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 712 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 31, 40, 41. 1873. term of seven years from and after the expiration of the original term of fourteen years for which said letters-patent are granted; such application to be made in the same manner and to have the same effect as if the same had been filed not less than ninety days before the expiration of the aforesaid original term of said patent. And upon such application so filed, the commissioner of patents shall be authorized to consider and determine the same in the same manner and with the same efiect as if the application had been duly filed within the time prescribed by law, and as if the original term of said patent had not expired: Provided, That no person shall be held liable for the infringement of said patent, if extended, for making use of said invention since the original term of said patent and prior to the date of its extension. Approved, January 10, 1873. Jan, 10, 1873, CHAP. XXXL —An Actjbr the Reliq ¢y•"Jamea C'. Cooke. Be it enacted by the Senate and flimsy af Representatives of the United James C. States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of g°°k° ‘“”‘?'“PPlY patents is hereby authorized to hear the application of James C. Cooke r extenswn of . . pmm for an extension of the patent heretofore granted lnm on the fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, for an improvement in manufacturing webbing, and numbered twenty-two thousand five hundred and twenty—cigl1t, and to grant the extension of said patent for seven years from and after the fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy- three, in the same manner and to the same efiect as if the said Cooke had applied for said extension ninety days before the expiration of said patent. Ar1—novm>, January 10, 1873. Jam. 17, 1873. CHAP. XL. —An Act for the R¢=Ifq" of James A. lVrzyn1irv, late :1 second Lieutenant of '—"—“ Company M, first Cavalry United States Army. Be it enacted Q1] the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Payment to States of America in Congress assembled, That the paymnster-genera.] J%m°° A· ll ‘*Y‘ of the United States army be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed mm' to pay, out of any money appropriated or hereafter to be appropriated for the payment of the army, to James A. WVaymire, late second lieutenant of the iirst cavalry, United Status army, the pay and emoluments of a second lieutenant of cavalry, from the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the date of his assignment to active duty, to the third day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the date of his commission. Avrnovuv, January 17, 1873. Jan. 17, 1873. CHAP. XLI.-—An Act ta close the Accounts of R. E. De Russy, late Colonel Corps cy' --- Engineers, deceased. Bc it enacted by the Senate and .House of Representatives of the United 'lrcdit to be States of America in Congress assembled, That to close the accounts for ¤ll*\*’°‘U¤ °l¤¤l¤£S disbursements of R. E. De Russy, late colonel corps of engineers dethe accounts of. ’ R, M_ DB Hwy_ ceased, the proper accounting officers of the treasury bc, and they are g,s10,_cn. 153, hereby, required to allow and credit him the sum of three thousand and V°*· "“· P· “’6· sixty-six dollars and eighty cents, or such sum as may be necessary to close his accounts: Provided, That this amount shall not exceed that authorized in the settlement of the accounts of disbursing offivers by the act entitled "An act to authorize the settlement of the accounts of officers of the army and nz>.vy," approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy. Arrnovan. January 17, 1873.