Section 12. That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Patents to furnish free of cost, one copy of the bound volumes of specifications and drawings of patents published by the Patent Office, to each of the Executive Departments of Government, upon the request of the head thereof.

Joint Resolution Relative to the Disposition of Patent Specifications and Drawings in the Western District of Pennsylvania.

(Res. No. 35 of June 28, 1902, 32 Stat. L. 746.)

(Disposal of Patent Specifications and Drawings in the Western District of Pennsylvania.)

That the set of United States patent specifications and drawings now on deposit in the clerk's office of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, pursuant to section four hundred and ninety, Revised Statutes, be removed therefrom and deposited in the patent department of the Carnegie Library, in the City of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, subject to the uses specified in sections four hundred and ninety and eight hundred and ninety-four, Revised Statutes; and that hereafter the said patent department of the said Carnegie Library of Pittsburg shall be the place of deposit for the United States patent specifications and drawings referred to in section four hundred and ninety, Revised Statutes, instead of the Clerk's office of the United States Disrtict Court for the Western District of Pennsyvania.