Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

28th CONGRESS,
30th2d Session. S. 143.^H. R N^o 735^ (Private.)

IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
February 24, 1845.
Mr. Phelps, from the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, reported the following bill; which was read, and passed to a second reading.
A BILL
For the relief of the heirs ^legal representatives^ of the late Uri Emmons.

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17 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That
whereas ^the^ letters patent were granted, for the term of fourteen
years to the late Uri Emmons, a citizen of the United States,
dated the twenty-fifth day of April, A.D. one thousand eight
hundred and twenty-nine, for a new and useful improvement
in the mode of planing floor plank, and grooving, tonguing,
and straightening the same, plaining boards, straightening
and planing square timber, &c., by machinery, at one opera-
tion, called the cylindrical planing machine, and which said
patent expired on the twenty-fifty day of April, A.D. one
thousand eight hundred and forty-three, the same, or such
portion thereof as may be designated by the executor of the
said Uri Emmons, be, and ^the same^ is hereby, ^renewed^ revived and extended
for the term of fourteen years from and after the passage of
this act. And the Commissioner of Patents is hereby di-
rected to make a certificate of such ^renewal^ revival and extension, in

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ed copy thereof to the original, or to an exemplification of
the original letters patent, whenever the same shall be re-
quested by the said ^legal representatives or their^ executor or his assigns.

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Bills for the Relief of the Heirs of Uri Emmons

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N^o 735

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A Bill for the relief of the legal Representatives of Uri Emmons.

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Alex Evans

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Committee of Patents

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H R. Patents

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H R 7395

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January 25, 1849
M^r Alexander Evans, on leave introduced the following bill, which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents.

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A Bill
for the relief of the legal representatives of Uri Emmons.

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Heirs of Emmons
Bill of 1845

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whereas ^the^ letters patent were granted, for the term of fourteen years to the late Uri Emmons, a citizen of the United States, dated the twenty-fifth day of April, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, for a new and useful improvement in the mode of planing floor plank, and grooving, tonguing, and straightening the same, plaining boards, straightening and planing square timber, &c., by machinery, at one opera- tion, called the cylindrical planing machine, and which said patent expired on the twenty-fifty day of April, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, the same, or such portion thereof as may be designated by the executor of the said Uri Emmons, be, and ^the same^ is hereby, ^renewed^ revived and extended for the term of fourteen years from and after the passage of this act. And the Commissioner of Patents is hereby di- rected to make a certificate of such ^renewal^ revival and extension, in
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18 19 20 21	the name of the said ^legal representatives ^ executor, and to append an authenticat- ed copy thereof to the original, or to an exemplification of the original letters patent, whenever the same shall be re- quested by the said ^legal representatives or their^ executor or his assigns.