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No. 2.] JOINT RESOLUTIONS
Authorizing the purchase for the use of the State of two hundred
copies of each volume of Smith's Alabama Reports.
SECTION 1. Bec it resolved by the Genrral Assembly of Alabama,
That the Governor of the State be, and he is hereby authorized to
purchase of William R. Smith two hundred sets of Smith's Con-
densed Alabama Reports, upon the terins herein stated, viz: The
set is to consist of' five volumes, containing an average of seven
hundred pages, and to embrace in a condensed shape, the cases
reported from Minor to 9th Porter, both inclusive, omitting such
cases as relate to a condition and state of slavery ; to be printed
and bound in a style similar and equal to Curtis' United States
Supreme Court Reports; two hundred copies of each volume to be
delivered to the Secretary of State in good order, as soon as com-
pleted, at the price of six dollars per volume.
SEc. 2. Be it furither resolved, That upon the delivery of the
books as aforesaid, to the Secretary of State, and upon the certificate
of that officer that the books are in good order, the Governor shall
draw his warrant upon the Auditor for an amount sulli ient to pay
for the books so delivered, which shall be paid out of' any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, December 1, 1S69.
No. 3.] A JOINT MEMORIAL
To the Congress of the United States.
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Rppresentatives of the
United Slates of America: Your memorialists. the Sen ite an i House
of Representatives of the State of Alaham t, respectlully represent
the great importance to the country at large of such legislation as
will encourage the establishment in this country of mills for spin-
ning cotton, that a large proportion of the cotton now exported to
other countries may go abroad in the form of yarn, doubled in its
exchangeable value. Besides the advantages that would accrue to
the country from an,increase of one hundred per cent. in the value
of this great export, your memorialists respectfully represent th at
the establishment of spinning mills in this and other Souther n
States, would result in great benefit, even it it is not essential t o
the welfare and subsistence of many hundred thousands of de-
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