Chapter 2. relating to printing impressions from portraits and vignettes
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CHAP. 2.— An Act relating to printing impressions from portraits and vignettes.Dec. 22, 1879. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Impressions o f portraits and vignettes may be furnished, *&c.* That the Secretary of the Treasury at the request of a Senator,.Representative, or Delegate in Congress, the head of a department or bureau, art association, or library, be, and he is hereby authorized to furnish impressions from any portrait or vignette which is now, or may hereafter be, a part of the engraved stock of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at such rates and under such conditions as he may deem necessary to protect the public interests.
Approved, December 22, 1879.