Improvement in the Common Bedstead, 
dence of the United States of America, the thirty se- 
venth. 
****** James Madison. 
* seal.* By the President. 
James Monroe, Secretary of State. 
City of Washington , to wit : 
I do hereby certify, that the foregoing letters patent, 
were delivered to me on the sixteenth day of October, in 
the year of our J^ord, one thousand eight hundred and 
twelve, to be examined; that I have examined the same, 
and find them conformable to law : and I do hereby re- 
turn the same to the Secretary of State, within fifteen 
days from the date aforesaid, to wit: On this sixteenth 
day of October, in the year aforesaid. 
William Pinkney, 
Attorney General of the United States. 
The 'Schedule referred to in these letters patent , and 
making part of the same, containing a description in the 
words of the said John Redman Coxe himself, of his im- 
provement in the construction of bedsteads. 
A source of trouble, not unfrequent in domestic 
life, is derived from the present construction of our bed- 
steads : the necessity of occasionally separating and re- 
placing their parts, by the inattention or ignorance of 
the persons employed, soon proves destructive to the 
firmness and solidity of the joints, and gives an harbour 
to the most disagreeable of companions, the common bed 
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Before I describe the improvements in the bedstead, 
which I think I have made, I shall cdncisely state some 
of the inconveniences and imperfections of the present 
construction. 
