherunder any special license of the inventor, or without the consent of thepatentee that there shall be a free public use thereof, shall, in any man-ner, prejudice his right of recovery for any use or violation of his inven-tion after the grant of such new patent as aforesaid.
Approved, July 3, 1832.
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Proviso.
Contingencies.
Statute I.
July 3, 1832.
Act of July 4,1836, ch. 357.
List of expiredpatents to be an-nually reportedto Congress .
Form of appli-cation to pro-long or renewpatent.
Patent to beinvalid in caseof inventor nothaving compliedwith terms, &c.
1793, ch. 11.
Secretary ofState, upon sur-render, &c., togrant a new pa-tent.
In case ofdeath, &c., rightto vest in execu-tors, &c.
Proviso.