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Act shall remain and be heard and determined by the courts in which they may 

 be pending, respectively, as though this Act had not been passed. 



SEC. 12. That after the taking effect of this Act no appeal or writ of error 

 shall be taken from any district court or other court of the United States to 

 any United States circuit court of appeals or other appellate court in any case 

 in which an appeal or writ of error may be taken to the United States Court of 

 Patent Appeals under the provisions of this Act. 



SEC. 13. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of 

 this Act are hereby repealed. 



SEC. 14. That this Act shall take effect and be in force on the day 



of , nineteen hundred and 



A PROPOSED BILL 



To ESTABLISH A PATENT AND TRADE-MARK OFFICE INDEPENDENT OF ANY 

 OTHER DEPARTMENT AND TO PROVIDE FOR COMPENSATION FOR INFRINGE- 

 MENT OF PATENTS IN THE FORM OF GENERAL DAMAGES, AND FOR OTHER 

 PURPOSES, and amending sections four hundred and forty, four hundred 

 and forty-one, four hundred and seventy-five, four hundred and seventy- 

 six, four hundred and seventy-nine, four hundred and eighty-one, four 

 hundred and eighty-three, four hundred and eighty-four, four hundred 

 and eighty-six, four hundred and eighty-seven; four hundred and ninety- 

 six, forty-eight hundred and ninety-eight, forty-nine hundred and six, 

 forty-nine hundred and twenty-one, forty-nine hundred and thirty-four, 

 forty-nine hundred and thirty-five, and forty-nine hundred and thirty 

 six, of the Revised Statutes of the United States and to amend the Act of 

 January 12, 1895, Ch. 23, Sec. 73; 28 Stat. L. 619. 



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

 of America in Congress assembled: 



SEC. 1. That so much of section four hundred and forty of the Revised 

 Statutes as follows the words "In the Patent Office" and refers to said office 

 only be repealed. 



SEC. 2. That section four hundred and forty-one of the Revised Statutes be, 

 and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 



"SEC. 441. The Secretary of the Interior is charged with the supervision of 

 public business relating to the following subjects: 



First. The public lands, including mines. 

 Second. The Indians. 

 Third. Pensions and Bounty Lands. 

 Fourth. Education. 



Fifth. Government Hospital for the Insane. 

 Sixth. Columbia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb." 



SEC. 3. That Section four hundred and seventy-five of the Revised Statutes 

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



