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"SEC. 475. There is hereby created an office known as the Patent and 

 Trade-mark Office where all records, books, models, drawings, specifications 

 and other papers and things pertaining to letters patent, trade-marks, prints 

 and labels shall be safely kept and preserved. The short title of the office 

 shall be Patent Office. Wherever in existing law there are provisions refer- 

 ring to the Patent Office, these provisions shall remain in full force and effect 

 and shall apply to the Patent and Trade-mark Office hereby created." 



SEC. 4. That section four hundred and seventy-six of the Revised Statutes 

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



" SEC. 476. There shall be in the Patent and Trade-mark Office a Commis- 

 sioner of Patents, one first assistant commissioner, one assistant commis- 

 sioner, and five examiners-in-chief, who shall be appointed by the President 

 by and with the consent of the Senate and shall hold office during the pleasure 

 of the President. The first assistant commissioner and the assistant com- 

 missioner shall perform such duties pertaining to the office of commissioner as 

 may be assigned to them respectively from time to time by the Commissioner. 



"The Commissioner may appoint a private secretary. All other officers, 

 clerks and employees authorized by law for the office shall be appointed by the 

 Commissioner in accordance with existing law. There shall be one chief clerk 

 who shall be qualified to act as a principal examiner, one librarian who shall be 

 qualified to act as an assistant examiner, a disbursing clerk, a financial clerk 

 and such examiners, assistant examiners, clerks, messengers and other em- 

 ployees of various grades and designations as Congress shall from time to time 

 provide for, provided however that among the assistant examiners of patents 

 there shall not be in any grade a smaller number than in a lower grade." 



SEC. 5. That section four hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes 

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



" SEC. 479. The Commissioner of Patents before entering upon his duties 

 shall give bond with sureties to the Treasurer of the United States in the sum 

 of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) conditioned for the faithful discharge of his 

 duties, and shall render to the proper officers of the Treasury a true account 

 of all monies received and disbursed by virtue of his office. The first assistant 

 and assistant commissioner of patents, the chief clerk, the disbursing clerk 

 and the financial clerk of the Patent and Trade-mark Office before entering 

 upon their duties shall severally give bond with sureties to the Treasurer of 

 the United States in such amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), 

 as the Commissioner of Patents may determine, conditioned upon the faithful 

 discharge of their respective duties. The chief clerk, the disbursing clerk and 

 the financial clerk shall severally render to the Commissioner a true account of 

 all monies received and disbursed by virtue of their offices, the said accounts 

 to be included by the Commissioner in his account to the Treasurer of the 

 United States." 



SEC. 6. That section four hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes 

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



