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 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Szss. I. Rss. 3, 4. 1846. 109 [No. 3.] -.8 Resolution to authorizethe Transmission and Presentation of Books March 4, 1816. to the Jlinisler of Justice of France, in Exchange for Book: received from him. """""""""*’ Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Librarian of States of America in Congress assembled, That the librarian of Congress gg3H??;;:!;'; be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to procure a complete se- complete aries ries of reports of all the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United gfégfrfa:3 3. States, and of the Circuit and District Courts thereof, which have been nie hw,' of u, heretofore published; as also a complete copy of the public Statutes at S-. wd ¤¥¤}¤¤l¤ Large of the United States, now being edited by Richard Peters, Esq., gf-°°li::,i':Qm":{ by authority of Congress, the whole to be uniformly bound and lettered; France. and to cause the same, under the direction of the chief justice of the said Supreme Court, to be transmitted and presented to the minister ofjustice of France, in return and exchange for works of French law heretofore presented by the minister to the Supreme Court aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it further resolved, That, for the purpose aforesaid, Appropriation. there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. Armovmn, March 4, 1846. [N0. 4.] — Joint Resolution concerning the Oregon Territory. Apyii Q7! 1846, Wnzans by the convention concluded the twentieth day of Octo- pmnmbqm ber, eighteen hundred and eighteen, between the United States of America and the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the period of ten years, and afterwards indefinitely extended and continued in force by another convention of the same parties, concluded the sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, it was agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the north-west coast of America, westward of the Stony or Rocky Mountains, now commonly called the Oregon Territory, should, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be " free and open " to the vessels, citizens, and subjects, of the two powers; but without prejudice to any claim which either of the parties might have to any part of said country ; and with this further provision, in the second article of the said convention of the sixth of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, that either party might abrogate and annul said convention on giving due notice of twelve months to the other contracting party : And whereas it has now become desirable that the respective claims of the United States and Great Britain should be definitely settled, and that said territory may no longer than need be remain subject to the evil consequences of the divided allegiance of its American and British population, and of the confusion and conflict of national jurisdictions, dangerous to the cherished peace and good understanding of the two countries : With a. view, therefore, that steps be taken for the abrogation of the said convention of the sixth of August, eighteen hundred and twenty- ty-seven, in the mode prescribed in its second article, and that the attention of the governments of both countries may be the more earnestly directed to the adoption of all proper measures for a speedy and amicable adjustment of the differences and disputes in regard to the said territory: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United th p3’”;d°”' i“'• States ¢y'Ameriea in Congress assembled, That the President of the ,hg"z§°,,Q§,,§Q`;,'{