United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 34
[Expired.]
Chap. XXXIV.—An Act to continue in force the act, entitled “An act to provide for reports of decisions of the Supreme Court,” passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.[1]
Compensation to reporter of Supreme Court decisions.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the reporter who shall, from time to time, be appointed by the Supreme Court of the United States, to report its decisions, shall be entitled to receive, from the treasury of the United States, as an annual compensation for his services, the sum of one thousand dollars; Provided, nevertheless, The said compensation shall not be paid unless the said reporter shall print and publish, or cause to be printed and published, the decisions of said court, made during the time he shall act as such reporter, within nine months after such decisions shall be made; and shall deliver eighty copies of the decisions, so printed and published, to the Secretary of State, without any expense to the United States; which copies shall be distributed as follows, to wit: to the President of the United States,Distribution of reports. the judges of the Supreme Court, the judges of the district courts, the Attorney General of the United States, the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Navy, the comptrollers of the treasury, and the judges of the several territories of the United States, one copy each; five copies for the use of each House of Congress; and the residue of the copies shall be deposited in the library of Congress.
Copies, in case of decease, to be delivered to successors in office.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case of the death, resignation, or dismission from office, of either of the officers before mentioned, the said copies of the decisions, delivered to them as aforesaid, shall belong to, and be delivered over to, their successors in said offices.
Act to continue three years.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be, and continue, in force for three years, and no longer.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
- ↑ For the acts relating to the reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, see ante, p.376.