RESOLUTIONS. [2.] Joint resolution for the relief of Isaac R. Hill. Deooinbor- 21, 1881. Resolved the Senate and House o£Repreee·ntatives of the United States of America_m Congress assembled, at the Secretary of the Treasury Ismo B. H111, be, and he IS hereby authorized and directed to pay out of any money P“Y"'°¤* *°· in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to Isaac R. Hill, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, for services as assistant Sergeant at Arms, to the House of Representatives during the month of December eighteen hundred eighty one. . Approved, December 21, 1881. 10. Joint resolution in behalf of the American oo e ‘ “ ·n.t...m am 1 ,i.S°““‘?.?‘2'..t1’.,e"°'"°‘“ ‘ “' “°" —""'°""· ‘““ Whereas, two thousand one hundred copies of the book known as the Remission one revision of the New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ '°*`F¤d °* *****9* printed by the University Presses of Oxford, and Cambridge in §:;}“°’f,f° 2;; **1}: England, and being the joint and gratuitous work of two companies 1,-;,,,4 ,.1;;;.,,, of of translators, one in England and one in the United States, were the New Testasent, under the direction of theEuglish Oompa? of Revisers to and mntfor the use of theAmerican mpany of ‘ P'°""‘°1°‘ and were heretofore imported at theportof New York for or on behalf . _of the Amuiesm Company of Revimrs, and the duties paid thereon; Whereas, the revision of the translation of the Old Testament Scriptures is now progressing under similar auspices, and the same is to be printedinasimilar manneryandcopies of themwillbe required g the use and distribution of the American Company of Bevisers: $@:81 Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Rqiresentatives of the United Btatesof America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Secretary or the ury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain the facts of Trqouu-y, after such past and expected importations of the revisions of the Bible', and 9'**‘%*`•°'·°g °”’“‘, if he shall be satisfied that they are substantially as above set orth, gmx, t0_ then to refund and repay, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the American Company of Revisers, of which Reverend Doctor Philip Schaif of New York is chairman, and Reverend Philép soheif. Doctor Hemy Day of New York is secretary, through and by said om- 3*:, °'“': D3; cers the amount of duties heretofore paid upon the said books so im- "°,,,;Ty:,[Am,,,_ ported; and that he be, and further is, authorized and directed to remit loan ComP¤¤¥ 9* ` the duties upon, and to admit to entry free of duty or custom, the books Revisor:. www containing the revision of the Old Testament which may be hereafter :‘;Pg;Q, imported trom England by or on behalf of the American Company of ,;,,1,, f,,,,, ,,t,_ ' Revisers, for their- use and distribution as above set forth Provided, rms•o. That future importations of said revision of the Bible for the purpose set forth in this act, shall not exceed two thousand copies. Approved, March 11, 1882. 141
