JOINT RESOLUTION Limiting the gratuitous distribution of the Woodsman’s 
Handbook to the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Department 
of Agriculture. 
Whereas the proprietors of certain copyrighted log scales and other copy- 
righted matter have consented to the use of such copyrighted matter in the 
Woodsman’s Handbook, a publication prepared in the Bureau of Forestry of 
the United States Department of Agriculture, under the restriction that no 
copies whatsoever be sold by any Government office, and, furthermore, that no 
copies be furnised to any dealer for the purpose of sale; and 
Whereas sufficient authority to publish and pay for the printing of said 
Woodsman’s Handbook is given in the bill making appropriations for the 
Department of Agriculture: 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That, # consideration of such consent given by said pro 
prietors, no copies of said ‘‘ Woodsman’s Handbook”’ shall be printed or dis- 
tributed otherwise than by the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the 
United States Department of Agriculture, and none shall be sold or distributed 
by the superintendent of documents, or furnished to others for sale, anything 
in the act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled ‘‘An 
act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of pub- 
lic documents,” to the contrary notwithstanding. 
Sec. 2. That said copyrighted matter, wherever it appears in said ** Woods- 
man’s Handbook,”’ shall be plainly marked as copyrighted matter, and shall 
be as fully protected under the copyright laws as though published by the pro- 
prietors themselves; and the permission for the use of such matter shall be 
deemed to be limited to the purposes of this resolution. 
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