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![handle is hein.usccsset/usconset37438 and id is 1 raw text is: COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION.
-REPORT
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SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,
TRANSMITTING
A report from the Register of the Treasury of the Commerce and Naviga-
tion of the United States for the year ending the 30th June, 1850.
JANUARY 1, 1851.
AN ACT to provide for the printing of the.Annual Report upon Commerce and Navigation.
[SEc. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in -Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the an-
nual report upon commerce and navigation-to be completed at as early a day before the first
Monday in January in each year as is practicable. -
Sac. 2. And be it further enacted, That when completed, or in the course of its progress to-
wards completion, if that will give despatch to the business, the work of printing, under the su-
perintendence of said Secretary, shall be commenced, and the whole shall be printed and ready
for delivery on or before the first day of January next ensuing the close of the fiscal year to
wh ich the report relates.
SEc. 3. And be itfurther enacted, That until Congress shall otherwise direct, the Secretary of
the Treasury shall cause to be printed, in the same manner as other printing of the Department,
twenty thousand copies of said report, which shall be distributed as follows: first, the usual
number fox the use-of the members of the two Houses and their officers; second, five hundred
copies for the use of the Treasury Department; and thirdly, as nearly as may be, five thousand
copies to the Senate and thirteen thousand copies to the House, to be distributed by the mem-
bers of each House.
SEc. 4. And be it further enacted, That the report aforesaid, except such as are to be bound
with other public documents, shall be substantially bound: Provided, That the expense thereof
shall not exceed twelve and a half cents for each copy.
Approved September 16, 1858.
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