inventor any more trouble or expense than shall be absolutely necessary to put the public in possession of the full knowledge of the invention and its varieties. It cannot be material how the public obtain their knowledge, or whether it be obtained from a perfect model and description or not, if they have information enough to enable them to derive the benefit of an invention; and as some parts of some perfect models may hide other parts, and as it may, in some cases, be difficult to make models of the same kind of materials of which the invention or machine must be made, it will tend still more perhaps to ascertain rights and prevent wrongs, if the act shall comprise, but in a more proper method and style, the following provisions, to wit: That whenever the first inventor of any machine or invention, his heirs or assigns, or his or their agent, shall deliver at or in the said office a model of such parts thereof, and of such kinds of materials as shall, together with the description, be adequate to give sufficient information of such machine or invention, the said inventor, his heirs or assigns, shall have the right to the patent there for according to law; that as soon as the said first inventor's model shall be delivered as aforesaid, no other person except the said first inventor, his heirs or assigns, or his or their agent, shall ever be permitted to take out a patent for such invention or machine; that the inventor, his heirs or assigns, his or their agent, may take out a patent at any time within ten years from the time of depositing a model at or in the said office, that descriptions shall or may be delivered as aforesaid, at any time before the time fixed by law for the publication thereof, provided that patent rights shall, in all cases, expire in fifteen years from the time of delivering a model at or in the said office; that amendments of, or additions to, models and descriptions may be made and delivered. at or in the said office at any time after patents have been granted, provided that such amendments and additions shall take effect from the time of their publication only, and shall have no effect after the patent for the invention which they are intended to aid in describing shall have expired; that no person who shall make, erect, or use any machine or invention before a patent for it shall have been granted, or description of it published according to law, shall be liable to pay damages for so doing, if he shall cease to use it as soon as he shall be informed that a patent for it shall have been granted, or description of it published; that whenever it shall have been clearly proven that the same machine or invention was discovered by two or more persons, so near the same time that the first inventor cannot be ascertained, that inventor whose model shall be delivered at or in the said office six months earlier than any other, shall be adjudged to be entitled to a patent for the same according to law; that in all other cases, not in the act excepted, the first inventor shall be entitled to the patent; that every inventor who shall have held the first patent for any machine or invention ten years before any other patent shall be granted for the same machine or invention, and before any suit or action shall be brought against him for using the same, shall be adjudged to have a lawful right to the interest in the said patent granted, provided that it shall not be lawful to grant a patent for any machine or invention which shall have been in common use five years before a model thereof shall be delivered at or in the said office, or an application for a patent shall be made; and if any patent shall be issued or granted for any machine or invention which shall have been in common use for five years as aforesaid, the same shall be null and void, any thing in the act to the contrary notwithstanding; that the said keeper shall, without fee or reward, receive all models and descriptions, amendments, and additions aforesaid, tendered to him, or delivered at or in the said office according to law; and shall keep or file the same therein, noting in the proper book the name, place of abode, and occupation of the person claiming to be the inventor, together with the time at which they shall be tendered or delivered, and the marks of distinction, and shall make in the said book an index, in alphabetical order, for the use of the public; and every person wishing to examine the said book shall be permitted to search for any information which it may contain; and the said keeper shall cause each of the said descriptions, which shall be received as aforesaid, to be published in one public paper at the seat of Government three times within six months from the time of issuing or granting the patent for the invention therein described, and shall request the editors of newspapers, who choose to give notice gratis, to state in their respective papers that a description has been published; and, in like manner, shall publish the said amendments and additions within six months after they shall have been respectively received. Your petitioner further prays your honorable bodies to consider whether it may not be proper to make it the duty of the keeper to draw or compose a description of any invention, after the model thereof shall have been delivered as aforesaid, if he shall be requested so to do by the inventor, his heirs or assigns, his or their agent; and, also, whether it may not be proper to allow authors to take out a copyright at any time within fifteen years from the first publication, so as to stop the further publication of any work by any person except the author, his heirs or assigns, or his or their agent, provided that the said copyright shall not extend beyond fifteen years from the time of the first publication. As your petitioner cannot know whether his suggestions will be approved of or not, to avoid remark, he begs leave to add a certificate over the proper signatures of some of his fellow-citizens, in lieu of his own name, to show that he is a citizen, and that he really wishes for such an amendment of the said law as shall be best adapted for the purposes aforesaid. A CITIZEN OF PENNSYLVANIA. We, the undersigned, hereby certify that the author of the above-written petition is a citizen of Pennsylvania, and of the United States, and, we believe, well disposed toward the same, &c. BENJAMIN WILLIAMS. CONGRESS APPROPRIATIONS-FIRST SESSION TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS MADE DURING . THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SPECIFYING THE AMOUNT AND OBJECT OF EACH. JUNE 30, 1834. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. WASHINGTON: 1834. STATEMENT of appropriations made during the first session of the twenty-third Congress of the United States of America, specifying the amount and object of each. For the support of Government for the year 1834. H. R. No. 36. For pay and mileage of the members of Congress and For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent and incidental expenses of the House of Representatives, $555,480 00 32,900 00 32,550 00 150,000 00 $770,930 00 H. R. No. 283. For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Postmaster General, For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, For clerks, machinist, and messenger, in the Patent For the superintendent and watchman of the northeast For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labor, oil, repairs of the buildings, For completing the publication of the Diplomatic Cor $60,000 00 20,300 00 5,400 00 31,500 00 2,175 00 850 00 3,350 00 STATEMENT-Continued. respondence of the United States, from the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three to the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, For the Documentary History of the Revolution, per act of March 2d, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, For the erection of a fence of wood, corresponding with that already enclosing the War and Navy buildings, to complete the enclosure of the northeast executive building, For compensation of an additional watchman of the northeast executive building, For reimbursing the fund for the contingent expenses of the northeast executive building, including fuel, labor, oil, and repairs, for so much paid out of that fund for extra watchings during the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, including one hundred and fifty dollars additional compensation to the assistant messenger for extra labor, For compensation to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the First Comptroller, including two hundred dollars additional compensation to the assistant messenger for extra labor, $1,392 52 20,000 00 1,600 00 300 00 337 50 16,700 00 3,500 00 For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the For compensation to the Second Comptroller of the 19,300 00 3,000 00 For compensation to the Second Auditor of the Trea sury, 3,000 00 For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Second Auditor, 17,900 00 For compensation to the Third Auditor of the Treasury, 3,000 00 For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Third Auditor, 23,750 00 For compensation to the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, 3,000 00 For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Fourth Auditor, 17,750 00 For compensation to the Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, 3,000 00 For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Fifth Auditor, 12,800 00 For compensation to the Treasurer of the United States, 3,000 00 |