THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 320.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
March 9, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Henley, from the Committee on Patents, reported the
following bill:
A BILL
To authorize the Commissioner of Patents to renew the patent
of Cyrus H. McCormick, for his horizontal plough.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled
, That the Commissioner of Patents be autho-
rized to grant to Cyrus H. McCormick a renewal of his
letters patent, from the term of fourteen years, from the ex-
piration of his former patent, for his “Self-sharpening hori-
zonal plough,” subject to the rules and usages of the
Patent Office, and the laws now in force upon the subject
of granting and extending patent rights.

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