18 REPORT OP THE PATENT COMMITTEE 



"SEC. 481. The Commissioner of Patents shall superintend and perform all 

 duties respecting the granting and issuing of patents, and the registration of 

 trade-marks, prints and labels directed by law, and he shall have charge of all 

 books, papers, records, models, machines and other things belonging to the 

 Patent and Trade-mark Office. The Commissioner shall sign all requisitions 

 for the advance or payment of money out of the treasury upon estimates or 

 accounts for expenditures upon business assigned by law to his office: subject, 

 however, to adjustment and control by the proper accounting officers of the 

 Department of the Treasury; and shall generally perform all acts heretofore 

 provided by law to be performed by the Secretary of the Interior, or the Com- 

 missioner of Patents or both with respect to the Patent and Trade-mark 

 Office." 



SEC, 7. That section four hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes 

 be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: 



"SEC. 483. The Commissioner of Patents may from time to time establish 

 regulations not inconsistent with law for the conduct of proceedings in the 

 Patent and Trade-mark Office." 



SEC. 8. That section four hundred and eighty-four of the Revised Statutes 

 be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: 



" SEC. 484. The Commissioner of Patents shall cause to be classified and ar- 

 ranged and properly stored in suitable cases models, specimens of composition, 

 fabrics, manufactures, works of art and design, which have been deposited in 

 the Patent Office or which shall be deposited in the Patent and Trade-mark 

 Office." 



SEC. 9. That section four hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes 

 be, and the same is hereby amended, to read as follows: 



"SEC. 486. There shall be purchased for the use of the Patent and Trade- 

 mark Office a library of such legal, scientific and technical works and periodi- 

 cals, both foreign and domestic, as may aid the officers in the discharge of their 

 duties, not exceeding the amount annually appropriated for that purpose." 



SEC. 10. That section four hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes 

 be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: 



"SEC. 487. The Commissioner of Patents may prescribe rules and regula- 

 tions governing the recognition of agents, attorneys or other persons repre- 

 senting applicants or other parties before his office, and may require of such 

 persons, agents or attorneys before being recognized as representatives of ap- 

 plicants or other persons that they shall show that they are of good moral 

 character and hi good repute, are possessed of the necessary qualifications to 

 enable them to render to applicants or other persons valuable service, and are 

 likewise competent to advise and assist applicants or other persons in the pres- 

 entation or prosecution of their applications or other business before the Office. 

 And the Commissioner may after notice and opportunity for a hearing sus- 

 pend or exclude, either generally or in any particular case, from further practice 

 before his office, any person, agent or attorney shown to be incompetent or dis- 



