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1846 Comm'r Rep. 1 (1846)

handle is hein.intprop/corep0006 and id is 1 raw text is: 29th CONGRESS,           Doe. No. b2.                Ho. OF REPs.
2d Session.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE            COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS.
REPORT
or
THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS,
FOR THE YEAR 1846.
JANUARY 23, 1847.
Read, and referred to the Committee oti Patents.
PATENT OFFICE, January, 1847.
SIR  In conformity to the provisions of the act of Congress relating to
this office, approved March 3, 1837, the undersigned has the honor to
submit his annual report.
During the year ending December 31,1846, the whole number of appli-
itions for patents received, is twelve hundred and seventy-two. The
hole number of caveats filed during the same time is four hundred and
rty-eight. The number of patents issued in 1846 is six hundred and
let een, including thirteen reissues, five additional improvements, and
7v-nine designs; classified  and alphabetical lists of which, with the
ies of the patentees, are annexed, (marked G and H.)
uring the same period, four hundred and seventy-three patents have
expii'ed, a Il t of which is annexed, (marked I.)
Three ap lications for extensions were made during the year; two of
which were rejected, and one is still pending. Two patents have been
extended by Congress during the Same period.
The claims embraced in the respective patents issued during the year
1846 are also annexed, (marked J.)
The receipts of the office during the year 1846, including duties and fees
: Iaid in on application for patents, caveats, reissues, additional improve-
e nents, extensiohs, and for -copies, amount, in the whole, to $50,264 16;
-  ,f which sum, $11,086 99 have been repaid on applications withdrawn,
-Ad for money paid in by mistake, as per statement marked A.
- :The expenses of the office during the year 1846 are as follows, viz:
salaries, $16,142 97; temporary clerks, $5,685 61 ; contingent ex-
S    s- including postage and the fees paid to counsel in two suits in equity
!ee,' ?'v pending against the Commissioner, in the United States district
,ourt  'r the eastern district of Pennsylvania, $7,485 19; compensation
f the district .judge, $100; library, $675 96; agricultural statistics,
Zbtchie& Heiss, priditers.

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