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offering to the public a Second Edition of the “Dissertation on the Construction of Locks,” the Editor regrets, that in justice to the Invention described, and to satisfy those who employ it, he is reduced to the painful necessity of replying to some unfounded reports, which have been industriously and insidiously circulated to a very considerable extent.

may be proper to observe, that the spirit and perseverance evinced by Mr., in giving complete effect to his Invention by the introduction of a new system of Machinery, occasioned disbursements which the sale during the term of his Patent failed to replace, and he therefore solicited the Legislature for an extension of the term. But