451, for an improvement in Reaping Machines,
dated the 14th day of April 1851, being a division and Reissue of
Original Letters Patent No. 5227, dated the 7th day of August, 1847, for
an improvement in Reaping Machines.

Also, the application of the same party for the extension of Reissued
Letters Patent No. 742, for an improvement in Reaping Machines, dated
the 21st day of June, 1859, being a division of Reissued Letters Patent
No. 450, dated the 14th of April, 1857, being a division and Reissue of
original Letters Patent No. 5227, dated the 7th day of August, 1847, for
an improvement in Reaping Machines.

Also the application of the same party for the extension of Reissued
Letters Patent No. 917, dated the 28th day of February, 1860, for an
improvement in Reaping Machines, being a reissue of reissued Letters
Patent No. 743, dated June 21, 1859, the last named Patent being a
division and reissue of reissued Letters Patent No. 450, dated the 14th
day of April, 1857, which last mentioned patent was a division and
reissue of original Letters Patent No. 5227, dated the 7th of August,
1847, for an Improvement in Reaping Machines.

[Sidenote: Claim of Opponents Overruled]

These four applications for the extension of the said four patents, Nos.
449, 451, 742 and 917, having been made in due form on the 30th day of
November, 1860, and the Commissioner of Patents having caused to be
published in due and legal form, notice of said applications and of the
time and place when and where the same would be considered. And the
applicant, the administratrix and widow of the patentee, having duly
furnished and filed statements in writing under oath of the ascertained
value of the said inventions and improvements claimed in said patents,
and of the receipts and expenditures of the patentee and his legal
representatives sufficiently in detail to exhibit a true and faithful
account of loss and profit in any manner accruing to the patentee and
his legal representatives from and by reason of said inventions and
patents. And the testimony in these four cases having been duly filed
and considered and referred to the principal Examiner having charge of
the class of inventions to which these belong, and the said Examiner
having made a full report upon the said cases, and particularly that the
inventions or improvements, secured by the said four patents, were new
and patentable when patented. And the printed arguments in these cases
having