COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,
In the year one thousand eight Hundred and forty Five.
Resolves to promote mutual literary and scientific exchanges with foreign countries.
Resolved that the secretary of the commonwealth, under the direction of his Excellency the Governor, be authorized to exchange copies of the state map of Massachusetts, not exceeding twenty in number, and bound copies of the laws and legislative documents of the commonwealth for the current political year, not exceeding fifty volumes of each for books and other works of science and art from foreign countries, to be deposited in the library of the general Court. And the secretary is hereby authorized to cause fifty copies of each of the said documents for every future year to be printed over and above the number to be bound in volumes and set aside for the purpose of effecting therefore said exchanges hereafter[2].
Resolved that his Excellency the Governor be authorized to appoint some suitable person, residing in the city of Paris, France, to be the agent of the commonwealth, in transmitting to, and receiving from the secretary's office all such books and other works of science and art, as may be addressed to his care, in pursuance of the object of the preceding resolve, and to audit and allow all reasonable charges of said agent, for the receiving, packing carriage and exportation of said objects of exchange; provided, that the total sum so expended, shall not exceed three hundred dollars.
House of Representatives, February 26, 1845. Passed.
Saml H. Walley Jr., Speaker.
In Senate, February 27, 1845. Passed.
Levi Lincoln, President.