That your Petitioner hath invented a mode of raising Water in great Quantities to any Height from below or above the surface of the Earth by means of Steam acting upon two pistons at the same time, whereby mines may be drained, Cities or farming Grounds be watered, and mills supplied with a constant Stream at an expence far less than by any mode hitherto used or invented, a Draft or Specification of which Invention with an Explanation of its Use is ready to be delivered to this Honble House & to be filed on Record in any public Office which they may think most proper to preserve the same ;

Your Petitioner therefore prays that this Honble House will bo pleased to give him Leave to introduce a Bill to be enacted into a Law granting & securing to your Petitioner his Executors Administrators and Assigns the Exclusive right and Privilege of makinr^^ constructing and using machines for raising Water for all Purposes whatsoever by the Action of Steam applied to two Pistons at the

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same time, irt the manner and upon the principles by him invente«l & defmed in the said Draft Explanation ami Specification. And your Petitioner &.c^

James Rumsey, By Joseph Barns.

his attorney. Endorsed, No. 52. 1788

A petition of James Rumsey by Joseph Barnes his attorne} praying an exclusive Right of making constructing and using machines for raising water (by means of steam) for all purposes whatever.

In Assembly December 23^ 1788. Read and Referred to M' G Livingston Mr.- Havens and M' Van Cortlandt , . .-i.-..^^