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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 1981 States, to whom there is no public monument at the seat of ov- ernment of the Nation, and by Alexander Hamilton, of New Yirk, later a delegate to the Federal Convention and first Secreta of the Treasury under the Constitution, in commemoration of éhose services a bronze statue, erected by the private muniiicence of an gponympuls donor, was recently placed on the steps of the ationa reasu ; an Whereas the safetlyyof republican institutions admittedly and pro- veiglbially depends upon the frequent recurrence to first principles; an. Whereas the representative government of the States of the Amer- ican Union organized under the Federal Constitution is threatened without and its principles are inadequately known and appreciated within the United States bg multitudes of our fellows? citizens enjoying its inestimable bene ts; and Whereas an authentic and accurate account was kept by James Madison of the proceedings in the Federal Convention 1n which the Constitution was framed, the texts of the debates and proceed- ings of which could be dpublished in one small volume and ought be widely distribute as a public document, together with_the eclaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the instructions to the Delegates to the Federal Con- vention, the instruments of ratification oi, the States, and the texts of the amendments to the Constitution: Therefore be it Resolved b 9 the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), C U H d That there shall be compiled, printed with illustrations and bound pi-i¤i1ii`gp¤r,°¤:¤i°e!ie<il° as may be directed by the Joint Committee on Printing, ten thousand copies of the Madison Debates of the Federal Convention, together with the Declaration of Independence, the Articlesof Confederation, oem matter to be the Constitution, the instructions to the Delegates to the Federal i“°1“d°d‘ Convention, the instruments of ratification of the.States, and the texts of the amendments to the Constitution, and other relevant and pertinent historical documents for distribution in the year 1926 in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, to the end " that government of the people, by the eople, for the people shall not perish from the earth," of which tiiree thousand copies D""“’““°”· shall beifor the use of the Senate and seven thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives. Passed, May 10, 1926. CONSTITUTION AND DECLARATION on INDEPENDENCE. _[Hj1$g T_ Resotved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the Constitution of the United States as amended u to April D§’c§{§‘f,f§}§,§i°{,‘, ,‘Q,§§ 15, 1926, together with the Declaration of Independence, he printed v¤,gd¤¤¤¤-. as a Senate Document, with an index, in such form as may be di- gtnirmaprintsiuiei rected by the Joint Committee on Printinv, and that three thousand °°“‘“°“’·"“b‘”d°‘· five hundred additional copies be printed, of which one thousand Di¤*¤¤¤¤°¤· copies shall be for the use of the Senate and two thousand five hun- dred copies for the use of the House of Representatives. ` Passed, May 12, 1926. ' NATIONAL PROHIBITION LAW. M¤Y17»i926· ` [S. Con Res., No. 17.] Resobved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring ), That, in accordance with paragraph 3 of section 2 of the Printing L,}§,¤¤¤¤¤lPm¤i¤i¤i¤¤ Act approved March 1, 1907, the Committee on the Judiciary of the '

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