Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

To the Flour and Rice Millers
OF THE UNITED STATES.

GENTLEMEN,--It appears that many have refused to pay for license to use my improvements in the art of manufacturing flour, and in lessening the labor in rice mills, waiting the decision of the United States' courts; while many others have paid freely the sums I demanded for my license; there can exist no reason why some should pay and others be exempt. There has already been a sufficient number of decisions establishing the law, that each infringer is liable to pay treble my actual damages, which cannot be rated at less than the value of the use of my property during the infringement. I have expended the greatest part of a long, arduous, and indefatigable life in study and exertions to invent and introduce into useful operation several important and highly useful improvements, from which great benefits are derived to the users, and I could have put in operation many more equally useful, but was prevented by the unjustifiable opposition, wasting the profits of those in operation, which I had intended to apply to put others in operation which I had discovered; but which now lay dormant, to my great mortification and the public injury. I come into the courts claiming remuneration for my time and labor--the great expenses that I have incurred in advertising repeatedly over the United States, and in my agents travelling for many years to make the utility of the improvements known, and to instruct millwrights to make, and millers to use them. The law contemplates that I shall receive ample remuneration, and by it I was encouraged to risk the great expenses. I have repeatedly published that the price of my license for the remainder of the term, should be, the full price of the labor and boarding saved by the use of my improvements in one year only, with lawful interest until paid; but to those who infringed my rights, and refused to pay when called on, I would, beginning with the year ending January 22, 1813, count the sum saved in labor and boarding during the last year (equal to the first price) as a new sum becoming due, and running on interest also; and so on, the 22d day of January in each and every year thereafter a new sum saved in labor and boarding becomes due, and runs on interest until license be purchased, demanding the interest only on all these sums, leaving the principal in the hands of the users; which is the least I can receive of them to meet the expenses which they have compelled me to incur. The above are now the only terms on which my agents are instructed to grant licenses, and they are instructed to institute suits against all infringers without giving them another call.

Those who wish to purchase licenses may apply to John Love, esq. Buckland, Prince William county, or to capt. John Moody, Richmond, Va.

OLIVER EVANS.

Note.--Persons using Mr. Evans' improvements, or parts of them, unpaid for, will be sued if they do not discharge the claim on application. Mr. William H. Alexander has, under my authority from Mr. Evans, been empowered to receive payments and deliver licenses to use his improvements. Payments, therefore, made to him, John Moody, or myself, will alone be valid, and save the expense of suit and treble damages to the defendants.

JOHN LOVE.

January 2
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