FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. 
Chapter 455. 
Be H enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ofsfhe United States of America in Congress 
assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter 
expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, namely: 
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For engraving and printing the plates illustrating the report of the geographical and geological 
explorations and surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, to be published in quarto form, the 
printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing-Office, twenty-five thousand thousand. 
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Approved June ii3, 1874. 
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION. 
Chapter 76. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress 
assembled, That the act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Govern¬ 
ment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other pur¬ 
poses,” approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be, and the same is hereby 
amended by adding to the clause of said act relating to the engraving and printing of the plates illus¬ 
trating the report of the geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the one hun¬ 
dredth meridian, the following words: and “that-two thousand copies of the report shall be printed by 
the Congressional Printer,” after substituting the word “ dollars” in lieu of the concluding word of said 
clause. 
Approved February 15, 1875. 
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION. 
“Mr. Vance, of Ohio, from the Committee on Printing, reported the following resolution; which 
was read, considered, and adopted: 
“Resolved by the House of Representatives, {the Senate concurring,) That the following distribution 
shall be made of tbe reports of the United States geographical surveys west of the one hundredth 
meridian, published in accordance with acts approved June 23,1874, and February 15,1875, as the several 
volumes are issued from the Government Printing-Office, to wit: Nine hundred and fifty copies of each 
to the House of Representatives, two hundred and fifty copies of each to the Senate, and eight hundred 
copies of each to the War Department for its uses.” 
March 29, 1876. (See Congressional Record, vol. 4, part 3, p. 2037.) 
Agreed to by the Senate May 4,1876. (See Congressional Record-, vol. 4, part 3, p. 2969.) 
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