An Act to enact title 44, United States Code, ""Public Printing and Documents,"" codifying the general and permanent laws relating to public printing and documents
PL 90-620 (H.R.18612), enacted 10/22/1968

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Public Law 90-620 
October 22, 1963 
A N A C T 
—CH-R- 18612] 
rpQ pjj^^.^. ^i^ig 44^ United States Code, "Public Printing and Documents", 
codifying the general and permanent laws relating to piui)<lic printing and 
documents. 
Be it enacted 
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and House 
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and permanent laws relating to public printing and documents are 
revised, codified, and enacted as title 44, United States Code, "Public 
Printing and Documents", and may be cited as "44 U.S.C. § 
", as 
follows: 
TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS 
CHAPTER 
Hec. 
1. JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
101 
3. GOVERNMENT PBINTINO OFFICE 
301 
5. PRODUCTION AND PROCUREMENT OF PRINTING AND BINDING 
501 
7. CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING 
701 
9. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD 
901 
11. EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIARY PRINTING AND BINDING 
1101 
13. PARTICULAR REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS 
1301 
15. FEDERAL REGISTER AND CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS 
1501 
17. DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 
1701 
19. DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM 
, 
1901 
21. ARCHIVAL ADMINISTRATION 
2101 
23. NATIONAL ARCHIVES TRUST FUND BOABD_ 
2301 
25. NATIONAT- HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS COMMISSION 
2501 
27. FEDERAL RECORDS COUNCIL 
2701 
29. RECORDS MANAGEMENT BY ADMINISTRATOR OF GENERAL SERVICES 
2901 
31. RECORDS MANAGEMENT BY FEDERAL AGENCIES 
3101 
3d. DISPOSAL OF RECORDS 
3301 
35. COORDINATION OF FEDERAL REPORTING SERVICES 
3501 
37. ADVERTISEMENTS BY GOVERNMENT AGENOIEB 
8701 
CHAPTER 1—JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
See. 
101. Joint Committee on Printing: membership. 
102. Joint Committee on Printing: succession; powers during recess. 
108. Joint Committee on Printing: remedial xwwerg. 
§ 101. Joint Committee on Printing: membership 
The Joint Committee on Printing shall consist of the chairman and 
two members of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 
Senate and the chairman and two members of the Committee on House 
Administration of the House of Representatives. 
§102. Joint Committee on Printing: succession; powers during 
recess 
The members of the Joint Committee on Printing who are reelected 
to the succeeding Congress shall continue as meml^rs of the commit-
tee until their successors are chosen. The Presid^it of the Senate and 
the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, on the last day of a 
Congress, appoint members of their respective Houses who have been 
elected to tne succeeding Congress to fill vacancies which mav then 
be about to occur on the Committee, and the appointees and members of 
the Committee who have been reelected shall continue until their suc-
cessors are chosen. 
When Congress is not in session, the Joint Committee may exercise 
all its powers and duties as when Congress is in session. 
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§ 103. Joint Committee on Printing: remedial powers 
The Joint Committee on Printing may use any measures it considers 
necessary to remedy neglect, delay, duplication, or waste in the public 
printing and binding and the distribution of Government publications. 
CHAPTER 3—GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
Sec. 
301. Public Printer: appointment; bond. 
302. Deputy Public Printer: appointment; duties. 
303. Public Printer and Deputy Public Printer: compensation. 
304. Public Printer: vacancy in office. 
305. Public Printer: employees; pay. 
306. Public Printer: employment of skilled workmen; trial of skill. 
307. Public Printer: night work. 
308. Disbursing officer: continuation and settlement of accounts during vacancy 
in office; responsibility for accounts; disbursements for Superintendent 
of Documents. 
309. Revolving fund for operation and maintenance of Government Printing 
Office : capitalization ; reimbursements and credits ; accounting and budget-
ing; reports. 
310. Payments for printing, binding, blank iiaper, and supplies. 
311. Purchases exempt from the Federal Property and Administrative Sen'ices 
Act. 
312. Machinery, material, equipment, or supplies from other Government 
agencies. 
313. Examining boards: paper; bindery materials; machinery. 
314. Inks, glues, and other supplies furnished to other Government agencies: 
payment. 
315. Branches of Government Printing Office; limitations. 
316. Detail of employees of Government Printing Office to other Government 
establishments. 
§ 301. Public Printer: appointment; bond 
The President of the United States shall nominate and, by and with 
the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint a suitable person, who 
must be a practical printer and versed in the art of bookbinding, to 
take charge of and manage the Government Printing Oifice. His title 
shall be Public Printer. He shall give bond approved by the Secretary 
of the Treasury in the sum of $25,000 for the faithful performance of 
the duties of his office. 
§ 302. Deputy Public Printer: appointment; duties 
The Public Printer shall appoint a suitable person, who must be 
a practical printer and versed in the art of bookbinding, to be the 
Deputy Public Printer. He shall perform the duties formerly required 
of the chief clerk, supervise the buildings occupied by the Government 
Printing Office, and perform any other duties required of him by the 
Public Printer. 
§303. Public Printer and Deputy Public Printer: compensation 
The compensation of the Public Printer is at the rate of $28,750 
j^er annum, and the compensation of the Deputy Public Printer is at 
the rate of $27,500 per annum. 
§ 304. Public Printer: vacancy in office 
In case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Public 
Printer, the Deputy Public Printer shall perform the duties of the 
Public Printer until a successor is appointed or his absence or sickness 
ceases; but the President may direct any other officer of the Govern-
ment, whose appointment is vested in the President by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, to perform the duties of the vacant 
office until a successor is appointed, or the sickness or absence of the 
Public Printer ceases. A vacancy occasioned by death or resignation 
may not be filled temporarily under this section for longer than 
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ten days, and a temporary appointment, designation, or assign-
ment of another officer may not be made except to fill a vacancy hap-
pening during a recess of the Senate. 
§ 305. Public Printer: employees; pay 
The Public Printer may employ journeymen, apprentices, laborers, 
and other persons necessary for the work of the Government Printing 
Office at rates of wages and salaries, including compensation for night 
and overtime work, he considers for the interest of the Government 
and just to the persons employed, except as otherwise provided by 
this section. He may not employ more persons than the necessities of 
the public work require nor more than two hundred apprentices 
at one time. The minimum pay of journeymen printers, pressmen, 
and bookbinders employed in the Government Printing Office shall 
be at the rate of 90 cents an hour for the time actually employed. Ex-
cept as provided by the preceding part of this section the rate of 
wages, including compensation for night and overtime work, for 
more than ten employees of the same occupation shall be determined 
by a conference between the Public Printer and a committee selected 
by the trades affected, and the rates and compensation so agreed upon 
shall become effective upon approval by the Joint Committee on Print-
ing. When the Public Printer and the committee representing a trade 
fail to agree as to wages, salaries, and compensation, either party may 
appeal to the Joint Committee on Printing, and the decision of the 
Joint Committee is final. The wages, salaries, and compensation so 
determined are not subject to change oftener than once a year. 
§306. Public Printer: employment of skilled workmen; trial of 
skill 
The Public Printer shall employ workmen who are thoroughly 
skilled in their respective branches of industry, as shown by trial of 
their skill under his direction. 
§ 307. Public Printer: night work 
The Public Printer shall cause the public printing in the Govern-
m.ent Printing Office to be done at night as well as through the day, 
when the exigencies of the public service require it. 
§308. Disbursing officer; continuation and settlement of ac-
counts during vacancy in office; responsibility for ac-
counts ; disbursements for Superintendent of Documents 
(a) Upon the death, resignation, or separation from office of the 
disbursing officer of the Government Printing Office, his accounts may 
be continued, and payments and collections may be made in his name, 
by the deputy disbursing officer or officers designated by the Public 
Printer, for a period of time not to extend beyond the last day of the 
second month following the month in which his death, resignation, or 
separation occurred. Accounts and payments shall be allowed, audited, 
and settled, and checks signed in the name of the former disbursing 
officer by a deputy disbursing officer shall be honored in the same 
manner as if the former disbursing officer had continued in office. 
(b) A former disbursing officer of the Government Printing Office, 
his estate, or the surety on his official bond, may not be subject to any 
legal liability or penalty for the official accounts or defaults of a 
deputy disbursing officer acting in the name or in the place of the 
former disbursing officer. Each deputy disbursing officer is responsible 
for accounts entrusted to him under subsection (a) of this section, and 
the deputy disbursing officer and the sureties upon his bond are liable 
for any default occurring during his service under subsection (a) of 
this section. 
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(c) Disbursements on account of salaries or other expenses of the 
office of the Superintendent of Documents shall be made by the dis-
bursing officer of the Government Printing Office, and a statement 
included in the Public Printer's annual report for each fiscal year. 
§ 30d. Revolving fund for operation and maintenance of Govern-
ment Printing Office: capitalization; 
reimbursements 
and credits; accounting and budgeting; reports 
(a) The revolving fund of $1,000,000 established July 1, 1953, is 
available without fiscal year limitation, for— 
the operation and maintenance of the Government Printing 
Office, except the Office of Superintendent of Documents, includ-
ing rental of buildings; 
attendance at meetings not to exceed $3,000 in any fiscal year; 
maintenance and operation of the emergency room; 
uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by section 5901 
of Title 5; 
so stat. sos; 
boots, coats, a,nd gloves; 
si stat. 206. 
repairs and minor alterations to buildings; and 
expenses authorized in writing by the Joint Committee on 
Printing for inspection of Government printing activities. 
In addition, the Public Printer shall provide capital for the fund by 
capitalizing, at fair and reasonable values as jointly determined by 
him and the Comptroller General, the current inventories, plant, and 
building appurtenances, except building structures and land, equip-
ment, and other assets of the Government Printing Office. 
(b) The fund shall be: 
(1) reimbursed for the cost of all services and supplies fur-
nished, including those furnished other appropriations of the 
Government Printing Office, at rates which include charges for 
overhead and related expenses, depreciation of plant and building 
appurtenances, except building structures and land, and equip-
ment, and accrued leave; 
(2) credited with all receipts including sales of Government 
publications, waste, condemned, and surplus property and with 
payments received for losses or damage to property; and 
(3) charged with payment into miscellaneous receipts of the 
Treasury of that part of the receipts from the sales of Govern-
ment publications required by law. 
(c) An adequate system of accounts for the fund shall be main-
tained on the accrual method, and financial reports prepared on the 
basis of the accounts. The Public Printer shall prepare and submit 
an annual business-type budget program for the operations under 
this fund. The General Accounting Office shall audit the activities con^res's^rnd to 
of the Government Printing Office and furnish an audit report an- Pubfic Primer. 
nually to the Congress and the Public Printer. For these purposes 
the Comptroller General shall have such access to the records, files, 
personnel, and facilities of the Government Printing Office as he 
considers necessary. 
(d) Commencing with the fiscal year 1969, the annual business-
type budget for the fund shall be considered and enacted as pre-
scribed by section 849 of title 31. 
ei stat. 584. 
§ 310. Payments for printing, binding, blank paper, and supplies 
An executive department or independent establishment of the Gov-
ernment ordering printing and binding or blank paper and supplies 
from the Government Prmting Office shall pay promptly by check 
to the Public Printer upon his written request, either m advance or 
upon completion of the work, all or part of the estimated or actual 
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cost, as the case may be, and bills rendered by the Public Printer are 
not subject to audit or certification in advance of payment. Adjust-
ments on the basis of the actual cost of delivered work paid for in 
advance shall be made monthly or quarterly and as may be agreed by 
the Public Printer and the department or establishment concemea. 
§ 311. Purchases exempt from the Federal Property and Adminis-
trative Services Act 
Purchases may be made from appropriations under the "Govern-
ment Printing Office" without reference to the Federal Property and 
4
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Administrative Services Act, approved June 30, 1949, as amended, 
note. 
concerning purchases for the Federal Government. 
§312. Machinery, material, equipment, or supplies from other 
Government agencies 
An officer of the Government having machinery, material, equip-
ment, or supplies for printing, binding, and blank-book work, includ-
ing lithography, photolithography, and other processes of reproduc-
tion, no longer required or authorized for his service, shall submit a 
detailed report of them to the Public Printer. The Public Printer, 
with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing, may requisition 
such articles as are serviceable in the Government Prmting Office, and 
they shall be promptly delivered to that office. 
§313. Examining boards: paper; bindery materials; machinery 
The Deputy Public Printer, the superintendent of printing, and a 
person designated by the Joint Committee on Printing, shall con-
stitute a board to examine and report in writing on paper delivered 
under contract, or by purchase or otherwise, at the Government Print-
ing Office. 
The Deputy Public Printer, the superintendent of binding, and a 
person designated by the Joint Committee on Printing shall constitute 
a board to examine and report in writing on material, except paper, for 
the use of the bindery. 
The Deputy Public Printer, the superintendent of printing, and a 
person designated by the Joint Committee on Printing shall con-
stitute a Ixmrd of condemnation, who, upon the call of the Public 
Printer, shall determine the condition of presses and other machinery 
and material used in the Government Printing Office, with a view to 
condemnation. 
§ 314. Inks, glues, and other supplies furnished to other Govern-
ment agencies: payment 
Inks, glues, and other supplies manufactured by the Government 
Printing Office in connection with its work may be furnished to depart-
ments and other establishments of the Government upon requisition, 
and payment made from appropriations available. 
§ 315. Branches of Government Printing Office; limitations 
Money appropriated by any Act may not be used for maintaining 
more than one branch of the Government Printing Office in any one 
building occupied by an executive department of the Government, and 
a branch of the Government Printing Office may not be established 
unless specifically authorized by law. 
§316. Detail of employees of Government Printing Office to other 
Government establishments 
An employee of the Government Printing Office may not be detailed 
to duties not pertaining to the work of public printing and binding 
in an executive department or other Government establishment unless 
expressly authorized by law. 
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CHAPTER 5—PRODUCTION AND PROCUREMENT OF 
PRINTING AND BINDING 
Sec. 
501. Government printing, binding, and blank-book work to be done at Govern-
ment Printing OflSce. 
502. Procurement of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Public Printer. 
503. Printing in veterans' hospitals. 
504. Direct purchase of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Government 
agencies. 
505. Sale of duplicate plates; copyright. 
506. Time for printing docimients or reports which include illustrations or maps. 
507. Orders for printing to be acted upon within one year. 
508. Annual estimates of quantity of paper required for public printing and 
binding. 
509. Standards of paper; advertisements for proposals; samples. 
510. Specifications in advertisements for paper. 
511. Opening bids; bonds. 
512. Approval of paper contracts; time for performance; bonds. 
513. Comparison of paper and envelopes with standard quality. 
514. Determination of quality of paper. 
515. Default of contractor; new contracts and purchase in open market. 
516. Liability of defaulting contractor. 
517. Purchase of paper in open market. 
§ 501. Government printing, binding, and blank-book work to be 
done at Government Printing Office 
All printing, binding, and blank-book work for Congress, the Execu-
tive Office, the Judiciary, other than the Supreme Court of the United 
States, and every executive department, independent office and estab-
lishment of the uovernment, shall be done at the Government Printing 
Office, except— 
(1) classes of work the Joint Committee on Printing considers 
to be urgent or necessary to have done elsewhere; and 
(2) printing in field printing plants operated by an executive 
department, independent office or establishment, and the procure-
ment of printing by an executive department, independent office 
or establishment from allotments for contract field printing, if 
approved by the Joint Committee on Printing. 
Printing or binding may be done at the Government Printing Office 
only when authorized by law. 
§ 502. Procurement of printing, binding, and blank-book work by 
Public Printer 
Printing, binding, and blank-book work authorized by law, which 
the Public Printer is not able or equipped to do at the Government 
Printing Office, may be produced elsewhere under contracts made by 
him with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing. 
§ 503. Printing in veterans' hospitals 
Notwithstanding section 501 of this title, the Administrator of 
Veterans' Affairs may utilize the printing and binding equipment 
that the various hospitals and homes of the Veterans' Administration 
use for occupational therapv, for printing and binding which he 
finds advisable for the use of tne Veterans' Administration. 
§ 504. Direct purchase of printing, binding, and blank-book work 
by Government agencies 
The Joint Committee on Printing may permit the Public Printer to 
authorize an executive department, independent office, or establish-
ment of the Government to purchase direct for its use such printing, 
binding, and blank-book work, otherwise authorized by law, as the 
Government Printing Office is not able or suitably equipped to execute 
or as may be more economically or in the better interest of the Govern-
ment executed elsewhere. 
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§ 505. Sale of duplicate plates; copyright 
The Public Printer shall sell, under regulations of the Joint Com-
mittee on Printing, to persons who may apply, additional or duplicate 
stereotype or electrotype plates from which a Government publication 
is printed, at a price not to exceed the cost of composition, the metal, 
and making to the Government, plus 10 percent, and the full amount 
of the price shall be paid when the order is filed. A publication re-
printed from these plates and other Government publications may not 
be copyrighted. 
§ 506. Time for printing documents or reports which include illus-
trations or maps 
A document or report to be illustrated or accompanied by maps 
may not be printed by the Public Printer until the illustrations or 
maps designed for it are ready for publication. 
§ 507. Orders for printing to be acted upon within one year 
An order for public printing may not be acted upon by the Public 
Printer after the expiration of one year unless the entire copy and 
illustrations for the work have been furnished within that period. 
§ 508. Annual estimates of quantity of paper required for public 
printing and binding 
At the beginning of each session of Congress, the Public Printer 
shall submit to the Joint Committee on Printing estimates of the 
quantity of paper of all descriptions required for the public printing 
and binding during the ensuing year. 
§ 509. Standards of paper; advertisements for proposals; samples 
The Joint Committee on Printing shall fix upon standards of paper 
for the different descriptions of public printing and binding, and the 
Public Printer, under their direction, shall advertise in six newspapers 
or trade journals, published in different cities, for sealed proposals 
to furnish the Government with paper, as specified in the schedule to 
be furnished applicants by the Public Printer, setting forth in detail 
the quality and quantities required for the public printing. The Public 
Printer shall furnish samples of the standard of papers fixed upon to 
applicants who desire to bid. 
§ 510. Specifications in advertisements for paper 
The advertisements for proposals shall specify the minimum portion 
of each quality of paper required for either three months, six months, 
or one year, as the Joint Committee on Printing determines; but when 
the minimum portion so specified exceeds, in any case, one thousand 
reams, it shall state that proposals will be received for one thousand 
reams or more. 
§ 511. Opening bids; bonds 
The sealed proposals to furnish paper and envelopes shall be opened 
in the presence of the Joint Committee on Printing who shall award 
the contracts to the lowest and best bidder for the interest of the Gov-
ernment. The committee may not consider a proposal that is not accom-
panied by a bond with security or certified check in the amount of 
$5,000, guaranteeing that the bidder if his proposal is accepted, will 
enter into a formal contract with the United States to furnish the 
paper or envelopes specified. The Committee may not consider a pro-
posal from a person unknown to it unless accompanied by satisfactory 
evidence that he is a manufacturer of or dealer in the description of 
paper or envelopes proposed to be furnished. 
§ 512. Approval of paper contracts; time for performance; bonds 
A contract for furnishing paper is not valid until approved by the 
Joint Committee on Printing. The award of a contract for furnishing 
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paper shall designate a reasonable time for its performance. The 
contractor shall give bond in an amount fixed and approved by the 
Committee. 
§ 513. Comparison of paper and envelopes with standard quality 
The Public Printer shall compare every lot of paj^er and envelopes 
delivered by a contractor with the standard of quality fixed upon by 
the Joint Committee on Printing, and may not accept paper or enve-
lopes which do not conform to it m every particular. A lot of delivered 
paper or envelopes which does not conform to the standard of quality 
may be accepted by the Committee at a discoimt that in its opinion is 
sufficient to protect the interests of the Government. 
§ 514. Determination of quality of paper 
The Joint Committee on Printing shall determine differences of 
opinion between the Public Printer and a contractor for paper 
respecting the paper's quality; and the decision of the Committee is 
final as to the United States. 
§ 515. Default of contractor; new contracts and purchase in open 
market 
If a contractor fails to comply with his contract, the Public Printer 
shall report the default to the Joint Committee on Printing, and under 
its direction, enter into a new contract with the lowest, best, and most 
responsible bidder for the interest of the Government among those 
whose proposals were rejected at the last opening of bids, or he shall 
advertise for new proposals, under the regulations provided by sections 
509-517 of this title. During the interval that may thus occur he may, 
under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, purchase m 
open market, at the lowest market price, paper necessary for the public 
printing. 
§ 516. Liability of defaulting contractor 
Upon failure to furnish paper, a contractor and his sureties shall 
be responsible for any increase of cost to the Government in procuring 
a supply of the paper consequent upon his default. The Public Printer 
shall report every default, with a full statement of all the facts in the 
case, to the General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury, who 
shall prosecute the defaulting contractor and his sureties upon their 
bond in the district court of the United States in the district in which 
the defaulting contractor resides. 
§ 517. Purchase of paper in open market 
The Joint Committee on Printing may authorize the Public Printer 
to purchase paper in open market when they consider the quantity 
required so small or the want so immediate as not to justify advertise-
ment for proposals. 
CHAPTER 7—CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING AND BINDING 
Sec. 
701. "Usual number" of documents and reports; distribution of House and 
Senate documents and reports; binding; reports on private bills; number 
of copies printed; distribution. 
702. Extra copies of documents and reports. 
703. Printing extra copies. 
704. Reprinting bills, laws, and reports from committees not exceeding fifty 
pages. 
705. Duplicate orders' to print. 
706. Bills and resolutions: number and distribution. 
707. Bills and resolutions: style and form. 
708. Bills and resolutions: binding sets for Congress. 
709. Public and private laws, postal conventions, and treaties. 
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Sec. 
710. Copies of Acts furnished to Public Printer. 
711. Printing Acts, joint resolutions, and treaties. 
712. Printing of postal conventions. 
713. Journals of Houses of Congress. 
714. Printing documents for Congress in two or more editions; printing of full 
number and allotment of full quota. 
715. Senate and House documents and reports for Department of State. 
716. Printing of documents not provided for by law. 
717. Appropriation chargeable for printing of document or report by order of 
Congress. 
718. Lapse of authority to print. 
719. Classification and numbering of publications ordered printed by Congress; 
designation of publications of departments; printing of committee 
hearings. 
720. Senate and House Manuals. 
721. Congressional Directory. 
722. Congressional Directory: sale. 
723. Memorial addresses: preparation; distribution. 
724. Memorial addresses: illustrations. 
725. Statement of appropriations; "usual number". 
726. Printing for committees of Congress. 
727. Committee reports: indexing and binding. 
728. United States Statutes at Large: distribution. 
729. United States Statutes at Large: references in margins. 
730. Distribution of documents to Members of Congress. 
731. Allotments of public documents printed after expiration of terms of Mem-
bers of Congress ; rights of retiring Members to documents. 
732. Time for distribution of documents by Members of Congress extended. 
733. Documents and reports ordered by Members of Congress; franks and 
envelopes for Members of Congress. 
734. Stationery and blank books for Congress. 
735. Binding for Members of Congress. 
736. Binding at expense of Members of Congress. 
737. Binding for Senate library. 
738. Binding of publications for distribution to libraries. 
739. Senate and House document rooms; superintendents. 
740. Senate Service Department and House Publications Distribution Service; 
superintendents. 
741. Disposition of documents stored at Capitol. 
§ 701. *'UsuaI number*' of documents and reports; distribution of 
House and Senate documents and reports; binding; re-
ports on private bills; number of copies printed; distri-
bution 
(a) The order by either House of Congress to print a document or 
report shall signify the "usual number" of copies for binding and dis-
tribution among those entitled to receive them. A greater number maj 
not be printed unless ordered by either House, or as provided by this 
section. When a special number of a document or report is ordered 
printed, the usual number shall also be printed, unless already ordered. 
(b) The "usual number" of documents and reports shall be one 
thousand six hundred and eighty-two copies, which shall be printed at 
one time and distributed as follows: 
Of the House documents and reports, unbound—to the Senate docu-
ment room, one hundred and fifty copies; to the office of the Secretary 
of the Senate, ten copies; to the House document room, not to exceed 
five hundred copies; to the office of the Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives, twenty copies; to the Library of Congress, ten copies, as 
provided by section 1718 of this title. 
Of the Senate documents and reports, unbound—^to the Senate 
document room, two hundred and twenty copies; office of the Secretary 
of the Senate, ten copies; to the House document room, not to exceed 
five hundred copies; to the Clerk's office of the House^ of Representa-
tives, ten copies; to the Library of Congress, ten copies, as provided 
by section 1718 of this title. 
(c) Of the number printed, the Public Printer shall bind a suf-
ficient number of copies for distribution as follows: 
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Of the House documents and reports, bound—to the Senate library, 
fifteen copies; to the Library of Congress, not to exceed one hundred 
and fifty copies, as provided by section 1718 of this title; to the House 
of Representatives library, fifteen copies; to the Superintendent of 
Documents, as many copies as are required for distribution to the 
State libraries and designated depositories. 
Of the Senate documents and reports, bound—to the Senate library, 
fifteen copies; to the Library of Congress, copies as provided by 
sections 1718 and 1719 of this title; to the House of Representatives 
library, fifteen copies; to the Superintendent of Documents, as many 
copies as may be required for distribution to State libraries and desig-
nated depositories. In binding documents the Public Printer shall give 
precedence to those that are to be distributed to libraries and to desig-
nated depositories. But a State library or designated depository en-
titled to documents that may prefer to have its documents in unbound 
form, may do so by notifying the Superintendent of Documents to 
that effect prior to the convening of each Congress. 
(d) The usual number of reports on private bills, concurrent or 
simple resolutions, may not be printed. Instead there shall be printed 
of each Senate report on a private bill, simple or concurrent resolu-
tion, in addition to those required to be furnished the Library of 
Congress, three hundred and forty-five copies, which shall be dis-
tributed as follows: to the Senate document room, two hundred and 
twenty copies; to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; to the 
House document room, one hundred copies; to the Superintendent of 
Documents, ten copies; and of each House report on a private bill, 
simple or concurrent resolution, in addition to those for the Library 
of Congress, two hundred and sixty copies, which shall be distributed 
as follows: to the Senate document room, one hundred and thirty-five 
copies; to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; to the House 
document room, one hundred copies; to the Superintendent of Docu-
ments, ten copies. 
This section does not prevent the binding of all Senate and House 
reports in the reserve volumes bound for and delivered to the Senate 
and House libraries, nor abridge the right of the Vice President, 
Senators, Representatives, Resident Commissioner, Secretary of the 
Senate, and Clerk of the House to have bound in half morocco, or 
material not more expensive, one copy of every public document to 
which he may be entitled. At least twelve copies of each report on bills 
for the payment or adjudication of claims against the Government 
shall be Kept on file in the Senate document room. 
§ 702. Extra copies of documents and reports 
Copies in addition to the "usual number" of documents and reports 
shall be printed promptly when ready for publication, and may be 
bound in paper or cloth as the Joint Committee on Printing directs. 
§703. Printing extra copies 
Orders for printing copies in addition to the "usual number'*, other-
wise than provided for by this section, shall be by simple, concurrent, 
or joint resolution. Either House may print extra copies to the amount 
of $1,200 by simple resolution; if the cost exceeds that sum, the print-
ing shall be ordered by concurrent resolution, unless the resolution is 
self-appropriating, when it shall be by joint resolution. Resolutions, 
when presented to either House, shall be referred to the Committee on 
House Administration of the House of Representatives or the Com-
mittee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, who, in making 
their report, shall give the probable cost of the proposed printing 
upon the estimate of the Public Printer; and extra copies may not 
be printed before the committee has reported. The printing of addi-
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tional copies may be performed upon orders of the Joint Committee 
on Printing within a limit of $700 in cost in any one instance. 
§704. Reprinting bills, laws, and reports from committees not 
exceeding fifty pages 
When the supply is exhausted, the Secretary of the Senate and the 
Clerk of the House of Kepresentatives may order the reprinting of 
not more than one thousand copies of a pending bill, resolution, or 
public law, not exceeding fifty pages, or a report from a committee 
or congressional commission on pending legislation not accompanied 
by testimony or exhibits or other appendices and not exceeding fifty 
pages. The Public Printer shall require each requisition for reprinting 
to cite the specific authority of law for its execution. 
§ 705. Duplicate orders to print 
The Public Printer shall examine the orders of the Senate and 
House of Eepresentatives for printing, and in case of duplication shall 
print under the first order received. 
§ 706. Bills and resolutions: number and distribution 
There shall be printed of each Senate and House public bill and 
joint resolution six hundred and twenty-five copies, which shall be dis-
tributed as follows: 
to the Senate document room, two hundred and twenty-five 
copies; 
to the office of Secretary of Senate, fifteen copies; 
to the House document room, three hundred and eighty-five 
copies. 
There shall be printed of each Senate private bill, when introduced, 
when reported, and when passed, three hundred copies, which shall 
be distributed as follows: 
to the Senate document room, one hundred and seventy copies; 
to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; 
to the House document room, one hundred copies; 
to the Superintendent of Documents, ten copies. 
There shall be printed of each House private bill, when introduced, 
when reported, and when passed, two hundred and sixty copies, which 
shall be distributed as follows: 
to the Senate document room, one hundred and thirty-five 
copies; 
to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; 
to the House document room, one hundred copies; 
to the Superintendent of Documents, ten copies. 
Bills and resolutions shall be printed in bill form, and, unless spe-
cially ordered by either House shall be printed only when referred 
to a committee, when favorably reported back, and after their passage 
by either House. 
Of concurrent and simple resolutions, when reported, and after their 
passage by either House, only two hundred and sixty copies shall be 
printed, except by special order, and shall be distributed as follows: 
to the Senate document room, one hundred and thirty-five 
copies; 
to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; 
to the House document room, one hundred copies; 
to the Superintendent of Documents, ten copies. 
§ 707. Bills and resolutions: style and form 
61 Stat. 639. 
Subjcct to sectious 205 and 206 of Title 1, the Joint Committ^ee on 
Printing may authorize the printing of a bill or resolution, with index 
and ancillaries, in the style and form the Joint Committee on Printing 
considers most suitable in the interest of economy and efficiency, and 
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to so continue until final enactment in both Houses of Congress. The 
committee may also curtail the number of copies of bills or resolu-
tions, including the slip form of a public Act or public resolution. 
§ 708. Bills and resolutions: binding sets for Congress 
The Public Printer shall bind four sets of Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives bills, joint and concurrent resolutions of each Congress, 
two for the Senate and two for the House, to be furnished him from 
the files of the Senate and House document room, the volumes when 
bound to be kept there for reference. 
§ 709. Public and private laws, postal conventions, and treaties 
The Public Printer shall print in slip form copies of public and 
i:>rivate laws, postal conventions, and treaties, to be charged to the 
congressional allotment for printing and binding. The Joint Commit-
tee on Printing shall control the number and distribution of copies. 
§ 710. Copies of Acts furnished to Public Printer 
The Administrator of General Services shall furnish to the Public 
Printer a copy of every Act and joint resolution, as soon as possible 
after its approval by the President, or after it has become a law under 
the Constitution without his approval. 
§711. Printing Acts, joint resolutions, and treaties 
The Public Printer, on receiving from the Administrator of General 
Services a copy of an Act or joint resolution, or from the Secretary of 
State, a copy of a treaty, shall print an accurate copy and 
transmit it in duplicate to the Administrator of General Services or to 
the Secretary of State, as the case may be, for revision. On the return 
of one of the revised duplicates, he shall make the marked corrections 
and print the number specified by section 709 of this title. 
§ 712. Printing of postal conventions 
The Public Printer, on receiving from the Postmaster General a 
copy of a postal convention between the Postmaster General, on the 
part of the United States, and an equivalent officer of a foreign gov-
ernment, shall print an accurate copy and transmit it in duplicate to 
the Postmaster General. On the return of one of the revised dupli-
cates, he shall make the marked corrections and print the number 
specified by section 709 of this title. 
§ 713. Journals of Houses of Congress 
There shall be printed of the Journals of the Senate and House of 
Representatives eight hundred and twenty-tw^o copies, which shall be 
distributed as follows: 
to the Senate document roomj ninety copies for distribution to 
Senators, and twenty-five additional copies; 
to the Senate library, ten copies; 
to the House document room, three hundred and sixty copies 
for distribution to Members, and twenty-five additional copies; 
to the Department of State, four copies; 
to the Superintendent of Documents, one hundred and forty-
four copies to be distributed to three libraries in each of the States 
to be designated by the Superintendent of Documents; 
to the Court of Claims, two copies; and 
to the library of the House of Representatives, ten copies. 
The remaining number of the Journals of the Senate and House of 
Representatives, consisting of twenty-five copies, shall be furnished to 
the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives, respectively, as the necessities of their respective offices 
require, as rapidly as signatures are completed for distribution. 
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§ 714. Printing documents for Congress in two or more editions; 
printing of full number and allotment of full quota 
The Joint Committee on Printing shall establish rules to be observed 
by the Public Printer, by which public documents and reports printed 
for Congress, or either House, may be printed in two or more editions, 
to meet the public requirements. The aggregate of the editions may 
not exceed the number of copies otherwise authorized. This section 
does not prevent the printing of the full number of a document or 
report, or the allotment of the full quota to Senators and Representa-
tives, as otherwise authorized, when a legitimate demand for the full 
complement is known to exist. 
§ 715. Senate and House documents and reports for Department 
of State 
The Public Printer shall print, in addition to the usual number, 
and furnish the Department of State twenty copies of each Senate 
and House of Representatives document and report. 
§ 716. Printing of documents not provided for by law 
Either House may order the printing of a document not already 
provided for by law, when accompanied by an estimate from the 
Public Printer as to the probable cost. An executive department, bu-
reau, board, or independent office of the Government submitting re-
ports or documents in response to inquiries from Congress shall in-
clude an estimate of the probable cost of printing to the usual number. 
This section does not apply to reports or documents not exceeding 
fifty pages. 
§ 717. Appropriation chargeable for printing of document or re-
port by order of Congress 
The cost of the printing of a document or report printed by order 
of Congress which, under section 1107 of this title, cannot be properly 
charged to another appropriation or allotment of appropriation 
already made, upon order of the Joint Committee on Printing, shall 
be charged to the allotment of appropriation for printing and binding 
for Congress. 
§ 718. Lapse of authority to print 
The authority to print a document or report, or a publication author-
ized by law to be printed, for distribution by Congress, shall lapse 
when the whole number of copies has not been ordered within two 
years from the date of the original order, except orders for subsequent 
editions, approved by the Joint Committee on Printing, in which case 
tlie whole number may not exceed that originally authorized by law. 
§719. Classification and numbering of publications ordered 
printed by Congress; designation of publications of de-
partments; printing of committee hearings 
Publications ordered printed by Congress, or either House, shall 
be in four series, namely: 
one series of reports made by the committees of the Senate, 
to be known as Senate reports; 
one series of reports made by the committees of the House of 
Representatives, to be known as House reports; 
one series of documents other than reports of committees, the 
orders for printing which originate in the Senate, to be known 
as Senate documents, and 
one series of documents other than committee reports, the 
orders for printing which originate in the House of Representa-
tives, to be known as House documents. 
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The publications in each series shall be consecutively numbered, the 
numbers in each series continuing in unbroken sequence throughout 
the entire term of a Congress, but these provisions do not apply 
to the documents printed for the use of the Senate in executive session. 
Of the "usual number", the copies which are intended for distribution 
to State libraries and other designated depositories of annual or 
serial publications originating in or prepared by an executive depart-
ment, bureau, office, commission, or board may not be numbered in 
the document or report series of either House of Congress, but shall 
be designated by title and bound as provided by section 738 of this title; 
and the departmental edition, if any, shall be printed concurrently 
with the "usual number". Hearings of committees may be printed 
as congressional documents only when specifically ordered by Con-
gress or either House. 
§ 720. Senate and House Manuals 
Each House may order printed as many copies as it desires, of the 
Senate Manual and of the Rules and Manual of the House of Repre-
sentatives, even though the cost exceed $500. 
§ 721. Congressional Directory 
There shall be prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee 
on Printing a Congressional Directory, of which there shall be three 
editions during each first session and two editions during each second 
regular session of Congress. The first edition shall be distributed to 
Senators, Representatives, the principal officers of Congress, and heads 
of departments on the first day of the session, and shall be ready for 
distrioution to others within one week thereafter. The Joint Com-
mittee shall control the number and distribution of the directory. 
Copies delivered to Senators and Representatives for distribution shall 
be bound in cloth. 
§ 722. Congressional Directory: sale 
The Public Printer, under the direction of the Joint Committee on 
Printing, may print the current Congressional Directory for sale at a 
price sufficient to reimburse the expense of printing. The money 
derived from sales shall be paid into the Treasury and accounted for 
in his annual leport to Congress, and sales may not be made on credit. 
§723. Memorial addresses: preparation; distribution 
After the final adjournment of each session of Congress, there shall 
be compiled, prepared, printed with illustrations, and bound in cloth 
in one volume, in the style, form, and manner directed by the Joint 
Committee on Printing, without extra compensation to any employee, 
the legislative proceedings of Congress and the exercises at the general 
memorial services held in the House of Representatives during each 
session relative to the death of a Member of Congress, together with 
all relevant memorial addresses and eulogies published in the Con-
gressional Record during the same session of Congress, and any 
other matter the Joint Committee considers relevant; and there 
shall be printed as many copies as needed to supply the total quan-
tity provided for by this section, of which fifty copies, bound in full 
morocco, with gilt edges, suitably lettered as may be requested, shall 
be delivered to the family of the deceased, and the remaining copies 
shall be distributed as follows: 
of all eulogies on deceased Members of Congress to the Vice 
President and each Senator, Representative, and Resident Com-
missioner in Congress, one copy; 
of the eulogies on deceased Senators there shall be furnished 
two hundred and fifty copies for each Senator of the State repre-
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sented by the deceased and twenty copies for each Representa-
tive from that State; 
of the eulogies on a deceased Representative and Resident Com-
missioner two hundred and fifty copies for his successor in office; 
twenty copies for each of the other Representatives, or Resident 
Commissioner of the State, or insuhir possession represented by 
the deceased; and twenty copies for each Senator from that State. 
The "usual number" of memorial addresses may not be printed. 
§724. Memorial addresses: illustrations 
The illustrations to accompany bound copies of memorial addresses 
delivered in Congress shall be made at the Bureau of Engraving and 
Printing and paid for out of the appropriation for that bureau, or, in 
the discretion of the Joint Committee on Printing, shall be obtained 
elsewhere by the Public Printer and charged to the allotment for print-
ing and binding for Congress. 
§ 725. Statement of appropriations; "usual number" 
Of the statements of appropriations required to be prepared by 
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section 105 of Title 2, there shall be printed, after the close of each 
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regular session of Congress, the usual number of copies. 
§ 726. Printing for committees of Congress 
A committee of Congress may not procure the printing of more than 
one thousand copies of a hearing, or other document germane thereto, 
for its use except by simple, concurrent, or joint resolution, as provided 
by section 703 of this title. 
§ 727. Committee reports: indexing and binding 
The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives shall procure and file for the use of their respective House 
copies of all reports made by committees, and at the close of each 
session of Congress shall have the reports indexed and bound, one 
copy to be deposited in the library of each House and one copy in the 
committee from which the report emanates. 
§ 728. United States Statutes at Large: distribution 
The Public Printer, after the final adjournment of each regular 
session of Congress, shall print and bind copies of the United States 
Statutes at Large, to be cnarged to the congressional allotment for 
printing and binding. The Joint Committee on Printing shall control 
the number and distribution of the copies. 
The Public Printer shall print and, after the end of each calendar 
3'^ear, bind and deliver to the Superintendent of Documents a number 
of copies of the United States Treaties and Other International 
Agreements not exceeding the number of copies of the United States 
Statutes at Large required for distribution in the manner provided by 
law. 
§ 729. United States Statutes at Large: references in margins 
The Administrator of General Services shall include in the refer-
ences in margins of the United States Statutes at Large the number of 
the bill or joint resolution (designating S. for Senate bill, H.R. for 
House bill, S.J. Res. for Senate joint resolution and H.J. Res. for 
House joint resolutions, as the case may be) under which each Act was 
approved and became a law, the reference in the margins to be placed 
within brackets immediately under the date of the approval of the 
Act at the beginning of each Act as printed beginning with Volume 32 
of the United States Statutes at Large. 
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§ 730. Distribution of documents to Members of Congress 
When, in the division among Senators, and Representatives, of 
documents printed for the use of Congress there is an apportionment 
to each or either House in round numbers, the Public Printer may not 
deliver the full number so accredited at the Senate Service Depart-
ment and House of Representatives Publications Distribution Service, 
but only the largest multiple of the number constituting the full mem-
bership of that House, including the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms 
of the Senate and Clerk, Sergeant at Arms, and Doorkeeper of the 
House, which is contained in the round numbers thus accredited to 
that House, so that the number delivered divides evenly and without 
remainder among the Members of the House to which they are de-
livered; and the remainder of the documents thus resulting shall be 
turned over to the Superintendent of Documents, to be distributed by 
him, first, to public and school libraries for the purpose of completing 
broken sets; second, to public and school libraries that have not been 
supplied with any portions of the sets, and, lastly, by sale to other 
persons; the libraries to be named to him by Senators and Represent-
atives; and in this distribution the Superintendent of Documents, as 
far as practicable, shall make an equal allowance to each Senator and 
Representative. 
§ 731. Allotments of public documents printed after expiration of 
terms of Members of Congress; rights of retiring Mem-
bers to documents 
The Congressional allotment of public documents, other than the 
Congressional Record, printed after the expiration of the term of office 
of the Vice President of the LTnited States, or Senator, Representative, 
or Resident Commissioner, shall be delivered to his successor in office. 
Unless the Vice President of the United States, a Senator, Repre-
sentative, or Resident Commissioner, having public documents to his 
credit at the expiration of his term of office takes them prior to the 
30th day of June next following the date of expiration, he shall forfeit 
them to his successor in office. 
§ 732. Time for distribution of documents by Members of Congress 
extended 
Reelected Members may distribute public documents to their credit, 
or the credit of their respective districts in the Interior or other De-
partments and bureaus, and in the Government Printing Office, during 
their successive terms and until their right to frank documents ends. 
§ 733. Documents and reports ordered by Members of Congress; 
franks and envelopes for Members of Congress 
The Public Printer on order of a Member of Congress, on prepay-
ment of the cost, may reprint documents and reports of committees 
together with the evidence papers submitted, or any part ordered 
printed by the Congress. 
He may also furnish without cost to Members and the Resident 
Commissioner from Puerto Rico, blank franks printed on sheets and 
perforated, or singly at their option, for public documents. Franks 
shall contain in the upper left-hand corner the following words: "Pub-
lic document. Free. United States Senate" or "House of Representa-
tives U.S." and in upper right-hand corner the letters "U. S. S." or 
"M. C." But he may not print any other words except where it is de-
sirable to affix the official title of a document. Other words printed on 
franks shall be at the personal expense of the Member or Resident 
Commissioner ordering them. 
At the request of a Member of Congress or Resident Commissioner 
the Public Printer may print upon franks or envelopes used for mail-
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ing public documents the facsimile signature of the Member or Resi-
dent Commissioner and a special request for return if not called for, 
and the name of the State or Commonwealth and county and city. The 
Member or Resident Commissioner shall deposit with his order the 
extra expense involved in printing these additional words. 
The Public Printer may also, at the request of a Member or Resident 
Commissioner, print on envelopes authorized to be furnished, the name 
of the Member or Resident Commissioner, and State or Conmion-
wealth, the date, and the topic or subject matter, not exceeding twelve 
words. 
The Public Printer shall deposit moneys accruing under this sec-
tion in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the appro-
priation made for the working capital of the Government Printing 
Office for the year in which the work is done. He shall account for 
them in his annual report to Congress. 
§ 734. Stationery and blank books for Congress 
Upon requisition of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the 
House of Representatives, respectively, the Public Printer shall fur-
nish stationery, blank books, tables, forms, and other necessary papers 
preparatory to congressional legislation, required for the official use of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives, or their committees and 
officers. This does not prevent the purchase by the officers of the Senate 
and House of Representatives of stationery and blank books necessary 
for sale to Senators and Members in the stationery rooms of the two 
Houses as provided by law. 
§ 735. Binding for Members of Congress 
Each Member of Congress is entitled to the binding in half morocco, 
or material not more expensive, of one copy of each public document 
to which he is entitled, an account of which shall be kept by the Secre-
tary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, respec-
tively, 
§ 736. Binding at expense of Members of Congress 
The Public Printer may bind at the Government Printing Office 
books, maps, charts, or documents published by authority of Con-
gress, upon application of a Member of Congress, and payment of the 
actual cost of binding. 
§ 737. Binding for Senate library 
The Secretary of the Senate may make requisition upon the Public 
Printer for the binding for the Senate library of books he considers 
necessary, at a cost not to exceed $200 per year. 
§ 738. Binding of publications for distribution to libraries 
The Public Printer shall supply the Superintendent of Documents 
with sufficient copies of publications distributed in unbound form, to 
be bound and distributed to the State libraries and other designated 
depositories for their permanent files. Every publication of sufficient 
size on any one subject shall be bound separately and receive the title 
suggested by the subject of the volume, and the others shall be dis-
tributed in unbound form as soon as printed. The library edition, as 
well as all other bound sets of congressional numbered documents and 
reports, shall be arranged in volumes and bound in the manner directed 
by the Joint Committee on Printing. 
§ 739. Senate and House document rooms; superintendents 
There shall be one doc-ument room of the Senate and one of the 
House of Representatives, to be designated, respectively, the "Senate 
and House document room." Each shall be in charge of a superintend-
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ent, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Senate and the 
Doorkeeper of the House, respectively, together with the necessary 
assistants. The Senate document room shall be under the jurisdiction 
of the Secretary of the Senate. 
§ 740. Senate Service Department and House Publications Distri-
bution Service; superintendents 
There shall be a Senate Service Department and a House of Repre-
sentatives Publications Distribution Service in the charge of superin-
tendents, appointed respectively by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate 
and Doorkeeper of the House, together with the necessary assistants. 
Reports or documents to be distributed for the Senators and Represent-
atives shall be folded and distributed from the Senate Service Depart-
ment and House of Representatives Publications Distribution Service, 
unless otherwise ordered, and the respective superintendent shall 
notify each Senator and Representative in writing once every sixty 
days of the number and character of publications on hand and as-
signed to him for use and distribution. 
§ 741. Disposition of documents stored at Capitol 
The Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and the Clerk 
and Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, at the convening in 
regular session of each successive Congress shall cause an invoice to 
be made of public documents stored in and about the Capitol, other 
than those belonging to the quota of Members of Congress, to the 
Library of Congress and the Senate and House libraries and docu-
ment rooms. The superintendents of the Senate Service Department 
and House of Representatives Publications Distribution Service shall 
put the documents to the credit of Senators and Representatives in 
quantities equal in the number of volumes and as nearly as possible 
in value, to each Member of Congress, and the documents shall be 
distributed upon the orders of Senators and Representatives, each of 
whom shall be supplied by the superintendents of the Senate Service 
Department and House of Representatives Publications Distribution 
Service with a list of the number and character of the publications 
thus put to his credit, but before apportionment is made copies of any 
of these documents desired for the use of a committee of either House 
shall be delivered to the chairman of the committee. 
Four copies of leather-bound documents shall be reserved and 
carefully stored, to be used in supplying deficiencies in the Senate 
and House libraries caused by wear or loss. 
CHAPTER 9L-C0NGRESSI0NAL RECORD 
Sec. 
901. Congressional Record: arrangement, style, contente, and indexes. 
902. Congressional Record: indexes. 
903. Congressional Record: daily and permanent forms. 
904. Congressional Record: maps; diagrams; illustrations. 
905. Congressional Record: additional insertions. 
906. Congressional Record: gratuitous copies; delivery; subscriptions. 
907. Congressional Record: extracts for Members of Congress; mailing envelopes. 
908. Congressional Record: payment for printing extracts or other documents. 
909. Congressional Record: exchange for Parliamentary Hansard. 
910. Congressional Record: sale of current numbers and bound sets. 
§901. Congressional Record: arrangement, style, contents, and 
indexes 
The Joint Committee on Printing shall control the arrangement and 
style of the Congressional Record, and while providing that it shall be 
substantiallv a verbatim report of proceedings, shall take all needed 
action for the reduction of unnecessary bulk. It shall provide for the 
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publication of an index of the Congressional Record semimonthly 
during and at the close of sessions of Congress. 
§ 902. Congressional Record: indexes 
The Joint Committee on Printing shall designate to the Public 
Printer competent persons to prepare the semimonthly and the session 
index to the Concessional Record and shall fix the compensation to be 
paid b^^ the Public Printer for that work, and direct the form and man-
ner of its publication and distribution. 
§903. Congressional Record: daily and permanent forms 
The public proceedings of each House of Congress as reported by 
the Official Reporters, shall be printed in the Congressional Record, 
which shall be issued in daily form during each session and shall be 
revised, printed, and bound promptly, as directed by the Joint Com-
mittee on Printing, in permanent form, for distribution during and 
after the close of each session of Congress. The daily and the permanent 
Record shall bear the same date, which shall be that of the actual day's 
proceedings reported. The "usual number" of the Congressional Record 
may not be printed. 
§904. Congressional Record: maps; diagrams; illustrations 
Maps, diagrams, or illustrations may not be inserted in the Record 
without the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing. 
§905. Congressional Record: additional insertions 
The Joint Committee on Printing shall provide for printing in the 
daily Record the legislative program for the day together with a list 
of congressional committee meetings and hearings, and the place of 
meeting and subject matter. It shall cause a brief resume of congres-
sional activities for the previous day to be incorporated in the Record, 
together with an index of its contents prepared under the supervision 
of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives, respectively. 
§906. Congressional Record: gratuitous copies; delivery; sub-
scriptions 
The Public Printer shall furnish the Congressional Record only as 
follows: 
of the bound edition— 
to the Senate Service Department five copies for the Vice Presi-
dent and each Senator; 
to the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, each, two 
copies; 
to the Joint Committee on Printing not to exceed one hundred 
copies; 
to the House of Representatives Publications Distribution Serv-
ice, three copies for each Representative and Resident Commis-
sioner in Congress; and 
to the Clerk, Sergeant at Arms, and Doorkeeper of the House 
of Representatives, each, two copies; 
of the daily edition— 
to the Vice President and each Senator, one hundred copies; 
to the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, each, 
twenty-five copies; 
to the Secretary, for official use, not to exceed thirty-five copies; 
and 
to the Sergeant at Arms for use on the floor of the Senate, not 
to exceed fifty copies; 
to each Representative, and Resident Commissioner in Congress, 
sixty-eight copies; 
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to the Clerk, Sergeant at Arms, and Doorkeeper of the House 
of Representatives, each, twenty-five copies; 
to the Clerk, for official use, not to exceed fifty copies, and to 
the Doorkeeper for use on the floor of the House of Representa-
tives, not to exceed seventy-five copies; 
to the Vice President and each Senator, Representative, and 
Resident Commissioner in Congress (and not transferable) three 
copies of which one shall be delivered at his residence, one at his 
office, and one at the Capitol. 
In addition to the foregoing the Congressional Record shall also be 
furnished as follows: 
In unstitched form, and held in reserve by the Public Printer, as 
many copies of the daily Record as may be required to supply a semi-
monthly edition, bound in paper cover together with each semimonthly 
index when it is issued, and then be delivered promptly as follows: 
to each committee and commission of Congress, one daily and one 
semimonthly copy; 
to each joint committee and joint commission in Congress, as may 
be designated by the Joint Committee on Printing, two copies of 
the daily, one semimonthly copy, and one bound copy; 
to the Secretary and the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, for 
office use, each, six semimonthly copies; 
to the Clerk, Serjeant at Arms, and Doorkeeper of the House, 
for office use, each, six semimonthly copies; 
to the Joint Committee on Printing, ten semimonthly copies; 
to the Vice President and each Senator, Representative, and 
Resident Commissioner in Congress, one semimonthly copy; 
to the President of the United States, for the use of the Execu-
tive Office, ten copies of the daily, two semimonthly copies, and 
one bound copy; 
to the Chief Justice of the United States and each of the Asso-
ciate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, one copy 
of the daily; 
to the offices of the marshal and clerk of the Supreme Court of 
the United States, each, two copies of the daily and one semi-
monthly copy; 
to each United States circuit and district judge, and to the chief 
jud^e and each associate judge of the United States Court of 
Claims, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 
the United States Customs Court, the Tax Court of the United 
States, and the United States Court of Military Appeals, upon 
request to a Member of Congress and notification b}^ the Member 
to the Public Printer, one copy of the daily, in addition to those 
authorized to be furnished to Members of Congress under the 
preceding provisions of this section; 
to the offices of the Vice President and the Speaker of the House 
of Representatives, each, six copies of the daily and one semi-
monthly copy; 
to the Sergeant at Arms, the Chaplain, the Postmaster, the 
superintendent and the foreman of the Senate Service Department 
and of the House of Representatives Publications Distribution 
Service, respectively; to the Secretaries to the Majority and the 
Minority of the Senate, and to the Doorkeeper of the House of 
Representatives, each, one copy of the daily; 
to the office of the Parliamentarian of the House of Represent-
atives, six copies of the daily, one semimonthly copy, and two 
bound copies; 
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to the offices of the Official Reporters of Debates of the Senate 
and House of Representatives, respectively, each, fifteen copies of 
the daily, one semimonthly copy, and three bomid copies; 
to the office of the stenographers to committees of the House of 
Representatives, four copies of the daily and one semimonthly 
copy; 
to the office of the Congressional Record Index, ten copies of the 
daily and two semimonthly copies; 
to the offices of the superintendent of the Senate and House 
document rooms, each, three copies of the daily, one semimonthly 
copy, and one bound copy; 
to the offices of the superintendents of the Senate and House 
press galleries, each, two copies of the daily, one semimonthly 
copy, and one bound copy; 
^ 
to the offices of the Legislative Counsel of the Senate and House 
of Representatives, respectively, and the Architect of the Capitol, 
each, three copies of the daily, one semimonthly copy, and one 
bound copy; 
to the Library of Congress for official use in Washington, Dis-
trict of Columbia, and for international exchange, as provided by 
sections 1718 and 1719 of this title, not to exceed one hundred 
and forty-five copies of the daily, five semimonthly copies, and one 
hundred and fifty bound copies; 
to the library of the Senate, three copies of the daily, two semi-
monthly copies, and not to exceed fifteen bound copies; 
to the library of the House of Representatives, five copies of the 
daily, two semimonthly copies, and not to exceed twenty-eight 
bound copies, of which eight copies may be bound in the style 
and manner approved W the Joint Committee on Printing; 
to the library of the Supreme Court of the United States, two 
copies of the daily, two semimonthly copies, and not to exceed 
five bound copies; 
to the library of each United States Court of Appeals, each 
United States District Court, the United States Court of Claims, 
the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the 
United States Customs Court, the Tax Court of the United States, 
and the United States Court of Military Appeals, upon request to 
the Public Printer, one bound copy; 
to the Public Printer for official use, not to exceed seventy-five 
copies of the daily, ten semimonthly copies, and two bound copies; 
to the Director of the Botanic (warden, two copies of the daily 
and one semimonthly copy; 
to the Archivist of the United States, five copies of the daily, 
two semimonthly copies, and two bound copies; 
to the library of each executive department, independent office, 
and establishment of the Government in the District of Columbia, 
except those desi^ated as depository libraries, and to the li-
braries of the municipal government of the District of Columbia, 
the Naval Observatory, and the Smithsonian Institution, each, 
two copies of the daily, one semimonthly copy, and one bound 
copy; 
to the offices of the Governors of Puerto Rico, Guam and the 
Virgin Islands, each, five copies in both daily and bound form; 
to the office of the Governor of the Canal Zone, five copies in 
both daily and bound form; 
to each ex-President and ex-Vice President of the United States, 
one copy of the daily; 
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to each former Senator, Representative, and Commissioner from 
Puerto Rico, upon request to the Public Printer, one copy of the 
daily; 
to the governor of each State, one copy in both daily and bound 
form ; 
to the United States Soldiers' Home and to each of the National 
Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and to each of the State 
soldiers' homes, one copy of the daily; 
to the Superintendent of Documents^ as many daily and bound 
copies as may be required for distribution to depository libraries; 
to the Department of State, not to exceed one hundred and fifty 
copies of the daily, for distribution to each United States embassy 
and legation abroad, and to the principal consular offices in the 
discretion of the Secretary of State; 
to each foreign legation in Washington whose government ex-
tends a like courtesy to our embassies and legations abroad, one 
copy of the daily, to be furnished upon requisition of and sent 
through the Secretary of State; 
to each newspaper correspondent whose name appears in the 
Congressional Directory, and who makes application, for his per-
sonal use and that of the papers he represents, one copy of the 
daily and one copy of the bound, the same to be sent to the office 
address of the member of the press or elsewhere as he directs; not 
to exceed four copies in all may be furnished to members of the 
same press bureau. 
Copies of the daily edition, unless otherwise directed by the Joint 
Committee on Printing, shall be supplied and delivered promptly on 
the day after the actual day's proceedings as originally published. Each 
order for the daily Record shall begin with the current issuej if pre-
vious issues of the same session are not available. The apportionment 
specified for daily copies may not be transferred for the bound form 
and an allotment of daily copies not used by a Member during a session 
shall lapse when the session ends. 
The Public Printer may furnish the daily Record to subscribers at 
$1.50 per month, payable in advance. 
§907. Congressional Record: extracts for Members of Congress; 
mailing envelopes 
The Public Printer may print and deliver, upon the order of a Mem-
ber of Congress and payment of the cost, extracts from the 
Congressional Record. The Public Printer may furnish without 
cost to Members and the Resident Commissioner, envelopes, ready for 
mailing the Congressional Record or any part of it, or speeches, or 
reports in it. Envelopes so furnished shall contain in the upper left-
hand corner the following words: "United States Senate" or "House 
of Representatives, U.S. Part of Congressional Record. Free", and in 
the upper right-hand corner the letters "U.S.S." or "M.C.", and the 
Public Printer may, at the request of a Member or Resident Commis-
sioner, print in addition to the foregoing, his name and State or Com-
monwealth, the date, and the topic or subject matter, not exceeding 
twelve words. He may not print any other words on envelopes, except 
at the personal expense of the Member or Resident Commissioner or-
dering the envelopes, excef)t to affix the official title of a document. The 
Public Printer shall deposit moneys accruing under this section in the 
Treasury of the United States to the credit of the appropriation made 
for the working capital of the Government Printing Office for the year 
in which the work is done, and accounted for in his annual report to 
Congress. 
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§908. Congressional Record: payment for printing extracts or 
other documents 
If a Member or Resident Commissioner fails to pay the cost of print-
ing extracts from the Congressional Record or other documents ordered 
by him to be printed, the Public Printer shall certify the amount due 
to the Sergeant at Arms of the House or the financial clerk of the 
Senate, as the case may be, who shall deduct from any salary due the 
delinquent the amount, or as much of it as the salary due may cover, 
and pay the amount so obtained to the Public Printer, to be applied 
by him to the satisfaction of the indebtedness. 
§909. Congressional 
Record: 
exchange 
for 
Parliamentary 
Hansard 
The Librarian of Congress may furnish a copy of the daily and 
bound Congressional Record to the Undersecretary of State for Ex-
ternal Affairs of Canada in exchange for a copy of the Parliamentary 
Hansard, and the Public Printer shall honor the requisition of the 
Librarian of Congress for it. The Parliamentary Hansard so received 
shall be the property of the Department of State. 
§ 910. Congressional Record: sale of current numbers and bound 
sets 
The Public Printer, under the direction of the Joint Committee, may 
print for sale, at a price sufficient to reimburse the expense of printing, 
the current numbers and bound sets of the Congressional Record. The 
money from sales shall be paid into the Treasury and accounted for in 
his annual report to Congress, and sales may not be made on credit. 
CHAPTER 11—EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIARY PRINTING 
AND BINDING 
Sec. 
1101. Printing and binding for the President. 
1102. Printing to be authorized by law and necessary to the public business, 
not in excess of appropriation, and on special requisition filed with the 
Public Printer. 
1103. Certificate of necessity; estimate of cost. 
1104. Restrictions on use of illustrations. 
1105. Form and style of work for departments. 
1106. Inserting "compliments" forbidden. 
1107. Appropriations chargeable for printing and binding of documents or 
reports. 
1108. Bureau of Budget approval required for printing of periodicals; number 
printed; sale to public. 
1109. Printing documents in two or more editions; full number and allotment 
of full quota. 
1110. Daily examination of Congressional Record for immediate ordering of 
documents for official use; limit; bills and resolutions. 
1111. Annual reports: time for furnishing manuscript and proofs to Public 
Printer. 
1112. Annual reports: type for reports of executive officers. 
1113. Annual reports: exclusion of irrelevant matter. 
1114. Annual reports: number of copies for Congress. 
1115. Annual reports: time of delivery by Public Printer to Congress. 
1116. Annual reports: limitation on number of copies printed; reports of bureau 
chiefs. 
1117. Annual reports: discontinuance of printing of annual or special reports to 
keep within appropriations. 
1118. Documents beyond scope of ordinary departmental business. 
1119. Government publications as public property. 
1120. Blanks and letterheads for judges and officers of courts. 
1121. Paper and envelopes for Government agencies in the District of Columbia. 
1122. Supplies for Government establishments. 
1123. Binding materials; bookbinding for libraries. 
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§ 1101. Printing and binding for the President 
The Public Printer shall execute such printing and binding for the 
President as he may order and make i-equisition for. 
§1102. Printing to be authorized by law and necessary to the 
public business, not in excess of appropriation, and on 
special requisition filed with the Public Printer 
(a) A head of an executive department, or of an independent 
agency or establishment of the Government may not cause to be 
printed, and the Public Printer may not print, a document or matter 
unless it is authorized by law and necessary to the public business. 
(b) Printing may not be done for an executive department, inde-
pendent agency or establishment in a fiscal year in excess of the amount 
of the appropriation. 
(c) Printing may not be done without a special requisition signed 
by the chief of the department, independent agency or establishment 
and filed with the Public Printer. 
§ 1103. Certificate of necessity; estimate of cost 
When a department, the Supreme Court, the Court of Claims, or 
the Library of Congress requires printing or binding to be done, it 
shall certify that it is necessary for the public service. The Public 
Printer shall then furnish an estimate of cost by principal items, 
after which requisitions may be made upon him for the printing or 
binding by the head of the department, the Clerk of the Supreme 
Court, chief Judge of the Court of Claims, or the Librarian of Con-
gress, respectively. The Public Printer shall place the cost to the debit 
of the department in its annual appropriation for printing and 
binding. 
§ 1104. Restrictions on use of illustrations 
Appropriations made for printing and binding may not be used 
for an illustration, engraving, or photograph in a document or report 
ordered printed by Congress unless the order to print expressly au-
thorizes it, nor in a document or report of an executive department, 
independent office or establishment of the Government until the head 
of the executive department or Government establishment certifies in a 
letter transmitting the report that the illustration, engraving, or 
photograph is necessary and relates entirely to the transaction of pub-
lic business. 
§ 1105. Form and style of work for departments 
The Public Printer shall determine the form and style in which the 
printing or binding ordered by a department is executed, and the ma-
terial and the size of type used, having proper regard to economy, 
workmanship, and the purposes for which the work is needed. 
§ 1106. Inserting "compliments** forbidden 
A report, document, or publication distributed by or from an execu-
tive department or independent agency or establishment of the Gov-
ernment may not contain a notice that it is sent with "the compli-
ments" of an officer of the Government, or with a special notice that it 
is so sent, except that notice that it has been sent, with a request for an 
acknowledgment of its receipt, may be given. 
§ 1107. Appropriations chargeable for printing and binding of 
documents or reports 
The cost of printing and binding of documents or reports emanating 
from executive departments, independent agencies or establishments 
of the Government which, before March 30, 1906, was charged to 
appropriations for congressional printing and binding or to appropria-
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tions other than to executive departments, independent agencies or 
establishments, shall be charged as follows: 
(1) the cost of illustrations, composition, stereotyping, and 
other work involved in the actual prejyaration for printing, apart 
from the creation of the manuscript, to the appropriation for 
printing and binding of the agency in which the document or 
report originates. 
(2) the Dalance of cost, to congressional printing and binding 
appropriations or to appropriations for printing and binding of 
tne executive departments, independent agencies or establish-
ments in proportion to the number of copies delivered to each. 
(3) the cost of copies distributed other than through Congress 
or executive agencies or independent offices, as otherwise provided. 
§ 1108. Bureau of Budget approval required for printing of 
periodicals; number printed; sale to public 
The head of an executive department, independent agency or estab-
lishment of the Government, with the approval of the Director of the 
Bureau of the Budget, may use from the appropriations available for 
printing and binding such sums as are necessary for the printing of 
journals, magazines, periodicals, and similar publications he certifies 
in writing to be necessary in the transaction of the public business 
required by law of the department, office, or establishment. There may 
be printed, in addition to those necessary for the public business, not to 
exceed two thousand copies for free distribution by the issuing depart-
ment, office, or establishment. The Public Printer, subject to regulation 
by the Joint Committee on Printing, shall print additional copies re-
quired for sale to the public by the Superintendent of Documents; but 
the printing of these additional copies may not interfere with the 
prompt execution of printing for the Government. 
§ 1109. Printing documents in two or more editions; full number 
and allotment of full quota 
The number of copies of a public document or report authorized to 
be printed for an executive department, independent agency, or es-
tablishment of the Government may be supplied in two or more edi-
tions, instead of one, upon a requisition on the Public Printer by the 
head of the department or independent office, but the aggregate of the 
editions may not exceed the number of copies otherwise authorized. 
This section does not preclude the printing of the full number of a 
document or report, or the allotment of the full quota to Senators and 
Representatives, as otherwise authorized, when a legitimate demand 
for the full complement is known to exist. 
§ 1110. Daily examination of Congressional Record for immediate 
ordering of documents for official use; limit; bills and 
resolutions 
The heads of executive departments, independent agencies and 
establishments, respectively, shall cause daily examination of the Con-
gressional Record for the purpose of noting documents, reports, and 
other publications of interest to their departments, and shall cause 
an immediate order to be sent to the Public Printer for the number 
of copies of the publications required for official use, not to exceed, 
however, the number of bureaus in the department and divisions in 
the office of the head. The Public Printer shall send to each executive 
department, independent agency and establishment, as soon as printed, 
five copies of public bills and resolutions, except to the State Depart-
ment, to which he shall send ten copies of bills and resolutions. When 
the head of a department, independent agency or establishment desires 
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a greater number of a class of bills or resolutions for official use, the 
Public Printer shall furnish them on requisition promptly made. 
§1111. Annual reports: time for furnishing manuscript and 
proofs to Public Printer 
The appropriations made for printing and binding ma,y not be used 
for an annual report or the accompanying documents unless the manu-
script and proof io furnished to the Public Printer in the following 
manner: 
manuscript of the documents accompanying annual reports on 
or before November 1, each year; 
manuscript of the annual report on or before November 15, each 
year; 
complete revised proofs of the accompanying documents on 
December 1, each year, and of the annual reports on December 10, 
each year. 
Annual reports and accompanying documents shall be printed, made 
public, and available for distribution not later than within the first 
Bve days after the assembling of each regular session of Congress. 
This section does not apply to the annual reports of the Smithsonian 
Institution, the Commissioner of Patents, the Comptroller of the 
Currency, or the Seci-etary of the Treasury. 
§ 1112. Annual reports: type for reports of executive officers 
The annual reports of executive officers shall be printed in the same 
type and form as the report of the head of the department which it 
accompanies, unless otherwise ordered by the Joint Committee on 
Printing. 
§1113. Annual reports: exclusion of irrelevant matter 
Executive officers, before transmitting their annual reports, shall 
carefully examine them and all accompanying documents, and exclude 
all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, 
except such as they certify in their letters transmitting the reports are 
necessary and relate entirely to the transaction of the public business. 
§ 1114. Annual reports: number of copies for Congress 
One thousand copies of the annual reports of the departments to 
Congress shall be printed for the Senate, and two thousand for the 
House of Representatives. 
The usual number only of the reports of the Chief of Engineers of 
the Army, the Commissioner of Patents, the Commissioner of Internal 
Revenue, the report of the Chief Signal Officer of the Department of 
the Army, and of the Chief of Ordnance shall be printed. 
§ 1115. Annual reports: time of delivery by Public Printer to 
Congress 
The annual reports of the Executive Departments and the accom-
panying documents shall be delivered by the Public Printer to the 
proper officer of each House of Congress at its first meeting. Other 
reports of the Executive Departments shall be so delivered on or before 
the third Wednesday next after the meeting of Congress or as soon 
after as may be practicable. 
§1116. Annual reports: limitation on number of copies printed; 
reports of bureau chiefs 
Not to exceed five thousand copies, bound in pamphlet form, of the 
annual reports without appendices of a head of a department may be 
printed in a fiscal year. Not to exceed two thousand five hundred copies, 
bound in pamphlet form, of the reports without appendices of a chief 
of bureau may be printed in a fiscal year. 
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A liead of department shall direct whether reports made to him by 
a bureau chief and chief of division may be printed or not. 
§1117. Annual reports: discontinuance of printing of annual or 
special reports to keep within appropriations 
In order to keep expenditures for printing and binding within ap-
propriations, heads of executive departments, independent offices and 
establishments of the Government may discontinue the printing of 
annual or special reports under their respective jurisdictions. When 
the printing of reports is discontinued the original copy shall be kept 
on file in the office of the heads of the respective departments, 
independent offices or establishments for public inspection. 
§ 1118. Documents beyond scope of ordinary departmental busi-
ness 
A book or document not having to do with the ordinary business 
transactions of the executive departments may not be printed on the 
requisition of a department unless expressly authorized by Congress. 
§ 1119. Government publications as public property 
Government publications of a permanent nature furnished by au-
thority of law to officers other than Members of Congress of the United 
States (jovernment, for their official use, shall be stamped "Property 
of the United States Government", and shall be preserved by them 
and delivered to their successors in office as a part of the property of 
the office. 
§ 1120. Blanks and letterheads for judges and officers of courts 
Blanks and letterheads for use by judges and other officials of the 
United States courts, other than those required to be paid for by any 
of these officers out of the emoluments of their offices, shall be printed 
at the (jrovernment Printing Office upon forms prescribed by the De-
partment of Justice, and shall be distributed by it upon requisition. 
§1121. Paper and envelopes for Government agencies in the 
District of Columbia 
The Public Printer may procure, under direction of the Joint Com-
mittee on Printing, as provided by sections 509-516 of this title, and 
furnish on requisition, paper and envelopes (not including envelopes 
printed in the course of manufacture) in common use by two or more 
departments, establishments, or services of the Government in the 
District of Columbia, and reimbursement shall be made to the Public 
Printer from appropriations or funds available for the purpose. Paper 
and envelopes so furnished by the Public Printer may not be procured 
in any other manner. 
§ 1122. Supplies for Government establishments 
The Public Printer may procure and supply, on the requisition of 
the head of an executive department, independent office or establish-
ment of the Government, complete manifold blanks, books, and forms 
required in duplicating processes, and complete patented devices with 
which to file money-order statements, or other uniform official papers, 
and charge them to the allotment for printing and binding or the 
department or Government establishment requiring them. 
§ 1123. Binding materials; bookbinding for libraries 
Binding for the departments of the Government shall be done in 
glain sheM> or cloth, except that record and account books may be 
ound in Russia leather, sheep fleshers, and skivers, when authorized 
by the head of a department. The libraries of the several departments, 
the Library of Congress, the libraries of the Surgeon General's Office, 
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the Patent Office, and the Naval Observatory may have books for the 
exclusive use of these libraries bound in half Turkey, or material no 
more expensive. 
CHAPTER 13—PARTICULAR REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS 
Sec. 
1301. Agriculture, Department of: report of Secretary. 
1302. Agriculture, Department of: monthly crop report and other publications. 
1303. American Historical Association: report. 
1304. Army and Navy registers. 
1305. Attorney General: opinions. 
1306. Civil Service Commission: report. 
1307. Environmental Science Service Administration: charts; sale and distribu-
tion. 
1308. Coast Guard: annual report of the Commandant. 
1309. Coast Guard : notices to mariners and other special publications. 
1310. Commerce Department: navigation and weather information. 
1311. Comptroller General: decisions. 
1312. Director of Public Health of District of Columbia : report. 
1313. Education, Commissioner of: report. 
1314. Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. 
1315. Fish and Wildlife Service: bulletins. 
1316. Fish and Wildlife Service: report of the Director. 
1317. Foreign Relations. 
1318. Geological Survey: classes and sizes of publications; report of mineral 
resources; number of copies; reprints; distribution. 
1319. Geological Survey: specific appropriations required for monographs and 
bulletins. 
1320. Geological Survey : distribution of publications to public libraries. 
1321. Hydrographic Surveys; foreign surveys. 
1322. Immigration and Naturalization Service: report. 
1323. Interstate Commerce Commission: report. 
1324. Labor Statistics, Bureau of: bulletins. 
1325. Labor Statistics, Bureau of: report of Commissioner. 
1326. Librarian of Congress: reports. 
1327. Mines, Bureau of: publications. 
1328. Merchant vessels of the United States. 
1329. Mint: reports of Director. 
1330. Monthly Summary Statement of Imports and Exports. 
1331. National Academy of Sciences: report. 
1332. National encampments of Veterans' organizations; proceedings printed 
annually for Congress. 
1333. National high school and college debate topics. 
1334. Naval Intelligence Oflace: additional copies of publications. 
1335. Naval Observatory Observations. 
1336. Naval Oceanographic OflBce: special publications. 
1337. Patent Office: publications authorized to be printed, 
1338. Patent Office: limitations and conditions concerning printing and litho-
graphing. 
1339. Printing of the President's message. 
1340. Public Printer: annual report. 
1341. Smithsonian Institution: report. 
1342. Soil area surveys: reports; congressional allotments. 
1343. Statistical Abstract of the United States. 
1344. Treasury Department: reports. 
§ 1301. Agriculture, Department of: report of Secretary 
The annual report of the Secreta,ry of Agriculture shall be submitted 
and printed in two parts, as follows: 
part 1, containing purely business and executive matter neces- ^^^1^3°^* conXes's 
sary for the Secretary to submit to the President and Congress; ^"' ^" ongress 
part 2, reports from the different bureaus and divisions, and 
papers prepared by their special agents, accompanied by suitable 
illustrations as are, in the opinion of the Secretary, specially 
suited to interest and instruct the farmers of the country, ahd to 
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include a general report of the operations of the department for 
their information. 
In addition to the usual number, there shall be printed of part 1, one 
thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand copies for the House of 
Representatives, and three thousand copies for the Department of 
Agriculture; and of part 2, one hundred and ten thousand copies for 
the use of the Senate, three hundred and sixty thousand copies for 
the use of the House of Representatives, and thirty thousand copies for 
the use of the Department of Agriculture, the illustrations for part 2 
to be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, and 
executed under the supervision of the Public Printer, in accordance 
with directions of the Joint Committee on Printing, and the title of 
each of the parts shall show that each part is complete in itself. 
§ 1302. Agriculture, Department of: monthly crop report and 
other publications 
The Secretary of Agriculture may cause to be printed the number of 
copies of the monthly crop report, and of other reports and bulletins 
of not more than one hundred octavo pages, he considers necessary. 
§ 1303. American Historical Association: report 
In addition to the usual number of the report of the American His-
torical Association, five thousand five hundred copies shall be printed: 
one thousand for the Senate, two thousand for the House of Repre-
sentatives, one thousand five hundred for distribution by the Associa-
tion and the Smithsonian Institution, and one thousand copies for the 
use of the Association. 
§ 1304. Army and Navy registers 
In addition to the usual number of the registers of the Army and 
Navy, fifteen hundred copies of each shall be printed: five hundred 
for the Senate, and one thousand for the House of Representatives. 
§ 1305. Attorney General: opinions 
The Public Printer shall from time to time print an edition of one 
thousand copies of the opinions of the Attorney General, which shall 
be, as to size, quality of paper, printing, and binding, of uniform 
style and apj)earance, as nearly as practicable, with volume 8 of 
opinions, published in the year 1868. Each volume shall contain proper 
lieadnotes, a complete and full index, and such footnotes as the Attor-
ney General approves. The volumes shall be distributed in the man-
ner the Attorney General prescribes. 
§ 1306. Civil Service Commission: report 
In addition to the usual number of the report of the Civil Service 
Commission twenty-three thousand copies shall be printed: one thou-
sand for the Senate, two thousand for the House of Representatives, 
and twenty thousand for distribution by the Civil Service Commis-
sion. 
§1307. Environmental Science Service Administration: charts; 
sale and distribution 
(a) The charts published by the Environmental Science Service 
Administration shall be sold at cost of paper and printing as nearly as 
j^racticable. The price to the public shall include all expenses incurred 
m actual reproduction of the charts after the original cartography, 
such as photography, opaquing, platemaking, press time and bindery 
operations; the full postage rates, according to the rates for postal 
services used; and any additional cost factors considered appropriate 
by the Secretary such as overhead and administrative expenses 
allocable to the production of the charts and related reference mate-
rials. The costs of basic surveys and geodetic work done may not be 
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included in the price of the charts and reference materials. The Secre-
tary of Commerce shall publish the prices at which charts and ref-
erence materials are sold to the public at least once each calendar year, 
(b) There may not be free distribution of charts except to the de-
partments and officers of the United States requiring them for public 
use; and a number of copies of each sheet, not to exceed three hundred, 
to be presented to such foreign governments, libraries, and scientific 
associations, and institutions of learning as the Secretary of Commerce 
directs; but on the order of Senators and Representatives not to ex-
ceed one hundred copies to each may be distributed through the 
Environmental Science Service Administration. 
§1308. Coast Guard: annual report of the Commandant 
The Secretaiy of the Department of Transportation may authorize 
the printing of the annual report of the Commandant or the Coast 
Guard in such editions as the interests of the Government and of the 
public require. 
§ 1309. Coast Guard: notices to mariners and other special pub-
lications 
The Secretary of the Department of Transportation may authorize 
the printing of notices to mariners and other special publications of 
the Coast Guard in such editions as the interests of the Government 
and of the public require. 
§ 1310. Commerce Department: navigation and weather infor-
mation 
The Secretary of Commerce may cause to be printed the number of 
copies of tide tables, coast pilots, and other special publications relating 
to the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Weather Bureau maps, charts, bul-
letins of not more than one hundred octavo pages, and minor reports 
of the Weather Bureau, he considers for the best interest of the 
Government. 
§ 1311. Comptroller General: decisions 
The Public Printer shall print not more than one volume each of 
the decisions and opinions of the Comptroller General, with such ex-
planatory matter as he may furnish, and furnish ten copies for the 
use of each Member of Congress; two thousand copies to the Comp-
troller General; and for distribution in the manner provided by sec-
tion 7 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (18 Stat. 113), providing for the 
publication of the statutes, one-half the number therein mentioned. 
§ 1312. Director of Public Health of District of Columbia: report 
In addition to the usual number of the report of the Director of 
Public Health of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred 
copies shall be printed: one hundred for the Senate, three hundred and 
sixty for the House of Representatives, and one thousand and forty for 
the Director of Public Health. 
§ 1313. Education, Commissioner of: report 
In addition to the usual number of the report of the Commissioner 
of Education, thirty-five thousand copies shall be printed: five thou-
sand for the Senate, ten thousand for the House of Representatives, 
and twenty thousand for distribution by the Commissioner of 
Education. 
§ 1314. Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac 
The "usual number" of copies of the American Ephemeris and 
Nautical Almanac may not be printed. Instead, there shall be printed 
and bound two thousand five hundred copies, uniform with the 
editions printed for the Department of the Navy, five hundred of 
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which shall be for the use of the Senate, one thousand for the use of 
the House of Representatives, and one thousand for distribution or 
sale by the Department of the Navy. The Secretary of the Navy maj 
cause to be published of the papers supplementary to the Ephemeris 
and Nautical Almanac, one thousand five hundred copies in addition 
to the usual number, one hundred copies for the Senate, four hundred 
for the House of Representatives, and one thousand for distribution 
or sale by the Department of the Navy. The Secretary of the Navy may 
cause additional copies of the Nautical Almanacs extracted from the 
Ephemeris, to be printed for the public service and for sale to naviga-
tors and others. Moneys received from sales of the Ephemeris and of 
the Nautical Almanacs shall be deposited in the Treasury and placed 
to the credit of the general fund for public printing. 
§ 1315. Fish and Wildlife Service: bulletins 
In addition to the usual number of the bulletins of the Fish and 
Wildlife Service, five thousand copies shall be printed: one thousand 
for the Senate, two thousand for the House of Representatives, and 
two thousand for distribution by the Service. 
§ 1316. Fish and Wildlife Service: report of the Director 
In addition to the usual number of the report of the Director of the 
Fish and Wildlife Service, eight thousand copies shall be printed: 
two thousand for the Senate, four thousand for the House of Repre-
sentatives, and two thousand for distribution by the Service. 
§ 1317. Foreign Relations 
In addition to the usual number of Foreign Relations, three thou-
sand copies of each shall be printed: one thousand for the Senate and 
two thousand for the House of Representatives. 
§131S. Geological Survey: classes and sizes of publications; 
report of mineral resources; number of copies; reprints; 
distribution 
The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual 
report of the Director, which shall be confined to one volume of royal 
octavo size; monographs, of quarto size; professional papers, of quarto 
size; buUetinSj of ordinary octavo size; water-supply and irrigation 
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apers, of ordinary octavo size; and maps, folios, and atlases required 
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law. 
In addition to the usual number of the report of the Geological 
Survey, ten thousand copies shall be printed: two thousands for the 
Senate, four thousand for the House of Representatives, four thou-
sand for distribution by the Geological Survey. 
The reports of the Geological Survey, except the annual report of 
the Director, shall be publisned in editions recommended in each case 
by the Director and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, but not 
to exceed ten thousand copies. 
When the edition of a report of the Survey is exhausted, and the de-
mand for it continues, there may be published, on the requisition of the 
Secretary of the Interior, as many additional copies of the report as 
the Director of the Survey states will, in his judgment, be necessary to 
meet the demand. 
The report of the mineral resources of the United States shall be 
published in two octavo volumes and as a distinct publication, the 
number of copies, printing of separate chapters, and mode of distribu-
tion of which shallbe the same as of the annual report. 
Three thousand copies of the monographs and bulletins of the Geo-
logical Survey shall be published. 
The bulletins and professional papers shall be distributed gratui-
tously and of the number published one thousand copies shall be de-
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livered to the Senate and two thousand copies to the House of Repre-
sentatives, for distribution. 
The Director of the Geological Survey shall transmit to the Library 
of Congress two copies of every report of the bureau as soon as the first 
delivery to the Survey is made, in addition to those received by the 
Library of Congress under any other law. 
§1319. Geological Survey: specific appropriations required for 
monographs and bulletins 
The scientific reports known as the monographs and bulletins of the 
Geological Survey may not be published until specific and detailed esti-
mates and specific appropriations based on these estimates are made for 
them. Engravings for the annual reports for monographs and bul-
letins, or of illustrations, sections, and maps, may not be made until 
specific estimates are submitted and specific appropriations made based 
on the estimates. 
§1320. Geological Survey: distribution of publications to public 
libraries 
The Director of the Geological Survey shall distribute to public 
libraries that have not already received them copies of sale publications 
on hand at the expiration of five years after date of delivery to the 
Survey document room, excepting a reserve number not to exceed two 
hundred copies. 
§1321. Hydrographic Surveys; foreign surveys 
Appropriations made for the preparation or publication of foreign 
hydrographic surveys may be applicable only upon approval by the 
Secretary of the Navy, after a report from three competent naval 
officers that the original data for proposed charts justify their publica-
tion. The Secretary of the Navy shall order a board of three naval 
officers to examine and report upon the data before he approves an 
application of moneys to the preparation or publication of charts or 
hydrographic surveys. 
§ 1322. Immigration and Naturalization Service: report 
The number of copies, not to exceed five thousand, to be printed of 
the annual reports of the Immigration and Naturalization Service of 
the Department of Justice shall be subject to the discretion of the 
Attorney General. 
§ 1323. Interstate Commerce Commission: report 
In addition to the usual number of the annual report of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, three thousand copies shall be printed: 
one thousand for the Senate, two thousand for the House, and for 
the use of the Commission that number of the report and other docu-
ments incident to interstate commerce for distribution by it as it 
considers expedient, 
§1324. Labor Statistics, Bureau of: bulletins 
There shall be printed one edition of fifteen thousand copies of each 
issue of the bulletin of the Bureau of Labor Statistics authorized by 
section 5 of Title 29, and extra copies not to exceed twenty thousand of ^_ 
any single issue, when in the opinion of the Commissioner of Labor 737 
Statistics the demand for the bulletin makes an extra edition necessary. 
§ 1325. Labor Statistics, Bureau of: report of Commissioner 
In addition to the usual number of the report of the Commissioner 
of Labor Statistics, twenty-five thousand copies shall be printed: five 
thousand for the Senate, ten thousand for the House of Representa-
tives, and ten thousand for distribution by the Commissioner. 
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Stat. 136; 37 Stat. 
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§1326. Librarian of Congress: reports 
Five thousand copies of the annual and special reports of the Li-
brarian of Congress submitted to Congress, shall be printed and 
bound in cloth for the Library of Congress. 
§1327. Mines, Bureau of: publications 
The publications of the Bureau of Mines shall be published in edi-
tions recommended by the Secretary of the Interior, but not to exceed 
ten thousand copies tor the first edition. When the edition of a publi-
cation of the Bureau of Mines is exhausted and the demand for it con-
tinues, there may be published, on the requisition of the Secretary of 
the Interior, as many additional copies as the Secretary of the Interior 
considers necessary to meet the demand. 
§1328. Merchant vessels of the United States 
Five thousand copies of the annual list of merchant vessels of the 
United States may be printed for distribution by the Coast Guard. 
§1329. Mint: reports of Director 
There may be printed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treas-
ury, for distribution by the Treasury Department, two thousand copies 
of the annual report of the Director of the Mint on the operations of 
the mint and assay offices with appendices, and of the annual report of 
the Director of the Mint on the production of precious metals. 
§1330. Monthly Summary Statement of Imports and Exports 
There shall be printed monthly by the Public Printer thirty-five 
hundred copies of the Monthly Summary Statement of Imports and 
Exports and other statistical information prepared by the Secretary 
of Commerce, five hundred for the Senate, one thousand for the 
House of Representatives, and two thousand for the Department of 
Commerce. 
§1331. National Academy of Sciences: report 
In addition to the usual number of the report of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences, two thousand copies shall be printed: five hundred 
for the Senate, one thousand for the House of Representatives, and 
five hundred for distribution by the National Academy of Sciences. 
^1332. National encampments of Veterans' organizations; pro-
ceedings printed annually for Congress 
The proceedings of the national encampments of the United Spanish 
War Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, 
the American Legion, the Military Order of the Purple Heart, the 
Veterans of World War I of the United States of America, Incor-
porated, the Disabled American Veterans, and the AMVETS (Ameri-
can Veterans of World War II), respectively, shall be printed an-
nually, with accompanying illustrations, as separate House documents 
of the session of the Congress to which they may be submitted. 
§1333. National high school and college debate topics 
(a) The Librarian of Congress shall prepare compilations of per-
tinent excerpts, bibliographical references, and other appropriate 
materials relating to: 
(1) the subject selected annually by the National University 
Extension Association as the national high school debate topic 
and 
(2) the subject selected annually by the American Speech 
Association as the national college debate topic. 
In preparing the compilations the Librarian snaU include materials 
which in his judgment are representative of, and give equal emphasis 
to, the opposing points of view on the respective topics. 
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(b) The compilations on the high school debate topics shall be 
printed as Senate documents and the compilations on the college de-
bate topics shall be printed as House of Representatives documents, 
the cost of which shall be charged to the congressional allotment for 
printing and binding. Additional copies may be printed in the quan-
tities and distributed in the manner the Joint Committee on Printing 
directs. 
§ 1334. Naval Intelligence Office: additional copies of publications 
In addition to one thousand copies previously authorized, the 
Secretary of the Navy may print extra copies of the publications of 
the Office of Naval Intelligence necessary for distribution to the naval 
service and to meet other official demands. The edition of any one 
publication may not exceed two thousand copies. 
§1335. Naval Observatory Observations 
In addition to the usual number of the Observations of the Naval 
Observatory, one thousand eight hundred copies shall be printed: 
three hundred for the Senate, seven hundred for the House of Repre-
sentatives, and eight hundred for distribution by the Naval Observa-
tory; and of the astronomical appendixes to the Observations, one 
thousand two hundred separate copies, and of the meteorological 
and magnetic observations one thousand separate copies, for distribu-
tion by the Naval Observatory. 
§1336. Naval Oceanographic Office: special publications 
The Secretary of the Navy may authorize the printing of notices 
to mariners, light lists, sailing directions, bulletins, and other special 
publications of the United States Naval Oceanographic Office in edi-
tions the interests of the Government and of the public may require. 
§ 1337. Patent Office: publications authorized to be printed 
The Commissioner of Patents, upon the requisition of the Secretary 
of Commerce may cause to be printed; 
1. PATENTS ISSUED.—The patents for inventions and designs issued 
by the Patent Office, including grants, specifications, and drawings, 
together with copies of them, and of patents already issued, in the 
number needed for the business of the office. 
2. TRADE-MARKS AND LABELS.—The certificates of trade-marks and 
labels registered in the Patent Office, including descriptions and draw-
ings, together with copies of them, and of trade-marks and labels 
previou^y registered, in the numbers needed for the business of the 
office. 
3. OFFICIAL GAZETTE.—The Official Gazette of the United States 
Patent Office in numbers sufficient to supply all who subscribe for it at 
$5 a year; also for exchange for other scientific publications desirable 
for tne use of the Patent Office; also to supply one copy to eadi Senator 
and Representative in Congress; with one hundred additional copies, 
together with weekly, monthly, and annual indexes. The "usual num-
ber" of the Official Gazette may not be printed. 
4. REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS.—The annual report of the 
Commissioner of Patents, not exceeding five hundred in number, for 
distribution by him; the annual report of the Commissioner of Patents 
to Congress, without the list of patents, not exceeding one thousand 
five hundred in number, for distribution by him; and the annual report 
of the Commissioner of Patents to Congress, with the list of patents, 
five hundred copies for sale by him, if needed, and in addition the 
"usual number" only shall be printed. 
6. RULES OF PRACJTICE, LAWS, ETC.—Pamphlet copies of the rules 
of practice, and of the patent laws, and pamphlet copies of the laws 
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and rules relating to trade-marks and labels, and circulars relating 
to the business of the office, all in numbers as needed for the business 
of the office. The "usual number" may not be printed. 
6. DECISIONS or COMMISSIONER AND COURTS.—Annual volumes of 
the decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States 
courts in patent cases, not exceeding one thousand five hundred in 
number, of which the usual number shall be printed, and for this 
purpose a copy of each shall be transmitted to Congress promptly 
when prepared. 
7. INDEXES.—Indexes to patents relating to electricity, and indexes 
to foreign patents, in the numbers needed for the business of the office. 
The "usual number" may not be printed. 
§ 1338. Patent Office: limitations and conditions 
concerning 
printing and lithographing 
Printing for the Patent Office making use of lithography or photo-
lithography, together with the plates, shall be contracted for and 
performed under the direction of the Commissioner of Patents, under 
limitations and conditions prescribed by the Joint Committee on 
Printing, and other printing for the Patent Office shall be done by 
the Public Printer under limitations and conditions prescribed by 
the Joint Committee on Printing. The entire work may be done at 
the Government Printing Office when in the judgment of the Joint 
Committee on Printing it is to the interest of the Government. 
§ 1339. Printing of the President's Message 
The message of the President without the accompanying documents 
and reports ^ a l l be printed in pamphlet form, immediately upon its 
receipt by Congress. In addition to the usual number, fifteen thousand 
copies shall be printed, of which five thousand shall be for the Senate, 
and ten thousand for the House of Representatives. 
In addition to the usual number of the President's message and 
accompanying documents, there shall be printed one thousand copies 
for the Senate and two thousand for the House of Representatives. 
The President's message shall be delivered by the printer to the ap-
propriate officers of each House of Congress on or before the third 
Wednesday next after the meeting of Congress, or as soon after as 
may be practicable. 
§ 1340. Public Printer: annual report 
In addition to the usual number of the annual report of the Public 
Printer, one thousand copies shall be printed to be distributed under 
his direction. 
§ 1341. Smithsonian Institution: report 
In addition to the usual number of the report of the Smithsonian 
Institution ten thousand copies shall be printed: one thousand for the 
Senate, two thousand for the House of Representatives, five thousand 
for distribution by the Smithsonian Institution, and two thousand for 
distribution by the National Museum. 
§ 1342. Soil area surveys: reports; congressional allotments 
As soon as the manuscript can be prepared with the necessary maps 
and illustrations to accompany it, a report on each soil area surveyed 
by the Secretary of Agriculture shall be printed in the form of advance 
sheets bound in paper covers, of which not more than two hundred and 
fifty copies shall be for the use of each Senator from the State and not 
more than one thousand copies for the use of each Representative for 
the congressional district or districts in which a survey is rtiade, the 
actual number to be determined on inquiry by the Secretary of Agri-
culture made to the Senators and Representatives, and as many copies 
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for the use of the Department of Agriculture as in the judgment of the 
Secretary of Agriculture are necessary. The Superintendent of Docu-
ments shall hold the total congressional and department edition for 
two years and distribute within these limitations according to the 
requests of the Senators, Eepresentatives, or department, and at the 
expiration of the two-year period turn over to the Department of 
Agriculture the residue of the edition. 
§ 1343. Statistical Abstract of the United States 
In addition to the usual number of the Statistical Abstract of the 
United States, twelve thousand copies shall be printed: three thousand 
for the Senate, six thousand for the House of Representatives, and 
three thousand for distribution by the Secretary of Commerce. 
§ 1344. Treasury Department: reports 
In addition to the usual number of the finance report of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, one thousand copies for the Senate and two thou-
sand for the House of Representatives shall be printed in addition to 
those published as part of the departmental report. 
In addition to the usual number of the annual report of the Comp-
troller of the Currency, thirteen thousand copies shall be printed: one 
thousand for the Senate, two thousand for the House of Representa-
tives, and ten thousand for distribution by the Comptroller of the 
Currency. 
CHAPTER 15—FEDERAL 
REGISTER AND CODE OF 
FEDERAL REGULATIONS 
See. 
1501. Definitions. 
1.502. Custody and printing of Federal documents ; appointment of Director. 
1503. Filing documents with OflSce; notation of time; public inspection; trans-
mission for printing. 
150i. "Federal Register" ; printing; contents ; distribution ; price. 
1505. Documents to be published in Federal Register. 
1506. Administrative Committee of the Federal Register; establishment and 
composition ; powers and duties. 
1507. Filing document as constructive notice; publication in Federal Register 
as presumption of validity ; judicial notice ; citation. 
1508. Publication in Federal Register as notice of hearing. 
1509. Cost of publication; appropriations authorized; penalty mall privilege. 
1510. Code of Federal Regulations. 
1511. International agreements excluded from provisions of chapter. 
§150L Definitions 
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires— 
"document" means a Presidential proclamation or Executive 
order and an order, regulation, rule, certificate, code of fair com-
petition, license, notice, or similar instrument, issued, prescribed, 
or promulgated by a Federal agency; 
"Federal agency" or "agency" means the President of the 
United States, or an executive department, independent board, 
establishment, bureau, agency, institution, commission, or sepa-
rate office of the administrative branch of the Government of the 
United States but not the legislative or judicial branches of the 
Government; 
"person" means an individual, partnership, association, or 
corporation. 
§ 1502. Custody and printing of Federal documents; appointment 
of Director 
The Administrator of General Services, acting through the Office 
of the Federal Register, is charged with the custody and, together 
with the Public Printer, with the prompt and uniform printing and 
distribution of the documents required or authorized to be pub-
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lished by section 1505 of this title. There shall be at the head of the 
Office a director, appointed by, and who shall act under the general 
direction of, the Administrator of General Services in carrying out 
this chapter and the regulations prescribed under it. 
§1503. Filing documents with Office; notation of time; public 
inspection; transmission for printing 
The original and two duplicate originals or certified copies of a 
document required or authorized to be published by section 1505 of 
this title shall be filed with the Office of the Federal Eegister, which 
shall be open for that purpose during all hours of the working days 
when the National Archives Building is open for official business. The 
Administrator of General Services shall cause to be noted on the origi-
nal and duplicate originals or certified copies of each document the day 
and hour of filing. When the original is issued, prescribed, or pro-
mulgated outside the District of Columbia, and certified copies are 
filed before the filing of the original, the notation shall be of the day 
and hour of filing of the certified copies. Upon filing, at least one copy 
shall be immediately available for public inspection in the Office. 
The original shall be retained in the archives of the National 
Archives of the United States and shall be available for inspection 
under reflations prescribed by the Administrator. The Office shall 
transmit immediately to the Government Printing Office for jprinting, 
as provided by this chapter, one duplicate original or certified copy 
of each document required or authorized to be published by section 
1505 of this title. Every Federal agency shall cause to be transmitted 
for filing the original and the duplicate originals or certified copies 
of all such documents issued, prescribed, or promulgated by the agency. 
§ 1504. ^Tederal Register''; printing; contents; distribution; price 
Documents required or authorized to be published by section 1505 of 
this title shall be printed and distributed immediately by the Govern-
ment Printing Office in a serial publication designated the "Federal 
Register." The Public Printer shall make available the facilities of the 
Government Printing Office for the prompt printing and distribution 
of the Federal Register in the manner and at the times required by this 
chapter and the regulations prescribed under it. The contents of the 
daily issues shall be indexed and shall comprise all documents, required 
or authorized to be published, filed with the Office of the Federal Regis-
ter up to the time of the day immediately preceding the day of distnbu-
tion fixed by regulations under this chapter. There shall be printed 
with each document a copy of the notation, required to be made by 
section 1503 of this title, of the day and hour when, upon filing with the 
Office, the document was made available for public inspection. Dis-
tribution shall be made by delivery or by deposit at a post office at a 
time in the morning of the day of distribution fixed by regulations 
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rescribed under this chapter. The prices to be charged for the Federal 
egister may be fixed by the Administrative Committee of the Fed-
eral Register established by section 1506 of this title without reference 
to the restrictions placed upon and fixed for the sale of Government 
publications by sections 1705 and 1708 of this title. 
§ 1505. Documents to be published in Federal Register 
(a) 
PROCLAMATIONS AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS; DOCUMENTS HAVING 
GENERAL APPLICABILITY AND LEGAL EFFECT; DOCUMENTS REQUIRED 
To B E PUBLISHED BY CONGRFJSS. There shall be published in the 
Federal Register— 
(1) Presidential proclamations and Executive orders, except 
those not having general applicability and legal effect or effective 
only against Federal agencies or persons in their capacity as of-
ficers, agents, or employees thereof; 
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(2) documents or classes of documents that the President may 
determine from time to time have general applicability and legal 
effect; and 
(3) documents or classes of documents that may be required so 
to be published by Act of Congress. 
For the purposes of this chapter every document or order which 
prescribes a penalty has general applicability and legal effect. 
(b) 
DOCUMENTS AUTHORIZED TO B E PUBLISHED BY KEGULATIONS; 
COMMENTS AND NEWS ITEMS EXCLUDED. In addition to the foregoing 
there shall also be published in the Federal Register other documents 
or classes of documents authorized to be published by regulations pre-
scribed under this chapter with the approval of the President, but 
comments or news items of any character may not be published in the 
Federal Register. 
(c) SUSPENSION OF REQUIREMENTS FOR FILING OF DOCUMENTS; A L -
TERNATE SYSTEMS FOR PROMULGATING, FILING, OR PUBLISHING DOCU-
MENTS; PRESERVATION OF ORIGINALS. In the event of an attack or 
threatened attack upon the continental United States and a determi-
nation by the President that as a result of an attack or threatened 
attack— 
(1) publication of the Federal Register or filing of documents 
with the Office of the Federal Register is impracticable, or 
(2) under existing conditions publication in the Federal Reg-
ister would not serve to give appropriate notice to the public of 
the contents of documents, the President may, without regard 
to any other provision of law, suspend all or part of the require-
ments of law or regulation for filing with the Office or publi-
cation in the Federal Register of documents or classes of docu-
ments. 
The suspensions shall remain in effect until revoked by the Presi-
dent, or by concurrent resolution of the Congress. The President 
shall establish alternate systems for promulgating, filing, or publish-
ing documents or classes of documents affected by such suspen-
sions, including requirements relating to their effectiveness or validity, 
that may be considered under the then existing circumstances 
practicable to provide public notice of the issuance and of the contents 
of the documents. The alternate systems may, without limitation, pro-
vide for the use of regional or specialized publications or depositories 
for documents, or of the press, the radio, or similar mediums of gen-
eral communication. Compliance with alternate systems of filing or 
fmblication shall have the same effect as filing with the Office or pub-
ication in the Federal Register under this chapter or other law or 
regulation. With respect to documents promulgated under alternate 
systems, each agency shall preserve the original and two duplicate 
originals or two certified copies for filing with the Office when the 
President determines that it is practicable. 
§ 1506. Administrative Committee of the Federal Register; estab-
lishment and composition; powers and duties 
The Administrative Committee of the Federal Register shall con-
sist of the Archivist of the United States or Acting Archivist, who 
shall be chairman, an officer of the Department of Justice designated 
by the Attorney General, and the Public Printer or Acting Public 
Printer. The Director of the Federal Register shall act as secretary 
of the committee. The authority of the Administrator of General 
Services, under section 754 of title 40, to regroup, transfer, and dis- 
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tribute functions within the General Services Administration, does 
not extend to the Committee or its functions. The committee shall 
prescribe, with the approval of the President, regulations for carry-
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ing out this chapter. The regulations shall provide, among other 
things— 
(1) the manner of certification of copies required to be certified 
under section 1503 of this title, which certification may be per-
mitted to be based upon confirmed communications from outside 
the District of Columbia; 
(2) the documents which shall be authorized under section 
1505(b) of this title to be published in the Federal Register; 
(3) the manner and form in which the Federal Register shall be 
printed, reprinted, compiled, indexed, bound, and distributed; 
(4) the number of copies of the Federal Register, which shall 
be printed, reprinted, and compiled, the number which shall be 
distributed without charge to Members of Congress, officers and 
employees of the United States, or Federal agency, for official 
use, and the number which shall be available for distribution to 
the public; and 
(5) the prices to be charged for individual copies of, and sub-
scriptions to, the Federal Register and reprints and bound volumes 
of it. 
§1507. Filing document as constructive notice; publication in 
Federal Register as presumption of validity; judicial 
notice; citation 
A document required by section 1505 (a) of this title to be published 
in the Federal Register is not valid as against a person who has not 
had actual knowledge of it until the duplicate originals or certified 
copies of the document have been filed with the Office of the Federal 
Register and a copy made available for public inspection as provided 
by section 1503 of this title. Unless otherwise specifically provided by 
statute, filing of a document, required or authorized to be published 
by section 1505 of this title, except in cases where notice by publica-
tion is insufficient in law, is sufficient to give notice of the contents of 
the document to a person subject to or affected by it. The publication 
in the Federal Register of a document creates a rebuttable presump-
tion— 
(1) that it was duly issued, prescribed, or promulgated; 
(2) that it was filed with the Office of the Federal Register and 
made available for public inspection at the day and hour stated 
in the printed notation; 
(3) that the copy contained in the Federal Register is a true 
copy of the original; and 
(4) that all requirements of this chapter and the regulations 
prescribed under it relative to the document have been complied 
with. 
The contents of the Federal Register shall be judicially noticed and 
without prejudice to any other mode of citation, may be cited by 
volume and page number. 
§ 1508. Publication in Federal Register as notice of hearing 
A notice of hearing or of opportunity to be heard, required or au-
thorized to be given by an Act of Congress, or which may otherwise 
properly be given, shall be deemed to have been ^iven to all persons 
residing within the States of the Union and the District of Columbia, 
except m cases where notice by publication is insufficient in law, when 
the notice is published in the Federal Register at such a time that the 
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eriod between the publication and the date fixed in the notice for the 
earing or for the termination of the opportunity to be heard is— 
(1) not less than the time specifically prescribed for the pub-
lication of the notice by the appropriate Act of Congress; or 
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(2) not less than fifteen days when time for publication is not 
specifically prescribed by the Act, without prejudice, however, 
to the effectiveness of a notice of less than fifteen days where the 
shorter period is reasonable. 
§ 1509. Cost of publication; appropriations authorized; penalty 
mail privilege 
Payments made for the Federal Register shall be covered into the 
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. The cost of printing, reprinting, 
wrapping, binding, and distributing the Federal Register and other 
expenses incurred by the Government Printing Office in carrying out 
the duties placed upon it by this chapter shall be borne by the appro-
priations to the Government Printing Office and the appropriations 
are made available, and are authorized to be increased by additional 
sums necessary for the purposes, the increases to be based upon esti-
mates submitted by the Public Printer. 
Copies of the Federal Register mailed by the Government are en-
titled to the free use of the United States mails in the same manner as 
the official mail of the executive departments of the Government. The 
cost of mailing the Federal Register to officers and employees of 
Federal agencies in foreign countries shall be borne by the respective 
agencies. 
§ 1510. Code of Federal Regulations 
(a) The Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, with 
the approval of the President, may require, from time to time as it 
considers necessary, the preparation and publication in special or 
supplemental editions of the Federal Register of complete codifica-
tions of the documents of each agency of the Government having gen-
eral applicability and legal effect, issued or promulgated by the agency 
by publication in the Federal Register or by filing with the Adminis-
trative Committee, and are relied upon by the agency as authority for, 
or are invoked or used by it in the discharge of, its activities or func-
tions, and are in effect as to facts arising on or after dates specified by 
the Administrative Committee. 
(b) A codification published under subsection (a) of this section 
shall be printed and bound in permanent form and shall be designated 
as the "Code of Federal Regulations." The Administrative Committee 
shall regulate the binding of the printed codifications into separate 
books with a view to practical usefulness and economical manufacture. 
Each book shall contain an ex])lanation of its coverage and other aids 
to users that the Administrative Committee may require. A general 
index to the entire Code of Federal Regulations shall be separately 
printed and bound. 
(c) The Administrative Committee shall regulate the supplementa-
tion and the collation and republication of the printed codifications 
with a view to keeping the Code of Federal Regulations as current as 
practicable. Each book shall be either supplemented or collated and 
republished at least once each calendar year. 
(d) The Office of the Federal Register shall prepare and publish the 
codifications, supplements, collations, and indexes authorized by this 
section. 
(e) The codified documents of the several agencies published in the 
supplemental edition of the Federal Register under this section, as 
amended by documents subsequently filed with the Office and published 
in the daily issues of the Federal Register, shall be prima facie evi-
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dence of the text of the documents and of the fact that they are in 
effect on and after the date of publication. 
(f) The Administrative Committee shalLprescribe, with the ap-
proval of the President, regulations for carrying out this section. 
(g) This section does not require codification of the text of Presi-
dential documents published and periodically compiled in supplements 
to Title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 
§1511. International agreements excluded from provisions of 
chapter 
This chapter does not apply to treaties, conventions, protocols, and 
other international agreements, or proclamations thereof by the 
President. 
CHAPTER 17—DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF PUBLIC 
DOCUMENTS 
Sec. 
1701. Publications for public distribution to be distributed by the Public Printer; 
mailing lists. 
1702. Superintendent of Documents; sale of documents. 
1703. Superintendent of Documents: assistants, blanks, printing and binding. 
1704. Superintendent of Documents: pay of employees for night, Sunday, holi-
day, and overtime work. 
1705. Printing additional copies for sale to public; regulations. 
1706. Printing and sale of extra copies of documents. 
1707. Reprinting of documents required for sale. 
1708. Prices for sales copies of publications; crediting of receipts; resale by 
dealers; sales agents. 
1709. Blank forms: printing and sale to public. 
1710. Index of documents: number and distribution. 
1711. Catalog of Government publications. 
1712. Documents for use of the Public Printer. 
1713. Documents to be delivered to the Executive Mansion. 
1714. Publications for use of General Services Administration. 
1715. Publications for department or officer or for congressional committees. 
1716. Public documents for legations and consulates of United States. 
1717. Documents and reports for foreign legations. 
1718. Distribution of Government publications to the Library of Congress. 
1719. International exchange of Government publications. 
1720. Documents not needed by departments to be turned over to Superintendent 
of Documents. 
1721. Exchange of documents by heads of departments. 
1722. Departmental distribution of publications, 
§ 1701. Publications for public distribution to be distributed hy 
the Public Printer; mailing lists 
Money appropriated by any Act may not be used for services in an 
executive department or other Government establishment at the Dis-
trict of Columbia, in the work of addressing, wrapping, mailing, or 
otherwise dispatching a publication for public distribution, except 
maps, weather reports, and weather cards issued by them or for the 
purchase of material or supplies to be used in this work. The Public 
Printer shall perform this work at the Government Printing Office. 
The head of an executive department, independent office, and establish-
ment of the Government at the District of Columbia, shall furnish from 
time to time to the Public Printer mailing lists^ in convenient form, and 
changes in them, or penalty mail slips, for use m the 
public distribution 
of pmblications issued by the department or establishment. The Pub-
lic Printer may furnish copies of a publication only in accordance with 
law or the instruction of the head of the department or establishment 
issuing the publication. 
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This section does not apply to orders, instructions, directions, notices, 
or circulars of information printed for and issued by an executive 
department or other Government establishment or to the distribution 
of public documents by Senators or Members of the House of Eepre-
sentatives or to the Senate Service Department, House of Represent-
atives Publications Distribution Service, and document rooms of the 
Senate or House of Representatives. 
§ 1702. Superintendent of Documents; sale of documents 
The Public Printer shall appoint a competent person to act as Super-
intendent of Documents who shall be under the control of the Public 
Printer. 
When an officer of the Government having in his charge documents 
published for sale desires to be relieved of them, he may turn them over 
to the Superintendent of Documents, who shall receive and sell them 
under this section. Moneys received from the sale of documents shall be 
returned to the Public Printer on the first day of each month and be 
covered into the Treasury monthly. 
The Superintendent of Documents shall also report monthly to the 
Public Printer the number of documents received by him and the 
disposition made of them. He shall have general supervision of the 
distribution of all public documents, and to his custody shall be com-
mitted all documents subject to distribution, excepting those printed 
for the special official use of the executive departments, which shall 
be delivered to the departments, and those printed for the use of the 
two Houses of Congress, which shall be delivered to the Senate Service 
Department and House of Representatives Publications Distribution 
Service and distributed or delivered ready for distribution to Members 
upon their order by the superintendents of the Senate Service Depart-
ment and House Publications Distribution Service, respectively. 
§1703. Superintendent of Documents: assistants, blanks, print-
ing and binding 
The Public Printer, upon the requisition of the Superintendent of 
Documents, shall appoint necessary assistants, furnish blanks, and do 
the printing and binding required by his office, the cost to be charged 
against the appropriation for printing and binding for Congreas, The 
Public Printer shall provide convenient office, storage, and distribut-
ing rooms for the use of the Superintendent of Documents. 
§ 1704. Superintendent of Documents: pay of employees for 
night, Sunday, holiday, and overtime work 
Employees in the office of the Superintendent of Documents may 
be paid for night, Sunday, holiday, and overtime work at rates not 
in excess of the rates of additional pay for this work allowed other 
employees of the Government Printing Office under section 305 of 
this title. 
§1705. Printing additional copies for sale to public; regulations 
The Public Printer shall print additional copies of a Government 
publication, not confidential in character, required for sale to the 
public by the Superintendent of Documents, subject to regulation by 
the Joint Committee on Printing and without interference with the 
prompt execution of printing for the Government. 
§ 1706. Printing and sale of extra copies of documents 
The Public Printer shall furnish to applicants giving notice before 
the matter is put to press, not exceeding two hundred and fifty to any 
one applicant, copies of bills, reports, and documents. The applicants 
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shall pay in advance the price of the printing. The printing of these 
copies for private parties may not interfere with the printing for the 
Government. 
§ 1707. Reprinting of documents required for sale 
The Superintendent of Documents may order reprinted, from time 
to time, public documents required for sale, subject to the approval of 
the Secretary or head of the department in which the public document 
originated. The appropriation for printing and binding shall be reim-
bursed for the cost of reprints from the moneys received by the Super-
intendent of Documents from the sale of public documents. 
§ 1708. Prices for sales copies of publications; crediting of 
receipts; resale by dealers; sales agents 
The price at which additional copies of Government publications 
are offered for sale to the public by the Superintendent of Documents 
shall be based on the cost as determined by the Public Printer plus 
50 percent. A discount of not to exceed 25 percent may be allowed to 
book dealers and quantity purchasers, but the printing may not inter-
fere with prompt execution of work for the Government. Surplus 
receipts from sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United 
States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. 
The Superintendent of Documents may prescribe terms and condi-
tions under which he authorizes the resale of Government publications 
by book dealers, and he may designate any Government officer his 
agent for the sale of Government publications under regulations 
agreed upon by the Superintendent of Documents and the head of the 
respective department or establishment of the Government. 
§ 1709. Blank forms: printing and sale to public 
The Public Printer may prim for sale by the Superintendent of 
Documents to the public, upon prepayment, additional copies of 
approved Government blank forms. 
§1710. Index of documents: number and distribution 
The Superintendent of Documents, at the close of each regular ses-
sion of Congress, shall prepare and publish a comprehensive index of 
public documents, upon a plan approved by the Joint Committee on 
Printing. The Public Printer shall, immediately upon its publication, 
deliver to him a copy of every document printed by the Government 
Printing Office. The head of each executive department, independent 
agency and establishment of the Government shall deliver to him a 
copy of every document issued or published by the department, bureau, 
or office not confidential in character. He shall also prepare and print 
in one volume a consolidated index of Congressional documents, and 
shall index single volumes of documents as the Joint Committee on 
Printing directs. Two thousand copies each of the comprehensive index 
and of the consolidated index shall be printed and bound in addition 
to the usual number, two hundred for the Senate, eight hundred far 
the House of Representatives and one thousand for distribution by the 
Superintendent of Documents. 
§ 1711. Catalog of Government publications 
On the first day of each month the Superintendent of Documents 
shall prepare a catalog of Government publications which shall show 
the documents printed during the preceding month, where obtainable, 
and the price. Two thousand copies of the catalog shall be printed 
in pamphlet form for distribution. 
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§ 1712. Documents for use of the Public Printer 
The Public Printer may retain out of all documents, bills, and 
resolutions printed the number of copies absolutely needful for the 
official use of the Government Printing Office, not exceeding five of 
each. 
§ 1713. Documents to be delivered to the Executive Mansion 
The Public Printer shall deliver to the Executive Mansion two 
copies of each document, bill, and resolution as soon as printed and 
ready for distribution. 
§ 1714. Publications for use of General Services Administration 
The Public Printer shall print and deliver to the General Services 
Administration for use by the Archivist of the United States, includ-
ing use by the Presidential Library established for the President dur-
ing whose term the documents were issued, which shall be chargeable 
to Congress three copies each of the following publications: 
House documents and public reports, bound; 
Senate documents and public reports, bound; 
Senate and House journals, bound; 
United States Code and Supplements, bound; 
United States Statutes at Large, bound; 
the United States Keports, bound; 
all other documents bearing a congressional number, or printed 
upon order of a committee in either House of Congress, or of a de-
partment, independent agency or establishment, commission, or 
officer of the Government, except confidential matter, blank forms, 
and circular letters not of a public character; and 
public bills and resolutions in Congress in each parliamentary 
stage. 
The Superintendent of Documents shall furnish, without cost, copies 
of publications available for free distribution. 
§ 1715. Publications for department or officer or for congressional 
committees 
When printing not bearing a congressional number, except confiden-
tial matter, blank forms, and circular letters not of a public character, 
is done for a department or officer of the Government, or not of a con-
fidential character, is done for use of congressional committees, two 
copies shall be sent, unless withheld by order of the committee, by the 
Public Printer to the Senate and House of Representatives libraries, 
respectively, and one copy each to the document rooms of the Senate 
and House of Representatives, for reference; and these copies may not 
be removed. 
§ 1716. Public documents for legations and consulates of United 
States 
Only books published by the Government, and usually known by the 
name of "Public Documents", may be supplied to a legation or con-
sulate of the United States as are first designated by the Secretary of 
State, by an order to be recorded in the State Department, as suitable 
for and required by the legation and consulate. 
§ 1717. Documents and reports for foreign legations 
Documents and reports may be furnished to foreign legations to 
the United States upon request stating those desired and requisition 
upon the Public Printer by the Secretary of State. Gratuitous dis-
tribution may only be made to legations whose Governments furnish 
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to legations from the United States copies of their printed and legisla-
tive documents desired. 
§1718. Distribution of Government publications to the Library 
of Congress 
There shall be printed and furnished to the Library of Congress for 
official use in the District of Columbiaj and for international exchange 
as provided by section 1719 of this title, not to exceed one hundred 
and fifty copies of: 
House documents and reports, bound; 
Senate documents and reports, bound; 
Senate and House journals, bound; 
public bills and resolutions; 
the United States Code and supplements, bound; and 
all other publications and maps which are printed, or otherwise 
reproduced, under authority of law, upon the requisition of a 
Congressional committee, executive department, bureau, inde-
pendent office, establishment, commission, or officer of the Govern-
ment. 
Confidential matter, blank forms, and circular letters not of a pub-
lic character shall be excepted. 
In addition, there shall be delivered as printed to the Library of 
Congress: 
ten copies of each House document and report, unbound; 
ten copies of each Senate document and report, unbound; and 
ten copies of each private bill and resolution and fifty copies of 
the laws in slip form. 
§ 1719. International exchange of Government publications 
For the purpose of more fully carrying into effect the convention 
concluded at Brussels on March 15,1886, and proclaimed by the Pres-
ident of the United States on January 15, 1889, there shall be sup-
25 Stat. 1465. 
pHed to the Library of Congress not to exceed one hundred and 
twenty-five copies each of all Government publications, including 
the daily and bound copies of the Congressional Record, for distri-
bution, through the Smithsonian Institution, to foreign governments 
which agree to send to the United States similar publications of their 
governments for delivery to the Library of Congress. 
§ 1720. Documents not needed by departments to be turned over 
to Superintendent of Documents 
Public documents accumulating in the several executive depart-
ments, bureaus, and offices, not needed for official use, shall be turned 
over to the Superintendent of Documents annually for distribution or 
sale. 
§ 1721. Exchange of documents by heads of departments 
Heads of departments may exchange surplus documents for other 
documents and books required by them, when it is to the advantage 
of the public service. 
§ 1722. Departmental distribution of publications 
Government publications printed for or received by the executive 
departments, whether for official use or for distribution, except those 
re<]^uired by section 1701 of this title to be distributed by the Public 
Printer, shall be distributed by a competent person detailed to this 
duty in each department by the head of the department. He shall 
prevent duplication and make detailed report to the head of the 
department. 
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CHAPTER 19^DEP0SIT0RY LIBRARY PROGRAM 
Sec. 
1901. Definition of Government publication. 
1902. Availability of Government publications through Superintendent of Docu-
ments; lists of publications not ordered from Government Printing 
Oflice. 
1903. Distribution of publications to depositories; notice to Government com-
ponents ; cost of printing and binding. 
1904. Classified list of Government publications for selection by depositories. 
1905. Distribution to depositories; designation of additional libraries; justifica-
tion ; authorization for certain designations. 
1906. Land-grant colleges constituted depositories. 
1907. Libraries of executive departments, service academies, and independent 
agencies constituted depositories; certifications of need; disposal of 
unwanted publications. 
1908. American Antiquarian Society to receive certain publications. 
1909. Requirements of depository libraries; reports on conditions; investiga-
tions; termination; replacement. 
1910. Designations of replacement depositories; limitations on numbers; con-
ditions. 
1911. Free use of Government publications in depositories; disposal of unwanted 
publications. 
1912. Regional depositories; designation; functions; disposal of publications. 
1913. Appropriations for supplying depository libraries; restriction. 
1914. Implementation of depository library program by Public Printer. 
§ 1901. Definition of Government publication 
"Government publication" as used in this chapter, means informa-
tional matter vi^hich is published as an individual document at Gov-
ernment expense, or as required by law. 
§ 1902. Availability of Government publications through Superin-
tendent of Documents; lists of publications not ordered 
from Government Printing Office 
Government publications, except those determined by their issuing 
components to be required for official use only or for strictly adminis-
trative or operational purposes which have no public interest or ed-
ucational value and publications classified for reasons of national 
security, shall be made available to depository libraries through the 
facilities of the Superintendent of Documents for public information. 
Each component of the Government shall furnish the Superintendent 
of Documents a list of such publications it issued during the previous 
month, that were obtained from sources other than the Government 
Printing Office. 
§ 1903. Distribution of publications to depositories; notice to Gov-
ernment components; cost of printing and binding 
Upon request of the Superintendent of Documents, components of 
the Government ordering the printing of publications shall either 
increase or decrease the number of copies of publications furnished 
for distribution to designated depository libraries and State libraries 
so that the number of copies delivered to the Superintendent of 
Documents is equal to the number of libraries on the list. The number 
thus delivered may not be restricted by any statutory limitation in 
force on August 9,1962. Copies of publications furnished the Superin-
tendent of Documents for distribution to designated depository 
libraries shall include— 
the journals of the Senate and House of Representatives; 
all publications, not confidential in character, printed upon the 
requisition of a congressional committee; 
Senate and House public bills and resolutions; and 
reports on private bills, concurrent or simple resolutions; 
but not so-called cooperative publications which must necessarily be 
sold in order to be self-sustaining. 
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The Superintendent of Documents shall currently inform the com-
ponents of the Government ordering printing of publications as to 
the number of copies of their publications required for distribution 
to depository libraries. The cost of printing and binding those pub-
lications distributed to depository libraries obtained elsewhere than 
from the Government Printing Office, shall be borne by comj>onents 
of the Government responsible for their issuance; those requisitioned 
from the Government Printing Office shall be charged to appropria-
tions provided the Superintendent of Documents for that purpose. 
§ 1904. Classified list of Government publications for selection by 
depositories 
The Superintendent of Documents shall currently issue a classified 
list of Government publications in suitable form, containing annota-
tions of contents and listed by item identification numbers to facilitate 
the selection of only those publications needed by depository libraries. 
The selected publications shall be distributed to depository libraries 
in accordance with regulations of the Superintendent of Documents, 
as long as they fulfill the conditions provided by law. 
§ 1905. Distribution to depositories; designation of additional 
libraries; justification; authorization for certain desig-
nations 
The Government publications selected from lists prepared by the 
Superintendent of Documents, and when requested from him, shall 
be distributed to depository libraries specifically designated by law 
and to libraries designated by Senators, Representatives, and the Resi-
dent Commissioner from Puerto Rico, by the Commissioner of the 
District of Columbia, and by the Governors of Guam, American 
Samoa, and the Virgin Islands, respectively. Additional libraries 
within areas served by Representatives or the Resident Commissioner 
from Puerto Rico may be designated by them to receive Government 
E
ublications to the extent that the total number of libraries designated 
y them does not exceed two within each area. Not more than two ad-
ditional libraries within a State may be designated by each Senator 
from the State. Before an additional library within a State, congres-
sional district or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is designated as 
a depository for Government publications, the head of that library 
shall furnish his Senator, Representative, or the Resident Com-
missioner from Puerto Rico, as the case may be, with justification 
of the necessity for the additional designation. The justification, which 
shall also include a certification as to the need for the additional de-
pository library designation, shall be signed by the head of every 
existing depository library within the congressional district or the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or by the head of the library authority 
of the State or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, within which the 
additional depository library is to be located. The justification for 
additional depository library designations shall be transmitted to the 
Superintendent of Documents by the Senator, Representative, or the 
Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, as the case may be. The 
Commissioner of the District of Columbia may designate two deposi-
I 
tory libraries in the District of Columbia, the Governor of Guam and 
the Governor of American Samoa may each designate one depository 
library in Guam and American Samoa, respectively, and the Gov-
ernor of the Virgin Islands may designate one depository library on 
the island of Saint Thomas ana one on the island of Saint Croix. 
§ 1906. Land-grant colleges constituted depositories 
Land-grant colleges are constituted depositories to receive Govern-
ment publications subject to the depository laws. 
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§ 1907. Libraries of executive departments, service academies, and 
independent agencies constituted depositories; certifica-
tions of need; disposal of unwanted publications 
The libraries of the executive departments, of the United States' 
Military Academy, of the United States Naval Academy, of the United 
States Air Force Academy, of the United States Coast Guard Acad-
emy, and of the United States Merchant Marine Academy are desig-
nated depositories of Government publications. A depository library 
within each independent agency may be designated upon certification 
of need by the head of the independent agency to the Superintendent 
of Documents. Additional depository libraries within executive de-
partments and independent agencies may be designated to receive 
Government publications to the extent that the number so designated 
does not exceed the number of major bureaus or divisions of the 
departments and independent agencies. These designations may be 
made only after certification by the head of each executive department 
or independent agency to the Superintendent of Documents as to the 
justifiable need for additional depository libraries. Depository libraries 
within executive departments and independent agencies may dispose 
of unwanted Government publications after first offering them to the 
Library of Congress and the Archivist of the United States. 
§ 1908. American Antiquarian Society to receive certain publica-
tions 
One copy of the public journals of the Senate and of the House of 
Eepresentatives, and of the documents published under the orders of 
the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, shall be trans-
mitted to the Executive of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for 
the use and benefit of the American Antiquarian Society of the 
Commonwealth. 
§ 1909. Requirements of depository libraries; reports on condi-
tions; investigations; termination; replacement 
Only a library able to provide custody and service for depository 
materials and located in an area wliere it can best serve the public need, 
and within an area not already adequately served by existing deposi-
tory libraries may be designated by Senators, Representatives, the 
Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, the Commiss'oner of the 
District of Columbia, or the Governors of Guam, American Samoa, 
or the Virgin Islands as a depository of Government publications. 
The designated depository libraries shall report to the Superintendent 
of Documents at least every two years concerning their condition. 
The Superintendent of Documents shall make firsthand investiga* 
tion of conditions for which need is indicated and include the results 
of investigations in his annual report. When he ascertains that the 
number of books in a depository library is below ten thousand, other 
than Government publications, or it has ceased to be maintained so as 
to be accessible to the public, or that the Government publicationt* 
which have been furnished the library have not been properly main-
tained, he shall delete the library from the list of depository libraries 
if the library fails to correct the unsatisfactory conditions within six 
months. The Representative or the Resident Commissioner from 
Puerto Rico in whose area the library is located or the Senator who 
made the designation, or a. successor of the Senator, and, in the case 
of a library in the District of Columbia, the Commissioner of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and, in the case of a library in Guam, American 
Samoa, or the Virgin Islands, the Governor, shall be notified and shall 
then be authorized to designate another library within the area served 
by him, which shall meet the conditions herein required, but which 
may not be in excess of the number of depository libraries authorized 
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by law within the State, district, territory, or the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico, as the case may be. 
§ 1910. Designations of replacement depositories; limitations on 
numbers; conditions 
The designation of a library to replace a depository library, other 
than a depository library specifically designated by law, may be made 
only within the limitations on total numl^rs specified by section 1905 
of this title, and only when the library to be replaced ceases to exist, or 
when the library voluntarily relinquishes its depository status, or when 
the Superintendent of Documents determines that it no longer fulfills 
the conditions provided by law for depository libraries. 
§ 1911. Free use of Government publications in depositories; dis-
posal of unwanted publications 
Depository libraries shall make Government publications available 
for the free use of the general public, and may dispose of them after 
retention for five years under section 1912 of this title, if the depository 
library is served by a regional depository library. Depository libraries 
not served by a regional depository library, or that are regional deposi-
tory libraries themselves, shall retain Government publications perma-
nently in either printed form or in microfacsimile form, except super-
seded publications or those issued later in bound form which may be 
discarded as authorized by the Superintendent of Documents. 
§ 1912. Regional depositories; designation; functions; disposal of 
publications 
Not more than two depository libraries in each State and the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico may be designated as regional depositories, 
and shall receive from the Superintendent of Documents copies of all 
new and revised Government publications authorized for distribu-
tion to depository libraries. Designation of regional depository li-
braries may be made by a Senator or the Resident Commissioner from 
Puerto Rico within the areas served by them, after approval by the 
head of the library authority of the State or the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico, as the case may be, who shall first ascertain from the 
head of the library to be so designated that the library will, in addi-
tion to fulfilling the requirements for depository libraries, retain at 
least one copy of all Government publications either in printed or 
microf acsimile form (except those authorized to be discarded by the 
Superintendent of Documents); and within the region served will 
provide interlibrary loan, reference service, and assistance for deposi-
tory libraries in the disposal of unwanted Government publications. 
The agreement to function as a regional depository library shall be 
transmitted to the Superintendent of Documents by the Senator or 
the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico when the designation 
is made. 
The libraries designated as regional depositories may permit deposi-
tory libraries, within the areas served by them, to dispose of Govern-
ment publications which they have retained for five years after first 
offering them to other depository libraries within their area, then to 
other libraries. 
§1913. Appropriations 
for 
supplying 
depository 
libraries; 
restriction 
Appropriations available for the Office of Superintendent of Docu-
ments may not be used to supply depository libraries documents, 
books, or other printed matter not requested by them, and their re-
quests shall be subject to approval by the Superintendent of Docu-
ments. 
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§ 1914. Implementation of depository library program by Public 
Printer 
The Public Printer, with the approval of the Joint Committee on 
Printing, as provided by section 103 of this title, may use any meas-
ures he considers necessary for the economical and practical imple-
mentation of this chapter. 
CHAPTER 21—ARCHIVAL ADMINISTRATION 
Sec. 
2101. Definitions. 
2102. Archivist of the United States. 
2103. Acceptance of records for historical preservation. 
2104. Responsibility for custody, use, and withdrawal of records. 
2105. Preservation, arrangement, duplication, exhibition of records. 
2106. Servicing records. 
2107. Material accepted for deposit. 
2108. Presidential archival depository. 
2109. Depository for agreements between States. 
2110. Preservation of motion-picture films, still pictures, and sound recordings. 
2111. Reports; correction of violations. 
2112. Legal status of reproductions; oflScial seal; fees for copies and reproduc-
tions. 
2113. Limitation on liability. 
2114. Records of Congress. 
§2101. Definitions 
As used in sections 2103-2113 of this title— 
"Presidential archival depository" means an institution operated by 
the United States to house and preserve the papers and books of a 
President or former President of the United States, together with 
other historical materials belonging to a President or former President 
of the United States, or related to his papers or to the events of his 
official or personal life; 
"historical materials" including books, correspondence, documents, 
papers, pamphlets, works of art, models, pictures, photographs, plats, 
maps, films, motion pictures, sound recordings, and other objects or 
materials having historical or commemorative value. 
§ 2102. Archivist of the United States 
The Administrator of General Services shall appoint the Archivist 
of the United States. 
§ 2103. Acceptance of records for historical preservation 
When it appears to the Administrator of General Services to be in 
the public interest, he may— 
(1) accept for deposit with the National Archives of the United 
States the records of a Federal agency or of the Congress deter-
mined by the Archivist of the United States to have sufficient 
historical or other value to warrant their continued preservation 
by the United States Government; 
(2) direct and effect the transfer to the National Archives of 
the United States of records of a Federal agency that have been 
in existence for more than fifty years and determined by the 
Archivist of the United States to have sufficient historical or 
other value to warrant their continued preservation by the United 
States Government, unless the head of the agency which has 
custody of them certifies in writing to the Administrator that 
they must be retained in his custody for use in the conduct of the 
regular current business of the agency; 
(3) direct and effect, with the approval of the head of the 
originating agency, or if the existence of the agency has been 
terminated, then with the approval of his successor in function, 
if any, the transfer of records deposited or approved for deposit 
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with the National Archives of the United States to public or 
educational institutions or associations; title to the records to 
remain vested in the United States unless otherwise authorized by 
Congress; and 
(4) transfer materials from private sources authorized to be 
received by the xVdministrator by section 3106 of this title. 
§ 2104. Responsibility for custody, use, and withdrawal of records 
The Administrator of General Services shall be responsible for the 
custody, use, and withdrawal of records transferred to him. When 
records, the use of which is subject to statutory limitations and restric-
tions, are so transferred, permissive and restrictive statutory provi-
sions with respect to the examination and use of records applicable 
to the head of the agency from which the records were transferred 
or to employees of that agency are applicable to the Administrator, 
the Archivist of the United States, and to the employees of the General 
Services Administration, respectively. When the head of an agency 
states in writing restrictions that appear to him to be necessary or 
desirable in the public interest on the use or examination of records 
being considered for transfer from his custody to the Administrator, 
the Administrator shall impose the restrictions on the records so trans-
ferred, and may not remove or relax the restrictions without the con-
currence in writing of the head of the agency from which the material 
was transferred, or of his successor in function, if any. Statutory 
and other restrictions referred to in this section shall remain in force 
until the records have been in existence for fifty years unless the 
Administrator by order determines as to specific bodies of records 
that the restrictions shall remain in force for a longer period. Restric-
tion on the use or examination of records deposited with the National 
Archives of the United States imposed by section 3 of the National 
Archives Act, approved June 19, 1934, shall continue in force regard-
less of the expiration of the tenure of office of the official who imposed 
them but may be removed or relaxed by the Administrator with the 
concurrence in writing of the head of the agency from which material 
was transferred or of his successor in function, if any. 
§ 2105. Preservation, arrangement, duplication, exhibition of 
records 
The Administrator of General Services shall provide for the 
preservation, arrangement, repair and rehabilitation, duplication and 
reproduction (including microcopy publications), description, and 
exhibition of records or other documentary material transferred to 
him as may be needful or appropriate, including the preparation and 
publication of inventories, indexes, catalogs, and other finding aids 
or guides to facilitate their use. He may also prepare guides and other 
finding aids to Federal records and, when approved by the National 
Historical Publications Commission, publish such historical works 
and collections of sources as seem appropriate for printing or other-
wise recording at the public expense. 
§ 2106. Servicing records 
The Administrator of General Services shall provide and maintain 
facilities he considers necessary or desirable for servicing records in 
liis custody that are not exempt from examination by statutory or other 
restrictions. 
§ 2107. Material accepted for deposit 
When the Administrator of General Services considers it to be in 
the public interest he may accept for deposit— 
(1) the papers and other historical materials of a President 
or former President of the United States, or other official or 
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64 Stat. 590. 
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former official of the Government, and other papers relating to 
and contemporaiT with a President or former President of the 
United States, subject to restrictions agreeable to the Administra-
tor as to their use; and 
(2) documents, including motion-picture films, still pictures, 
and sound recordings, from private sources that are appropriate 
for preservation by the Government as evidence of its organiza-
tion, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and transactions. 
§ 2108. Presidential archival depository 
(a) When the Administrator of General Services considers it to be in 
the public interest he may accept, for and in the name of the United 
States, land, buildings, and equipment offered as a gift to the United 
States for the purposes of creating a Presidential archival depository, 
and take title to the land, buildings, and equipment on behalf of the 
United States, and maintain, operate, and protect them as a Presi-
dential archival depository, and as part of the national archives sys-
tem; and make agreements, upon terms and conditions he considers 
proper, with a State, political subdivision, university, institution of 
higher learning, institute, or foundation to use as a Presidential arch-
ival depository land, buildings, and equipment of the State, subdivi-
sion, university, or other organization, to be made available by it 
without transfer of title to the United States, and maintain, operate, 
and protect the depository as a part of the national archives system. 
The Administrator shall submit a report in writing on a proposed congrels.*" 
Presidential archival depository to the President of the Senate and 
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and include— 
a description of the land, buildings, and equipment offered 
as a gift or to be made available without transfer of title; 
a statement of the terms of the proposed agreement, if any; 
a general description of the types of papers, documents, or 
other historical materials proposed to be deposited in the Presi-
dential archival depository so to be created, and of the terms of the 
proposed deposit; 
a statement of the additional improvements and equipment, 
if any, necessary to the satisfactory operation of the depository, 
together with an estimate of the cost; and 
an estimate of the annual cost to the United States of main-
taining, operating, and protecting the depository. 
The Administrator may not take title to land, buildings, and equip-
ment or make an agreement, until the expiration of the first period of 
60 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress following the 
date on which the report is transmitted, computed as follows: 
Continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment sine die, but 
the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjourn-
ment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded. 
(b) When the Administrator considers it to be in the public interest, 
he may deposit in a Presidential archival depository papers, docu-
ments, or other historical materials accepted under section 3106 of this 
title, or Federal records appropriate for preservation. 
(c) When the Administrator considers it to be in the public interest, 
he may exercise, with respect to papers, documents, or other historical 
materials deposited under this section, or otherwise, in a Presidential 
archival depository, all the functions and responsibilities otherwise 
vested in him pertaining to Federal records or other documentary 
materials in his custody or under his control. The Administrator, in 
negotiating for the deposit of Presidential historical materials, shall 
take steps to secure to the Government, as far as possible, the right to 
have continuous and permanent possession of the materials. Papers, 
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Restrictions. 
Records dis-
posal. 
Assistarjce to 
universities, etc. 
Fees. 
Office space for 
former President 
of U.S. 
Gifts, bequests, 
etc., acceptance. 
Duplicate 
originals. 
documents, or other historical materials accepted and deposited under 
section 3106 of this title and this section are subject to restrictions as to 
their availability and use stated in writing by the donors or depositors, 
including the restriction that they shall be kept in a Presidential 
archival depository. The restrictions shall be respected for the period 
stated, or until revoked or terminated by the donors or depositors or 
by persons legally qualified to act on their behalf. Subject to the re-
strictions, the Admmistrator may dispose by sale, exchange, or other-
wise, of papers, documents, or other materials which the Archivist 
determines to have no permanent value or historical interest or to be 
surplus to the needs of a Presidential archival depository. 
(d) When the Administrator considers it to be in the public interest, 
he may cooperate with and assist a university, institution of higher 
learning, institute, foundation, or other organization or qualifie(| indi-
vidual to further or to conduct study or research in historical materials 
deposited in a Presidential archival depository. 
(e) When the Administrator considers it to be in the public interest, 
he may charge and collect reasonable fees for the privilege of visiting 
and viewing exhibit rooms or museum space in a Presidential archival 
depository. 
(f) When the Administrator considers it to be in the public interest, 
he may provide reasonable office space in a Presidential archival de-
pository for the personal use of a former President of the United 
States. 
(g) When the Administrator considers it be in the public interest, 
he may accept gifts or bequests of money or other property for the 
purpose of maintaining, operating, protecting, or improving a Presi-
dential archival depository. The proceeds of gifts or bequests, together 
with the proceeds from fees or from sales of historical materials, copies 
or reproductions, catalogs, or other items, having to do with a Presi-
dential archival depository, shall be paid into the National Archives 
Trust Fund to be held, administered, and expended for the benefit and 
in the interest of the Presidential archival depository in connection 
with which they were received, including administrative and custodial 
expenses as the Administrator determines. 
12109. Depository for agreements between States 
The Administrator of General Services may receive duplicate 
originals or authenticated copies of agreements or compacts entered 
into under the Constitution and laws of the United States, between 
States of the Union, and take necessary actions for their preservation 
and servicing. 
§2110. Preservation of motion-picture films, still pictures, and 
sound recordings 
The Administrator of General Services may make and preserve 
motion-picture films, still pictures, and sound recordings pertaining 
to and illustrative of the historical development of the United States 
Government and its activities, and provide for preparing, editing, 
titling, scoring, processing, duplicating, reproducing, exhibiting, and 
releasing for non-profit educational purposes, motion-picture films, 
still pictures, and sound recordings in his custody. 
§ 2111. Reports; correction of violations 
(a) When the Administrator of General Services considers it neces-
sary, he may obtain reports from Federal agencies on their activities 
under chapters 21,26,27,29,31, and 33 of this title. 
(b) When the Administrator finds that a provision of chapter 21, 
25, 27, 29, or 31 of this title has been or is being violated, he shall in-
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form in writing the head of the agency concerned of the violation 
and make recommendations for its correction. Unless corrective meas-
ures satisfactory to the Administrator are inaugurated within a reason-
able time, the Administrator shall submit a written report of the Report to pre si-
matter to the President and the Congress. 
'''"* ""'^ congress. 
§ 2112. Legal status of reproductions; official seal; fees for copies 
and reproductions 
(a) When records that are required by statute to be retained in-
definitely have been reproduced by photographic, microphotographic, 
or other processes, in accordance with standards established by the 
Administrator of General Services the indefinite retention by the 
photographic, microphotographic, or other reproductions constitutes 
compliance with the statutory requirement for the indefinite retention 
of the original records. The reproductions, as well as reproductions 
made under regulations to carry out chapter 21, 29, and 31 of this title, 
shall have the same legal statuts as the originals. 
(b) There shall be an official seal for the National Archives of the 
United States which shall be judicially noticed. When a copy or re-
production, furnished under this section, is authenticated by the 
official seal and certified by the Administrator, the copy or reproduc-
tion shall be admitted in evidence equally with the original from which 
it was made. 
(c) The Administrator may charge a fee not in excess of 10 percent 
^^^ limitation. 
above the costs or expenses for making or authenticating copies or re-
productions of materials transferred to his custody. Fees shall be paid 
into, administered, and expended as a part of the National Archives 
Trust Fund. He may not charge for making or authenticating copies 
Restriction. 
or reproductions of materials for official use by the United States Gov-
ernment. Eeimbursement may be accepted to cover the cost of fur- 
Reimbursement 
nishing copies or reproductions that could not otherwise be furnished. °'' ''"^'^^ 
§ 2113. Limitation on liability 
When letters and other intellectual productions, exclusive of mate-
rial copyrighted or patented, come into the custody or possession of 
the Administrator of General Services, the United States or its agents 
are not liable for infringement of literary property rights or analogous 
rights arising out of use of the materials for display, inspection, re-
search, reproduction, or other purposes. 
§ 2114. Records of Congress 
The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Repre- ^Transmittal to 
sentatives, acting jointly, shall obtain at the close of each Congress all 
the noncurrent records of the Congress and of each congressional com-
mittee and transfer them to the General Services Administration for 
preservation, subject to the orders of the Senate or the House of Rep-
resentatives, respectively. 
CHAPTER 23—NATIONAL 
ARCHIVES TRUST FUND 
BOARD 
Sec. 
2301. Establishment of Board; membership, 
2302. Authority of Board; seal; employees; bylaws, rules, regulations. 
2303. Powers and obligations of Board; liability of members. 
2304. Compensation of members; availability of trust funds for expenses of 
Board. 
2305. Acceptance of gifts. 
2306. Investment of funds. 
2307. Trust fund account; disbursements; sales of publications and releases. 
2308. Tax exemption for gifts. 
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§ 2301. Establishment of Board; membership 
The National Archives Trust Fund Board shall consist of the 
Archivist of the United States, as Chairman, and the chairman of the 
House of Representatives, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service 
and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil 
Service. The authority of the Administrator of General Services under 
section 754 of title 40 to regroup, transfer, and distribute functions 
within the General Services Administration does not extend to the 
Board or its functions. Membership on the Board is not an office with-
in the meaning of the statutes of the United States. 
§2302. Authority of Board; seal; employees; bylavv^s, rules, 
regulations 
In carrying out the purposes of this chapter, the Board may— 
(1) adopt an official seal, which shall be judicially noticed; 
(2) appoint, or authorize the Chairman to appoint, without 
regard to the civil-service laws, necessary employees, and fix their 
duties; and 
(3) adopt bylaws, rules, and regulations necessary for the 
administration of its functions under this chapter. 
§ 2303. Powers and obligations of Board; liability of members 
The Board shall have all the usual powers and obligations of a 
trustee with respect to property and funds administered by it, but the 
members of the Board are not personally liable, except for malfeasance. 
§ 2304. Compensation of members; availability of trust funds for 
expenses of Board 
Compensation may not be paid to the members of the Board for their 
services as members. Costs incurred by the Board in carrying out 
its duties under this chapter, including the expenditures necessarily 
made by the members of the Board in the performance of their duties 
and the compensation of persons employed by the Board, shall be paid 
out of income from trust funds available to the Board for the purpose. 
Unless otherwise restricted by the instrument of gift or bequest, the 
Board, by resolution, may authorize the Chairman to use for these 
purposes, or for any other purpose for which funds may be expended 
under this chapter, the principal of a gift or bequest accepted under 
this chapter. 
§ 2305. Acceptance of gifts 
The Board may accept, receive, hold, and administer gifts or bequests 
of money, securities, or other personal property, for the benefit of or in 
connection with the national archival and records activities admin-
istered by the General Services Administration as may be approved 
by the Board. 
§ 2306. Investment of funds 
The Secretary of the Treasury shall receipt for moneys or securities 
composing trust funds given or bequeathed to the Board and shall 
invest, reinvest, and retam the moneys or securities as the Board from 
time to time determines. The Board may not engage in business or 
exercise a voting privilege which may be incidental to securities in 
such trust funds, nor may the Secretary of the Treasury make invest-
ments for the account of the Board which could not lawfully be made 
by a trust company in the District of Columbia, unless directly author-
ized by the instrument of gift or bequest under which the funds to be 
invested are derived, and may retain investments accepted by the 
Board. 
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§ 2307. Trust fund account; disbursements; sales of publications 
and releases 
The income from trust funds held by the Board, and the proceeds 
from the sale of securities and other personal property, as and when 
collected, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States in a 
trust fund account to be known as the National Archives Trust Fund, 
subject to disbursement by the Division of Disbursement, Treasury 
Department, on the basis of certified vouchers of the Chairman or his 
authorized agent, unless otherwise restricted by the instrument of gift 
or bequest, for and in the interest of the national archival and records 
activities administered by the General Services Administration, in-
cluding but not restricted to the preparation and publication of spe-
cial works and collections of sources and the preparation, duplication, 
editing, and release of historical photographic materials and sound 
recordings. The Chairman may sell publications and releases author-
ized by this section and paid for out of the income derived from trust 
funds at a price which will cover their cost plus 10 percent, and moneys 
received from these sales shall be paid into, administered, and ex-
pended as part of the National Archives Trust Fund. 
§ 2308. Tax exemption for giUs 
Gifts and bequests received by the Board under this chapter, and 
the income from them are exempt from taxes. 
CHAPTER 25—NATIONAL HISTORICAL 
PUBLICATIONS 
COMMISSION 
Sec. 
2501. Creation ; composition; appointment and tenure. 
2502. Vacancies. 
2503. Executive director; editorial and clerical staff; reimbursement of members 
for transportation expenses ; honorarium. 
2504. Duties; authorization of grants for collection, reproduction, and publication 
of documentary historical source material. 
2505. Special advisory committees; membership; reimbursement. 
2506. Records to be kept by grantees. 
2507. Report to Congress. 
§ 2501. Creation; composition; appointment and tenure 
The National Historical Publications Commission shall consist of 
the Archivist of the United States (or an alternate designated by 
him), who shall be Chairman; the Librarian of Congress (or an alter-
nate designated by him) ; one Senator to be appointed, for a term of 
four years, by the President of the Senate; one Representative to be 
appointed, for a term of two years, by the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives; one member of the judicial branch of the Govern-
ment to be appointed, for a term of four years, by the Chief Justice 
of the United States; one representative of the Department of State 
to be appointed, for a term of four years, by the Secretary of State; 
one representative of the Department of Defense to be appointed, for 
a term of four years, by the Secretary of Defense; two members of 
the American Historical Association to be appointed for terms of 
four years by the council of the Association; and two other members 
outstanding in the fields of the social or physical sciences to be 
appointed for terms of four years by the President of the L^nited 
States. 
The Commission shall meet annually and on call of the Chairman. 
The authority of the Administrator of General Services under sec-
tion 754 of title 40 to regroup, transfer, and distribute functions 
sastat. ssi. 
within the General Services Administration does not extend to the 
Commission or its functions. 
5 use 5101 
e( seq. 
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§ 2502. Vacancies 
A person appointed to fill a vacancy in the membership of the Com-
mission shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the member 
whom he succeeds, and his appointment shall be made in the same 
manner as the appointment of his predecessor. 
§ 2503. Executive director; editorial and clerical staff; reimburse-
ment of members for transportation expenses; hono-
rarium 
The Commission may appoint, without reference to chapter 51 of 
title 5, an executive director and such editorial and clerical staff as 
it determines to be necessary. Members of the Commission who rep-
resent a branch or agency of the Government shall serve as members of 
the Commission without additional compensation. All members of 
the Commission shall be reimbursed for transportation expenses in-
curred in attending meetings of the Commission, and members other 
than those who represent a branch or agency of the Government of 
the United States shall receive instead of subsistence en route to or 
from or at the place of service, for each day actually spent in con-
nection with the performance of tlicir duties as members of the Com-
mission, a sum, not to exceed $25, as the Commission prescribes. 
§2504. Duties; authorization of grants for collection, reproduc-
tion, and publication of documentary historical source 
material 
The Commission shall make plans, estimates, and recommenda-
tions for historical works and collections of sources, it considers ap-
propriate for printing or otherwise recording at the public expense. 
It shall also cooperate with and encourage appropriate Federal, 
State, and local agencies and nongovernmental institutions, societies, 
and individuals in collecting and preserving and, when it considers it 
desirable, in editing and publishing the papers of outstanding citizens 
of the United States, and other documents as may be important for 
an understanding and appreciation of the history of the United 
States. The Administrator of General Services may, within the limits 
of available appropriated and donated funds, make allocations to 
Federal agencies, and grants to State and local agencies and to non-
profit organizations and institutions, for the collecting, describing, 
preserving and compiling, and publishing (including microfilming 
and other forms of reproduction) of documentary^ sources significant 
to the history of the United States. Before making allocations and 
grants, the Administrator should seek the advice and recommenda-
tions of the National Historical Publications Commission. The Chair-
man of the Commission shall transmit to the Administrator from time 
to time, and at least annually, plans, estimates, and recommendations 
approved by the Commission. 
§ 2505. Special advisory committees; membership; reimbursement 
The Commission may establish special advisory committees to con-
sult with and make recommendations to it, from among the leading 
historians, political scientists, archivists, librarians, and other spe-
cialists of the Nation. Members of special advisory committees shall be 
reimbursed for transportation and other expenses on the same basis as 
members of the Commission. 
§ 2506. Records to be kept by grantees 
(a) Each recipient of grant assistance under section 2504 of this 
title shall keep such records as the Administrator of General Services 
prescribes, including records which fully disclose the amount and dis-
position by the recipient of the proceeds of the grants, the total cost of 
the project or undertaking in connection with which funds are given or 
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used, and the amount of that portion of the cost of the project or under-
taking supplied by other sources, and any other records as will facili-
tate an effective audit. 
(b) The Administrator and the Comptroller General of the United 
States or their authorized representatives shall have access for the 
purposes of audit and examination to books, documents, papers, and 
records of the recipients that are pertinent to the grants received under 
section 2504 of this title. 
§ 2507. Report to Congress 
The Administrator of General Services shall make an annual report 
to the Congress concerning projects undertaken and carried out under 
section 2504 of this title, including detailed information concerning 
the receipt and use of all appropriated and donated funds made avail-
able to him. 
CHAPTER 27—FEDERAL 
RECORDS COUNCIL 
Sec. 
2701. 
Establishment; composition ; chairman. 
§ 2701. Establishment; composition; chairman 
The Administrator of General Services shall establish a Federal 
Records Council, and shall advise and consult with the Council with a 
view to obtaining its advice and assistance in carrying out the purposes 
of chapters 21,25,27,29, and 31 of this title. The Council shall include 
representatives of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of 
the Government in such number as the Administrator determines, but 
at least four representatives of the legislative branch, at least two rep-
resentatives of the judicial branch, and at least six representatives of 
the executive branch. Members of the Council representing the legis-
lative branch shall be designated, in equal number, by the President of 
the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, re-
spectively. Members oi the Council representing the judicial branch 
shall be designated by the Chief Justice of the LTnited States. The Ad-
ministrator may designate from persons named by tlie head of an 
executive agency concerned, not more than one representative from the 
agency to serve as a member of the Council. Members of the Council 
shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for all 
necessary expenses actually incurred in the performance of the 
duties as members of the Council. 
The Council shall elect a chairman from among its own membership, 
and shall meet at least annually. 
CHAPTER 29—RECORDS MANAGEMENT BY ADMINIS-
TRATOR OF GENERAL SERVICES 
Sec. 
2901. Definitions. 
2902. Records management, surveys, and reports. 
2903. Custody and control of property. 
2904. Records management by Administrator; duties generally. 
2905. Establishment of standards for selective retention of records; security 
measures. 
2906. Personal inspection and survey of records. 
2907. Records centers for storage, process, and servicing of records. 
2908. Regulations. 
2909. Retentions of records. 
2910. Final authority of Administrator in records practices, 
§2901. Definitions 
As used in chapters 25 and 27, sections 2901, 2903-2910, chapter 31, 
and sections 2101-2115 of this title— 
"records" has the meaning given by section 3301 of this title; 
"records center" means an establishment maintained by the 
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Administrator of General Services or by a Federal agency pri-
marily for the storage, servicing, security, and processing of 
records that must be preserved for varying periods of time and 
need not be retained in office equipment and space; 
"servicing" means making available for use information in 
records and other materials in the custody of the Administrator— 
(1) by furnishing the records or other materials, or infor-
mation from them, or copies or reproductions thereof, to agen-
cies of the Government for official use, and to the public; and 
(2) by making and furnishing authenticated or unauthen-
ticated copies or reproductions of the records and other 
materials; 
"National Archives of the United States" means those official 
records that have been determined by the Archivist to have suffi-
cient historical or other value to warrant their continued preser-
vation by the United States Government, and have been accepted 
by the Administrator for deposit in his custody; 
"unauthenticated copies" means exact copies or reproductions 
of records or other materials that are not certified as such under 
seal and that need not be legally accepted as evidence. 
§ 2902. Records management, surveys, and reports 
The Administrator of General Services may— 
(1) make surveys of Government records and records manage-
ment and disposal practices and obtain reports on them from Fed-
eral agencies; 
(2) promote, in cooperation with the executive agencies, im-
proved records management practices and controls in agencies, in-
cluding the central storage or disposition of records not needed by 
agencies for their current use; and 
(3) report to the Congress and the Director of the Bureau of 
the Budget from time to time the results of these activities. 
§ 2903. Custody and control of property 
The Administrator shall have immediate custody and control of the 
National Archives Building and its contents, and may design, con-
struct, purchase, lease, maintain, operate, protect, and improve build-
ings used by him for the storage of records of Federal agencies in the 
District of Columbia and elsewhere. 
§ 2904. Records management by Administrator; duties generally 
The Administrator of General Services shall provide for the eco-
nomical and efficient management of records of Federal agencies by— 
(1) analyzing, developing, promoting, and coordinating stand-
ards, procedures, and techniques designed to improve the man-
agement of records, to insure the maintenance and security of 
records deemed appropriate for preservation, and to facilitate the 
segregation and disposal of records of temporary value, and 
(2) promoting the efficient and economical utilization of space, 
equipment, and supplies needed to create, maintain, store, and 
service records. 
§ 2905. Establishment of standards for selective retention of rec-
ords ; security measures 
The Administrator of General Services shall establish standards for 
the selective retention of records of continuing value, and assist Fed-
eral agencies in applying the standards to records in their custody. He 
shall notify the head of a Federal agency of any actual, impending, or 
threatened unlawful removal, defacing, alteration, or destruction of 
records in the custody of the agency that shall come to his attention, 
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and assist the liead of the agency in initiating action through the 
Attorney General for the recovery of records unlawfully removed and 
for other redress provided by law. 
§ 2906. Personal inspection and survey of records 
The Administrator of General Services may inspect or survey per-
sonally or by deputy the records of any Federal agency, and make 
surveys of records management and records disposal practices in agen-
cies. Officials and employees of agencies shall give him full cooperation 
in inspections and surveys. Eecords, the use of which is restricted by 
law or for reasons of national security or the public interest, shall be 
inspected or surveyed in accordance with regulation promulgated by 
the Administrator, subject to the approval of the head of the custodial 
agency. 
§2907. Records centers for storage, process, and servicing of 
records 
The Administrator of General Services may establish, maintain, and 
operate— 
(1) records centers for the storage, processing, and servicing 
of records for Federal agencies pending their deposit with the 
National Archives of the United States or their disposition in 
any other manner authorized by law; and 
(2) centralized microfilming services for Federal agencies. 
§2908. Regulations 
Subject to applicable law, the Administrator of General Services 
shall promulgate regulations governing the transfer of records from 
the custody of one executive agency to that of another. 
§ 2909. Retention of records 
The Administrator of General Services may empower a Federal 
agency, upon the submission of evidence of need, to retain records for 
a longer period than that specified in disposal schedules approved by 
Congress; and, in accordance wnth regulations promulgated by him, 
may withdraw disposal authorizations covering records listed in dis-
posal schedules approved by Congress. 
§ 2910. Final authority of Administrator in records practices 
The Administrator of General Services shall have final authority in 
matters involving the conduct of surveys of Government records, and 
records creation, maintenance, management and disposal practices in 
Federal agencies, under sections 2904-2909 and 3101-3107 of this title, 
and the implementation of recommendations based on surveys. 
CHAPTER 31—RECORDS MANAGEMENT BY FEDERAL 
AGENCIES 
Sec. 
3101. Records management by agency heads; general duties. 
3102. Establishment of program of management. 
3103. Storage, processing, and servicing of records. 
3104. Certifications and determinations on transferred records. 
3105. Safeguards. 
3106. Unlawful removal, des'truction of records. 
3107. Authority of Comptroller General. 
§ 3101. Records management by agency heads; general duties 
The head of each Federal agency shall make and preserve records 
containing adecjuate and proper documentation of the organization, 
functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of 
the agency and designed to furnish the information necessary to pro-
tect the legal and financial rights of the Government and of persons 
directly affected by the agency's activities. 
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§3102. Establishment of program of management 
The head of each Federal agency shall establish and maintain an 
active, continuing program for the economical and efficient manage-
ment of the records of the agency. The program, among other things, 
shall provide for 
(1) effective controls over the creation, maintenance, and use 
of records in the conduct of current business; 
(2) cooperation with the Administrator of General Services 
in applying standards, procedures, and techniques designed to 
improve the management of records, promote the maintenance 
and security of records deemed appropriate for preservation, and 
facilitate the segregation and disposal of records of temporary 
value; and 
(3) compliance with sections 2101-2113, 2501-2507, 2701, 2l)01, 
2903-2909, and 3101-3107, of this title and the regulations issued 
under them. 
§ 3103. Storage, processing, and servicing of records 
When the head of a Federal agency determines that it may effect 
substantial economies or increased operating efficiency, he shall provide 
for appropriate storage, processing, and servicing of records in a 
records center maintained and operated by the Administrator of Gen-
eral Services or, when approved by him, in a center maintained and 
operated by the head of the Federal agency. 
§ 3104. Certifications and determinations on transferred records 
An official of the Government who is authorized to certify to facts 
on the basis of records in his custody, may certify to facts on the basis 
of records that have been transferred by him or his predecessors to the 
Administrator of General Services, and may authorize the Adminis-
trator to certify to facts and to make administrative determinations on 
the basis of records transferred to the Administrator, notwithstanding 
any other law. 
§3105. Safeguards 
The head of each Federal agency shall establish safeguards against 
the removal or loss of records he determines to be necessary and 
required by regulations of the Administrator of General Services. 
Safeguards shall include making it known to officials and employees 
of the agency— 
(1) that records in the custody of the agency are not to be 
alienated or destroyed except in accordance with sections 3301-
3314 of this title, and 
(2) the penalties provided by law for the unlawful removal 
or destruction of records. 
§ 3106. Unlawful removal, destruction of records 
The head of each Federal agency shall notify the Administrator of 
General Services of any actual, impending, or threatened unlawful 
removal, defacing, alteration, or destruction of records in the custody 
of the agency of which he is the head that shall come to his attention, 
and with the assistance of the Administrator shall initiate action 
through the Attorney General for the recovery of records he knows or 
has reason to believe have been unlawfully removed from his agency, or 
from another Federal agency whose records have been transferred to 
his legal custody. 
§ 3107. Authority of Comptroller General 
Sections 2101-2113,2501-2507,2701,2901,2904^2910, and 3101-3107, 
of this title do not limit the authority of the Comptroller General of 
the United States with respect to prescribing accounting systems, 
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forms, and procedures, or lessen the responsibility of collecting and 
disbursing officers for rendition of their accounts for settlement by the 
General Accounting Office. 
CHAPTER 33—DISPOSAL OF RECORDS 
Sec. 
3301. Definition of records. 
3302. Kegulations covering lists of records for disiposal, procedure for disposal, 
and standards for reproduction; approval by President. 
3303. Lists and schedules of records to be submitted to Administrator of Gen-
eral Services by head of each Government agency. 
3304. Lists and schedules of records lacking preservation value; submission 
to Congress by Administrator of General Services. 
3305. Examination of lists and schedules by joint congressional committee and 
report to Congress, 
3306. Disposal of records by head of Government agency upon notification by 
Administrator of General Services of action by joint congressional 
committee. 
3307. Disposal of records upon failure of joint congressional committee to act 
3308. Disposal of similar records where prior disposal was authorized. 
3309. Preservation of claims of Government until settled in General Account-
ing Oflice; disposal authorized upon written approval of Comptroller 
General. 
3310. Disposal of records constituting menace to health, life, or property. 
.3311. Destruction of records outside continental United States in time of war 
or when hostile action seems imminent; written report to Administrator 
of General Service.s. 
3312. Photographs or microphotographs of records considered as originals; 
certified reproductions admissible in evidence. 
3313. Moneys from sale of records payable into the Treasury. 
3314. Procedures for disposal of records exclusive. 
§ 3301. Definition of records 
As used in this chapter, "records" includes all books, papers, maps, 
photographs, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical 
form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United 
States Government under Federal law or in connection with the trans-
action of public business and preserved or appropriate for preserva-
tion by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the orga-
nization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other 
activities of the Government or because of the informational value of 
data in them. Library and museum material made or acquired and 
preserved solely for reference or exhibition purposes, extra copies of 
documents preserved only for convenience of reierence, and stocks of 
publications and of processed documents are not included. 
§3302. Regulations covering lists of records for disposal, pro-
cedure for disposal, and standards for reproduction; 
approval by President 
The Administrator of General Services shall promulgate regula-
tions, not inconsistent with this chapter, establishing— 
(1) procedures for the compiling and submitting to him of lists 
and schedules of records proposed for disposal, 
(2) procedures for the disposal of records authorized for dis-
posal, and 
(3) standards for the reproduction of records by photographic 
or microphotographic processes with a view to the disposal of the 
original records. 
§ 3303. Lists and schedules of records to be submitted to Admin-
istrator of General Services by head of each Govern-
ment agency 
The head of each agency of the United States Government shall 
submit to the Administrator of General Services, under regulations 
promulgated as provided by section 3302 of this title— 
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(1) lists of any records in the custody of the agency that have 
been photographed or microphotographed under the regulations 
and that, as a consequence, do not appear to have sufficient value 
to warrant their further preservation by the Government; 
(2) lists of other records in the custody of the agency not 
needed by it in the transaction of its current business and that do 
not appear to have sufficient administrative, legal, research, or 
other value to warrant their further preservation by the Govern-
ment ; and 
(3) schedules proposing the disposal after the lapse of specified 
periods of time of records of a specified form or character that 
either have accumulated in the custody of the agency or may ac-
cumulate after the submission of the schedules and apparently 
will not after the lapse of the period specified have sufficient ad-
ministrative, legal, research, or other value to warrant their fur-
ther preservation by the Government. 
§ 3304. Lists and schedules of records lacking preservation value; 
submission to Congress by Administrator of General 
Services 
The Administrator of General Services shall submit to Congress 
when he considers it expedient, the lists or schedules submitted to 
him under section 3303 of this title, or parts of those lists or schedules, 
and lists or schedules of records in his legal custody, when it appears 
to him that the records listed in the lists or schedules do not, or will 
not after the lapse of the period specified, have sufficient administrative 
legal, research, or other value to warrant their continued preservation 
by the United States Government. The Administrator may not submit 
to Congress lists or schedules of records of any existing agency of the 
Government in his legal custody without first having obtained the 
written consent of the head of the agency. 
The Administrator may also submit to Congress, when he considers 
it expedient, schedules proposing the disposal, after the lapse of speci-
fied periods of time, of records of a specified form or character common 
to several or all agencies that either have accumulated or may accumu-
late in these agencies and that apparently will not, after the lapse of 
the periods specified, have sufficient administrative legal, research, or 
other value to warrant their further preservation by the United States 
Government. 
§ 3305. Examination of lists and schedules by joint congressional 
committee and report to Congress 
When the Administrator of General Services submits lists or sched-
ules to Congress, the presiding officer of the Senate shall appoint two 
Senators who, with the members of the subcommittee on the Disposi-
tion of Executive Papers of the House of Representatives Committee 
on House Administration, shall constitute a joint committee to which 
^^!!rrl'° 
lists or schedules shall be referred, and the joint committee shall 
examine them and submit to the Senate and House of Representatives, 
respectively, a report of its examination and its recommendations. 
§ 3306. Disposal of records by head of Government agency upon 
notification by Administrator of General Services of 
action by joint congressional committee 
If the joint congressional committee reports that any of the records 
listed in a list or schedule referred to it do not, or will not after the 
lapse of the period specified, have sufficient administrative, legal, 
research, or other value to warrant their continued preservation by 
the Government, the Administrator of General Services shall notify 
the agency having the records in its custody of the action of the joint 
committee, and the agency shall cause the records to be disposed of 
Congress. 
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in accordance with regulations promulgated under section 3302 of 
this title. Authorizations granted under schedules submitted under 
the last paragraph of section 3304 of this title shall be permissive and 
not mandatory. 
§3307. Disposal of records upon failure of joint congressional 
committee to act 
If the joint congressional committee does not report during a regu-
lar or special session of Congress on a list or schedule submitted to 
(.'ongress by the Administrator of General Services at least ten days 
before adjournment of the session, the Administrator may empower 
an agency having in its custody records covered by the lists or sched-
ules to dispose of them in accordance with regulations under sec-
tion 3302 of this title. 
§ 3308. Disposal of similar records where prior disposal was 
authorized 
When it appears to the Administrator of General Services that an 
agency has in its custody, or is accumulating, records of the same form 
or character as those of the same agency previously authorized by 
Congress to be disposed of, he may empower the head of the agency 
to dispose of the records, after they have been in existence a specified 
period of time, in accordance with regulations promulgated under 
section 3302 of this title and without listing or scheduling them. 
§3309. Preservation of claims of Government until settled in 
General Accounting Office; disposal authorized upon 
written approval of Comptroller General 
Records pertaining to claims and demands by or against the Gov-
ernment of the United States or to accounts in which the Government 
of the United States is concerned, either as debtor or creditor, may not 
be disposed of by the head of an agency under authorization granted 
under sections 3306-3308 of this title, until the claims, demands, and 
accounts have been settled and adjusted in the General Accounting 
Office, except upon the written approval of the Comptroller General 
of the United States. 
§ 3310. Disposal of records constituting menace to health, life, or 
property 
When the Administrator of General Services and the head of the 
agency that has custody of them jointly determine that records in the 
custody of an agency of the United States Government are a con-
tinuing menace to human health or life or to property, the Admin-
istrator shall eliminate the menace immediately by any method he 
considers necessary. When records in the custody of the Adminis-
trator are disposed of under this section, the Administrator shall re-
port their disposal to the agency from which they were transferred. 
§ 3311. Destruction of records outside continental United States 
in time of war or when hostile action seems imminent; 
written report to Administrator of General Services 
During a state of war between the United States and another 
nation, or when hostile action by a foreign power appears imminent, 
the head of an agency of the United States Government may authorize 
the destruction of records in his legal custody situated in a military 
or naval establishment, ship, or other depository outside the territorial 
limits of continental United States— 
(1) the retention of which would be prejudicial to the interests 
of the United States or 
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(2) which occupy space urgently needed for military purposes 
and are, in his opinion, without sufficient administrative, legal* 
research, or other value to warrant their continued preservation. 
ist^S>7of GSA!"'*'" Within six months after their disposal, the official who directed the 
disposal shall submit a written report to the Administrator of Gen-
eral Services in which he shall describe the character of the records 
and state when and where he disposed of them. 
§3312. Photographs or microphotographs of records considered 
as originals; certified reproductions admissible in evi-
dence 
Photographs or microphotographs of records made in compliance 
with regulations under section 3302 of this title shall have the same 
effect as the originals and shall be treated as originals for the purpose 
of their admissibility in evidence. Certified or authenticated repro-
ductions of the photographs or microphotographs shall be admitted 
in evidence equally with the original photographs or microphoto-
graphs. 
§ 3313. Moneys from sale of records payable into the Treasury 
Moneys derived by agencies of the Government from t\ui sale of 
records disposed of under this chapter shall be paid into the Treasury 
of the United States unless otherwise required by law. 
§3314. Procedures for disposal of records exclusive 
The procedures prescribed by this chapter are exclusive, and records 
of the United States Government may not be alienated or destroyed 
except under this chapter. 
CHAPTER 
35—COORDINATION 
OF 
FEDERAL 
REPORTING 
SERVICES 
Sec. 
3501. Information for Federal agencies. 
3502. Definitions. 
3503. Duties of Director of the Bureau of the Budget. 
3504. Designation of central collection agency. 
3505. Independent collection by an agency prohibited, 
3506. Determination of necessity for information; hearing. 
.3.')07. Cooperation of agencies in making information available. 
3508. Unlawful disclosure of information; penalties; release of information to 
other agencies. 
3509. Plans or forms for collecting information; submission to Director; ap-
proval. 
3510. Rules and regulations. 
3511. Penalty for failure to furnish information. 
§ 3501. Information for Federal agencies 
Information needed by Federal agencies shall be obtained with a 
minimum burden upon business enterprises, especially small business 
enterprises, and other persons required to furnish the information, and 
at a minimum cost to the Government. Unnecessary duplication of 
efforts in obtaining information through the use of reports, question-
naires, and other methods shall be eliminated as rapidly as practicable. 
Information collected and tabulated by a Federal agency shall, as far 
as is expedient, be tabulated in a manner to maximize the usefulness of 
the information to other Federal agencies and the public. 
§3502. Definitions 
As used in this chapter— 
"Federal agency" means an executive department, commission, 
independent establishment, corporation owned or controlled by 
the United States, board, bureau, division, service, office, author-
ity, or administration in the executive branch of the Government; 
but does not include the General Accounting Office nor the gov-
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emments of the District of Columbia and of the territories and 
possessions of the United States, and their various subdivisions; 
"person" means an individual, partnershipj association, cor-
poration, business trust, or legal representative, an organized 
group of persons, a State or territorial government or branch, or 
a political subdivision of a State or territory or a branch of a 
political subdivision; 
"information"' means facts obtained or solicited by the use of 
written report forms, application forms, schedules, questionnaires, 
or other similar methods calling either for answers to identical 
questions from ten or more persons other than agencies, instru-
mentalities, or emplo3rees of the United States or for answers to 
questions from a^ncies, instrumentalities, or employees of the 
United States which are to be used for statistical compilations of 
general public interest. 
§ 3503. Duties of Director of the Bureau of the Budget 
With a view to carrying out the policy of this chapter, the Director 
of the Bureau of the Budget from time to time shall— 
(1) investigate the needs of the various Federal agencies for 
information from business enterprises, from other persons, and 
from other Federal agencies; 
(2) investigate the methods used by agencies in obtaining in-
formation; and 
(3) coordinate as rapidly as possible the information-collecting 
services of all agencies with a view to reducing the cost to the 
Government of obtaining information and minimizing the burden 
upon business enterprises and other persons, and using, as far 
as practicable, for continuing organization, files of information 
and existing facilities of the established Federal agencies. 
§ 3504. Designation of central collection agency 
When, after investigation, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget 
is of the opinion that the needs of two or more Federal agencies for 
information from business enterprises and other persons will be ade-
quately served by a single collecting agency, he shall fix a time and 
place for a hearing at which the agencies concerned and other inter-
ested persons may have an opportunity to present their views. After 
the hearing, the Director may issue an order designating a collecting 
agency to obtain information for two or more of the agencies con-
cerned, and prescribing (with reference to the collection of informa-
tion) the duties and functions of the collecting agency so designated 
and the Federal agencies for which it is to act as agent. The Director 
may modify the order from time to time as circumstances require, 
but modification may not be made except after investigation and 
hearing. 
§ 3505. Independent collection by an agency prohibited 
While an order or modified order is in effect, a Federal agency cov-
ered by it may not obtain for itself information which it is the duty 
of the collecting agency designated by the order to obtain. 
§3506. Determination of necessity for information; hearing 
Upon the request of a party having a substantial interest, or upon 
his own motion, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may deter-
mine whether or not the collection of information by a Federal agency 
is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency 
or for any other proper purpose. Before making a determination, he 
may give the agency and other interested persons an opportunity to 
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be heard or to submit statements in writing. To the extent, if any, 
that the Director determines the collection of information by the 
agency is unnecessary, for any reason, the agency may not engage in 
the collection of the information. 
§ 3507. Cooperation of agencies in making information available 
For the purposes of this chapter, the Director of the Bureau of the 
Budget may require a Federal agency to make available to another 
Federal agency information obtained from any person after Decem-
ber 24, 1942, and all agencies are directed to cooperate to the fullest 
practicable extent at all times in making information available to other 
agencies. 
This chapter does not apply to the obtaining or releasing of infor-
mation by the Internal Revenue Service, the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency, the Bureau of the Public Debt, the Bureau of Accounts, and 
the Division of Foreign Funds Control of the Treasury Department, 
nor to the obtaining by a Federal bank supervisory agency of reports 
and information from banks as authorized by law and in the proper 
performance of the agency's functions in its supervisory capacity. 
§ 3508. Unlawful disclosure of information; penalties; release of 
information to other agencies 
(a) If information obtained in confidence by a Federal agency is 
released by that agency to another Federal agency, all the provisions 
of law including penalties which relate to the unlawful disclosure 
of information apply to the officers and employees of the agency to 
which information is released to the same extent and in the same man-
ner as the provisions apply to the officers and employees of the agency 
which originally obtained the information. The officers and employees 
of the agency to which the information is released, in addition, shall 
be subject to the same provisions of law, including penalties, relating 
to the unlawful disclosure of information as if the information had 
been collected directly by that agency. 
(b) Information obtained by a Federal agency from a person under 
this chapter may be released to another Federal agency only— 
(1) in the form of statistical totals or summaries; or 
(2) if the information as supplied by persons to a Federal 
agency had not, at the time of collection, been declared by that 
agency or by a superior authority to be confidential; or 
(3) when the persons supplying the information consent to the 
release of it to a second agency by the agency to which the in-
formation was originally supplied; or 
(4) when the Federal agency to which another Federal agency 
releases the information has authority to collect the information 
itself and the authority is supported by legal provision for crim-
inal penalties against persons failing to supply the information. 
§ 3509. Plans or forms for collecting information; submission to 
Director; approval 
A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor the collection of in-
formation upon identical items, from ten or more persons, other than 
Federal employees, unless, in advance of adoption or revision of any 
plans or forms to be used in the collection— 
(1) the agency has submitted to the Director the plans or forms, 
together with copies of pertinent regulations and of other related 
materials as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget has speci-
fied; and 
(2) the Director has stated that he does not disapprove the 
proposed collection of information. 
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§ 3510. Rules and regulations 
The Director of the Bureau of the Budget may promulgate rules 
and regulations necessary to carry out sections 3501-3511 of this title. 
§ 3511. Penalty for failure to furnish information 
A person failing to furnish information re(juired by an agency 
shall be subject to penalties specifically prescribed by law, and no 
other penalty may be imposed either by way of fine or imprisonment 
or by the withdrawal or denial of a right, privilege, priority, allot-
ment, or immunity, except w^hen the right, privilege, priority, allot-
ment, or immunity is legally conditioned on facts which would be 
revealed by the information requested. 
CHAPTER 37—ADVERTISEMENTS BY GOVERNMENT 
AGENCIES 
Sec. 
3701. Advertisements for contracts in District of Columbia. 
3702. Advertisements not to be published without written authority. 
3703. Rate of payment for advertisements, notices, and proposals. 
§ 3701. Advertisements for contracts in District of Columbia 
Advertisements for contracts for the public service may not be pub-
lished in any newspaper published and printed in the District of 
Columbia unless the supplies or labor covered by the advertisement 
are to be furnished or i)erformed in the District of Columbia or in 
the adjoining counties of Maryland or Virginia. 
§3702. Advertisements not to be published without written au-
thority 
Advertisements, notices, or proposals for an executive department 
of the Government, or for a bureau or office connected with it, may 
not be published in a newspaper except under written authority from 
the head of the department; and a bill for advertising or publication 
may not be paid unless there is presented with the bill a copy of the 
written authority. 
§3703. Rate of payment for advertisements, notices, and pro-
posals 
Advertisements, notices, proposals for contracts, and all forms of 
advertising required by law for the several departments of the Gov-
ernment may be paid for at a price not to exceed the commercial rates 
charged to private individuals, with the usual discounts. But the heads 
of the several departments may secure lower terms at special rates 
when the public interest requires it. The rates shall include the furnish-
ing of lawful evidence, under oath, of publication, to be made and 
furnished by the printer or publisher making publication. 
SEC. 2. (a) The legislative purpose in enacting section 1 of this Act 
is to restate, without substantive change, the laws replaced by those 
sections on the effective date of this Act. Laws effective after January 
14, 1968, that are inconsistent with this Act are considered as super-
seding it to the extent of the inconsistency. 
(b) A reference to a law replaced by section 1 of this Act, including a 
reference in a regulation, order, or other law, is deemed to refer to the 
corresponding provision enacted by this Act. 
(c) An order, rule, or regulation in effect under a law replaced by 
section 1 of this Act shall continue in effect under the corresponding 
provision enacted by this Act until repealed, amended, or superseded. 
(d) An action taken or an offense committed under a law replaced 
by section 1 of this Act is deemed to have been taken or committed 
under the corresponding provision enacted by this Act. 
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STAT. 
Repeals. 
(e) An inference of a legislative construction is not to be drawn by 
reason of the location in the United States Code of a provision enacted 
by this Act or by reason of its caption or catchline. 
(f) If a provision enacted by this Act is held invalid, all valid 
provisions that are severable from the invalid provision remain in 
effect. If a provision of this Act is held invalid in one or more of its 
applications, the provision remains in effect in all valid applications 
that are severable from the invalid application or applications. 
SEC. 3. The laws specified in the following schedule are repealed 
except with respect to rights and duties that matured, penalties that 
were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before the effective 
date of this Act and except as provided by section 2 of this Act: 
Revised Statutes 
Sections 79, 210, 383, 501, 502, 504, 853, 854, 3686, 3805, 3806, ^810, 
3828. 
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paragraph). 
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16 J.R. 22. 
19 J.R. 23. 
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(3d paragraph under "Public Printing and Binding"). 
(2d paragraph under "Naval Observatory") 
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J.R. 25. 
Feb. 25 62. 
June 25 384. 
1911 
Mar. 3 
4 
388.... 
439.... 
J.R. 36. 
1 (6th paragraph following paragraph beginning "For General Ex-
penses of the Geological Survey"). 
1 (paragraphs 
beginning witn 
"Holidays" and "Leaves of 
AbS6flC6") 
1 (2d full paragraph on p. 1024) 
1 (2d paragraph under "Government Printing Office"). 
1 (2d full paragraph and proviso on p. 770) 
208.. 
231. 
285. 
(Proviso under "Pan American Union"). 
291 
1 (3d full paragraph on p. 1446) 
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STATUTES AT LARGE—Continued 
[82 STAT. 
Date 
Chapter 
Section 
Statutes at Large 
Volume 
Page 
1912 
Apr. 10 
Aug. 23 
Aug. 24 
1913 
June 23 
1914 
Aug. 
1 
1916 
Apr. 28 
July 
1 
1917 
Mar. 3 
June 12 
1918 
July 
8 
1919 
Mar. 1 
July 19 
Aug. 
2 
1921 
Mar. 4 
1922 
Feb. 
18 
May 11 
1923 
Feb. 20 
1924 
Mar. 18 
June 7 
1925 
J.R. 14. 
350.... 
355. 
1 (lines 28-35 on p. 407) 
8 
1 (lines 32-36 on p. 481) 
1 (sentence beginning on line 49 of p. 482). 
223 
1 (lines 30-51 on p. 673). 
98.. 
209. 
1 (1st paragraph on p. 1083) 
6 
1 (as applicable to salary of Public Printer and Deputy Public 
Printer). 
139 
1 (3d paragraph under "Government Printing Office"). 
163. 
27.. 
11 
3 (2d proviso). 
161 
1 (3d full paragraph on p. 1431). 
58.. 
189. 
98. 
60.. 
303. 
354. 
(Line 1 except 1st 2 words, lines 2-7,1st 7 words on line 8, sentence 
beginning on line 17 of p. 1278.) 
1 (lines 7-9 and 1st 8 words of line 10 under "Public Printing and 
Binding"). 
1 (lines 4-8, last 10 words on line 24, lines 25-65, on p. 592) 
Mar. 3 
4 
1926 
May 
13 
1927 
Feb. 23 
1928 
May 
29 
1929 
Feb. 28 
1931 
Mar. 2 
1932 
June 
30 
July 7 
1933 
June 
16 
421 
549 
294 
168 
909 
367 
378 
314 
443 
101 
4-7 
1 (paragraph under "Office of Public Printer"). 
1 (lines 5-9,18-24 and to colon on line 25,40-56, on p. 552) 
1 (1st proviso under "Office of Superintendent of Documents") 
1(2) 
1 (2d proviso on p. 1400) 
1 (1st clause of 1st proviso on p. 397). 
307 
1 (2d and 3d paragraphs under "Printing and Binding"). 
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1481 
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1309 
STATUTES AT LARGE—Continued 
Date 
Chapter 
Section 
Statutes at Large 
Volume 
Page 
1934 
May 10 277. 
June 13 483. 
18 606. 
1935 
Feb. 2 3.... 
June 17 267. 
July 
8 374. 
26 417. 
512(b). 
3. 
1 
1 (1st proviso on p. 18) 
i (1st 2 paragraphs on p. 475). 
1936 
Feb. 11 49.. 
Mar. 19 156. 
June 20 630. 
1937 
June 19 369. 
1938 
May 23 259. 
June 16 477. 
25 708. 
1941 
July 
9 284. 
Sept. 18 411. 
1942 
Dec. 10 717. 
24 811. 
1 (proviso under "Government Printing Office"). 
1 (1st proviso on p. 1182) 
1-3 
6, 8, 9,11,13,14 
1 (2d proviso on p. 421). 
2,3 
1-5,6-9. 
1,2. 
1943 
July 
7 
1945 
July 
6 
1946 
Aug. 2 
192. 
273. 
1-11,13-16. 
l(aH(c)— 
744. 
753. 
7 770. 
17(b)... 
102,121. 
140 
221, 222. 
1(6^.— 
1949 
Apr. 19 72.. 
June 30 288. 
July 
5 296. 
1950 
Sept. 5 849.-
23 1001. 
1010. 
1951 
Oct. 31 
654.. 
1952 
104. 
6(d). 
4 
5.... 
3(10), 3(11).. 
July 10 632. 
12 703. 
1953 
Aug. 1 304. 
5 333. 
1954 
July 
2 455. 
Aug. 26 935. 
1955 
2,7 
l(o),(p)-
101 (3 paragraphs under "Revolving Fund"). 
102,103 
101 (proviso in paragraph under "Office of Sergeant at Arms and 
Doorkeeper"). 
801 (1st proviso in paragraph under "Survey of Government Records, 
Records Management, and Disposal Practices"). 
July 12 329.. 
Aug. 5 568. 
12 859. 
101 (paragraph under "Revolving Fund"). 
50 
759 
948 
1017 
18 
386 
475 
500 
1110 
1182 
1545-1547 
1550-1553 
304 
52 
52 
52 
55 
55 
56 
56 
57 
421 
761 
1206 
581,582 
686 
1045 
1078 
380-383 
434 
60 
811 
60 
814,823 
60 
838 
60 
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60 
872 
65 
48 
381 
405 
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594 
330 
332 
388 
397 
8
1
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519 
695 
1310 
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STATUTES AT LARGE—Continued 
[82 STAT. 
Date 
1956 
June 25 
27 
July 
3 
9 
1957 
June 13 
1959 
May 26 
June 25 
1960 
July 12 
1961 
Mar. 21 
July 11 
1962 
Aug. 
9 
1963 
Aug. 27 
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21 
30 
1964 
Feb. 
5 
July 28 
Aug. 14 
1966 
Oct. 15 
1967 
July 28 
Public Law 
444 
453 
513 
..... 
528 
852 
85-51 
86-31 
86-70 
86-624 
87-2.. 
87-85 
87-579 
88-105 
88-190.. 
88-224 
88-246.. 
88-265 
88-383 
88-426 
88-441 
89-«78 
90-57.. 
101 ( 3 paragraphs under' 
. 
20.. 
. 
33,34 
. 32,33 
. 1-10 
. 
1 
. 
1 
. 
1,2 
(Except provision adding pa 
and Administrative Servic 
203(c) (as applicable to Pub 
203(d) (as applicable to De 
Section 
'Revolving Fund") 
r. (f) to sec. 503 of the Federal Property 
:es Act of 1949). 
ilic Printer) 
puty Public Printer). 
101 (2d par. under "Government Printing Office Revolving Fund").. 
Statutes at Large 
Volume 
Page 
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911 
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141 
Approved October 22, 1968. 
Public Law 90-621 
October 22, 1968 
A N A C T 
[H.R. 189421 
Relating to the income tax treatment of certain statutory mergers of coriwrations. 
Taxes. 
Corporations; 
statutory mergers. 
68A Stat. 120. 
26 u s e 368. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Reprenentaticea of the 
United States of America 
in Congress assembled^ That (a) section 
868(a) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to special 
rules with respect to the definition of corporate reorganizations) is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subpara-
graph : 
"(D) 
STATUTORY MERGER USING STOCK OF CONTROLLING COR-
PORATION.—The acquisition by one corporation, in exchange 
for stock of a corporation (referred to in this subparagraph 
as 'controlling corporation') which is in control of the acquir-
ing corporation, of substantially all of the properties of 
another corporation which in the transaction is merged into 
the acquiring corporation shall not disqualify a transaction 
under paragraph (1) (A) if (i) such transaction would have