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 PAGE V. HOLMES BUiiGLAK ALAiiM TELEGBAPH CO. il 17 �remove the disabilities in his case, and enable him again to apply for, and take out, and hold, a patent for this, his said invention, notwithstanding its previous public use. Your petitioner moreover states, that, by a recent act of the em- peror of France, the honor of this, his said invention, has been accredited to M. Euhmkorff, by an imperial award of 50,000 francs for the same. (See SiUiman's Journal, vol. 39, No. 115, January, 1865.) Thus deprived of ail emolument from this, his invention, and robbed of the honor which justly belongs to him, by this act of a foreign power, your petitioner is prepared to show, by testimony of the highest character, from men of science in this country and in Europe, and by experimental demonstrations before your honorable bodies, that this invention is entirely his ovra; (see SiUiman's Jour- nal, vol. 15, 1863, p. 115, foot note by the editors; also, same volume, p. 115, foot note by the editors; also, Lon- don and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, vol. 12, p. 22; also, Sturgeon's Annals of Electricity and Magnetism, vol. 1, pp. 293, 294, 1837; also, same volume, p. 500, 1837; also, Davis' Catalogue, of 1838; also, Scientific American, vol. 12, No. 1, p. 5; vol. 12, No. 5, p. 69; vol. 12, No. 15, p. 230; also, SiUiman's Journal, vol. 35, p. 252, 1839; also, SiUiman's Journal, vol. 32, pp. S;55-6, 1836 ; also, SiUiman's Journal, vol. 31, p. 141, 1836; from allof which publications Verbatim extracts are hereto annexed ;) and he, therefore, prays that your honorable bodies will, as an olï-set to this foreign appro- priation of his rights, and in justice to an American inventer, empower him to apply for, and take, and hold, a patent for this, his said invention, notwithstanding said imperial award, and the aforesaid previous public use, provided the commis- sioner of patents shall be satisfied of his right thereto, as the original and first inventer of the same. " �Extracts from the publications referred to were annexed to the petition. The act of March 19, 1868, was then passed. Under that act, Dr. Page applied, on March 26, 1868, for the patent which was granted April 14, 1868. The specifi- cation was sworn to March 19, 1868. In a letter to the patent ofi&ce, dated March 25, 1868, accompanying the appli-. ��� �