United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 37
Chap. XXXVII.—An Act directing a disposition of the maps and charts of the Survey of the Coast.
Maps and charts may be disposed of, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to dispose of the maps and charts of the survey of the coast of the United States at such prices and under such regulations as may from time to time be fixed by the said Secretary; and that a number of copies of each sheet, not to exceed three hundred, be presented to such foreign governments, and departments of our own government, and literary and scientific associations as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.
Approved, June 3, 1844.