Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-09-19
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An Act to provide for the Safe Custody Printing,
 Publication and Distribution of the Laws, and
 to provide for rhe appointment of an additional
 Clerk in the Department of Justice.
 SEC l. ihs Congress of fte C0nfederate States of America do enea, That a! 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. ,. 1t shall be the duty of the Attorney General, as soon as conveniently may be- after ne 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 Ut the seat of government in each State, and shall also publish all the laws in two gazettea published at the Capital of the Con- tederate States; and the compensation for this pub lication shall not exceed one dollar and half per page, estimated according to Little and Browns edition of the laws of the United States.
 SEC. j. 1t shall De 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 ill the order of their date; shall have marginal notes to each section; shall be fully ndeXed; and shall be published, to the number of three thousand copies, i'll 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, i'll 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 solid and substantial manner, often the number of pages shall be sufficient to form volume of not less than eight hundred, more than one thousand pages. And whenever the vO- lumes are thus bound, new index shall be made, comprising the contents of the whole volume thus bound
 SEc. A. The printing of the laws, as required by the foregoing section, shall be executed by the Public Printer; the binding in pamphlet form and | i'll volumes, provided in the foregoing section, shall be executed by contract to be entered into by 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 of i4th May, 1861, entitled " An act further to or canize the Bureau of Superintendent of Public Printing"
 SEC 5. The price allowed to the Public Printer
 for printing the laws, under the provisions of this act, sAall be the following, and no more, tOwt: for composition, plain, seyentyf five cents per erthousand ems: for rule and figure work, dollar and fifty | cents per thousand ems; for press york; octave forms, of sixteen pages seventy five cents per token | SEc. 6. The laws, when bound in pamphlet form, shall be distributed follows, to-wit: copy to l 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 ol the Confederate States; two hundred copies to the Department of the Treasury, for its own use, and for distribution amongst the Revenue officers of the government; one hundred copies to the Department of Justice for its own use, and for distribution amongst Judges, Marshals and Attorneys of the Confederate States fifty copies each to the Depart ment of War and Navy, and to the Postmaster l General; five copies each to the Governors of the several States, for the of the States. The re- maining copies shall be preserved in the Depart ment of Justice, bect to the further order of I Congress
 SEC. :. The Attorney General is authorized to | appoint an additional clerk ill the Department of Justice for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, to be called the Law Clerk | of said department, at salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum.
 SEC. $. All laws and parts of laws heretofore enacted, providing for the safe custody, preserva- tion, printing, publication and distribution of the laws are hereby repealed.
 Approved Aug. ,, lo6l. Aug. @ I'm