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be intended to be patented or deposited therein, the transportation of the same to be chargeable to the patent fund.

§ 11. And be it further enacted, That, instead of one examcopying clerk ining clerk, as provided by the second section of the act to which to be appoint- this is additional, there shall be appointed, in manner therein provided, two examining clerks, each to receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars; and also, an additional copying clerk, at an annual salary of eight hundred dollars. And the commissioner is authorised to employ, from time to time, as many temporary clerks as may be necessary to execute the copying and draughting required by the first section of this act, and to examine and compare records with the originals, who shall receive not exceeding seven cents for every page of one hundred words, and for drawings and comparison of records with originals, such reasonable compensation as shall be agreed upon or prescribed by the com

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Certificate of § 12. And be it further enacted, That, whenever the applicathe commis- tion of any foreigner for a patent shall be rejected and withsioner to be drawn for want of novelty in the invention, pursuant to the warrant to the seventh section of the act to which this is additional, the certificate thereof of the commissioner shall be a sufficient warrant to the treasurer to pay back to such applicant two-thirds of the duty he shall have paid into the treasury on account of such application.

treasurer.

Affirmation

may be sub stituted for an

oath.

Moneys paid

tional, to be

fund created

&c.

§ 13. And be it further enacted, That in all cases in which an oath is required by this act, or by the act to which this is additional, if the person of whom it is required shall be conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath, affirmation may be substituted therefor.

§14. And be it further enacted, That all moneys paid into into the trea- the treasury of the United States for patents and for fees for sury for pat ents, &c.prior copies furnished by the superintendent of the patent office prior to to passage of the passage of the act to which this is additional, shall be carried act to which to the credit of the patent fund created by said act; and the this is addi- moneys constituting said fund shall be, and the same are hereby, carried to cre. appropriated for the payment of the salaries of the officers and patent clerks provided for by said act, and all other expenses of the patent office, including all the expenditures provided for by this by said act; and said fund act; and, also, for such other purposes as are or may be hereappropriated after specially provided for by law. And the commissioner is for salaries, hereby authorised to draw upon said fund, from time to time, for such sums as shall be necessary to carry into effect the provisions er authorised of this act, governed, however, by the several limitations herein to draw upon contained. And it shall be his duty to lay before Congress, in the same, &c.; month of January, annually, a detailed statement of the expendiCongress an- tures and payments by him made from said fund; And it shall nually a state- also be his duty to lay before Congress, in the month of January, ment of ex- annually, a list of all patents which shall have been granted during penditures, &c.; and, al. the preceding year, designating, under proper heads, the subjects of such patents, and furnishing an alphabetical list of the patentees, with their places of residence; and he shall also furnish a list of all patents which shall have become public property during the same period; together with such other information of the state

Commission

and lay before

so a list of

patents, &c.

and condition of the patent office, as may be useful to Congress or to the public. [Approved, March 3d, 1837.]

CHAP. 414. An act to provide for continuing the construction, and for the repair of certain roads, and for other purposes, during the

year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.

land road in

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of one hundred and ninety Continuing thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the the Cumberpurpose of continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Ohio; Ohio, Indiana That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same and Illinois. is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Indiana; And the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of continuing the Cumberland road in the state of Illinois; Provided, That said road within the state of Illinois, shall not be Proviso. stoned or gravelled, unless it can be done at cost, not greater than the average cost, of stoning or gravelling said road, within the states of Ohio and Indiana; which sums shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; Provi- Proviso. ded, That in all cases where it can be done, it shall be the duty of the superintending officers, to cause the work on said road to be laid off in sections, and let out to the lowest substantial bidder, after due notice.

shall not be

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the second section of an 2d section act act for the continuation of the Cumberland road in the states of 2d July, 1836, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, approved the second day of July, eigh- applicable, teen hundred and thirty-six shall not be applicable to expenditures &c. hereafter to be made on said road.

the Cumber

§3. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be and Repairs on the same are hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money land road east in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated: to wit, For the re- of the Ohio pairs of the Cumberland road, east of the Ohio river, seven thou- river. sand one hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty-three cents; Road from For continuing the construction of the road from the northern northern boundary of the territory of Florida, by Marianna, Appalachicola, boundary of Florida to Aptwenty thousand three hundred and thirteen dollars;

palachicola.

aminations,

For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations Expenses inand surveys, under the act of the thirteenth of April, eighteen hun- cidental to dred and twenty-four, and for geological and mineralogicial sur-making exveys and researches in the Indian country, on the public lands, &c. under the and in the territories of the United States, thirty thousand dollars; act 30th April For surveys of a military character, and for the defences of 1824, &c. Surveys of a the Atlantic and western frontiers, fifteen thousand dollars. military char§ 4. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby acter, &c. appropriated for the construction of the Cumberland road in the The sums states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, shall be replaced by said hereby priated for the states respectively, out of the fund reserved to each for laying Cumberland out and making roads under the direction of Congress, by the road in Ohio, several acts passed for the admission of said states into the Union, Illinois, to be on an equal footing with the original states. [Approved, March replaced by 3d, 1837.]

Indiana and

said states,

&c.

CHAP. 417. An act to grant the Atchafalaya Rail-road and Banking
Company, the right of way through the public lands of the United
States.

The right of § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That there be, and is hereby granted to
way granted the Atchafalaya rail-road and Banking company a corporation
through such
created by the legislature of the state of Louisiana, the right of
portions as
the road shall way through such portions of the public land as the road or roads
of said company is authorised by its charter to construct, shall
pass: Provided, That the portion of the public land occupied
thereby shall not exceed eighty feet in width.

pass.

Proviso.

The route of

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the route of said road and said road to its branches, shall, at the expense of the aforesaid company, be be surveyed and designa. surveyed and designated through the 'public lands by plain marks ted through or monuments, and copies of the field notes, with plat or plats of the public the lands, and a description of the said land-marks or monuments, lands, &c. and their connection with the previous official surveys of the adjacent lands, shall be returned to the office of the surveyor general of the state of Louisiana, and to the general land office in Washington, within sixty days after the said surveys or plats are completed, and which shall be within one year from the date of the passage of this act.

land granted

Proviso.

Portions of §3. And be it further enacted, That for such depots, watering the public places and workshops, as may be essential to the convenient use for depots, &c. of said road, there is also granted to said company such portion of the public land as they may under like restrictions and conditions, select, on either or each side of said road: Provided, That not more than four acres, to be laid off in a square form, shall be selected for such use or purpose at any one place, and not more than one such square shall be granted for every ten miles of the said road or its branches, lying within the public lands; which selections shall be surveyed and returned in the manner aforesaid, and approved by the secretary of the treasury for the time being.

Permission to use earth, stone, &c. granted.

The grants contained herein shall cease, &c., unless said

road be com

§4. And be it further enacted, That so long as the public land in the vicinity of said road or its branches shall remain unsold, the said company shall have permission to take therefrom such materials of earth, stone, or wood, as may be necessary for the

construction of said road.

§ 5. And be it further enacted, That the grants herein contained, as well the use of the public lands, as of the materials for the construction of said road and its branches, shall cease and determine and be of no effect, unless the said road be commenced and completed within the periods fixed by the charter of the company; and if the said road shall be, at any time after its completion, or within the pe. during the time of its construction, discontinued or abandoned riods fixed by by said company, the grants and privileges hereby made and althe charter, lowed shall cease and determine and be of no effect. [Approved, March 3d, 1837.]

menced and

completed

&c.

Act of general

CHAP. 419. An act further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the act of the general assembly

of Virginia, entitled "An act further to amend the act incorpo- assembly of rating the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company," passed the Va., passed twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and twenty- 1829, assentnine, be, and the same is hereby assented to and approved.

27th Feb.

ed to.

wickedly, &c.

nal, its em

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons Persons withshall, within the District of Columbia, wickedly, or maliciously, in the D. C. do injury to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, its embankments, injuring the walls, moles, tow-paths, bridges, culverts, drains, or to any part Chesapeake necessary to the uses and purposes of said canal, he, she, or they, and Ohio cashall be liable to a fine of not less than five or more than fifty bankmer ts, dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of the &c. liable to District of Columbia; and any such justice may, on his own view, fine, &c. or on application verified by affidavit, to said justice made, issue his warrant, describing the injury committed, and, upon conviction, the said justice shall have authority to commit the offender to close jail, without bail or mainprise, until said fine and costs be paid, or until said defendant be discharged by due course of law: Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained shall be so Proviso. construed as to prevent said canal company from recovering damages from any person or persons who may commit any of the trespasses aforesaid.

shal of D. C.,

§3. And be it further enacted, That all condemnations of land Condemnafor the use and purposes of said canal company, which have tions of land heretofore been made by the marshal of said district, or any law- by the mar ful deputy marshal, shall be as valid as though the same had been &c. situated in the state of Maryland, and had been condemned in pursuance of the laws of said state, through the action and agency of a sheriff of any of the counties of said state.

Act of gen.

ass. of Va.,

By the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia. An act further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and passed 27th Ohio Canal Company-Passed February twenty-seventh eighteen Feb. 1829. hundred and twenty-nine.

Ohio canal

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the Chesapeake and Ohio canal The Chesacompany be, and they are hereby, empowered, whenever it shall peake and be, in the judgment of the president and directors thereof, expe- company may dient, in lieu of bridges to substitute boats, properly fitted, for the in lieu of transportation of persons, wagons and carriages of every descrip- bridges subtion, across the canal, whenever a public or private road shall stitute boats, render a bridge or ferry necessary, and such road cannot be conveniently conducted under the canal.

&c.

directors may,

Be it further enacted, That the said president and directors, President and acting in behalf of the said company, and with the consent and with consent approbation thereof, expressed at some general meeting thereof, of company, in which a majority in interest of said stock is represented, may sell, &c. any sell, let, or otherwise dispose of, any surplus water in any part of surplus water. the said canal, or of any feeder or reservoir thereof, if they shall be of opinion that no injury will result therefrom to the navigation of the canal.

Be it further enacted, That whenever it may be necessary to The ground form heavy embankments, piers, or moles, at the mouths of creeks, formed in constructing or along the river shore, for basins and other purposes, and the embankments

&c. may be sold, &c. by the president and directors,

&c.

Proviso.

This act to be in force when, &c.

Right of way granted through portions of the

public lands remaining unsold. Proviso.

Earth, stone,

&c. may be said lands remain unsold.

used while

Confirmed

limitations,

&c.

president and directors may deem it expedient to give a greater strength to the same, by widening them, and constructing them of the most solid materials, the ground so formed for such useful purpose may by them, when so improved, be sold out, or let for terms of years, as they may deem most expedient for the company, on such conditions as may direct the application of the proceeds thereof to useful purposes, and at the same time repay the necessary expense of the formation of such embankments, piers, or moles: Provided, That this power shall in no case be exercised so as to injure the navigation of the canal.

This act shall be in force, so far as relates to the eastern section of the canal, on its receiving the assent of the legislature of Maryland, and of the Congress of the United States, and shall be valid as relates to both sections, on its receiving the further assent of the legislature of Pennsylvania. [Approved, March 3d, 1837.]

CHAP. 420. An act to authorise the New Orleans and Carrolton Rail-road Company to construct a rail-road from Carrolton to the town of Bayou Sara, in the state of Louisiana.

§1. Be it enacted, &c. That there be, and is hereby, granted to the New Orleans and Carrolton rail-road company, incorporated by the legislature of Louisiana the right of way through such portion of the public lands remaining unsold, for the extension of their rail-road from Carrolton to the town of Bayou Sara, in the said state: Provided, That the portion of the public lands occupied therefor, shall not exceed eighty feet in breadth; that the route of the said road shall be designated, and marked on the ground by plain landmarks, within the period of eighteen months from the passage of this act, and a copy of the notes of survey and plat thereof, with a description of the said landmarks, be transmitted to the general land office, in Washington, within the period aforesaid.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That so long as the public lands in the vicinity of the said road shall remain unsold, the said company shall have power to take thereform such materials of earth, stone, and wood, as may be necessary for the construction of the said road: Provided, That the grants herein contained, as well of the use of the public lands as of the materials for the said road, shall cease and determine, unless the same shall be begun within the period of two years from the date of this act, and completed within a period of six years. [Approved, March 3d, 1837.]

CHAP. 443. An act to give the approval and confirmation of Congress to three several acts of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin incorporating banks.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the following acts of the territowith certain rial legislature of the territory of Wisconsin, viz: an act entitled "An act to incorporate the stockholders of the Bank of Milwaukee," an act entitled "An act to incorporate the stockholders of the Miners' Bank of Dubuque," and an act entitled "An act to incorporate the stockholders of the Bank of Mineral Point," be,

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