Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 14.djvu/668

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638 THIRTY·—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 215, 216. 1867. of patents on the twenty-fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty, for the term of seven years from said last-mentioned date, for the benefit of the said Eliza Wells, administratrix as aforesaid ; and whereas, on the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty, said reissued and extended letters patent were surrendered and again reissued to Henry A. Burr, assignee, in two divisions, numbered ten hundred and eighty-six and ten hundred and eighty-seven; and whereas said reissued letters patent, numbered ten hundred and eighty-six, were surrendered and again reissued on the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, said reissued letters patent being numbered thirteen hundred and eighteen ; and whereas said extended term will expire the twenty-fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and whereas it appears that said invention is of great value and importance to the public, and that the said Henry A. Wells in his lifetime, aud the said Eliza Wells, administratrix as aforesaid since his decease, failed to receive from the use and sale of said invention a reasonable remuneration for the time, ingenuity, and expense bestowed upon the same, and the introduction thereof into use: Now therefore, _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United “}:l¤*g¤'* °x· States of America in Congress assembled, That the said reissued letters n ° patent, numbered one thousand and eighty-seven, and bearing date the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty, and said reissued letters patent, numbered one thousand three hundred and eighteen, and bearing date the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty- two, be, and the same are hereby, extended to and for the benefit of the said Eliza Wells, as administratrix of the estate of the said Henry A. Wells, deceased, for the further term of seven years from and after the twenty-fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Approved, March 2, 1867. March 2, 1867. CHAP. CCXVI. -An Aetfar the Reliefq/'Hugh Leddy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the meh L¤<ldY· Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to pay Hugh Leddy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty cents, in full for liquors wrongfully seized, by order of the provost-marshal, on the second of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and appropriated to the use of government through the medical department. Approved, March 2, 1867.