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 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Whereas, by section 2 of an act entitled “An act providing for publication of the Revised Statutes and the laws of the United Stntes,” approved June 20, 1874, it is provided as follows, viz: •‘ Sec. 2. That the Secretary of State is hereby charged with the duty of causing to be prepared for printing, publication, and distribution, the Revised Statutes of the United States enacted at this present session of Congress; that he shall cause to be completed the head-notes of the several titles and chapters, and the marginal notes referring to the statutes from which each section was compiled and repealed by said revision, and references to the decisions of the courts of the United States explaining or expoundin g the same, and such decisions of State courts as he may deem expedient, with a full and complete index- to the same. And when the same shall be completed, the said Secretary shall duly certify the same under the seal of the United States, and when printed and promulgated as hereinafter provided, the printed volumes shall be legal evidence of the laws and treaties therein contained in all the courts of the United States and of the several States and Territories ;" And whereas, by section 3 of said act, it is further provided that “ the revision of thestatutes relating to the District of Columbia, to post roads, and the public treaties in force on the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, with a suitable index to each, shall be published in a separate volume, and entitled and labeled ‘ Revised Statutes relating to District of Columbia and Post Roads. Public Treaties ;”’ And whereas, by section 1 of an act entitled “An act providing for the authentication of the Revised Statutes of the United States and for preserving the original of all laws in the Department of State," approved the 28th day of December, 1874, it is provided “ that the certificate to the printed volume of the Revised Statutes of the United States required by said section 2 of the act of June 20, 1874, shall be made by the Secretary of State under the seal of the Department of State :" /<(§ ¥{lp]}_ Now, therefore, I, Hamilton ·Fish, Secretaryof State, és-  y _ 3 VQ ____ do hereby certify that the following are the Revised Stat- Q4’f ·· # * ,f»»   utes relating to the Districtof Columbia and to Post B.oads,_ é /’*_ . ° (   as enacted by Congress on the 22d day of June, 1874, and L;, w e ’   the Public Treaties in force on the iirst day of Decemi; E , .   ber, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, pre- E     ‘ ·,  pared, printed, and published according to the provisions \*/ T  / of the said first-mentioned act of June 20, 1874. "wr *~ .‘ _.\`l In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my ( W C" V name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. _ _ Done at the city of Washington this 28th day of June, A. D. 1875, and of the Independence of the United. States of America the ninety-ninth. HAMILTON FISH.