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 74th CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHS. 416, 417. JULY 25, 26, 1935.

[CHAPTER 417.] AN ACT

To provide for the custody or Federal proclamations, orders, regulations, notices, and other documents, and for the prompt and uniform printing and distribution thereof

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Archivist of the United States, acting through a division established by him in the National Archives Establishment, hereinafter referred to as the “ Division ”, is charged with the custody and, together with the Public Printer, with the prompt and uniform printing and distribution of the documents required or authorized to published under section 5. There shall at the head of the Division a director, appointed by the President, who shall act under the general direction of the Archivist of the United States in carrying out the provisions of this Act and the regulations prescribed hereunder, who shall receive a salary, to be ﬁxed by the President, not to exceed $5,000 a year.

Sec. 2. The original and two duplicate originals or certiﬁed copies of any document required or authorized to published under section 5 shall be ﬁled with the Division, which shall be open for that purpose during all hours of the working days when the Archives Building shall be open for official business. The Director of the Division shall cause to be noted on the original and duplicate originals or certiﬁed copies of each document the day and hour of ﬁling thereof: Provided, That when the original is issued, prescribed, or promulgated outside of the District of Columbia and certiﬁed copies are ﬁled before the ﬁlling of the original, the notation shall be of the day and hour of ﬁling of the certified copies. Upon such ﬁling, at least one copy shall be immediately available for public inspection in the office of the Director of the Division, The original shall be retained in the archives of the National Archives Establishment and shall be available for inspection under regulations to be prescribed b the Archivist. The Division shall transmit immediately to the Government Printing Oﬂice for printing, as provided in this Act, one duplicate original or certified copy of each document required or authorized to be published under section 5. Every Federal agency shall cause to be transmitted for ﬁling as herein required the original and the duplicate originals or certiﬁed copies of all such documents issued rescribed, or promulgated by the agency.

Sec. 3, All documents required or authorized to be published under section 5 shall be printed and distributed forthwith by the Government Printing Office in a serial publication designated the “Federal