1861. 



THE ILLIJS^OIS FAEMER. 



109 



Warren County. 



EoiTon Farmer — Dear Sir: The following 

 names are the newly elected officers to conduct 

 the Wiirren County Agricultural Society for the 

 ensuing ye&r, which you will please place in the 

 Fabjier : 



J. B. Meginnis, President ; B. F. Morey, Vice 

 President; ohn E. Alexander, Secretary ; J. 

 Qalcby, Treasurer ; ■ oseph H. Kirby, J. D. Po- 

 ter, C. Hardin, John C. BrOwn, French Brownlee, 

 Henry Curtis, C. Coats, Executive Committee. 

 Ilaspectfully yours, 



J. B. Meqinsis. 



We are trying to use our utmost endeavors to 

 promote the agricultural interest of old Warren, 

 and consider our society in a flourishing condi- 

 tion; have overy facility for making it compare 

 favorably "with any county in the S*ate in a few 

 years. J. B. M. 



Monmouth, Ills., Feb. '7, 1861. 



The IJew Patent Law— Extensions Pro- 

 hibited—Important Changes. 



The new patent law passed at the last session 

 of Congress, niid approved by the President on 

 the 2d of March, makes several important 

 clianges in the patent regulations of the country. 

 The following is a summary of its provisions: 



1. That the Commisioner of Patents may es- 

 tablish rules for taking afSdavits and depositions 

 required in cases pending in the patent office ; 

 that they may be taken before any Justice of the 

 Peace, or other officer authorized by law to take 

 depositions ; that witnesses may be subpoeaaed 

 and puiii.-hed for disobadience to process of sub- 

 pee aa. 



2. To secure greater uniformity in the grant 

 and refusal of patents, the President may ap- 

 pidiit three Ex.iminers-in-Chief, at a salary of 

 $3,000 ench, who shall be persons of competent 

 1 gal knowledge and scierjtific (.bility. 



3. No appeal shall be allowed to the Examin- 

 ers-in Chiet' from the decisions of the primary 

 examiner:', except in interference cases, until 

 after the application shall have been twice re- 

 jected. 



4 to 7. The next four sec'ions of the act spe 

 cify ihe s;ilari^s of the Commiasioner, Chief 

 Clerk, and Librarian ; provide for the restoration 

 and disposHi of models, and dispense with mod- 

 els where the design can be sufficiently repre- 

 sented by a drawing ; the tenth f-eciion of the 

 act of March 3 i, 1857, which authorizes the ap- 

 pointment of agents for the transportation of 

 models and specimens to the office, is repealed; 

 and the Commissioner is authorized to appoint 

 Assistant Examiners. 



8. Papers filed at the office, if not correctly 

 and legibly written may be printed at the cost of 

 parties tl itig such pnpers. For gross niiscoii- 

 duct the Comtuissiorer may refuse to recogu^ze 



a person as a patent agent, either generally or in 

 any particular case. 



9. The three months' service to caveators, by 

 the act of July 4, 1836, shall be computed from 

 the day on which the notice is mailed at Wash- 

 ington, with the time for transmission added. 



10. All laws relative to fees arc repealed, and 

 in their stead the following rates are established: 



)n filing each caveat, $10 ; on filinj each origi- 

 nal application for a patent, except for a design, 

 $15; on issuing each original patent. $20 ; on 

 every appeal from the Examiners-inChief to the 

 Commissioner, $20 ; on every application for the 

 extension of a patent, $50 ; and $50 in addition 

 on the granting of an extension ; on filing each 

 disclaimer, 10; for certified copies of patents 

 and other papers, 10 cents per 100 words ; for re- 

 cording assignments, agreements, power of at- 

 torney, etc., 300 words and under, $1 ; under 

 1,000 words, $o ; and for copies of diawngsthe 

 reasonable cost of making the t^arae. 



11. Specifies who may be applicants for pat- 

 ents. 



12. Applicants must be ready for examination 

 within two years after filing petiiions, or they 

 will be regarded as abandoned. 



13. Persons selling articles under the protec- 

 tion of letters patent must give sufficient notice 

 to the public that such articles are patented. 



The act further provides that printed cop'es of 

 the jet(er3 pr.tent, with the seal of the patent of- 

 fice, and certified and signed by the Commis- 

 sioner, shall in all cases be legal evidence of -aid 

 letters patent ; that all patents her after granted 

 shall remain in force for the term of seventeen 

 years from the date of issue ; all extension of 

 such patents is prohibited ; and ail former laws in- 

 consistent with this act are repealed. — Ex. 



By the above it will be seen that the change in 

 the patent law is important in soversl particu- 

 lars. Seventeen years, and no extension ; what 

 an amount of lobbying will be cut off; what fat 

 jobs for the patent lawyers go"e to grass. We do 

 not know whether this law will cut ofif the McCor- 

 mick reaper extension, but with the delay now 

 granted, to take testimony, wa have little fear 

 that this monopoly will again be fastened upon 

 the farmers of the northwest. Mr. McCormick 

 ought to be satisfied with one of the most prince- 

 ly fortunes ever made on a patent, without an- 

 o'^her levy on the industry of the country. 



<Oo- 



Sugar Cane Growers' Convention in 

 Bureau County, Illinois. 



Pursuant to a public notice a convention of the 

 sugar cane growers of Bureau county assembled 

 at Bacon & White's Hall, in Princeion, on the 

 21st ult., Dr. N. Bort, Chairman, and E. S. 

 Phelps, Secretary. 



Dr. Bort thought good sirup should be kept in a 

 warm place, where it will granulate into sugar. 

 He exhibited some thus kept. The doctor raised 

 considerable simp in 18G0, and was very confi- 

 dent that i's cultivation would pay the farmer 

 l.berally. 



