March 3, 1849.
(No. 19.)—Joint Resolution for the Purchase of Copies of the General Navy Register and Laws.
Purchase of a sufficient number of the General Navy Register authorized.
Proviso as to cost.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That that the Secretary of the Navy be instructed to purchase and pay, out of the contingent
fund of his department, for a sufficient number of copies of Mechlin and Winder’s
General Navy Register and Laws, to supply one copy to each commissioned officer now
in the naval service; and that the work be distributed to such officers:
Provided, however, That the cost shall not exceed three dollars per copy.
Approved, March 3, 1849.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Public Acts, IX, 30th Cong., 2nd sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 420 ,