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 182 FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Rss. 6. 1816. dition of all the ships and vessels belonging to the United States, and when and where built. 3. Resolved, That five hundred copies of the said register be printed; and that on the first Monday in January in each year, when a new congress shall be assembled, there be delivered to the president, the vice president, each head of a department, each member of the senate and house of representatives of the United States, one copy of such register; and to the secretary of the senate, and clerk of the house of representatives, each, ten copies, for the use of the respective houses; that twenty-five copies shall be deposited in the library of the`United States, at the seat of government, to be used like other books in that library, and that the residue of the said copies ge disposed of in such manner as congress shall from time to time rrect. 4. Resolved, That for the information of the present congress, such register as aforesaid be prepared and distributed as aforesaid, on the lirst day of its next session. Approved, April 27, 1816.