United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Resolution 1
I. Resolution providing for the distribution of the diplomatic correspondence of the United States, from the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three, to the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine.
Library committee to distribute copies of Diplomatic Correspondence.
1832, ch. 74.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the copies of the “Selection of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, between the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three, and the fourth of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine,” published in virtue of an act of the fifth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, in continuation of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution, be distributed and disposed of, under the direction of the joint library committee, in manner following, viz:
To each person who received a copy of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution, and who shall apply to the clerk of the House of Representatives, for the continuation of the same, one copy;
To the library of each institution, to which a copy of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution was sent, one copy;
To Jared Sparks, editor of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution, one copy;
To Edward Livingston, under whose direction, as Secretary of State, the selection aforesaid was made, one copy.
Sec. 2. And be it further resolved, That twenty-five copies of the work aforesaid, and of any other work or works printed by order, or at the expense of the United States, shall be placed at the disposition of the joint library committee, to be by them disposed of, in return for donations to the library of Congress.
Approved, June 19, 1834.