ACT OF 1864, CHAP. 159. IN FORCE. ACT OF 1864, CHAPTER 159. 13 STATUTES AT LARGE, 194. [This Act still in Force.] An Act amendatory of "An act to amend an act entitled an act to promote the progress of the useful arts,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixtythree. [Enlarging act of 1863, § 3.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person. having an interest in an invention, whether as the inventor or assignee, for which a patent was ordered to issue upon the payment of the final fee, as provided in section three of an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, but who has failed to make payment of the final fee, as provided by said act, shall have the right to make the payment of such fee, and receive the patent withheld on account of the non-payment of said fee, provided such payment be made within six months from the date of the passage of this act: Provided, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to hold responsible in damages any persons who have manufactured or used any article or thing for which a patent as aforesaid was ordered to be issued. Approved June 25th, 1864. IN FORCE. ACT OF 1865, CHAP. 112. ACT OF 1865, CHAPTER 112. 13 STATUTES AT LARGE, 533. [This Act still in Force.] An Act amendatory of “An act to amend an act entitled an act to promote the progress of the useful arts," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. [Enlarging act of 1863, § 3.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person having an interest in an invention, whether as inventor or assignee, for which a patent was ordered to issue upon the payment of the final fee, as provided in section three of an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, but who has failed to make payment of the final fee, as provided in said act, shall have the right to make an application for a patent for his invention, the same as in the case of an original application, provided such application be made within two years after the date of the allowance of the original application: Provided, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to hold responsible in damages any persons who have manufactured or used any article or thing for which a patent aforesaid was ordered to issue. This act shall apply to all cases now in the Patent Office, and also to such as shall hereafter be filed. And all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 3d, 1865. ACTS OF 1866, CHAP. 126-143. OBSOLETE. ACT OF 1866, CHAPTER 126. 14 STATUTES AT LARGE, 66. [Obsolete: Temporary Enactment.] An Act to authorize the Commissioner of Patents to pay those employed as examiners and assistant examiners the salary fixed by law for the duties performed by them. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Patents is hereby authorized to pay those employed in the patent office from April - first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, until the first day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, as examiners and assistant examiners of patents, at the rates fixed by law for these respective grades; Provided, that the same be paid out of the patent office fund, and that the compensation thus paid shall not exceed that received by those duly enrolled as examiners and assistant examiners of patents for the same period. Approved, June 18, 1866. ACT OF 1866, CHAPTER 143. 14 STATUTES AT LARGE, 76. [This Act still in Force.] An Act in amendment of an act to promote the progress of the useful arts, and the acts in amendment of and in addition thereto. [Qualifying Act of 1861, § 2.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States IN FORCE. ACT OF 1867, CHAP. 17. of America in Congress assembled, That upon appealing for the first time from the decision of the primary examiner to the examiners-in-chief in the patent office, the appellant shall pay a fee of ten dollars into the patent office, to the credit of the patent fund; and no appeal from the primary examiner to the examiners-in-chief shall hereafter be allowed until the appellant shall nay said fee. Approved, June 27, 1866. ACT OF 1867, CHAPTER 17. 15 STATUTES AT LARGE, 10. [This Act still in Force.] An Act to increase the force in the Patent Office. [Re-enactment of act of 1861, § 7.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of Patents is authorized from time to time to appoint, in the manner already provided for by law, such an additional number of principal examiners, first assistant examiners, and second assistant examiners, as may be required to transact the current business of the office with despatch: Provided, That the whole number of such additional examiners shall not exceed four of each class, and that the total annual expense of the Patent Office shall not exceed its annual receipts. Approved March 29th, 1867. ACT OF 1868, CHAP. 177. PARTLY IN FORCE. ACT OF 1868, CHAPTER 177. 15 STATUTES AT LARGE, 119. [This Act partly in Force and partly Temporary.] Extract from "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government," &c. SECTION 7. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of Patents be authorized to rent, under the direction of the committees on patents of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, such rooms as may be necessary for the speedy and convenient transaction. of the business of the office: Provided, That all the moneys standing to the credit of the "Patent Fund," or in the hands of the Commissioner of Patents, and all moneys hereafter received at the Patent Office, for any purpose, or from any source whatever, shall be paid into the treasury as received, without any deduction whatever; and the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for salaries, and miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the Patent Office, and for withdrawals, and for monies [moneys] paid by mistake, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. And it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Patents to communicate to Congress at the commencement of every December session, a full and detailed account of moneys received for duties on patents, and for copies of records and drawings, and all other moneys received by virtue of said office; and of all moneys expended by him under and by virtue of this provision for said contingent and miscellaneous expenses, and for salaries, and the |