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[No, 17 Joint Resolution in Regard to the Publication of postal Conventions made with March 1, 1869·
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Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be _ P<>S¤tl¤¤¤V¤¤· authorized and directed to cause the several postal conventions made with Hg,T;dt°;f pub' foreign countries, under the provisions of the act of March third, eigh— 1851, Eh. ao, § 2. teen hundred and fifty-one, or which may hereafter be made, to be pub- Eli ix, P· 387-2
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the publication of the treaties and laws of the United States. Ante 1140- Approved, March 1, 1869.
[No. 19.] A Resolution providing for the Reporting and Publication ty' the Debates in Mtimh 3, l869· Congress. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the joint committee of m%;“3`§';°I§?`;§ Congress on public printing is hereby authorized to contract, on behalf gu;] Bailey for of the general government, with Rives and Bailey for the reporting and ¤‘<‘I>¤¤‘¤¤g» &<>· publication of the debates in Coneress for the term of two years on and delm°S m Cm` , 9 _ _ > gross for two from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty—mne: Pr0· years. vided, That, before the United States shall be called on to pay for any P'°VlS°· reporting or publication of the debates, the accounts therefor shall be sub— mitted to the joint committee on public printing or to such other officer or officers of Congress as they may designate, and on their or his uppro·- bation thereof, as being in all respects according to the contracts, it shall be paid for from the treasury of the United States, after having passed the proper accounting officers thereofi Sec. And be it further resolved, That in case the joint committee on regihggegf b° public printing are unable to conclude a satisfactory contract with the under (n}~6c;{.,,, said Rives and Bailey, or that they be unable to fulfil any contract that <>*i_<>°¤8¤'P55i<>¤¤l they may make, the joint committee on printing be authorized 'to have plmtmh if &°' the debates reported and printed under the direction of the congressional pri-ntcr at the government printing office. _ _ Sico. 3. Am! be itjitrtizer resolved, That for the purpose aforesaid there APP"°Pmt'°”‘ be appropriated and paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Approved, March 3, 1869. [No. 20.] A Resolution _/or printing the Medical and Surgical Ilistory of the Rebellion. MMC}! 3, 1869- Resolved bg the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed at Hi‘;gfdg>[?hh§°· the governinent printing officc five thousand copies of the first part of pcbepionii and the Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion, compiled by the sur- ‘Ql\ledica1Sni_tisgeon-gencral under the direction of the Secretary of lVar, and five thou- €§;c"I€I;;‘il;1E;" sand copies of the Medical Statistics of the Provost-Mz1rshal’s Bureau, Bui‘eau"to be compiled and to be completed by Surgeon J. H. Baxter, as authorized by P§i§égd· h 296 an act oi' Congress, approved July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and VOL ,;,5 gp, sixty-six, which also provides that the editions of both publications thus ordered shall be disposed of as Congress may hereafter direct;. AP1’l{OVEI), March 3, 1869. [No. 21.] A Resolution giving the Assent of the United ·Statcs to the Construction of the Newport and (}incz`rmati Brzc/ge. Consent of Resolvccibg the Senate and House of Representatives of t/te United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress of ,, bridge Om, be, and the same is hereby, given to the erection of abridge over the tthe Opto r_ivert_ Ohio river from the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, to the city ot Lewport, (WTO §;f;E2Qt,‘· Ky.
