With great respect, I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
R. B. Taney.
Mr. Alexandre Vattemare, Paris.
TWENTY-NINTHE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
At the First session, begun and held at the city of Washington, on monday the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
A resolution, to authorise the transmission and presentation of books to the minister of justice of France, in exchange for books received from him.
Resolved, by the senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, that the librarian of congress be, and he hereby is, authorised and directed to procure a complete series of reports of all the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and of the circuit and district courts thereof, wich have been heretofore published; as also a complete copy of the Public Statutes at Large of the United States, now being edited by Richard Peters, esq, by authority of congress, the whole to be uniformly bound and lettered, and to cause the same under the direction of the chief justice of the said Supreme Court, to be transmitted and presented to the minister of justice of France, in return and exchange for works of French Law heretofore presented by the minister to the Supreme Court aforesaid.
Section 2. And be it further Resolved, that for the purpose aforesaid, there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.
John W. Davis,
Speaker of the house of Representatives.
G. M. Dallas,
Vice President of the U.S. and President of the Senate.
Approved, March 4 th, 1846.
James K. Polk.