%82 Method of Obtaining Patents. 
of the title of such map, chart, book or books, in the 
clerk’s office of the district court, where the author or 
proprietor shall reside, who will record the same; and 
the author or proprietor shall, within two months from 
the date of the record, cause a copy of the said record 
to be published in one or more of the newspapers print- 
ed in the United States, for the space of four weeks. ^ 
And within six months after publishing the map, chart, 
book or books, the author or proprietor shall deliver, 
or cause to be delivered to the Secretary of State, a 
copy of the same ; and when deposited and entered in 
the patent office, a certificate will be returned of its 
being received. This will secure the sole right of 
publication for fourteen years to the author or proprie- 
tor, if a citizen of the United States, or resident there- 
in. J “And if at the expiration of the said term, the 
author or authors, or proprietors, or any of them, be 
living, and a citizen or citizens of these United States, 
or residents therein, the same exclusive right shall be 
continued to him or them, his or their executors, ad- 
ministrators, or assigns, for the further term of four- 
teen years : Provided he or they shall cause the title 
thereof to be a second time recorded, and published in 
the above manner, within six months before the expira- 
tion of the first term of fourteen years aforesaid.” 
William Thornton. 
In order to complete this account of the method of ob- 
taining a patent, the Editor has given, in the next page, a 
copy of the letters patent. 
* See an act for the encouragement of learning, Laws of the United 
Statssj vol. 1, chap. 15, § 3, p. 121. 
f Ibid, Sec. 4, p. 122. 
. * Ibid, Sec. 1, p. 118, 119. 
