FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS.. Sess. `I. Ch. 333. 1874. 113 CHAP. 383.eAn act providing for publication or the revised statutes and the laws June 20, 1874. of the United States. , ’""_*i"‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U nited States of America in Oongress assembled, That the existing contract or Tvvrriilwticu of contracts between the Secretary of State on the part of the United °°“*'"°*“ Wim Lit States, and Charles C. Little, Augustus Flagg, Henry T. Miles. and John 3,2 p5;?;;;],,,? Bartlett, of Boston, known as the ilrm of Little, Brown and Company, or Umm spikes, dated the twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and all other contracts between the United States or any oflieer thereof with said nrm of Little, Brown and Company, respecting the printing or pub- . lication of the laws of the United Stal es, are hereby declared to be determined, pursuant to the powers therein reserved. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of State is hereby charged with the duty Prepareti on of of causing to be prepared for printing, publication and distribution the R*?‘"%°d S°““*°¤ M revised statutes of the United States enacted at this present session of p"°°mg* &°‘ __Congress;l that he shall cause to be completed the head notes of the . Head notes. several titles and chapters and the marginal notes referring to the stat- Marginal referutes from which each section was com piled and repealed by said revision; °“°°‘ m °"g*””1 and references to the decisions of the courts of the United States ex·smj§g,E§:ém,BS to ju_ plaining or expounding the same, and such decisions of State courts as diciul decisions. he may deemexpedient, with a 1'ull»and complete index to the same. I¤<l<¤x· And when the same shall be completed, the said Secretary shall duly Pw,293. certiijv the same under the seal of the United States, and when printed ¤¤r¤ifi¤¤»¤i<>¤ by and promulgated as hereinafter provided, the printed volumes shall be S°f,’j*’;’§ °f $9****2 legal evidence of the laws and treaties therein contained, in all the courts be Q,,?d§,,,,;°p`°B ° ot; the United States, andoof the several States and Territories. SRG. 3. That the revisi n of the statutes of a general and permanent Title of ¤;vi¤i¤¤ nature, with the index thereto, shall be printed in one volume, and shall °‘“ ‘f““”g"°* °‘ “Wné be entitled and labeled “Revised Statutes of the United States ;" ancl;:,°;,,';; P°m°"°” the revision of the statutes relating to the District of Columbia; repost- or revision remroads, and the public treaties in force on the first day of December, one me *0 the District thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, with a suitable index·to °f C°I“‘“b“‘> &°· each, shall be published in a separate volume, and entitled and labeled “ Revised Statutes relating to District of Columbia and Post—Roads. Public Treaties? . , Sec. 4. That the Secretary of State shall cause the two volumes to be T0 l><>¤*<>*¤<>¢5‘D¤<l» stereotyped and such number of each volume to beprinted and substan· G‘B’§,'c:‘“°¥‘” tially bound at the Government Printing Office as he may deem needful, C,,,,;,,?, for dimb for public distribution as hereinafter provided, and for sale by his office. bution and sale. p Sec.A5. That he shall, in like manner, cause to be edited, printed, pub- ,P¤¤v¤¤‘¤¤i<>¤. &<=~, lished and distributed pamphlet copies of the statutes of the present and ° each future session of Congress, to the officers and persons hereinafter Bound copies_ ' provided, and bound copies of the laws of each Congress to the number of two thousand copies to be distributed in the manner now provided by law, and uniform with the said edition of the revised statutes. Sec. 6. That at the close of every session of Congress the Secretary Di¤¤il>¤ti<>_¤ 0f of State shall cause. to be distributed pamphlet copies of the acts and resolves of Congress for that session, edited and printed in the manner ` atoresaid, as follows : To the President and Vice President of the United States, two copies each; to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, onewcopy; to the librarian of the Senate, for the use of Senators, one hundred and twentysix copies; to the librarian of the House, two hundred and fifty copies, for the use of the Representatives and Delegates; to the Library of Congress, fourteen copies; to the Department of State, including those for the use of legations and consulates, six hundred copies; to the Treasury Department, two hundred copies; to the War Department, including those for the use of officers of the Army, two hundred copies; to the- Navy Department, including. _ those for the use of officers of the Navy, one hundred copies; to the Departmentof the Interior, including those for the use of the surveyorsgeneral and registers and receivers of public land offices, two hundred and nfty copies; to the Post-Office Department, fifty copies; to the Vol. 18, pt. 3-8
