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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · April 19, 1878 · Chapter 61

Chapter 61.

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CHAP. 61.— AN ACT requiring the Commissioner for preparing and publishing a new edition of the Revised Statutes of the United States to revise and perfect the index to the first volume of the same.April 19, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Index to Revised Statutes to be revised. That it shall be the duty of the commissioner appointed under the act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for the preparation and publication of a new edition of the Re- 37 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
SESS. II. On. 61, 62, 64, 66. 1878. vised Statutes of the United States”, approved March second eighteen1877, ch. 82,19 Stat., 268. hundred and seventy-seven, to revise and perfect the index to the new edition of volume one of the Revised Statutes therein mentioned, under the direction of the Secretary of State; and the necessary expenses thereof including such reasonable additional compensation Compensation.to said commissioner for said service as shall be allowed by the Secretary of State, shall be paid out of the Treasury;Appropriation. and a sum of money sufficient therefor is hereby appropriated.
Approved, April 19, 1878.
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