ThirtiethCongress,
FirstSession,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled.

That the Joint Committee on the Library shall appoint such agents, as they may from time to time deem requisite, to carry into effect the donation and exchange of such documents and other publications as have been, or shall be placed at their disposal for the purpose.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all books transmitted through such agents for the use of the government of the United States, or of any government of a State or of its legislature, or of any department of the government of the United States or of a State, or of the Academy at West Point, or of the National Institute, shall be admitted into the United States duty free.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the same is put at the disposal of the Library Committee, for the purpose of carrying into effect such ^agency and^ donation and exchange, and of paying the expenses already incurred in relation thereto.