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Public Acts of the Sixteenth Congress, 1st Session, Resolution 2
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Jan. 19, 1820.

II. Resolution for the further distribution of the journal of the convention which formed the Constitution of the United States.

The Secretary of State to furnish each member of Congress, not entitled by resolution of 27th March, 1818, the President, Vice President, &c. with copies of the journal, &c. of the Federal convention.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be instructed to furnish to each member of the present Congress and the delegates from territories, (who may not be entitled to the same, under the resolution of Congress of the twenty-seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,) the President and Vice President of the United States, the executive of each state and territory, the attorney general and judges of the courts of the United States, and the colleges and universities in the United States, each one copy; for the use of each of the departments, viz: State, Treasury, War, and Navy, two copies each; for the use of the Senate, five copies; and for the use of the House of Representatives, ten copies of the volumes containing the journal, acts and proceedings of the convention which formed the present Constitution of the United States; and that the residue of the copies of said journal be deposited in the library of Congress, for the use of the members.

Approved, January 19, 1820.