Pennsylvania Act 1907-371 — HISTORICAL WORKS RELATIVE TO CIVIL WAR, PURCHASE AUTHORIZED

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HISTORICAL WORKS RELATIVE TO CIVIL WAR, PURCHASE AUTHORIZED
                      Act of 1907, P.L. 558, No. 371                  Cl. 37
                                  AN ACT

     To authorize the purchase of historical works relative to the
        services of Pennsylvania Volunteers during the late Civil
        War.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever, after the
     passage of this act, any regiment or battery or other unit of
     military organization of Pennsylvania Volunteers shall publish,
     or shall have prepared for publication, a history of such
     organization, under the sanction and authority of its proper
     veteran organization, which history shall be shown, to the
     satisfaction of the Governor, Auditor General, and Adjutant
     General, so far as it is practicable in such works, faithfully
     and accurately prepared and historically correct to be of
     sufficient reliability and importance to justify the purchase of
     copies as herein provided for, and to contain a complete roster
     of the organization, corrected to the date of publication, the
     Secretary of the Commonwealth, with the approval of the
     Governor, Auditor General, and Adjutant General, and at a price
     fixed by them, shall purchase four hundred copies of such
     history, the price not to exceed two dollars per copy: Provided,
     That the total amount expended during the two fiscal years
     beginning June first, one thousand nine hundred and seven, shall
     not exceed the sum of eight thousand dollars. The said
     appropriation to be paid upon warrants drawn by the Secretary of
     the Commonwealth, countersigned by the Auditor General, and that
     the State Treasurer of this Commonwealth be and is authorized to
     make all payments out of such moneys in the Treasury as is not
     otherwise appropriated.
        Section 2.  The volumes purchased, as aforesaid, shall be
     distributed as follows: One copy to the office of the Secretary
     of the Commonwealth, one to the office of the Adjutant General,
     one to the library of each college in the State, one to each
     historical society in the State, one to each public library in
     the State that has a free distribution of its books, one to the
     Library of Congress, and one to the library of each State and
     Territory of the Union; the balance to be placed in the State
     Library of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of exchange.
        Section 3.  That the State Treasurer of this Commonwealth be
     and is authorized to make all payments out of such money in the
     Treasury as is not otherwise appropriated.