Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-09-12
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An Act to provide for the Safe Custody, Printing,
 Publication and Distribution of the Laws, and
 to provide for the appointment of an additional
 Clerk in the Department of Justice.
 SEC. l. The Congress of the Contedrrate States of America do enac That all bills and resolutions passed by the Congress and approved and signed by the President, or which may otherwise become laws, shall be deposited in the Department of Jus tice and the originals carefully preserved in said Department.
 SEC. 2 It shall be the duty of the Attorney General, as soon as conveniently may be, after he shall receive the same, to select from the laws, orders and resolutions passed at each session, such as may be of public nature, and as, in his judg ment, require early publication, and cause the same to be inserted, weekly for one month, in one public gazette published at the seat of government in each State, and shall also publish all the laws in two gazettes published at the Capital of the Con- federate States; and the compensation for this pub lication shall not exceed one dollar and halt per page, estimated according to Little and Browns edition of the laws of the United States.
 SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General at the close of each session of Congress, to cause all the laws and resolutions having the force of laws, and All treaties entered into by the Confederate States to be published under the peryison of the Superintendent of Public Printing. The laws shall be arranged in the order of their date; shall have marginal notes to each section; shall be fully indeXed; and shall be published to the number of three thousand copies, in a style equal in execution. and upon paper equal in quail ty to the edition of the laws of the United States, as annually published by Little and Brown they shall be bound in pamphlet, in style not inferior to that in which the laws, published by Little and Brown, are bound annually; and one thousand copies thereof shall be preserved to be bound in calf, in a solid and substantial manner, as often as the number of pages shall be sufficient to form a volume of not less than eight hundred, nor more than one thousand pages. And whenever the v0- lumes are thus bound, new index shall be made, comprising the contents of the whole volume thus bound.
 SEC. 4. The printing of the laws, as required hy the foregoing section, shall be executed by the Public Printer; the binding in pamphlet form and in volumes, as provided in the foregoing section, shall be executed by contract to be entered into by the Superintendent of Public Printing after adver. tising for sealed proposals and the paper for print ing of the laws shall be furnished to the Public Printer, by the Superintendent of Public Printing,
 in accordance with the fourth section of the act oi | l4th May, 1861, entitled "An act further to or ganize the Bureau of Superintendent of Public Printing"
 | SEC. ,. The price allowed to the Public Printer for printing the laws, under the provisions of this act, shall be the following, and no more, to-wit: tol composition, plain, entyfve cents per thousand ems; for rule and figure work, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand ems; Tor press Work, octaVo forms of sixteen pages, seventy five cents per token
 SEC. 6. The laws, when bound in pamphlet form shall be distributed as follows, towt: one copy to each member of the Congress for the time being twenty copies each to the Secretary Of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives; one copy to each Committee of the two Houses of Con gress; five copies each to the President and Vice President; two hundred copies to the Department of State, for its own use, and for distribution amongst the Diplomatic and Consular officers O. the Confederate States two hundred copies to th' Department of the Treasury, for its own use, ant for distribution amongst the Revenue officers of tht government; one hundred copies to the Departmen of Justice for it's own use, and for distribution amongst Judges, Marshals and Attorneys of th' Confederate States; fifty copies each to the Depart ment of War and Navy, and to the Postmaste General; five copies each to the Governors of th' several States, for the use of the States. The re maning copies shall be preserved in the Depart ment of Justice, subject to the further order O. Congress.
 SEC. T. The Attorney General is authorized t( appoint an additional clerk in the Department Justice for the purpose of carrying into effect th' provisions of this act, tO be called the Law CIerE