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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Twentieth Congress, First Session, Chapter 46
2907061United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4 — Public Acts of the Twentieth Congress, First Session, Chapter 46United States Congress


May 9, 1828.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XLVI.An Act to authorize the purchase and distribution of the seventh volume of the Laws of the United States.[1]

Secretary of state authorized, &c., to subscribe for, &c., for use and disposal of Congress, 550 copies of the seventh volume of the laws of the United States.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Department of State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe for, and receive, for the use and disposal of Congress, five hundred and fifty copies of the seventh volume of the Laws of the United States, to contain an index to the same, to be well bound; and cause to be distributed, one copy thereof to the President of the United States, one copy to the Vice President of the United States, one copy to each of the heads of departments, to the attorney general of the United States, to each of the Senators and Representatives, and to each delegate of territories of the twentieth Congress; fifteen copies to the Secretary of the Senate, for the use of the Senate, and thirty copies of the clerk of the House of Representatives, for the use of that House; one copy to each branch of the legislature of each state and territory; and one copy to each of the executives of the several states and territories; and cause the residue to be deposited in the library of Congress.

2200 dollars appropriated.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose aforesaid, the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, May 9, 1828.


  1. Acts which have been passed authorizing the publication of the laws of the United States:
    An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States, March 3, 1795, ch. 50.
    An act to amend the act, entitled “An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States,” Dec. 21, 1796, ch. 1.
    An act in addition to an act entitled “An act for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States,” March 2, 1799, ch. 30.
    An act to provide for the more extensive distribution of the laws of the United States, March 27, 1804, ch. 60.
    An act for the disposal of certain copies of the laws of the United States, Jan. 2, 1805, ch. 3.
    An act authorizing a subscription for the laws of the United States, and for the distribution thereof, April 18, 1814, ch. 69.
    An act to authorize the publication of the laws of the United States, within the territories of the United States, Nov. 21, 1814, ch. 6.
    An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes, April 20, 1818, ch. 80.
    An act to amend the act, entitled “An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” May 11, 1820, ch. 92.
    An act to authorize the purchase of a number of copies of the sixth volume of the laws of the United States, March 3, 1823, ch. 67.
    An act to authorize the purchase and distribution of the seventh volume of the laws of the United States, May 9, 1828, ch. 46.
    An act to provide for the purchase and distribution of certain copies of the digest of the laws of the United States by Thomas F. Gordon, Feb. 24, 1829, ch. 18.
    By the act making appropriations for the support of government, March 18, 1830, ch. 33, seven hundred and fifty dollars were appropriated “for completing the sets of the laws on hand in the Department of State.”
    Regulation of the publication of the laws of the United States in newspapers, Act of August 26, 1842, ch. 202, sec. 21.
    A resolution to authorize the attorney general to contract for copies of a proposed edition of the laws of the United States, March 3, 1845.