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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, Fifty-sixth 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.]