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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · Sept. 16, 1850 · Chapter LV

Chapter LV. to provide for the Printing of the Annual Report upon Commerce and Navigation

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Chap. LV.— An Act to provide for the Printing of the Annual Report upon Commerce and Navigation.Sept. 16, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That it shall be the The report to be completed as early as practicable. duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the annual report upon commerce and navigation to be completed at as early a day before the first Monday in January in each year as is practicable.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That when completed, or in the To be printed and ready for delivery by the 1st day of January annually. course of its progress towards completion, if that will give despatch to the business, the work of printing, under the superintendence of said Secretary, shall be commenced, and the whole shall be printed and ready for delivery on or before the first day of January next ensuing the close of the fiscal year to which the report relates. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That, until Congress shall otherwise Number of copies, and distribution. direct, the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be printed, in the same manner as other printing of the Department, twenty thousand copies of said report, which shall be distributed as follows: first, the usual number for the use of the members of the two Houses and their officers; second, five hundred copies for the use of the Treasury Department; and thirdly, as nearly as may be, five thousand copies to the Senate, and thirteen thousand copies to the House, to be distributed by the members of each House. 460THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 56. 1850. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the report aforesaid, except Binding. such as are to be bound with other public documents, shall be substantially bound: *Provided,* That the expense thereof shall not exceed Proviso. twelve and a half cents for each copy. Approved, September 16, 1850.
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