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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 into the Bureau of Soils.]
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