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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 3 STAT. · April 20, 1818 · Chapter CXII

Chapter CXII. authorizing a subscription for the Statistical Annals of Adam Seybert, and the purchase of Pitkin’s Commercial Statistics

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Chap. CXII.— An Act authorizing a subscription for the Statistical Annals of Adam Seybert, and the purchase of Pitkin’s Commercial Statistics. April 20, 1818. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary for the The Secretary of State directed to subscribe for and receive, &c. 500 copies of Seybert’s Statistical Annals, and 250 copies of Pitkin’s Statistics.Department of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe for, and receive, for the use and disposal of Congress, five hundred copies of the Statistical Annals proposed to be published by Adam Seybert, of Philadelphia; and that he also be directed to purchase, for the purpose aforesaid, two hundred and fifty copies of Pitkin’s Commercial Statistics of the United States.
The subscription and purchase money 5750 dolls., &c. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the sum or sums of money necessary to defray the cost of the subscription and purchase afore said, shall not exceed the sum of five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 20, 1818.
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