TALBOT7475

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Bolt 25 Oct/57

If M^r Loxley deems my offer too small, you may add to it y^e foll^g – viz.To pay a furth^r reasonable sum at the end of the 7^th year of the pat^t if the latter prove be valuable – pat^t prove of suff^t value to [?] induce me to pay the fee of £100 then due to Gov^nt in order to mntⁿ it in exist^ce after y^t time –

This arrang^t w^d not, I th^k lead to any doubt or difficulty besides being a fair one –

You say the fee is due at the end of the 7^th year – is it not does not the Act say the 8^th year?

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Bolton
25 October 1857

If M^r Loxley ¹ deems my offer ² too small, you may add to it the following – viz.To pay a further reasonable sum at the end of the 7^th year of the patent if the latter prove be valuable – patent prove of sufficient value to induce me to pay the fee of £100 then due to Government in order to maintain it in existence after that time –

This arrangement would not, I think lead to any doubt or difficulty besides being a fair one –

You say the fee is due at the end of the 7^th year – is it not does not the Act say the 8^th year?