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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · Feb. 26, 1879 · Chapter 106

Chapter 106.

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CHAP. 106.— An act to amend an act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes”, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Feb. 26, 1879.1878, ch. 359,*Ante*, 207. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America-in Congress assembled*, That the act entitled “An actPublic binding.Rule as to, not to apply to Libraries of Patent Office and State Department. making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the, government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes”, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding to the clause of said act relating to the binding of books for the departments of the government, after the words “Congressional Library”, the following words:
“nor to the Library of the Patent Office”, nor to the Library of the Department of State. Approved, February 26, 1879.
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