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 B33 FEDBBAli BEPOETEB, �4,240, will be firsi considered. The patent contains two claims, in the following language : �"First. A fare box, composed of two compartments so com- bined that the fare, on being deposited through an opening in one of them by the passenger, without the intervention of the driver or conductor, shall be temporarily arrested therein for esamination or inspection by the driver or conductor, through an opening therein covered by a transparent medium, and then, when approved of, transferred directly to the second or general receiving compartment, which, as well as the first, ia made inaccessible, except by violence, to the driver or other unauthorized person, for the purpose set forth. �"Second. A fare box having two compartments, into one of which the fare is first deposited, and temporarily arrested, previously to its being deposited in the other, when the former is provided with openings covered or protected by transparent mediums or devices'so arrangea that the pas- eenger can see through one, and thç driver or conductor through the other, in the manner substantially as and for the purposes set forth." �Subsequent to the extension of thia. patent, and on Septem- ber 6, 1S77, the patentee filed ,a diselaiiner in which he sets forth that through inadvertence, accident, or mistake: the specification or claims of the said letters patent are too broad, including that of which the said patentee was not the first inventer, and thereupon he enters his diselainier to that part of the claims in said specifications which constitutes the first of the claims above set forth. The elïect of this disclaimer was to limit the invention to a fare box composed of two com- partments, where the compartment into which the fare is first deposited is provided with two Windows so arranged that the passengers can see through one, and the car driver through the other. �It will be observed that no claim is made to any particular deviee by which the fare when deposited is temporarily ar- rested before passing into the lower compartment, nor to any form of opening in the box, nor to any particular locality for ����