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FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 3, 4, 5. 1877. 13 To pay John W. Dodd and John MeKinny for work and labor and John W. Dodd materials furnished in grading and paving the sidewalk and gutters on ¤¤*U°h¤M°Ki¤¤y- Michigan street, in front of the arsenal grounds, in the city of Indian- . apolis, Indiana, six thousand and four dollars and forty-eight cents. That the sum of forty-nve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may Restoring, etc., be necessary, be appropriated, to be expended by the Commissioner of P°'¤°¤** m°d°l¤· Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of restoring and repairing models of patents injured by fire, and for the construction of suitable cases for the preservation of the same. Approved, December 15, 1877. CHAP. 4.—An act providing for the priizting and distribution of the Biennial Reg- Dao_ 15, 1317_ 18 B1`. -—1--——- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of the number of Bl°¤¤i¤·1 R°¤i¤· copies of the Biennial Register now authorized by law to be printed, the t"' Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be printed twenty-tive hundred copies of the said work, to be distributed as follows: To the President of the United States, four copies, one copy HOW distributed_ of which shall be for the library of the Executive Mansion; to the Vice- President of the United States, two copies; to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, one copy; to the Secretary of the Senate, one copy; to the Clerk of the House, one copy ; to the Library of the Senate, fifty copies, of which one copy shall be supplied to each standing committee of the Senate; to the Library of the House of Representatives, seventy-five copies, of which one copy shall be supplied to each standing committee of the House; to the Library of Congress, twenty-five copies; to the Department of State, two hundred and fifty copies; to the Treasury Department, one hundred and fifty copies; to the War Department, fifty copies; to the Navy Department, twenty copies; to the Department of Justice, twenty-five copies; to the Post- Oliice Department, one hundred copies; to the Department of the Interior, two hundred and fifty copies; to the Department of Agriculture, five copies; to the Smithsonian Institution, four copie  ; to the State library and State historical society of each State, and to the executive of each Territory, and to the designated depository of public documents in each congressional district in the United States, one copy each, and the remaining copies shall be kept by the Secretary of the Interior as a reserve, from which he may supply newly-created offices; and members of Congress one additional copy each. Sec. 2. That hereafter the lists directed by sections one hundred and Materials forninety-eight and five hundred and ten of the Revised Statutes to be fur- R S ,98 30 nished by the several departments and offices of the Government for R:S;’510’{’,:83: the Biennial Register shall be made up to the last day of June of each ’ ’ year in which a new Congress is to assemble, and shall be filed as soon thereafter as practicable in the Department of the Interior. Approved, December 15, 1877. CHAP. 5.-An act authorizing the chgnggng of the name of the ship ‘Samuel G. Dec. 15, 1877. ee ’ -····——-·— Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Name of ship ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to allow the owner of S=*¤*“°l G· R°° the ship Samuel G. Reed, a vessel of American ownership and license, °h°"'g°d‘ to change her name, and be hereafter known as the “Fantee ". Approved, December 15, 1877.