United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 3
No. 3. A Resolution for the distribution of seven hundred copies of the Digest of Patents.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Commiss’r of Patents to send a certain number of copies to each state and territory. That the Commissioner of Patents be directed to send to the Secretary of State of each of the States of this Union, and of the territories of Florida, Wisconsin, and Iowa, the Digest of Patents published by the Commissioner of Patents, under the act of Congress, dated March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; to be disposed of as the Legislatures of each State and Territory may direct, viz: To the State of Maine twenty copies. To the State of New Hampshire ten copies. To the State of Massachusetts thirty copies. To the State of Rhode Island four copies. To the State of Connecticut twelve copies. To the State of Vermont eleven copies. To the State of New York ninety-eight copies. To the State of New Jersey fifteen copies. To the State of Pennsylvania sixty-nine copies. to the State of Delaware four copies. To the State of Maryland nineteen copies. To the State of Virginia fifty copies. To the State of North Carolina thirty-nine copies. To the State of South Carolina twenty-four copies. To the State of Georgia twenty-eight copies. To the State of Kentucky thirty-one copies. To the State of Tennessee thirty-three copies. To the State of Ohio sixty-one copies. To the State of Louisiana fourteen copies. To the State of Indiana twenty-eight copies. To the State of Mississippi fifteen copies. To the State of Illinois twenty-three copies. To the State of Alabama twenty-four copies. To the State of Missouri sixteen copies. To the State of Arkansas five copies. To the State of Michigan nine copies. To the Territory of Florida three copies. To the Territory of Wisconsin two copies. To the Territory of Iowa three copies. Being in the whole seven hundred copies;Remainder to the Librarian of Congress. and that the remaining two hundred copies of said Digest be left with the Librarian of Congress for future disposition.
$512 38, due for publishing said Digest, to be paid.Resolved, That the sum of five hundred and twelve dollars and thirty-eight cents be paid from the Patent fund to reimburse what is still due for publishing said Digest.
Approved, September 1, 1841.