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THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 88. 1861. 247 examiners-in·cbief shall be governed in their action by the rules to be Runes. prescribed by the Commissioner of Patents. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no appeal shall be allowed to In what cases the examiners·in·chief from the decisions of the primary examiners, ex- fl’P°“l$ ‘“’° ’*l‘ cept in interference cases, until after the application shall have been twice °w°d` rejected; and the second examination of the application by the primary examiner shall not be had until the applicant, in view of the references given on the first rejection, shall have renewed the oath of invention, as provided for in the seventh section of the act entitled “An act to promote 1836, ¢h· 357, 37 the progress of the useful arts, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts V°"" P' 11 ‘ heretofore made for that purpose," approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the salary of the Commis- $%l¤¤’°*`C°*¤· sioner of Patents, from and after the passage of this act, shall be four :°:}_°,°j°n" °f P°°` thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and the salary of the chief Of chief clerk. clerk of the Patent Omoo shall be two thousand five hundred dollars, and gh of the Librarian of the Patent Office shall be eighteen hundred Of uw libr¤ri¤¤· 0 Sec. 5. And bei! _)‘·iu·t}zer enacted, That the Commissioner of Patents C°‘;‘f‘l“d°"°(‘, is authorized to restore to the respective applicants, or when not removed gil-sl by them, to otherwise dispose of such of the models belonging to rejected j¢¢*¤d ¤PXlj<=¤- applications as he shall not think necessary to be preserved. The same ;?g:é0’;; tl;. gl; authority is also given in relation to all models accompanying applications signs. for designs. He is further authorized to dispense in future with models When models of designs when the design can be sufficiently represented by a drawing. d°“lg“;’ “'%l’° Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the tenth section of the act syusc m 'h approved the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, author- 35·,_gt1O{?§&]§d:· izing the appointment of agents for the transportation of models and Vol. v. p. 121. specimens to the Patent Onice, is hereby repealed. _ _ Sec. 7. And be it furtluar enacted, That the Commissioner is further cXQ$‘;;Q";;P“ authorized, from time to time, to appoint, in the manner already provided may be ubpogeg. for by law, such an additional number of principal examiners, first assist- ¤d· aut examiners, and second assistant examiners as may be required to transact the current business of the office with dispatch, provided the whole number of additional examiners shall not exceed four of each class, and that the total annual expenses of the Patent Othee shall not exceed the annual reuipts. Sec. 8. And be itfurtbar enacted, That the Commissioner may require C¤mmi§¤i¤¤¤r all papers tiled in the Patent Oillce, if not correctly, legibly, and clearly Eg? written, to be printed at the cost of the parties filing such papers ; and printed. for gross misconduct he may refuse to recognize any person as a patent May_ refuse to agent, either generally or in any particular case ; but the reasons of the $§~.F‘lf:t:utP°" Commissioner for such refusal shall be duly recorded, and subject to the agen:. approval of the President of the United States. Sec. 9. And be ilfurther enacted, That no money paid as a fee, on any mE*:g°§°’¤ to b• application for a patent after the passage of this act, shall be withdrawn ' or refunded, nor shall the fee paid on tiling a caveat be considered as part of the sum required to be paid on filing a subsequent application for a patent for the same invention. That the three months’ notice given to Three mouths" any caveator, in pursuance of the requirements of the twelfth section of "Y the act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall be computed 1836, eh.357,§12. iron: the day on which such notice is deposited in the post office at Wash- V°l· V· P· 121- ington, with the regular time for the transmission of the same added thereto, which time shall he indorsed on the notice; and that so much of the thirteenth section of the act of Congress, approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as authorizes the annexing to letterspatent of the description and specification of additional improvements is Rqpaalt of inbereby repealed, and in all cases where additional improvements would P"' now be admissible, independent patents must be applied for.