United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 1
I. Resolution amendatory of a joint resolution passed third March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Election of printer to each house to commence within 30 days before adjournment of Congress.
Portion of resolution of 1819 rescinded.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, within thirty days before the adjournment of every Congress, each house shall proceed to vote for a printer to execute its work for and during the succeeding Congress, and the person having the majority of all the votes given shall be considered duly elected; and that so much of the resolution, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled “A resolution directing the manner in which the printing of Congress shall be executed, fixing the prices thereof, and providing for the appointment of a printer or printers,” as is altered by this resolution, be, and the same is hereby, rescinded.
Approved, February 5, 1829.