United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/10th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 35
Chap. XXXV.—An Act to extend to Amos Whittemore and William Whittemore, junior, the patent right to a machine for manufacturing cotton and wool cards.
Patent right extended.Be it enacted, &c., That all the privileges and benefits granted to Amos Whittemore, of the State of Massachusetts, in consideration of a machine invented by him for the manufacture of cotton and wool cards within the United States, by a patent issued from the Department of State, and bearing date the fifth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, be, and the same are hereby extended to Amos Whittemore, and William Whittemore, junior, as joint proprietors of the said machine, for and during the term of fourteen years, to commence on the fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven; any thing in the act entitledAct of Feb. 21, 1793, ch. 11. “An act to promote the progress of the useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose,” to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 3, 1809.