Page:Federal Register Act 1935.djvu/4

 74TH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHS. 417, 418. JULY 26, 1935.

of the United States Government, and for other purposes” (48 Stat. 1122) are enlarged to cover the additional duties placed upon the National Archives Establishment by the provisions of this Act. Copies of the Federal Register mailed by the Government shall be entitled to the free use of the United States mails in the same manner as the oﬂicial mail of the executive departments of the Gov- ernment. The cost of mailing the Federal Register to ofﬁcers and employees of Federal agencies in foreign countries shall be borne by the respective agencies.

SEC. 10. The provisions of seetion 2 shall become effective sixty days after the date of approval of this Act. and the publication of the Federal Register shall begin within three business days there» after: Provided, That the appropriations involved have been increased as required by section 9 of this Act. The limitations upon the effectiveness of documents required, under section 5 (a), to be published in the Federal Register shall not be operative as to any document iSSiied, preScribed, or promulgated prior to the date when sueh document is ﬁrst required by this or subsequent Act of the Congress or by Executive order to be published in the Federal Register.

SEC. 11. Within six months after the approval of this Act each agency shall prepare and ﬁle with the committee a complete com- pilation of all documents which have been issued or promulgated prior to the date documents are required or authorized by this Act to be published in the Federal Register and which are still in force and effect and relied upon by the agency as authority for, or invoked or used by it in the discharge of, any of its functions or activities. The committee shall Within sixty days thereafter report with respect thereto to the President, Who shall determine which of such docu- ments have general applicability and legal effect, and shall author- ize. the publication thereof in a special or supplemental edition or issue of the Federal Register. Such special or supplemental editions or issues shall be distributed in the same manner as regular editions or issues, and shall be included in the bound volumes of the Federal Register as supplements thereto.

SEC. 12. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to apply to trea- ties, conventions, protocols, and other international agreements, or proclamations thereof by the President.

SEC. 13. All Acts or parts of Acts in conﬂict with this Act are hereby repealed insofar as they conﬂict herewith.

SEC. 14. This Act may be cited as the “Federal Register Act.”

Approved, July 26, 1935.