# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/8th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 3

Chap. III.—An Act for the disposal of certain copies of the Laws of the United States.
Certain copies of the laws and journals of Congress to be placed in the Library. Act of March 27, 1804, ch. 60.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That three hundred copies of the laws of the United States, which have been procured by the Secretary of State, in obedience to the law passed for that purpose, and three hundred copies of the journals of Congress, which have been procured in pursuance of the resolution of the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, shall be placed in the library of Congress.
Secretary of Senate to receive three hundred copies of the laws reserved for the disposal of Congress; to be placed in the Library and assorted with others at the end of the last session of every Congress, the laws of that Congress received in the Library to be bound in one volume. By whom the laws and journals may be taken from the Library. Expense of binding how defrayed. President of Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives to make regulations concerning laws, not repugnant to this act.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the Senate, for the time being, be, and he is hereby authorized to receive three hundred copies of the laws of the United States, out of the thousand copies reserved by law for the disposal of Congress, as soon as the same shall be printed after each session; which he shall cause to be placed in the library, and assorted respectively with the sets of copies mentioned in the first section of this act; excepting only, that at the close of the present session, which will complete the eighth Congress, and in like manner after each particular session in future, which shall complete a Congress, he shall cause the several copies, reserved by him as aforesaid, for all the sessions of each respective Congress, to be bound in one volume, making three hundred volumes for each Congress, as aforesaid; which he shall cause to be placed in the library, assorted with the respective sets of copies mentioned in the first section of this act. And the several copies of the laws and journals of Congress, mentioned in this act, shall not be taken out of the library, except by the President and Vice President of the United States, and members of the Senate and House of Representatives for the time being. And the expense of binding shall be paid, from time to time, out of the fund appropriated to defray the contingent expenses of both houses of Congress.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the president of the Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives, for the time being, be, and they are hereby empowered to establish such regulations and restrictions in relation to the copies of the laws and journals of Congress, directed by this act to be placed in the library, as to them shall seem proper, and from time to time, to alter and amend the same: Provided, that no regulation nor restriction shall be valid, which is repugnant to the provisions contained in this act.
Deficiency of a former appropriation for the purchase of laws made up.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That to make up the deficiency of the appropriation heretofore made, for the purchase of four hundred copies of the laws of the United States, the sum of eleven hundred and forty-four dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, payable out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, January 2, 1805.