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 43-1 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Rus. 86, 87. 1868. July 27, Y668- [N0. 86.] A &solution for the Relle/`q/Jonathan S. Turner. Preamble. WHEREAS Jonathan S. Turner, of Fair Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, did obtain letters patent of the United States .0f America, for improvement in alarm clocks, dated July thirteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; and whereas the said Jonathan S. Turner did, on or about the twenty-seventh day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, tile in the patent office his petition or application for an extension of the term, in accordance with the provisions of_ the eighteenth 1836,,,;, Q5'], section of the patent act, approved July four, eighteen hundred and thir 9 18- ty-six, and complied with all the requirements of the rules and laws ap V°l‘ v` p' m4' plieable thereto, except the inadvertent omission of one revenue stamp of the value of five cents, for which omission only the acting commissioner of patents did, on the twelfth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, refuse to extend the said patent: Theretore, Resolved oy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United JOE Q States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of pat ·pum.,, exmud- ents be, and he is hereby, authorized to extend the term of the said patent ed- to the said Jonathan S. Turner, for the term ofseven years from and after the thirteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, which said patent, so extended, shall have the same validity, force, and effect, as though the extension had been allowed and certified by the said commissioner of patents, in accordance with the eighteenth section of the patent act, approved July four, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, before the expiration of the original term named in said patent. ( Arrn0vi·:n, July 27, 1868. July 27, 1868. [N0. 87.] Joint Resclutionfmr the Relz`g’¢y`Martha E. King. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment and States of America in Congress assembled, That the paymaster-general of g;>:¤fj>¤¤I£1lll¤¤· the United States army be, and is hereby, directed to pay to Martha E. " g' Kung, widow of Clinton King, late of the county of Carroll and State of Tennessee, deceased, a sum equal to the pay of a first lieutenant of cavalry from the fifteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty- three, to the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-tour; and that the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of the said Martha E. King on the pension roll, and she shall be entitled to the pension provided by law for the widow of a first lieutenant of cavalry who died in the military service of the United States of disease contracted while in such service and in the line of duty, since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. A1>1>aov1t1>, July 27, 1868.