An Act Placing the Bureau of Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks Under the Immediate Direction of the Chief of the Bureau of Archives Subject to the Executive Control of the Secretary of Public Instruction, Increasing the Number of Employees o Said Bureau of Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks, and Amending Acts Numbered Six Hundred and Thirty-Seven and Six Hundred and Sixty-Six

April 8, 1903

ACT NO. 744

AN ACT PLACING THE BUREAU OF PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, AND TRADE-MARKS UNDER THE IMMEDIATE DIRECTION OF THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF ARCHIVES SUBJECT TO THE EXECUTIVE CONTROL OF THE SECRETARY OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, INCREASING THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF SAID BUREAU OF PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, AND TRADE-MARKS, AND AMENDING ACTS NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN AND SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX

SECTION 1. The Bureau of Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks is hereby placed under the immediate direction of the Chief of the Bureau of Archives, who shall act as Chief of the Bureau of Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks without additional compensation and shall exercise all powers and perform all duties appertaining to said Bureau subject to the executive control of the Secretary of Public Instruction, to whose Department said Bureau is hereby transferred.

SECTION 2. The following personnel is hereby authorized for the Bureau of Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks, to include the present employees of the Bureau: One clerk class eight, one clerk class ten, one clerk Class D, and one employee at a compensation at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum.

SECTION 3. The following sums, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the amount provided under Act Numbered Five hundred and ninety-five for the Bureau of Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks, to meet the expenses of said Bureau during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three: For salaries and wages, five hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; for contingent expenses, three hundred dollars. The Bureau is also hereby authorized to order from the Bureau of Public Printing such printing and binding as may be approved by the Secretary of Public Instruction, not to exceed in cost the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars.

SECTION 4. Section twelve of Act Numbered Six hundred and sixty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 12. The application prescribed in the foregoing section must be accompanied by written declaration verified by the person, or by a member of the firm, or by an officer of the corporation applying, or by the duly authorized attorney or agent of such person, firm, or corporation, to the effect that such part has at the time a right to use the trade-mark or trade-name sought to be registered, and that no other person, firm, or corporation has the right to such use, either in the identical form or in any such near resemblance thereto as might be calculated to deceive; and that the description and facsimiles presented for registry truly represent the trade-mark sought to be registered."

SECTION 5. All Acts and orders in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 6. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect as of April first, nineteen hundred and three.

ENACTED, April 8, 1903. AScHCD