Our country and its resources; . ces),enforces the general regulations ofthe department, and is superintend-ent of the several buildings occu-pied by the department. lie alsosupervises the classification and compilation of all estimates of ap-propriations. The detailed work re-lating to eleemosynary institutionsin the District of Columbia underthe Department of the Interior, theoffice of the returns clerk, and mis-cellaneous matters is done iu hisoffice. During the absence of theSecretary and Assistant Secretarieshe may be designated by the Secre-tary to sign official papers anddocuments. COMM
Our country and its resources; . ces),enforces the general regulations ofthe department, and is superintend-ent of the several buildings occu-pied by the department. lie alsosupervises the classification and compilation of all estimates of ap-propriations. The detailed work re-lating to eleemosynary institutionsin the District of Columbia underthe Department of the Interior, theoffice of the returns clerk, and mis-cellaneous matters is done iu hisoffice. During the absence of theSecretary and Assistant Secretarieshe may be designated by the Secre-tary to sign official papers anddocuments. COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS The Commissioner of Patents ischarged with the administration ofthe patent laws, and supervision ofall matters relating to the grantingof letters patent for inventions, andthe registration of trade-marks. lie is by statute made the tribunal oflast resort in the Patent Office, andhas appellate jurisdiction in thetrial of interference cases, of the patentability of inventions, and ofregistration of THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, WASHINGTON. D. C. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 541 THE PATENT OFFICE The duties of the Patent Officeor its functions with respect tothe inventor may be classified un-der a few heads. Each of theseis of great importance and it isthought that the simplicity of theclassification may aid somewhat inunderstanding fully just what thePatent Office does for an inventor. In the first place, it is the keeperof records, maintaining as it does inwell classified form the patents is- much of these records as may bedesired by the public. The registration of trade-marksand labels and the granting of pat-ents for designs also come withinthe duties of the Patent Office^ aswell as the recordation of assign-ments and other instruments in writ-ing affecting the title to patents. It also maintains among its rec-ords the pending applications forpatents, which are not open to pub-
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