Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-25
GENERAL NAruRs-No. en

Approved, June 20. 1874.
GENERAL NArURs-No. COL
AN ACT p'ovicing for publication OF the re-
yised statutes and the laws OF the United
Be IL endcted by tks Ssncfs md House If R,rr,-
sentatires II tie CRited States Of America IN Con-
sTcss assembled That the existing contract or
cont acts between the Secretary OF safe on
toe art OF the United States, and Charles =.
Little. Augustus Flagg. Henry L. Miles, and
John Bartlett, Of Boston, known as the firm OF
Little, Brown ana Company, dated the twenty
eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty
six, and all other contracts between the United
States or any officer thereof with said firm of
Little, Brown and Company. respecting the
printing or publication OF the laws OF the
United States. are hereby declared to lie deter
mined, pursuant to the powers therein reserved.
SIC. 2. That the Secretary of state is hereby
charged with the duty of causing 90 be pre-
pared for printing. publication and distribution
the revised statutes Of the aited States enacted
at this present session of Congress- that he shall
cause TO be completed the head notes Of the
several titles and chapters and the marginal
notes referring 20 the statutes from which each
section was compiled and repealed by said revi-
sion; and references to the decisions of the
courts of the United States explaining or ex-
pounding the same, and such decisions of State
courts as he may deem expedient, with a full
and complete index to the same. And when
tue same shall be completed, the SAID Secretary
shall duly certify the same under the seal OF
the United States, and when printed and pro-
mulgated as hereinafter provided, the printed
treaties therein contsined, in all the courts of
the nited States, and OF the several States and
Territories.
SEC. 8. That the revision OF tue statutes of a
general and permanent nature, with the index
thereto, shsll be printed in one volume, and
shall be entitled and labeled "Revised Statutes
of the United States" and the revision of the
statutes relating TO the District OF Columbia;
TO post roads, and the public treaties in forcs
on the first day of December, one Thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three, with a suit
able index to each, shall be published in a sep
arste volume, and entitled and labeled Gre
vised Statutes relating 10 District OF Columbia
and Post-Roads. Public Treaties"
SIC. 4. That the Secretary OF State shall
cause the two volumes TO be stereotyped aud
such number of each volume 30 be printed and
substantially bound at the Government Print
ing Office as he may deem needful, for public
sale by his office.
to be edited, printed, published and distributed
pamphlet copies of the statutes of the present
and each future session of Congress, TO the OIL
GERS and persons hereinafter provided, aud
bound copies of the laws of each Congress %
the humber of two thousand copies, 70 be dis
tributed In the manner now provided by law,
arc uniform with the said edition OF the revised
statutes.
SEC. 6. That at the close of every session of
Congress the Secretary OF State shall cause to
be distributed pamphlet copies of the acts and
resolves of Congress for that session, edited and
printed in the manner aforesaid, as follows: To
the President and Vice President of the United
U.
resentative, and Delegate in Congress, one
copy; TO the librarian OF the Senate, for the use
of Senators, one hundred and twenty-six copies;
10 the librarian OF the House, two hundred and
fifty copies, for the use or the Representatives
and Delegates; TO the Library of Congress, four
teen copies; 10 the Department Of State, 10
ciUdI those for the use of leg atoms and consul
iaies, Six hundred copies; 20 the Treasury De-
partment, two hundred copies; TO the War De
paFtment, including those for the use of officers
of the Army, two hundred copies; to the Navy
DFnAgrmpr.f. intending fhOgp f.nrf nFs,fff
GERS of the Navy, one hundred copies; 70 the
Department of the Interior. including those for
the Use of the surveyors general and re gisters
and receivers or public land Offices, two hundred
aud fifty copies; to the POst-Offce Depart ment,
fifty copies: to the Department of Justice, in
cludirg those for the use OF the chief and assO-
ciate justices, the judges ard the officers OF the
United States and territorial courts, four hun
bred al Il twenty five copies; to the Department
OF Agriculture, ten copies; to the Smiths inian
Institution. tive copies; to the Government
Printing Office, two copies; TO the governors
and secretaries of Territories. one copy each;
10 be retained in the custody of the Secretary of
State, one thousand copies; and ten thousand
copies shall be distributed TO the States and
Territories in proportion to the number of Ssna-
gress to which they are at the time entitled.
SEC. I. That after the close OF each Con yress
the Secretary of State shsll have edited, print
ed and bound sufficient number of the vol.
umes containing the Statutes at Large enacted
by that Congress TO enable him to distribute
copies, or as many thereof a. may be needed, as
follows: To the President of the United States,
four copies, one of which shall be for the library
OF the Executive Mansion, and one COPY shall
be for the use or the Commissioner OF Public
Buildings; to the Vice President Of the United
States, one copy; to each Senator, Representa-
tive, and Delegate in Congress, one copy; TO the
librarian of the Senate, for the use OF Senators,
one hundred and fourteen copies; to the librari-
an or the House, for the use of Representatives
and Delegates, four hundred and ten copies; 70
the library of Congress, fourteen copies, includ-
ing four copies for the Law library; TO the De-
NJ 70 mol a line 4fnsa farf fa
OF legations and consulstes, three hundred and
eighty copies; TO the Treasury Department, in
GLIDING those for the u sc OF officers Of customs
two hundred and sixty copies; TO the War De-
partment, including q copy for the Military
Academy at West Point, fifty copies; 70 the
Navy Department, including a cepy for the
Library at the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
copy for the library Of each navy yard in the
United States, a copy for the library of the
Brooklyn Naval Lyceum, and copy for the
Naval Institute at Charlestown, Massachusetts,,
sixty-ive copies; 10 the Department OF the In
terror, including those for the OF the survey
ors-genersl and registers and receivers of pun
land-Ofiices, two hundred and fifty copies; TO
the Post Office Department, nfty copies; TO the
Department of Justice, including those for the
use OF the chief and associate justices, the
judges and officers OF the United States and ter
ritorial courts, four hundred and twenty-five
copies; to the Department OF Agriculture, tive
copies; to the Smithsonian institution, two
copies; to the Government Printing Office, one
copy; and the Secretary of State shall supply
deficiencies and Offices newly created.
SIC. .. Tnat the salo printed copies OF tne sal1
acts of each session and of the said bound Opies
of the acts of each Congress shall be legal evil
dence OF the laws and treaties therein contained,
in all the courts Of the United States and OF the
several States therein.
SEC. Q. That the said laws of each session OF
Congress shall also be stereotyped and printed
fer sale as provided in respect to the said re-
vised statutes. And the copies Of the said re-
vised statutes and Of the said laws OF each ses-
sion of Congress, as Issued from time to time,
shall be respectively sold at the cost OF the pa
per, press work and binding, with ten per cent.
thereof added thereto, to any person applying
for the same. And the proceeds Of all sales shall
be paid into the Treasury.
SEC. 10. That the Secretary of State shall
cause all the copies Of the Revision OF Indian
ut aties made by Thomas j. Dun ant, now print
ed TO be bound, and the same shall be deposited
with the Secretary of the Interior, for tue use
OF the Departments and officers of the Govern
ment. lApproyed, june ~, los4
GENERAL uATURE-No. 81.
AN ACT prohibiting the publication Of the Re-
vised Statutes OF the United States In the
newspapers at the expense Of the United
States.
Be ftendcted by the Senate AID House If Repre-
sentdfires Of the United States Of Ams~icG IA Con-
gress assembled, That the revised Statutes Of the
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