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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 23. 1895. 615 copies; to the Department of Agriculture, fifty copies; to the Smithsonian Institution, five copies; to the Government Printing Office, two copies; to the governors and secretaries of Territories, one copy each. The Secretary of State is authorized to have printed as many addi- mM¤i¢i¤¤¤1.f•>r¤¤1¤. tional copies of the pamphlet laws as he may deem needful for distri· ° ` bution and sale by him, at cost price, not exceeding one thousand copies of the laws of any one session in any one year. The Public Printer shall deliver to the folding rooms of the Senate ¤¤¤sr¤ssi¤¤•1 alwand House of Representatives seven thousand copies of the pamphlet ”`°"t” °°°‘ laws, two thousand copies of which shall be for the Senate and five thousand copies for the House, and to the superintendent of documents five hundred copies, for distribution to State and Territorial libraries and to designated depositories. After the close of each Congress the Secretary of State shall have Statutes at Large. edited, printed, and bound a sufficient number of the volumes contain "°*· 1*% 1*-1*4- ing the Statutes at Large enacted by that Congress to enable him to distribute copies, or as many thereof as may be needed, as foHows: To the President of the United States, four copies, one of which shall be for the library of the Executive Mansion; to the Vice-President of the United States, one copy; to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, one copy; to the Librarian of the Senate, for the use of Senators, one hundred copies; to the Librarian of the House, for the use of Representatives and Delegates, two hundred copies; to the Library of Congress, fourteen copies; including four copies for the Law Library; to the Department of State, including those for the use of the legations and consulates, three hundred and eighty copies; to the Treasury Department, including those for the use of officers of customs, three hundred copies; to the War Department, seventy-five copies; to the Navy Department, seventy-five copies; to the Department of the Interior, including those for the use of surveyors- general and registers and receivers of public land offices, two hundred and fifty copies; to the Post-Oiiice Department, fifty copies; to the Interstate Commerce Commission, ten copies; to the Department of Labor, five copies; to the Civil Service Commission, three copies; to the Department of Justice, including those for the use of the Chief Justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court, and the judges and the officers of the United States and Territorial courts and to State supreme court libraries, five hundred copies; to the Department of Agriculture, fifty copies; to the Smithsonian Institution, two copies; to the Government Printing Office, one copy, and the Public Printer shall deliver five hundred copies of the Statutes at Large to the superintendent of documents for distribution to State and Territorial libraries and to designated depositories. And the Secretary of State is authorized to have as many additional copies printed and bound as may in his opinion be Aaaiulmi confuneeded for distribution and sale at cost thereof, not exceeding in any one year one thousand copies of the laws of any one Congress. The pamphlet copies of the statutes and the bound copies of the Acts rms as ¤»-m.¤¤•. of each Congress shall be legal evidence of the laws and treaties therein contained in all the courts of the United States and of the several States therein. The said pamphlet and the Statutes at Large shall C°¤¤¤¤¤¤· contain all laws, joint and concurrent resolutions passed by Congress, and also all conventions, treaties, proclamations, and agreements. _ The message of the President without the accompanying documents *"°°"‘°¤°’°“’°“““*°· and reports shall be printed, immediately upon its receipt by Congress, in pamphlet iorm. Fiiteen thousand shall be printed, of which five thousand shall be for the Senate, and ten thousand for the House. Of the President’s Message and accompanying documents and of mxauv md *°°”‘ the annual reports of the Departments to Congress there shall be printed one thousand copies for the Senate and two thousand for the House: Provided, That of the reports of the Chief of Engineers of the PMM-