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THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 102, 103, 104. 1856. 463 ending on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the benefit of said Adams, his heirs and legal representatives; and the Commissioner of Patents is hereby directed, upon the presentation of said patents, and the payment of the fees and charges provided by law, to renew, revive, and extend said patents, by making a certificate on each th9¤¤i:i¤¤F¤ of of said patents, or upon certified copies thereof, of such extension, in the b£;(f);§Q°fnt° name of the said Isaac Adams; and the said Commissioner is hereby patent and recdirected to cause it to be entered on the record in the Patent-Office. °"d· _ And the said patents, so renewed and extended, shall have the same exE:‘;;Qf°h" effect in law as if originally granted for terms extending to the end of the term to which they are extended by this act, in the form herein provided: Provided, however, That said renewed and extended patents, respectively, shall be open to legal inquiry and decision, in the same manner as if issued under the general law relating to patents: prev·ided,_f·urt}cer, Pmons using That all persons enjoying the lawful use of the improved machines so the presses may patented by the said Isaac Adams in his said patents, and the purchaser €§¤*l¤¤° W We of any machine so in use, or lawfully constructed theretbr, may continue °m' to use the same as if this act had not been passed. Approved, August 16, 1856. Culp. CII.—An Act restoring Joshua Mercer to the Roll of invalid Pensioners. Aug. 16, 1856, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Joshua M8,-. Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to restore the name of Joshua ¤¤¤‘ to be mst9f- Mercer to the list of invalid pensioners, and pay him at the rate of eight $,°;€l§8p;Qf‘°“ dollars per month, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and month for life, fifty-two, during his natural life. JM- lv Approved, August 16, 1856. ' sim. CIII.—An Act for the img; ty Wet mama and tum. .5*1.¤EE&. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the wP‘i‘)}£;'::€m_ Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to West MQ; Dumps, or Drinkwater, Kingsbury Duncan, Jonathan Clark, Samuel Duncan, and their heirs. ¤¤d John Duncan, or to such persons as may be legally authorized to receive ggmgggggés the same, as their heirs or legal representatives, the sum of thirty-three ctn. capture thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and seventeen cents, that being !““g;’1?·Y them the amount paid into the Treasury of the United States, and placed to m ` the account of fines, penalties and forfeitures, in consequence of a suit, The United States versus Sloop “Mary " and cargo, in the district court of Maine, January and April, eighteen hundred and fifteen ; the said sloop having been captured by the aforesaid named persons from the British, and delivered to the proper authorities of the United States in the State of Maine; said sum to be paid to the several persons hereinbefore named, or to their heirs or legal representatives, in equal parts. Approved, August 16, 1856. Gun. CIV.——A.n Act for the Relief of Amos B. Eaton, a Cbmmissaryof Subsistence rh Aug. 16, 1856. the United States Army. W` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R esentatives o the United S States of America in Congress assembled, Tg; the propezf accounting mlblggiildwfdton officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to allow and $1137-79 7** hk credit to Amos B. Eaton, a commissary of subsistence in the United States °°°°um°' army, the sum of eleven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventy- nine cents, the amount paid by him to William Sibley, William H. Spen-