FORTY——SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 19-21. 1872. 31 of seven years from and after the fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and seventy, notwithstanding the original term for which letters- 4 patent was granted has expired, and the said patentees had patented the said invention in foreign countries, and such foreign patents had expired before the fourth day of November, eighteen hundred and seventy, if in his judgment the said patentees were the original and first inventors of the invention described in the said letters-patent, and the invention is ` useful, and the patentees have failed, without neglect or fault on' their part, to obtain from the use and sale of the said invention a reasonable remuneration for the time, ingenuity, labor, and expense bestowed upon the same and the introduction thereof into use. And the said letterspatent, when so revived and extended, shall have the same effect in law as if it had been originally granted for the term of twenty-one years: Provided, That all persons who at the time of the passage of this act had Proviso. constructed, or caused to be constructed, or used looms on the plan of the said invention, shall be at liberty, during such extended term, to use and vend to others to use said looms so constructed or used. Approved, February 20, 1872. CHAP. XX. — An Act makin A ro riations to su 7` `- ·- ations for Salaries and contingent lgbrpgnses of the P€€t-zé_;igqi)€;i2:lrLZn;llztt/_;J£il7ll)d‘0lici- rent jiscal Year. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are _De§oienoy uphereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap- PT;f_Q§f;“d;‘f" propriated, to supply the deficiency in the appropriations for the service ggrtmens of the Post-office Department for the present fiscal year, viz. :-— For salaries, eleven thousand four hundred and eighty-three dollars and Salaries. twenty-five cents. For contingent expenses, twelve thousand two hundred and sixty-eight Contingent exdollars and twenty-six cents. ¥’*“s°s· Approved, February 20, 1872. CHAP. XXI.—An Act making Appropriations for the Payment cy" invalid and other Feb. 20, 1872. Pensions of the United States for the Year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and """"`“ seventydhree. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and P¢¤}¤i<3¤S apthe same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not pr°p“°°°“` otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, viz.: — For army pensions to invalids, widows, and dependent relatives, revolu— Army pensions, tionary pensions, and pensions to soldiers of the war of eighteen hundred &;g§$:l;";‘g’; and twelve, and for furnishing artificial limbs or apparatus for resection, gC_ g ’ with transportation, or commutation therefor; also, for compensation to pension agents, and the expenses of the several agencies, and for fees for preparing vouchers and administering oaths, as provided for by the acts of April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixteen; July fourth, eighteen 1816, oh. G8. hundred and thirty-six; l\[ay thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six; February twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; February second, 1541; Cb_ 13, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; July twentyfirst, eighteen hundred and mé8~§§)b¤h· 8. forty-eight; July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight ; Febru- ,;,5377 Lh_ 4L ary third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; June third. eighteen hundred mss, oh. ikéé and fifty-eight; July fourteenth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and 20E5S2r °h· 6 » Sixty-two ; June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; June sixth and 1864` Cb_ lg; July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; July twenty-seventh, 23é866, ch. 106, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; June seventeenth and July eighth and ‘1é68’ eh_ 2% eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy; and F ehruary fourteenth, eighteen misgoigch. 132, hundred and seventy-one, and all other pensions provided by law, thirty gg7p gh. 50. million dollars.
