United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 5
No. 5. A Resolution for distributing the work on the Exploring Expedition.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Fifty-eight copies to Secretary of State for distribution.
Vol. ix. p. 111. That as each part of the work now in course of publication on the “Exploring Expedition” shall be completed, fifty-eight copies of the same shall be delivered to the Secretary of State, to be distributed as follows, that is to say: To each of these United States, one copy; to the government of France, two copies; Great Britain, two copies; Russia, two copies; and one copy each to Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Austria, Bavaria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Sardinia, Greece, Tuscany, the Ecclesiastical States, the two Sicilies, Turkey, China, Mexico, New Granada, Venezuela, Chili, Peru, the Argentine Republic, Brazil, Texas, and the Sandwich Islands; and one copy to the Naval Lyceum in Brooklyn, New York.
Further disposition.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one copy of said work be give to Charles Wilkes, esquire, the commander of said expedition, one copy to William L. Hudson, esquire, and one copy to Cadwallader Ringold, esquire, commandants of vessels in said expedition.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That two copies of said work be placed in the Library of Congress, and that the residue of said work shall be delivered to the Librarian, to be by him preserved for future distribution.
Approved, February 20, 1845.