DEPARTMENT OF STATE. EDWARD LIVINGSTON, of Louisiana, Secretary, $6,000 per annum. The Department of State was created by the act of 15th September, 1789. Previously to that period, by act of 27th July, 1789, it was denominated the Department of Foreign Affairs. The Secretary is, ex officio, a Commissioner of the Sinking Fund, and, by usage, a member of the Cabinet. He conducts the negotiation of all treaties between the United States and Foreign Powers; and corresponds officially with the public Ministers of the United States at Foreign Courts, and with the Ministers of Poreign Powers resident in the United States. He performs also the main duties of what, in other Governments, is called the Home Department. He has the charge of the seal of the United States, but cannot affix it to any commission until signed by the President, nor to any other instrument or act, without the special authority of the President. He is, by law, entrusted with the publication and distribution of all the Acts and Resolutions of Congress; and all Treaties with Foreign Nations and Indian Tribes. He preserves, also, the original of all Laws and Treaties, and of the public correspondence growing out of the intercourse between the United States and Foreign Nations: and is required to procure and preserve copies of the statutes of the several States. He grants passports to American citizens visiting foreign countries. He preserves the evidence of Copy rights, and has control of the office which issues Patents for useful inventions. He holds his office at the will of the President. CLERKS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. DANIEL BRENT, Chief Clerk.............. $2000 00 ..... 1600 00 Josias W. King, makes out and records commissions, letters of credence, &c &c........... Eugene A. Vail, charged with Diplomatic Correspondence.... 1500 00 Andrew T. MCormick, records domestic letters prepares per sonal passports, &c &c....... 1400 00 1400 00 1400 Ou N. P. Trast, charged with the promulgation and publication of .......... Lewis Randolph, records letters to foreign Ministers residing in the U. S. and to American Consuls, &c. &c.... Note.-To all these gentlemen, are of course assigned occasionally, in addition to them regular duties specified, such miscellaneous ones as the exigencies of the office require, and may be committed to their charge by the Secretary or the Chief Clerk. 1400 00 1400 00 1400 00 1000 00 1000 00 900 00 900 00 700 00 650 00 300 00 300 00 Joseph R. Warren, messenger................................................................................................. PATENT OFFICE. ' J. D. CRAIG, Superintendent....... Alexander M'Intire, Clerk........................................................................ C. Bulfinch, Jun. Clerk................................................................................. ......... 1000 00 1000 00 An Act concerning Patents for Useful Inventions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, annual y in the Month of January, to report to Congress, and to publish in two of the newspapers printed in the city of Washington, a list of all the patents for discoveries, inventions, and improvements, which shall have expired within the year immediately preceding, with the names of the patentees, alphabetically arranged. SEC. 2 And be it further enacted, That application to Congress to prolong or renew the term of a patent, shall be made before its expiration, and shall be notified at least once a month, for three months before its presentation in two newspapers printed in the city of Washington, and in one of the newspapers in which the laws of the United States shall be published in the State or Territory in which the patentee shall reside. The petition shall set forth particularly the grounds of the application. It shall be verified by oath; the evidence in its support may be taken before any judge or justice of the peace, it shall be a companied by a statement of the ascertained value of the discovery, invention, or improvement, aud of the receipts and expenditures of the patentee, so as to exhibit the profit or loss arising therefrom. SEC. 3 And be it further enacted, That wherever any pate at which has been heretofore, or shall be hereafter, granted to any inventor in pursuance of the act of Congress, entitled "An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose," passed on the twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, or of any of the acts supplementary thereto, shall be invalid or inoperative, by reason that any of the terms or conditions prescribed in the third section of the said first mentioned act, have not, by inadvertence, accident, or mistake, and without any traudulent or deceptive intention, been complied with on the part of the said inventor, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the State, upon the surrender to him of such patent, to cause a new patent to be granted to the said inventor for the same invention for the residue of the period then unexpired, for which the original patent was granted, upon his compliance with the terms and conditions prescribed in the said third section of the said act. And, in case of his death, or any assignment by him made of the same patent. the like right small vest in his executors and administrators, or assignee or assignees: Provided, however, That such new patent, so granted, shall, in all respects, be to the same marters of objection and defence as any original parent granted under the said first mentioned act. But no public use or privilege of the uvention so patented, derived from or after the grant of the original patent, either under any special license of the inventor, or without the consent of The patentee that there shall be a free public use thereof, shall, in any maner, prejudice his right of recovery for any use or violation of his invention after the grant of such new patent as aforesaid. [Approved, July 3, 1832.] An Act concerning the issuing of Patents to Aliens, for Useful Discoveries and Inventions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the privileges granted to the aliens described in the first section of the act, to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein menioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of atentees, approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred; be extended in like manner, to every alien, who, at the time of petitioning for a patent shall be resident in the United States, and shall have declared his intention according to law, to become a citizen thereof: Provided, that every patent canted by virtue of this act and the privileges there to appertaining, shall Case and determine and become absolutely void without resort to any legal process to annu or cancel the same in ease of a failure on the part of any patentee for the space of one year from the issuing thereof, to introduce into public use in the United States the invention or improvement for which ne patent shall be issued; or in case the same for any period of six months after such introduction shall not continue to be publicly used and applied in the United States, or in case of failure to become a citizen of the United States, agreeably to notice given at the earliest period within which he shall be entitled to become a citizen of the United States. [Approved, July 13, 1832] CLAIMS ON DENMARK. Commissioners appointed under the Treaty with Denmark, concluded at Copenhagen, 28th March, 1830, and the Act of 25th February, 1831. George Winchester, of Maryland, Jesse Hoyt, of New York, William J. Duane, of Pennsylvania, Robert Fulton, of New-York, Secretary. Commissioners. Note-For the Law authorizing these Commissioners, and the Treaty under which they act, see vol. X, p. 104-107. CLAIMS ON FRANCE. Commissioners appointed agreeably to the Convention concluded at Paris for the adjustment of claims on France. Thomas H. Williams, of Mississippi, Commissioners. John E. Frost, of the District of Columbia, Secretary. John H. Wheeler, of North Carolina, Clerk. An ACT to carry into effect the convention between the United States and hi Majesty the King of the French, concluded at Paris on the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Se a e, shall ap point three commissioners, who shall form a board, whose duty it shall be The Convention is given in volume X. page 287. to receive and examine all claims which may be presented to them under the convention between the United States and France, of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, which are provided for by the said convention, according to the provisions of the same, and the principles of justice, equity, and the laws of nations. The said board shall have a secretary, versed in the English, French, and Spanish languages, and a clerk, both to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and the commissioners, secretary, and clerk, shall, before they enter on the duties of their offices, take oath, well and faithtully to perform the duties thereof SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That the said commissioners shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to make all needful rules and regulations, not contravening the laws of the land, the provisions of this act, or the provisions of the said convention, for carrying their said commission into full and complete effect. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the board so constituted shall meet on the first Monday of August next at the city of Washington; and, within two years from the time of its meeting, shall terminate its duties.And the Secretary of State is required forthwi h, after the passing of this act, to give notice of the said meeting; to be published in two newspapers in Washington, and in such other papers as he may think proper. SEC. 4 And be it further enacted, That all records, documents, or other pape s, which now are in, or hereafter, during the continuance of this commission, may come into the possession of the Departmont of State, in relation to such claims, shall be delivered to the commission aforesaid SEC 5. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the respective officers, or whose appointment provision is made by this act, shall not exceed the following sums, namely: to each of the said commissioners, at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum; to the secretary of the board at the rate of two thousand dollars per anuum; and to the clerk at the rate of fifteen dollars per annum. And the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to make such provision for the contingent expenses of the said commission, as shall appear to bim rea sonable and proper; and the said salar es and expenses shall be paid out of any money in he Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEc. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall report to the Secretary of State a list of the several awards made by them; a certified copy whereof shall be by him transmited to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon distribute, in rateable proportions, among the persons in whose favour the awards shall have been made, such moneys as may have been received in the Treasury in virtue of this act, accordng to the proportions which their respective awards shall bear to the whole amount then received, first deducting such sums of money as may be due the Vuited States from said persons in whose favor said awards shall be made; and shall also cause cert fica es to be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form as he may prescribe, showing the proportion to which each may be entitled to the amount that may thereafter be received; and, on the presentation of the said certificates at the Treasury, as the nett proceeds of the general instalments, payable by the French Government, shall have been received, such proportions thereof shall be paid to the egal holders of the said certificates. Sze 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the several instalments, with the interest thereon, payable to the United States in virtue of the said convention, to be received from the French Goverment, and transferred to the United States, in such manner as he may deem best, and the nett proceeds thereof to be paid into the Treasury; and, on the payment of the proceeds of each of the aid instalments, there shall be set apart, of the money in the Treasury,i |