Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 27.
(Executive Document No. 16.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 4, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Farrelly, from the Committee on Patents, reported the
following bill:
A BILL
To provide additional examiners in the Patent Office.

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14 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That there shall be appointed, in the manner
provided in the second section of the act, entitled “An act
to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal all
acts and parts of acts heretofore made for that purpose,”
approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two
principal examiners and two assistant examiners, in addi-
tion to the number of examiners now employed in the
Patent Office; and that hereafter each of the principal ex-
aminers employed in the Patent Office shall receive an an-
nual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, and each of the
assistant examiners an annual salary of fifteen hundred
dollars.