United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 28
Chap. XXVIII.—An Act to extend certain privileges, as therein mentioned, to Bernard Edme Verjon, and Robert Love Stobie.
Two years’ residence to obtain a patent not required of them.
Act of April 17, 1800, ch. 25.Be it enacted, &c., That two years’ residence, as required by an act entitled “An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions, to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the right of patentees,” shall not be required of Bernard Edme Verjon, to enable him to obtain a patent for any discovery he has made in the art of manufacturing or refining sugar; or of Robert Lowe Stobie, to enable him to obtain patents for any discoveries he has made in the construction of a ship’s rudder, and also of a pump for extracting noxious air from the holds of vessels, but that they shall obtain patents therefor, on their conforming to the other requisitions of said act.
Approved, March 19, 1816.