THATthe Treasurer of the United States be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Elizabeth Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars for one thousand copies of each of the five volumes which she proposes to publish of the writings of General Hamilton, and for the entire manuscripts of the same, to be deposited and remain forever among the archives of the government: Provided, always, That such volumes shall be octavo, and substantially bound in leather, and not less than five hundred pages each, and shall be compiled by some suitable person, at the expense of Mrs. Hamilton, and to be by her selected and chosen, with the approval of the Committee on the Library; and that such five volumes shall embrace substantially all the writings of General Hamilton which are of a public and important character.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said twenty thousand dollars shall be paid as follows: four thousand dollars on the delivery to the Librarian of Congress of one thousand copies of each of the first

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four volumes of said work, and four thousand dollars on the delivery to the said Librarian of one thousand copies of the fifth volume, and all the said manuscripts.