REPORT OF THE PATENT COMMITTEE 23 



A PROPOSED BILL 



To INCREASE THE FORCE AND SALARIES IN THE PATENT OFFICE, and amend- 

 ing Public Act No. 188, 65th Congress, entitled "An Act Making appro- 

 priations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Govern- 

 ment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 

 nineteen, and for other purposes. " 



Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress Assembled, that Public Act No. 188 of the 65th Congress, 

 entitled, "An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive and 

 judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 

 nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes," be amended as 

 follows: 



The Section relating to the " Department of the Interior" of appropriation 

 for the Patent Office, is hereby stricken out, and immediately following the 

 said section relating to the Department of the Interior, the following is inserted: 



Patent and Trade-mark Office: Commissioner, $7,500; first assistant com- 

 missioner, $6,000; assistant commissioner, $5,000; chief clerk (who shall be 

 qualified to act as principal examiner), $3,500; seven law examiners at $3,000 

 each; examiner of classification, $3,600; five examiners in chief, at $5,000 

 each; two examiners of interferences, at $3,000 each; examiners of trade-marks 

 and designs one $3,000, first assistant $2,700, two second assistants at $2,400 

 each, two third assistants at $2,000 each, six fourth assistants at $1,600 each; 

 examiners fifty principals at $3,000 each, one hundred and fifty first assistants 

 at $2,700 each, one hundred and fifty second assistants at $2,400 each, one 

 hundred and twenty-five third assistants at $2,000 each, one hundred and 

 twenty-five fourth assistants at $1,600 each; financial clerk, who shall give 

 bond in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, $2,250; 

 librarian, who shall be qualified to act as an assistant examiner, $2,000; six 

 chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; three assistant chiefs of division, at $1,800 

 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the commissioner, 

 $1,800; translator of languages, $1,800; clerks nine of class four, nine of class 

 three, seventeen of class two, one hundred and thirty-five of class one, ninety- 

 one at $1,000 each; three skilled draughtsmen, at $1,200 each; four draughtsmen, 

 at $1,000 each; ninety copyists; forty copyists, at $720 each; three mes- 

 sengers; thirty-three assistant messengers; thirteen laborers, at $600 each; 

 forty-five examiners' aids, at $600 each; twenty-four copy pullers, who shall 

 be selected without regard to apportionment, at $480 each; in all, $1,887,350. 



For special and temporary services of typewriters certified by the Civil 

 Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $2.50 per 

 diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents, be necessary 

 to keep current the work of furnishing manuscript copies of records, $7,500. 



