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PUBLIC LAW 90-620-OCT. 22, 1968

to so continue until final enactment in both Houses of Congress. The committee may also curtail the number of copies of bills or resolutions, including the slip form of a public Act or public resolution. § 708. Bills and resolutions: binding sets for Congress The Public Printer shall bind four sets of Senate and House of Representatives bills, joint and concurrent resolutions of each Congress, two for the Senate and two for the House, to be furnished him from the files of the Senate and House document room, the volumes when bound to be kept there for reference. § 709. Public and private laws, postal conventions, and treaties The Public Printer shall print in slip form copies of public and i:>rivate laws, postal conventions, and treaties, to be charged to the congressional allotment for printing and binding. The Joint Committee on Printing shall control the number and distribution of copies. § 710. Copies of Acts furnished to Public Printer The Administrator of General Services shall furnish to the Public Printer a copy of every Act and joint resolution, as soon as possible after its approval by the President, or after it has become a law under the Constitution without his approval. §711. Printing Acts, joint resolutions, and treaties The Public Printer, on receiving from the Administrator of General Services a copy of an Act or joint resolution, or from the Secretary of State, a copy of a treaty, shall print an accurate copy and transmit it in duplicate to the Administrator of General Services or to the Secretary of State, as the case may be, for revision. On the return of one of the revised duplicates, he shall make the marked corrections and print the number specified by section 709 of this title. § 712. Printing of postal conventions The Public Printer, on receiving from the Postmaster General a copy of a postal convention between the Postmaster General, on the part of the United States, and an equivalent officer of a foreign government, shall print an accurate copy and transmit it in duplicate to the Postmaster General. On the return of one of the revised duplicates, he shall make the marked corrections and print the number specified by section 709 of this title. § 713. Journals of Houses of Congress There shall be printed of the Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives eight hundred and twenty-two copies, which shall be distributed as follows: to the Senate document roomj ninety copies for distribution to Senators, and twenty-five additional copies; to the Senate library, ten copies; to the House document room, three hundred and sixty copies for distribution to Members, and twenty-five additional copies; to the Department of State, four copies; to the Superintendent of Documents, one hundred and fortyfour copies to be distributed to three libraries in each of the States to be designated by the Superintendent of Documents; to the Court of Claims, two copies; and to the library of the House of Representatives, ten copies. The remaining number of the Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives, consisting of twenty-five copies, shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, as the necessities of their respective offices require, as rapidly as signatures are completed for distribution.

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