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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 615. 1888. 287 of tl1ose 110\V employed i11 the Pension Office or as special examiners may be reappointed if they be fou11d to be qualified. _lfor per diem in lieu of subsistence for one hundred and fifty ad- Per diem, etc. ditional special examiners above provided for, while traveling 011 duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the I11terior, not exceei ing three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses hnhtransportation and assistance, one hundred and ninety thousand c dollars. · Pxirnn STATES PATENT FF1cn.——For compensation of the Com- ram omce, commissioner of the Patent Office, five thousand dollars; for assistant m1SS1°"°r"”°‘ commissioner, three thousand dollars; for chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one law clerk, at two thousand dollars; threeexaminers-in-chief, at three thousand dollars eacl1; examiner of interferences, two thousand five hundred dollars; thirty principal examiners, two thousand four hundred dollars each; thirty- two first assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; thirty-six second assistant examiners, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; forty-one third assistant examiners, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; fifty fourth assistant examiners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one financial clerk, two thousand dollars, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of tl1B Interior may determine; one librarian, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division. at two thousand dollars each; three assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three clerks of class four, one of whom shall act as application clerk; one machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; ive clerks of class three, one of whom shall be translator of languages; twelve clerks of class two; fifty clerks of class one; one skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three skilled draughtsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four draughtsmen, at one thousand dollars each; one messenger and property clerk, one thousand dollars; twenty-five permanent clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five model attendants, at one thousand dollars each; ten model attendants, at eight hundred dollars each; sixty copyists, five of whom maybe copyists of drawings; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; ninety-two skille aborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; forty-five laborers, at six hundred dollars each; forty laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; fifteen messenger—boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; 1H all, six hundred and fifty-eight thousand and seventy dollars. _ _ For purchase of books, and ex enses of transporting publications B¤¤k¤· ewof patents issued by the Patent lgiiice to foreign Governments, three thousand dollars. _ For photolithographing or otherwise producing plates for the °¤*¤*¤! Gemte- Official Gazette, forty-four thousand dollars. _ _ ' For phgtglithegrgphipg or Otherwise pI‘duC;lI1g' COPIQS of dfavqlligs etghotolithopnphing, of the weekly issues of patents, for producing copies of designs, ` trade-marks, and pending applications, and for the reproduction of exhausted copies; said p 1oto ithographing or otherwise producing lates and copies referred to in this and the preceding paragraph to he done under the supervision of the Commissioner of Patents and in the city of Washington, if it can there be done at reasonable rates; and the Commissioner of Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be authorized to make contracts therefor, , ninety thousand dollars. _ _ _ _ For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inven- 8,{jj)°f{¤*§:f;g§m_g§gj tions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and for expenses attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, five hundred dollars. I H X International Protection of Industrial Property, Patent Office; For ,€cQ{j,{°f),°§,fduSg,¥g the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the property expenses-