Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-08-29
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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 ill the Department of Justice-
 SEC l. The Congress Of tte Coniedfrate States of America do enact, 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 ill 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 ludg ment, require early publication, and cause the same to be inserted, week. 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 half per page, estimated according to Little and Brown s 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 su- pervsion 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 III calf, in solid and substantial manner, 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 vo fumes are thus bound, new index shah be made comprising the contents of the whole volume thu! bound.
 SEc 4. The printing of the laws, as required by the foregoing section, shall be executed by tht Public Printer; the binding in pamphlet form ant in volumes, as provided in the foregoing section shall be executed by contract to be entered into b. the Superintendent of Public Printing, after adyer Using for sealed proposals; and the paper tor 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 o l4th May, 1861, entitled "An act further to or ganze the Bureau of Superintendent of Publi | Printing"
 SEC. 5. The price allowed to the Public Printe for printing the laws, under the provisions of thi act, shall be the following, and no more, owit o composition, plain, seventy five cents per thousan ems for rule and figure work, one dollar and lift cents per thousand ems; for press work, octav forms of sixteen pages seventy five cents per toker
 SEC 6. The laws, when bound in pamphlet form shall be distributed as follows, to-wit: one copy | each member of the Congress for the time being twenty copies each to the Secretary of the Senat and Clerk of the House of Representatives; ou copy to each Committed of the two Houses of Cor