Letter from C. E. Mitchell to John A. Truman, Care of Higdon and Higdon

1660 (2-020.) Series of 1880. AU communications should be addressed to The Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. c." N°. 370194 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Vonited Hates Patent Office, Washington, D.C., nov 3 18810 SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of the petition, specification, and drawing of your alleged Improvement in staple Puller with Fifteen Dollars as the first fee payable thereon. The papers are duly filed, and your application for a patent will be taken up for examination in its order. 4 You will be duly advised of the examination. Very respectfully, do E. Mitehell A Imman Commissioner of Patents. yo TRUMAN ARCHIVES RECORDS AND factor ADMIN.' Es NOTE.-In order to constitute an application for a patent, the inventor is by law required to furnish his petition, specification, oath, and drawings, (where the nature of the case admits of drawings,) and to pay the required fee. No application is considered as complete, nor can any official action be had thereon, until all its parts, as here specified, are furnished in due form by the inventor or applicant. 15650 b-20 m