§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he would beg to ask Mr. Attorney General, Whether he is aware that the printing of the Specifications of Patents is often many months in arrear; and whether, both in the interests of the public and of the patentees, such Specifications ought not to be printed as soon as possible after the patentee has deposited his complete Specification?
THE ATTORNEY GENERALstated, in reply, that the printing of the Specifications of Patents had been in arrears in consequence of an insufficient number of clerks, but the numbers had now been increased, and the arrears he hoped would be cleared off in the course of three or four months.