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 1090 APPENDIX. 20 June, 1874, c. 18’74.·—CHAP. 883.-AN AUP providing for publication of the revised statutes and 333, v. 18, p. 113. 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 existing contract or Comyut with contracts between the Secretary of State on the part of the United Little, Brown and States, and Charles C. Little, Augustus Flzfg, Henry T. Miles, and John C<>1;{>¤¤Y ¤>¤¤i· Bartlett, of Boston, known as the firm of ittle, Brown and Company, Mt · dated the twenty-eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and all other contracts between the United States or any officer thereof with said firm of Little, Brown and Company, respecting the printinior publimtion of the laws of the United States, are ereby declared to edetermined, pursuant to the powers therein reserved. Secretary of Srcc. 2. That the Secretary of State is hereby charged with the duty $$8*6 *0 cause R•*· of causing to be pre ared for printing, publication and distribution the {;"°flm §*;‘&“°:inf revised statutes of the United States enacted at this present session of mfug cejggedi Congress; that he shall cause to be completed the ead notes of the dm. several titles and chapters and the marginal notes referring to the statutes from which each section was compiled and re ealed by said revision; and references to the decisions of the courts ot? the United States explaining or expounding the same, and such decisions of State courts as e may deem expedient, with a. full and complete index to the same. And when the same shall be completed, the said Secretary shall duly certify the same under the seal of tile United States, and when rinted and pro- To bg gvidgncg_ mulguted as hereinafter provided, the printed volumes shall be legal evidence of the laws and treaties therein contained, in all the courts of the United States, and of the several States and Territories. Tobeprinted in Sec. 3. That the revision of the statutes of a general and permanent two volumes. nature, with the index thereto, shall be printed in one volume, and shall beentitled and labeled "Revised Statutes of the United Stetes;" and the revision of the statutes relating to the District of Columbia; to post-roads, and the plublie treaties in force on the first day of December, one thoufpmés 0g_ sand eig t hundred and seventy-three, with a suitable index to each, shall be published in u separate volume, and entitled and labeled "Rerxiised Statutes relating to District of Columbia and Post-Roads. Public reaties. Tobemmotyped Sm. 4. That the Secretary of State shall cause the two volumes to be and bound at G9v· stereotyped and such number of each volume to he printed and substanggincfni I§;':_3,':l$ tially bound at the Government Printing Office as he may deem needful, mm am sam for public distribution ns hereinafter provided, and for sale by his office. Futurg dgsmbu. Sec. 5. That he shall, in like manner, cause to be edited, printed, pubtion of pamphlet lished and distributed mphlet copies of the statutes of the resent and °°P!°¤ “;'*}&:°°;’“d each future session of ghngress, to the officers and persons hereinafter °°pm ° ° " °°' provided, and bound copies of the laws of each Congress to the number of two thousand copies to be distributed in the manner now provided by law, and uniform with the said edition of the revised statutes. Pamphletccpies Sm. 6. That at the close of every session of Congress the Secretary g;¤;;¤_glgd:;;gi;:¤ of State shall cause to be distributed pamphlet copies of the acts and how dim,ibuwd_ ’ resolves of Congress for that session, edite and printed in the manner aforesaid, as fol ows: To the President and Vice President of the United States, two copies each; to each Senator, Re resentetive, and Delegate in Congress, one copy; to the librarian of dine Senate, for the use of Senators, one hundred and twenty-six copies; to the librarian of the House, two hundred and fifty copies, for the use of the Representatives and Delegates; to the Library of Congress, fourteen copies; to the Department of State, including those for the use of legations and consulates, six hundred copies; to the Treasu Department, two hundred copies; to the War Department, includinglthose for the use of officers of the Army, two hundred copies; to the Navy Department, including those for the use of officers of the Navy, one hundred copies; to the Department of the Interior, including those for the use of the surveyorsgeneral and registers and receivers of public land offices, two hundred