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[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 9.]
JOINT RESOLUTION Amending public resolution numbered eight, Fifty-sixth Congress,
second session, approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and one, " providing
for the printing annually of the report on field operations of the Division of Soils,
Department of Agriculture."
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America;in Congress assembled, That public resolution numbered eight, Fiftysixth
Congress, second session, approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred
and one, be amended by striking out all after the resolving clause and
inserting in lieu thereof the following:
That there shall be printed ten thousand five hundred copies of the report on
field operations of the Division of Soils, Department of Agriculture, of which
one thousand five hundred copies shall be for the use of the Senate, three thousand
copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and six thousand copies
for the use of the Department of Agriculture: Provided, That in addition to the
number of copies above provided for there shall be printed, as soon as the
manuscript can be prepared, with the necessary maps and illustrations to
accompany it, a report on each area surveyed, in the form of advance sheets,
bound in paper covers, of which five hundred copies shall be for the use of each
Senator from the State, two thousand copies for the use of each Representative
for the congressional district or districts in which the survey is made, and
one thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture.
Approved, March 14, 1904.
[On July 1, 1901, the Division of Soils was reorganized as the Bureau of Soils.]
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