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Number of copies of publications printed elsewhere than at Government Printing Office to be supplied to library.Sec. 3. That of any publication printed at the Government expense by direction of any Department, commission, bureau, or officer of the Government elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office there shall be supplied to the Library of Congress for its own use and for international exchange sixty-two copies, except as such number shall be enlarged to not exceeding one hundred copies by request of the Joint Committee on the Library.

Approved, March 2, 1901.


March 2, 1901.

[No. 17.] Joint Resolution Concerning printing of additional copies of the Annual Report of the Geological Survey.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That of the volumes or parts of theGeological Survey.
Printing of additional copies of annual report authorized.
Annual Report of the Geological Survey which relate to hydrography, forestry, and mining and mineral resources there shall hereafter be published one thousand copies in addition to the number now published, for distribution by the Geological Survey.

Approved, March 2, 1901.


March 3, 1901.

[No. 18.] Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to cause bronze medals to be struck and distributed to certain officers and men who participated in the war with Spain, and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be,Navy and Marine Corps and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be struck bronze medalsBronze medals to oficers, etc., Spanish war authorized. commemorative of the naval and other engagements in the waters of the West Indies and on the shores of Cuba during the war with Spain, and to distribute the same to the officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps who participated in any of said engagements deemed by him of sufficient importance to deserve commemoration: Provided, That officers and men ofProvisos. the Navy or Marine Corps who rendered specially meritorious service, otherwise than in battle, may be rewarded in like manner: And provided further, That any person who may, under the provisions of this Act, be entitledBronze bar authorized instead of two medals. to receive recognition in more than one instance shall, instead of a second medal, be presented with a bronze bar appropriately inscribed, to be attached to the ribbon by which the medal is suspended. And to carry outAppropriation. the provisions of this resolution the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 3, 1901.


March 3. 1901.

[No. 19.] Joint Resolution Ratifying agreement between Tennessee and Virginia with reference to the boundary line of said States.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that a recent compact or agreementTennessee and Virginia boundary line.
Interstate compact ratified.
having been made by and between the States of Tennessee and Virginia, whereby the State of Tennessee, by an act of its legislature approved January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one,