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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS or run UNITED STATES, Passed at the second Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Jl/[onday, the 7th Day J December, 1846, and ended on the 3d Day if March, 1847. Jmns K. Pour, President; Geoncn M. D.u.r..As, Vice-President, and President of the Senate; Jomv W. Davis, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S·rA·ru·rrc II. Cnxr. IV. — An Act for the Relief of Julius Eldred, Elisha Eldred, and Francis Jan. 26, 1847. gl. Eldredfor Expense: and Services in removing the Copper Rock from Lake ‘”‘;"_""' opener. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Certain expen- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary E3? J_‘;lm;_El‘ of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to allow and to b,, ;,d_° m' settle upon just and equitable terms the account of Julius Eldred and sons for their time, services, and expenses, in purchasing and removing from the Ontonagon River of Lake Superior to Detroit the mass of native copper, commonly called the copper rock, taken from said Eldred and sons, in eighteen hundred and forty-three, by order of the Secretary of War, and removed to the city of Washington; and that the amount so allowed be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, January 26, 1847. Crue. X. ·-—-An Act for the Relief of Thomas Blanchard. Feb, 15, 184’1._ Be it enacted by the Senate and House 1y' Rqrresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commis- Patent ofThosioner of Patents be, and he is hereby, required to extend to Thomas ,'5;‘”c“tg;“f;f‘l Blanchard, a citizen of the United States, his executors and adminis- ,,;,,1- gcrmgout gg trators, his patent for a machine for turning or cutting irregular forms yv¤<><i, b¤¤¤. ¤¤ out of wood, iron, brass, or other materials or substance which can ;'§“;°‘:.°°{g°‘t§f,';' be cut by ordinary tools, for and during the term of fourteen years from 20th Jyanua: from the twentieth day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred W: 1848- and forty-eight, the day on which said patent will expire, in which extension the Commissioner may include any improvements in said machine made by the said Thomas Blanchard prior to the date of such extension, on his paying into the treasury, to the account of the patent fund, the duty required by the eighteenth section of the act of Congress entitled "An Act to promote the Progress of the useful 1836, ch.S67. Arts, and to repeal all Acts and Parts of Acts heretofore made for that Purpose," approved July the fourth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-six, on applications for the extension of patents: Provided, Proviso. That such extension shall inure to the use and benefit of the said Thomas Blanchard, his executors and administrators, ymd to no other 683)