. A bird's eye view of our federal government . n seems to be a new one. Owingto the destruction of 87,000 models in the great fire in thepatent office in 1877, the record is necessarily imperfect, ajdin any case, the action of the patent office is not duly issued have been afterward set aside in thecourts, as covering inventions almost identical with devicespreviously patented. The care taken by the office to dis-cover similarity of mechanical principle does not make anypatent a bar to a suit for infringement. During the year 1887, 21,378 patents for inventions wereissued;
. A bird's eye view of our federal government . n seems to be a new one. Owingto the destruction of 87,000 models in the great fire in thepatent office in 1877, the record is necessarily imperfect, ajdin any case, the action of the patent office is not duly issued have been afterward set aside in thecourts, as covering inventions almost identical with devicespreviously patented. The care taken by the office to dis-cover similarity of mechanical principle does not make anypatent a bar to a suit for infringement. During the year 1887, 21,378 patents for inventions wereissued; 34,420 applications for such patents were received. 76 OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,93. The Censns Office. Every ten years a census of the inhabitants of the UnitedStates is taken, with a view to the reapportionment of rep-resentation in the lower house of congress. But since thecost of numbering the people is great, the government hasseen fit to combine with it an inquiry into all manner ofthings connected with the family, so that the census tables. BENTON J. HALL,Commissioner of Patents. [Benton J. Hall was born in Ohio, in 1835, but moved to Iowa wI««;mquite young. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857. nwas elected to the state legislature in 187? and 1873 and to the sUte s^-n -ate in 1882. He also served as a representative in the forty-ninth congress. In 1887 he was appointed commissioner of patents.]may give full information concerning the state of the coun-try. Some of this additional information is valuable, and 92. How were patents first issued ? What change has been made ? How far isthe patent guaranteed ? Give figures showing the work of the patent office. 93. What is the census, why is it taken and how often T How and why is tiwwork Inoreaeed ? OUR FEDERAL G0VERN3IENT, 77 some of it of no practical use whatever. Moreover, the workof compiliDg the statistics collected has so increased that thearrangement of one census is scarcely completed before thetime fo
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