Method of Obtaining Patents . i 
Among the best I have received, I notice the names 
of Messrs. James Aiken, Philadelphia; John Bernard, 
Utica, Oneida County, New York; Jacob Cist, P. M. 
Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania; Francis Guy, Baltimore; 
George Hadfield, Washington city; Philip Hooker, Al- 
bany, New York; Nicholas King, Washington city; 
— Beckham, Roxbury, Massachusetts; John R. Pen» 
niman, Boston; Abner Reed, Connecticut; Archibald 
Robertson, No. 78, Liberty street, New York; John F. 
Somerby, Catskill, New York; — — Steward, Hartford, 
Connecticut; John Stickney, Baltimore; — Stiles, 
Worcester, Massachusetts; William Stickfand, Phila- 
delphia; James Watson and John Watts, Utica, Oneida 
County, New York. 
Many being without the names of the artists, I cannot 
do all the justice I wish. 
The papers must all be sent under cover to the Secre- 
tary of State, which of course renders them free of post- 
age: but if models be sent, their freight or carriage hi- 
ther must be paid; and before packing them the name or 
names of the inventor or inventors should be written 
thereon, with the name of the machine and the date; for 
sometimes on receiving them it is difficult to know to 
whom they appertain. 
The congress, being impressed with a high sense of 
the value of the inventions of our citizens, have pur- 
chased an elegant and extensive building, wherein pre- 
parations are now making for the accommodation of a 
very numerous collection of the machines, illustrative of 
the ingenuity displayed ; and this museum of the arts, it 
is presumed, will stimulate the ingenious to send the mo- 
dels of their machines and inventions in a style that will 
rather honour than discredit our country. 
Copy-rights of books, prints, charts, maps, &c. are se- 
cured “by depositing, before publication, a printed copy 
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