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ments," approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred 

 and ninety-five, so as to include monographs, bulle- 

 tins, and reports of the Geological Survey published 

 in eighteen hundred and ninety-four and succeeding 

 years. ) 



Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of sec- 

 tion seventy-nine of "An Act providing for the public printing and 

 binding and the distribution of public documents," approved January 

 twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, which section reads as fol- 

 lows: "There shall be distributed of monographs, bulletins, and re- 

 ports of the United States Geological Survey, now in possession of 

 said Survey, being publications prior to the year eighteen hundred 

 and ninety-four, one copy of every such publication to every public 

 library which shall be designated to the superintendent of documents, 

 as follows: Two public libraries to be designated by each of the 

 Senators from the States, respectively, two public libraries by the 

 Representatives in Congress, from each Congressional district, and 

 two public libraries by the delegate from each Territory ; such public 

 libraries to be additional to those to which said publications are dis- 

 tributed under existing law," shall be extended to the monographs, 

 bulletins and reports of the Geological Survey which were published 

 during the year eighteen hundred and ninety- four, and to those which 

 have been published since that year, and to those which may be pub- 

 lished in the future : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be 

 construed to interfere with the distribution of memoirs and reports, 

 so far as the same is provided for by the joint resolution "To dis- 

 tribute copies of special memoirs and reports of the United States 

 Geological Survey," approved March third, eighteen hundred and 

 eighty-seven. 



1897 — Act of February 18, 1897; 29 Stat. L., 701. (Joint 

 resolution providing for the distribution of the maps 

 and atlases of the United States Geological Survey.) 



Resolved, etc., That the Director of the Geological Survey be, and 

 is hereby authorized and directed, on the approval of the Secretary 

 of the Interior, to dispose of the topographic and geologic maps and 

 atlases of the United States Geological Survey, * * * at such prices 

 and under such regulations as may from time to time be fixed by 

 him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior; 



And that a number of copies of each map or atlas, not exceeding 

 five hundred, shall be distributed gratuitously among foreign gov- 

 ernments and departments of our own government, to literary and 

 scientific associations, and to such educational institutions or libraries 

 as may be designated by the Director of the Survey and approved 

 by the Secretary of the Interior. * * * 



