REPORT ON EXCHANGES. 49 



Librarian of Congress, to be exchanged under the direction of the Joint 

 C\)UHnitteo on the Library, as provided for by joint resolution approved 

 March 2, 18G7." 



The third series, the memoirs, monographs, or special reports pub- 

 lislied by the Executive Departments and Bureaus of the Government, 

 is provided for by section 2 of the above joint resolution No. 72, sec- 

 ond session Fortietli Congress, approved July 25, 1808— a resolution to 

 carry into etfect the resolution approved March 2, 1807, providing for 

 the exchange of certain public documents, as follows : " And be it further 

 resolved, That fifty copies of each publication, printed under the direc- 

 tion of any Department or Bureau of the Government, whether at the 

 Congressional Printing Office or elsewhere, shall be placed at the dis- 

 l)osal of the Joint Committee on the Library to carry out the provision 

 of said resolution." 



Subsequent to this resolution becoming a law the Hon. E. D. Morgan, 

 chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, addressed the fol- 

 lowing letter to the Public Printer, J. D. Defrees, esq. : 



" Washington, D. C, October 24, 1808. 



"I have the honor to call your attention to the provisions of the reso- 

 lution of Congress inclosed, approved July 25, 1808, and to request that 

 the fifty copies of all documents now being printed and hereafter to be 

 printed at the Congressional Printing Office, whether by order of either 

 House of Congress or any of the Departments or Bureaus of the Gov- 

 ernment, be furnished by you, as fast as each edition is printed and 

 bound, to the Librarian of Congress, for the purpose specified in the 

 resolution. 



" 1 would also request that of the Patent Office report and Agricult- 

 ural report now being printed one hundred copies additional (or one 

 hundred and fifty copies in all) be delivered to the Librarian for the pur- 

 pose indicated." 



On September 22, 1809, the Librarian of Congress addressed the 

 Public Printer, on the subject of books required by law for the inter- 

 national exchange of official documents as follows : 



" Your attention is respectfully called to the provisions of the reso- 

 lution of Congress approved July 25, 180S, requiring the Congressional 

 Printer to furnish to the Librarian of Congress fifty copies of all docu- 

 ments printed under whatever authority for the purpose of exchanging 

 the same for the. publications of foreign Governments, which are to be 

 deposited in this Library. 



"The official direction from the chairman of the Joint Committee on 

 the Library, to printand deliver these documents required by theresolu- 

 tion, was communicated toyour i)redecessor, Mr. J. D. Defrees, on the 24th 

 of October, 1808. (See letter of Hon, E. D. Morgan, chairman, of that 

 date.) The only reply received was a verbal one from Mr. Defrees, to 

 the undersigned, that the documents should be regularly forwarded, 

 and that the one hundred and fifty copies (fifty regular and one hundred 

 extra) of the Agricultural and Patent Office rej)orts for 1807, then on 

 the i)ress, would also be sui)plied. Not having received any documents 

 whatever under this act of Congress, and the purpose of the same being 

 to enrich the Library with as large a number and variety of the docu- 

 ments of foreign Governments as can be i)rocurcd in exchange for our 

 own, you are requested to have placed at my disposal fifty coi)ies of 

 each book, pamphlet, circular, army order, or other i)ublication, by 

 whatever authority printed, and one hundred eoi)ies additional of all 

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