(No. 12.)—A Resolution authorizing the Presentation to the Government of France of a Series of the Standard Weights and Measures of the United States, and for other Purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be directed to furnish to Alexandre Vattemare one complete series of the standard weights and measures of the United States, now in the Department of State, to be presented to the government of France; and that he furnish to the Joint Committee on the Library twenty-five copies of the revolutionary archives, and an equal number of copies of Little and Brown’s edition of the Laws of the United States, to be disposed of by them for the purposes of international exchange.

Sec. 2. And be it further resolved, That seven copies of the works of the exploring expedition now published, and an equal number of such of the works of the same as may hereafter be published, be placed at the disposal of the Joint Library Committee of Congress for the purposes of international exchange.

Approved, June 30, 1848.