§ MR. JAMES HOWARDasked Mr. Attorney General, If any reasons exist why the Patent Office should not afford the same facilities as are enjoyed by American inventors and manufacturers of becoming acquainted with the progress of invention by the issue of an Illustrated Weekly Official Gazette of new patents similar to that issued by the Patent Office at Washington?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir HENRY JAMES),in reply, said there was not at the disposal of the Patent Office a staff sufficient to enable them to issue a Weekly Gazette of New Patents; and the law did not give the Office powers to compel patentees to furnish the special drawings requisite to enable them to issue a publication of this kind.
§ MR. JAMES HOWARDintimated that he would takeanearly opportunity of drawing attention to the administrations of the Patent Office and its vast accumulated funds.