Private Law 22–CXXII

That the Secretary of State be and hereby is

Patent to issue for an improved piston and valve for steam gas, &c.

authorized and directed to cause a patent or patents to be issued to Samuel Hall, of Basford, in the county of Nottingham, in the kingdom of Great Britain, an alien, for his inventions or discoveries of an improved piston and valve for steam gas, and other engines; an improved method of lubricating the pistons, piston rods, and valves or cocks of such engines; and of condensing the steam and supplying water to the boilers of such steam engines as [are] wrought by a vacuum produced by condensation; on his complying with the requisitions of the laws relating to the granting of patents, excepting the requisitions of residence or citizenship.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the service of any notice

Service of process for repeal of patents, where to be made.

or process for the repeal of any patent to be issued under this act, shall be of the same force and effect, if made upon the clerk of the district court in and for the southern district of New York, as if such notice of process had been served personally upon the said Samuel Hall; and the said District Court, and the Circuit Court of the second circuit, shall have jurisdiction of all proceedings for the repeal of such patent or patents, in the same manner as they would have jurisdiction if the said Samuel Hall resided in said district or circuit.