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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1I. CHS. 1019, 1020. 1903. 1227 patent. The authority of such foreign executor or administrator shall be proved by certificate of a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States;" so that the section so amended shall read as follows: " Sec. 4896. When any person, having made any new invention or Wheii Mid <>¤ Wim discovery for which a patent might have been ranted, dies before a hifuiisifaexgftiihaif at patent is granted, the right of applying for and obtaining the patent ‘°*“ P”"““· shall devo ve on his executor or administrator, in trust for the heirs at law of the deceased, in case he shall have died intestate; or if he shall have left a will disposing of the same, then in trust for his devisees, in as full manner and on the same terms and conditions as the same might have been claimed or enjoyed by him in his lifetime; and when the application is made by such legal representatives, the oath or affirmation required to be made shall be so varied in form that it can _ be made by them. The executor or administrator duly authorized {Rishi 0i ¤#<+9¤¤>i· under the law of any foreign countr to administer upon the estate of gig; uiiihiii ummm the deceased inventor shall, in case the said inventor was not domiciled in the United States at the time of his death, have theright to apply for and obtain the patent. The authority of such foreign executor or administrator shall be proved by certificate of a diplomatic or consular t;,?,§{;m°"°° °f ““` ofiicer of the United States.” Sec. 4. That section forty-nine hundred and two is amended by ,,§é§a&°·“°”·P·°“· striking out the words "citizen of the United States " in the first line ` thereof, and substitutin the word "person" in place thereof, and by striking out the last cgxuse of said section; so that this section so amended shall read as follows: . _ " Sec. 4902. Any person who makes any new invention or discovery c,,1;‘,,1,§‘{’-‘ ““° °°°°° °’ and desires further time to mature the same may, on payment of the bA¤Y Pefgizizgiiv me fees required by law, file in the Patent Office a caveat setting forth the Y NYM °°' design thereof and of its distinguishing characteristics and praying protection of his right until he shall have matured his invention. Sue “¤*° “¤“'·· caveat shall be filed in the confidential archives of the office and preserved in secrecy, and shall be operative for the term of one year from the filing thereof; and if application is made within the year by any I“'°’*"°¤°°· other person for a patent with which such caveat would in any manne1· interfere the Commissioner shall deposit the description, specihcation, _ drawings, and model of such application in like manner in the conti- N°"°°· dential archives of the office and give notice thereof by mail to the _ rson by whom the caveat was filed. If such person desires to avail ,,,§,,*’f°,f';°}‘,{;‘],“'§;,,§°{,'§,; himself of his caveat he shall tile his description, specifications, draw- mee ¤¤<>¤ih¤- ings, and model within three months from the time of placing the notice in the post-office in Washington, with the usual time required for transmitting it to the caveator added thereto, which time shall be indorsed on the notice." Approved, March 3, 1903. CHAP. 1020.-An Act To provide certain souvenir medallions for the benefit of J*{’$l*f·f;_ the Thomas Jefferson Memoria Association of the United States. [Public, No. 170.] Be it enacted by the Senate and HOlt·96§fR6@T€8€7lfdt2·U€8 of the Dizited _ _ _ States of America in Congress assemble, That for the purpose of aid- Q,§’§§,§§*¤§`§,§‘;§’f}f,‘Q, ing in the erection at the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of gp Thom Jeterspu . . - emorral Asocur an appropriate memorial to the author of the Declaration of Independ- mm. ence, Thomas Jefferson, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to have repared in the United States mint at Philadelphia four dies for medaliions of such design and size as may be designated by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States and approved by him; and he shall have made and struck from these Limitdies such number of medallions out of silver or bronze, not to exceed