The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-03-06
[REsoLurIoN-PuBLIc-So.

Approved, March /, lsi5.
REsoLuroN-PUBLIc-No. 7.
RESOLUTION TO authorize the Attorney Gene
ral To contract for copies OF proposed edition of
| the Laws and Treaties Of The United States
Resolved by the Senate and House Of Rsprssenta-
tines fhs United States Of America IN Congress assr-
bLed, That the Attorney General IL hereby autho-
fzed and directed TO contract on behalf of lie Gene
raj Government, with Messieurs Little and Brown,
Tor one thousand copies of their proposed edition of
the Laws and Treaties Of the United States al price
not exceeding three dollars and fifty cents volume
Proridsd nevertheless, Thai the contract aforesaid
shall b. made upon the terms and conditions follow
ing that Is 10 say kust. That the work shall be exc
euted iiom S'eeoype plates in the style proposed by
the SAID LATHE and Brown In their memorial presented
10 Congress at the preset session thereof In volumes
we'll bound Of not less than eng hundred super
octave pages, with very wide teI and a syllabus
oil each section IN small type; the text to Be long
primer, the types having full round face and being
entirely new, and the paper 10 be OF the best quality
sized, SO that notes, In manuscript may be written 90
the margin Of tue pages Second That the work shall
contain the articles Ol Confederation the Constitn-
ton, all the public and all The private laws and re
solves, whether obsolete repealed, IN force, and
whether Temporary or permanent as well those re-
speeding the District OF Columbia all Others and
all tea les with foreign nations and Indian tribes but
the treaties may be printed separately, and the private
laws separately, Ia the Sty and in the or
der OF ngement with the Others the general law.
and resolves 10 be contained IN four octave volumes
and the private laws and treaties in two additional
octave volumes. Third, There shall be a reference
by loot note, in small type, at the bottom of each
page TO all laws passed subsequently previously 10
that in the text, on the same subject, whether print
ed IN pamphlet or otherwise, with such explanations
may aid In obtaining knowledge Of the changes
oil Congressional legislation on the subjects Of the
laws and IN the volumes OF the treaties there shall
be such reference and by similar note to all the le-
gisalion of Congress on the subjects of the treaties
Fourth. If parts Of law only have been repealed
OF parts only are IN force II shall be accurately
and exactly marked In the margin. FIhh
The laws, resolves, and treaties shall be
arranged in sGict chronological order the
laws Of each session furnishing chapters designa-
ted numerically TO the end Of each session and the
whole series Of laws OF each session to be described
as one statute the day Of the approval of each act
be stated the end thereof running title at the
head of each page to express the session Of Congress
the date and chapter of each act and at the begin
ming of each Congress shall be stated the place where
the session was held, the name of the President of
the United States, OF the President of the Senate and
the Speaker of the House of Representatives Sirfh
Az the foot of each page, in a note, reference shall
be made to all decisions OF the supreme circuit and
district courts, consirulng or applicable to the law or
treaty 10 the text Seventh There shall be full al
phabeca verbal general index OF all the matters of
ing heads with full reference, under the minor heads
all the matters according to the plan and illustration
in the memorial aforesaid and a separate index of
the matters in each volume, prepared IN the same
manner the general index, shall be subjoined to
each volume. There shall be an appendix at the
end of each volume, containing complete list of
all the acts, resolves and treaties, in the voum :,
chronologically arranged, with brief and general
description of the subject of the act this FORM that
TO say
Stat 1889, chap l. Oa,hs of office.
Stat 1889, chap Duties.
Stat. 1889, chap. 3 Duties on tonnage.
Stat 1883, chap. A. Establishment of Executive
departments.
Eighth. The said Little and Brown shall stpulate
with good and sufficient and satisfactory security to
| furnish the United States with such additional copies
of the work, in all respects like the foregoing as the
Government from time to time may require at prices
not to exceed two dollars and seventy FIVE cents a
volume; and they shall stpuIate with such security
for the faithful performance Of all parts of the con-
tract which the Attorney General is herein author
| ized to make; and in addition to such security they
shall execute to the United States a conveyance Of
the stereotype plates from which the first copies
| shall be printed, for the purpose of printing
the additional copies thereof, such form that 10
whatsoever hands the plates may be any future and
distant period of time the delivery of such addition
al copies to the United States may be eectually Sc
cured; they shall make immediate insurance on such
plates for the benefit of the United States and the
propreiols Of the plates, against loss by fire and
the plates of the title page Of each volume the inter-
est Of the United States in the pIaesa defined by this
resolution, shall be printed. Ninth Before the Uni
ted States shall be called to pay for any volume
the work. it shall be submitted to the Attorney Gen
cral or to such other officer officers of the Govern
ment as Congress may designate and on his their
appreciation thereof and his their decision that it
is edited and printed in all respects according to the
contract it shall be paid for from the Treasury the
| United States
SEC g find be IL further enacted, That for the pur-
pose aforesaid there be appropriated and paid, out
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
| priated, sum not exceeding twenty one thousand
dollars.
| Approved, March B. 1s45