RESOLUTIONS
I. Resolution in relation to the transmission of public documents printed by order of either House of Congress.
Transmission of public documents.
1825, ch. 64.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That nothing contained in the act to reduce into one the several acts establishing and regulating the Post-office Department, approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, shall be construed to repeal or limit the operation of the act authorizing the transmission of certain documents free of postage, approved December nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.
Approved, January 13, 1831.
II. Resolution directing the Secretary of State to subscribe for seventy copies of Peters’ Condensed Reports of decisions of the Supreme Court.
Peters’ Condensed Reports.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Department of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe for and receive seventy copies of the Condensed Reports of cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, edited by Richard Peters, and cause to be distributed one copy thereof to the President of the United States, each of the justices of the Supreme Court, each of the judges of the district courts, the attorney general of the United States, each of the heads of departments, each of the judges of the several territories of the United States, five copies thereof for the use of each House of Congress; and the residue of the copies shall be deposited in the library of Congress: Provided, however, That the cost of each volume shall not exceed five dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1831.
