PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS. No. 1. A Resolution for binding the public documents. The additional copies of all executive documents which have been during the present session, or may be during either session of the present Congress, ordered, containing not less than 300 printed pages, shall be bound, the cost of binding not to exceed 12 cents a volume for the whole number ordered. February 12, 1850. No. 2. A Resolution authorizing the purchase of the Manuscript Farewell Address of George Washington. The Joint Committee on the Library is authorized to purchase the manuscript of the Farewell Address to the People of the United States, of George Washington, if the purchase can be effected on fair and just terms, in the opinion of the committee. February 12, 1850. No. 3. A Resolution limiting the expense of collecting the revenue from customs for the present fiscal year. After making appropriations for the expenses of collecting the revenue for the half of the fiscal year ending June 1st, 1850, it provides that the Secretary of the Treasury may dispose of the bonded warehouses now leased by government, on or before January 1, 1851, on the best practicable terms for the government; but he may retain such parts of said houses, or lease such other houses, at his discretion, as may be necessary for the storage of unclaimed goods, or goods which for any other reason are required by law to be stored by the government. Nothing in the act of March 3, 1849, shall be so construed as to prevent the importer from transporting merchandise under bond from one district to another, and of re-warehousing the same according to the provisions of the act of Aug. 6, 1846, § 2. February 14, 1850. No. 4. Joint Resolution authorizing the President of the United States to accept and attach to the Navy two vessels offered by Henry Grinnell, Esq., of New York, to be sent to the Arctic Seas in search of Sir John Franklin and his companions. The President may detail from the Navy such commissioned and warrant officers and seamen as may be necessary for said expedition, and who may be willing to engage therein. The said officers and men shall be furnished with suitable rations, for a period not exceeding three years, and shall have the use of such necessary instruments as are now on hand and can be spared from the Navy, to be accounted for or returned by the officers who shall receive the same. The said vessels, officers, and men shall be in all respects under the laws and regulations of the Navy of the United States until their return, when the vessels shall be delivered to Henry Grinnell: Provided, That the United States shall not be liable to any claim for compensation in case of the loss, damage, deterioration, use, or risk of the vessels. May 2, 1850. No. 5. A Resolution expressing the condolence of Congress for Mrs. Margaret S. Taylor. July 18, 1850. No. 6. Joint Resolution for restoring the settlement of the "three months' extra pay" claims to the accounting officers of the Treasury. From and after this date, the unsettled claims of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates for three months' extra pay for services in the war with Mexico, shall be settled by the Second Auditor, and certified by the Second Comptroller of the Treasury. July 29, 1850. No. 7. A Resolution relative to the payment of dividends or interest on war bounty scrip. The Secretary of the Treasury is directed, in redeeming and discharging the obligations upon the government for war bounty scrip which are made assignable, to pay to the assignee and holder of such obligations all dividends or interests which have been or shall be declared and passed to the credit of the obligee upon the books of the Treasury, subsequent to the date of the assignment, unless such interest or dividends have been paid to the obligee before the transfer of the scrip upon the books in the office of the Register of the Treasury, or the presentation thereof for final payment. August 10, 1850. No. 8. Joint Resolution instructing the Secretary of State to furnish the State of Alabama duplicates of the books and documents heretofore supplied by Congress, and which were destroyed by the recent burning of the State Capitol of said State. September 9, ANGELL'S Rhode Island. BROWN AND VESEY'S Chancery. HOBART, MAULE, AND SELWIN, EAST, &c., &c., &c. DIGESTS. 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It contains a large number of words, and a vast number of phrases not contained in any other Dictionary that I have seen, of the same convenient size; the significations are well arranged, and, by the judicious use of marks and abbreviations, it is made very comprehensive, while it is not too large for commodious use. Boston, October 24, 1849. GEORGE B. EMERSON. From Count de Laporte, late Instructor of French at Harvard University. DEAR SIR:-According to your desire, I have made a thorough examination of Spiers's Dictionary. I have found it complete in its vocabulary; the illustrations are numerous and well chosen ; old expressions, now become obsolete, have been omitted; and irregular verbs are given with the first person of their primitive tenses, so as to enable foreigners to read French almost without the assistance either of a grammar or a teacher. I am respectfully yours, Boston, October 17, 1849. CTE. de LAPORTE. 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