Year: 1861

An Act to provide for the Safe Custody Printing,

 Publication and Distribution of the Laws, and

 to provide for the appointment of an additional

 Clerk in the Department of Justice.

 SEC. l. The Congress 0f the Confederate States of America do enact, That all bills and resolutions passed by the Congress and approved and signed by the President, or which may otherwise become laws shall be deposited in the Department of us tice, and the originals carefully preserved in said Department.

 SEC. , It shall be the duty of the Attorney General, as soon as conveniently may be, after he shall receive the same, to select from the laws, orders and resolutions passed at each session, such as may be of public nature, and as, in his judg- ment, require early publication, and cause the same to be inserted weekly, for one month, in one public gazette published at the seat of government ill each State, and shall also publish all the laws in two gazettes published at the Capital of the Con federate States; and the compensation for this pub licaton shall not exceed one dollar and half per page, estimated according to Little and Brown s edition of the laws of the United States.

 SEC. B. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General, at the close of each session of Congress- to cause all the laws and resolutions having the force of laws, and all treaties entered into by the Confederate States to be published under the su- pervsion of the Superintendent of Public Printing. The laws shall be arranged in the order of their date; shall have marginal notes to each section; shall be fully ndexed; and shall be published, to the number of three thousand copies, in style equal in execution, and upon paper equal in quail ty, the edition of the laws of the United States annually published by Little and Brown; they shall be bound in pamphlet, in style not inferior to that in which the laws, published by Little and Brown, are bound annually; and one thousand copies thereof shall be preserved to be bound in calf, in a solid and substantial manner, as often as the number of pages shall be sufficient to form a volume of not less than eight hundred, nor more than one thousand pages And whenever the vO- umes are thus bound, a new index shall be made, comprising the contents of the whole volume thus bound.

 SEC 4. The printing of the laws, as required by the foregoing section, shall be executed by the Public Printer; the binding in pamphlet form and in volumes, as provided in the foregoing section, shall be executed by contract to be entered into by the Superintendent of Public Printing, after adver Using for sealed proposals; and the paper tor print ing of the laws shall be furnished to the Public Printer, by the Superintendent of Public Printing, in accordance with the fourth section of the at of l4th May, 1861, entitled An act further to or ganize the Bureau of Superintendent of Public Printing"

 SEC 5. The price allowed to the Public Printer for printing the laws under the provisions of this act, shall be the following, and more o-wit: for composition, plain, seventy five cents per thousand ems; for rule and figure work, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand ems; for press work, octave forms of sixteen pages, seventy five cents per token

 SEC. $. The laws, when bound in pamphlet form, shall be distributed follows, to-wit: one copy to each member of the Congress for the time being; twenty copies each to the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives; one copy to each Committee of the two Houses of Con- gress five copies each to the President and Vice President; two hundred copies to the Department of State, for its use, and for distribution amongst the Diplomatic and Consular officers of the Confederate States; two hundred copies to the Department of the Treasury, for it's own use, and for distribution amongst the Revenue officers of the government; one hundred copies to the Department of Justice for it's own use, and for distribution amongst Judges, Marshals and Attorneys of the Confederate States; fifty copies each to the Depart. ment of War and Navy, and to the Postmaster General; five copies each to the Governors of the several States, for the of the States. The re. maining copies shall be preserved in the Depart ment of Justice, subject to the further order of Congress

 SEC '. The Attorney General is authorized to appont an additional clerk in the Department of Justice for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act to be called the Law Clerk of said department, at salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum

 SEc 3. All laws and parts of laws heretofore