SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 231. 1911. 1155 reports have not been distributed, and to each of the places at which a district court may hereafter he held, the edition of said re orts and digests to be selected by the judge or officer receiving th)em. No {‘,§f',§.§‘§“,;.,,,_ distribution of reports and digests under this section shall be made ` to any place where the court rs held in a buildin not owned by the United States, unless there be at such place a lfnited States officer to whose responsible custody they can be committed. The clerks of said courts (except the Supreme Court) shall in all cases keep said p reports and digest for the use of the courts and of the officers thereof. ` Such reports and digest shall remain the pro erty of the United A States, and shall be preserved by the officers above named and by · ' · them turned over to their successors in office.
Sec. 228. The publishers of the decisions of the Supreme Court shall A<1<ii¤<>¤¤1l_i ¤¤r·i¤¤
, deliver to the Attorne General, in addition to the three hundred miriilfeiiilpfwii" copies delivered by the fteporter, such number of copies of each report heretofore published, as the Attorney General may require, for w ich he shall pay not more than two dollars er volume, and such number ` of copies of each report hereafter publiished as he may require, for which he shall ay not more than one dollar and seventy-five cents ·“ per volume. The Attorney General shall include in his annual esti- Esgsmtgigr Egg nf mates submitted to Congress, an estimate for the current volumes of mp`) ml lg ` such re orts, and also for the additional sets of reports and digests required) for distribution under the section last receding. ` Sec. 229. The Attorney General is authorized) to procure complete tF<>d¤¤‘g1 Rgymr. sets of the Federal Reporter or, in his discretion, other publication °%{r$rmsedig$ii4 as containing the decisions of the circuit courts of appeals, circuit courts, "“’““°"· ~ and district courts, and digests thereof, and alsofuture volumes of the same as issued, and distribute a copy of each such reports and digests to each place where a circuit Court of appeals, or a district court, is now or may hereafter regularly be held, and to the Supreme Court of the United States, the Court of Claims, the court of Customs Appeals, the Commerce Court, the Court of Appeals and the Su reme Court of the District of Columbia, the Attorney General, the Solicitor General, the Solicitor of the Treasury, the Assistant Attorney General · for the Department of the Interior, the Commissioner of Patents, and the Interstate Commerce Commission; and to the Secreta of the Senate, for the use of the Senate, and to the Clerk of the llifouse of Representatives, for the use of the House of Representatives, not more than three sets each. lVhenever any such court room, office, Completion orsemi or officer shall have a partial or complete set of any such reports, or digests, already mrchased or owned y the United States, the Attorney General shall distribute to such court room, office, or officer, only sufficient volumes to make a complete set thereof. No distribution Condition. of reports or digests under this section shall be made to any place where the court is held in a building not owned by the United States, unless there be at such place a United States officer to whose responsible custody they can be committed. The clerks of the courts Preservation. (except the Su reme Court) to which the reports and digests are distri uted undliar this section, shall keep suc reports and digests for the use of the courts and the officers thereof. All reports and digests distributed under the provisions of this section shall be and remain the property of the United States and, before distribution, shall be lainly marked on their covers with the words "The Props 4 erty of the United States," and shall be transmitted by the officers receiving them to their successors in office. Not to exceed two Price mi volumes. dollars er volume shall be paid for the back and current volumes of the flederal Reporter or other publication purchased under the provisions of this section, and not to exceed five dollars per volume or the digest, the said money to be disbursed under the direction of the Attorney General; and the Attorney General shall include Estimate for mak in his annual estimates submitted to Congress, an estimate for the 'md °"”°”`““mb°”‘
