Excerpt from Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, Vol. 15: Devoted to the Mechanic Arts, Manufactures, General Science, and the Recording of American and Other Patented Inventions; January, 1833 The last act passed in the session, and dated July 13th, is entitled an act concerning the issuing of patents to aliens for useful disco verles and inventions. By the act of 1800, aliens who have resided for two years in the United States were allowed to obtain patents: in every session, however, special acts have been passed, enabling such as had resided here for a less period of time, to do the same thing. The present act is intended to embrace such cases, and pro vides that aliens who have made a legal declaration of their intention to become citizens of the United States, may also obtain patents for their inventions. Should the patentee neglect to introduce the thing patented into public use, for the space Of one. Year after the patent has issued, or should its public use be discontinued for the space of six months, or should the patentee not become a citizen at the earli est period when he is entitled to do so, the patent is to determine, and become void, without the necessity of any legal process to annul, or cancel it. The foregoing does not repeal the provisions of the act of 1800; those aliens, therefore, who have resided for two years within the United States, stand upon a much better footing than those in whose favour the present act was passed, the special provisos of this act not affecting the former. There appears to be some incongruity in allowing to the non-resi dent foreigners, Knowles and others, two years for the introduction of their inventions, whilst those who are residents, and have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, are restricted to one year; perhaps, however, as the former must act through agents, and reside themselves at a distance, it was thought that more time ought to be allowed to them than to residents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.