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I‘HIRTY—EIG·HTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 95, 96, 97. 1865. 515 with said eighth volume, and which shall be numbered in regular order after the said eighth volume; the copyright thereof to be taken out by, and Copyright; be for the use of, the publisher, who shall deliver to the Attorney-General for the use of the United States, within one month after the publication thereof, three hundred sets of said volumes, at the price of three dollars per volume, payable after they are so delivered. And the Attorney-General is hereby authorized to employ a competent person to edit and pre- Efditoqandhis pare the said opinions for publication, as aforesaid, with proper head-notes, duh"' and a full and complete index, and to supervise the said publication. When the said three hundred sets shall have been delivered for the use of the United States, the Attorney-General shall cause them to be distributed as follows: For the President of the United States, two sets; Distribution. for the Department of State, ten sets; for the Department of the Treasury and the heads of the bureaus thereof, twenty-five sets; for the Department of War and the heads of the bureaus thereof, twenty-tive sets; for the Department of the Navy and the heads of bureaus thereof, fifteen sets; for the Department of the Interior and the heads of bureaus thereof, twenty sets; for the Department of the Post-Omce, ten sets; for the Attorney-General’s office, ten sets; for the judges of the supreme court ol` the United States, one set each; for the library of said court, three {sets; for the judges of the court of claims, the solicitor and assistant and deputy solicitors of said court, one set each; for the library of congress, nfty sets, for the use of both houses of congress; the residue of the said three hundred sets to remain in charge of the librarian of congress, at the future disposal of congress. And the sum of seven thousand dollars is Appropriation. hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay for the editing of the said opinions and the price of the said three hundred volumes, which money shall be disbursed on vouchers approved by the Attorney-General. Approved, March 3, 1865. Case. XCVI. —An Act to remove all of Color in carrying the Mails. March 3, 1865. Be it enacted by the Senate and Eztse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage Color not to of this act no person, by reason of color, shall be disqualified from em- di%q¤¤Jifyfof_¢=¤¤· ployment in carrying the mails, and all acts and parts of acts establishing rying the mmm such disqualification, including especially the seventh section of the act of 1825, ch- 64, March third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, are hereby repealed. §§,O, iv . . p. 104. Approved, March 3, 1865. Wasp. XCVII. -An Act relating to the Olerksbips in the Post-Ofiu Department. March 3, 1365, Be it enacted by the Senate and bbuse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third section of an act Ch;,; Clerk in of congress entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and dip- ¤m¤¤ of assistlomatic expenses of the government for the year ending thirtieth of June, ;:;g;ifm”t°rs` eighteen hundred and fifty-four," approved the third of March, eighteen 1853 chg-, hundred and fifty-three, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to au- § 3. ’ ’ thorizc the appointment of a chief clerk in the of each of the three V°l· X· P· M- assistants postmaster-general, at a salary of two thousand dollars per an- Salary. num each. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of temporary clerks Additional pernow employed in the Post-Office Department and paid out of the appro- priation for postagestamps and stamped envelopes and the proceeds of my cierks, P0- sales of waste paper, the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint two clerks of class three, two clerks of class two, and tive clerks of class one. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eighteen thousand Appropriation. dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the