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systems of common school instruction, and, generally, tracts illustrative of 

 objects of elementary science, and treatises on history, natural and civil, 

 chemistry, astronomy, or any other department of useful knowledge ; and 

 may, at their discretion, offer and pay to any citizen or foreigner such sum 

 or prize as they may deem discreet for the best written production of any 

 such prize essay or work ; and shall, whenever required by resolution of 

 either House of' Congress, cause to be jTrinted and delivered to such House, 

 for distribution among the people at large, as public documents of Congress 

 are distributed, so many copies of such lectures, essays, pamphlets, maga- 

 zines, tracts, or other brief works, as they may procure to be written or 

 delivered, under the provisions of this act, as shall be required by such res- 

 olution, the expenses of which to be paid out of the funds of said institu- 

 tion." 



The amendment was agreed to. 



Mr. Thurman moved an amendment, to strike out the 

 12th section. Rejected. 



Mr. Douglass moved an amendment, as an additional 

 section, (the 13th,) in the words following : 



"Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the author or proprietor of any 

 book, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, for which 

 a copyright shall be secured under the existing acts of Congress, or those 

 which shall hereafter be enacted, respecting copyrights, shall, within three 

 months from the publication of said book, map, chart, musical (composition, 

 print, cut, engraving, deliver, or cause to be delivered, one copy of the 

 same to the librarian of the Smithsonian Institution, and one copy to the 

 librarian of the Congress Library, for the use of said libraries." 



The question being taken, the amendment was agreed to. 



The question now being on adopting the substitute of Mr. 

 Hough, as amended, was taken by tellers, and decided in 

 the affirmative — ayes 83, noes 40. 



So the substitute was adopted. 



The committee then rose and reported the bill and amend- 

 ments to the House. 



The question being first on agreeing to the substitute 

 amendment of the committee, Mr. Boyd demanded the pre- 

 vious question, which was seconded. 



The main question was ordered. 



The yeas and nays were asked and ordered, and being 

 taken, resulted — yeas 81, nays 76 — as follows : 



TEAS — Messrs. John Q. Adams, Arnold, Atkinson, Barringer, Bell, J. 

 A. Black, Brockenbrough, Milton Brown, William G. Brown, Buffington, 

 William W. Campbell, John H. Campbell, Carroll, Chipman, Clarke, 

 Cobb, Cocke, Collin, Cranston, Crozier, Cullom, Garrett Davis, Delano, 

 Dockery, Douglass, Dunlap, John H. Ewing, Edwin H. Ewing, Faran, 

 Ficklin, Foot, Giddings, Grider, Grinnoll, Hampton, Harper, Herrick, 

 Hilliard, Elias B. Holmes, Hough, Edmund W. Hubard, Samuel D. Hub- 

 bard, Hudson, Washington Hunt, Andrew Johnson, George W. Jones, 

 Daniel P. King, Thomas Butler King, Lawrence, Lewis, Levin, Ligon, 

 Maclay, McGaughey, McHenry, Mcllvaine, Marsh, Morse, Moseley, Norris, 

 Parish, Payne, Kelfe, John A. Rockwell, Root, Scammon, Seaman, Simp- 

 eon, Truman Smith, Albert Smith, Strohm, Benjamin Thompson, Thur- 

 man, Tilden, Trumbo, Vance, Vinton, Young, and Tost — 8L 



