II. Resolution authorizing the transmission of certain documents free of postage.
Documents transmitted by the President, or heads of Departments, and printed, may be franked by members of Congress, &c.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the members of Congress, the delegates from territories, the Secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House of Representatives, be, and they are hereby authorized to transmit, free of postage, to any post-office within the United States or the territories thereof, any documents which have been, or may be, communicated to either House of Congress, during the present session, by the President of the United States, or either of the heads of departments, and printed for the use of Congress.
Approved, December 5, 1818.
III. Resolution directing a survey of certain parts of the coast of North Carolina.
The President requested to cause surveys to be made of the points of Cape Hatteras, &c.
Latitude and longitude to be ascertained.
Result to be reported to Congress.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, requested to cause surveys to be made of the points of Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout and Cape Fear, and of the shoals of those capes, respectively; and to cause such an examination to be made of those capes and shoals, respectively, as will ascertain the practicability of erecting lighthouses, beacons, or buoys, on or near the extreme points of them, or either of them; and also to cause the latitude and longitude of the said capes, extreme points, and shoals, respectively, to be ascertained with as much exactness as may be practicable; and that the results of such surveys and examinations be reported to Congress.
Approved, January 19, 1819.
IV. Resolution for the distribution of Seybert’s Statistical Annals; and directing Pitkin’s Commercial Statistics to be deposited in the library.
The Secretary of State to cause copies of Seybert’s Statistics to be delivered to the President, Vice President, &c.
Residue, with Pitkin’s, to be deposited in the library.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State cause to be distributed one copy of Seybert’s Statistical Annals to the President of the United States; to the Vice President of the United states, and to the executive of each state and territory, one copy; two copies for the use of each of the Departments, viz: State, Treasury, War, and Navy; one copy for the use of the Attorney General of the United States; and one copy to each member and delegate of the fifteenth Congress; and one copy to each college and university in the United States, if applied for by such college or university; and the residue of the five hundred copies of the Annals aforesaid, together with the two hundred and fifty copies of Pitkin’s Commercial Statistics, shall be deposited in the library of Congress, for the use of the members.
Approved, January 23, 1819.
V. Resolution authorizing the transmission of the documents accompanying the report of the committee to examine into the proceedings of the Bank of the United [States] free of postage.
Members of Congress, secretary of the Senate, and the clerk of the House, empowered to frank the documents.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the members of Congress, the delegates from territories, the secretary of the Senate, and clerk of the House of Representatives, be, and they hereby, are authorized to transmit, free of postage, to any post-office within the United States, or the territories thereof, the documents accompanying the report of the committee appointed by the House of Representatives to examine into the proceedings of the Bank of the United States.
Approved, February 15, 1819.