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shall be, and hereby are entitled to receive eight hundred dollars per annum, each.

Of the doorkeeper and assistant doorkeeper of the House of Representatives.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the doorkeeper of the House of Representatives shall be, and hereby is entitled to receive five hundred dollars per annum, and two dollars per day, during each session of Congress; and the assistant doorkeeper of the Senate and House of Representatives, four hundred and fifty dollars per annum, each, and two dollars each, per day, during each session of Congress.

Commencement of the salaries.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the compensations to the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives, and to their clerks, and to the other officers herein named, shall commence with the present year.

Approved, April 29, 1802.

Statute Ⅰ.



April 29, 1802.
[Repealed.]

Chap. XXXVI.An Act supplementary to an act, intituled “An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned,” and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.[1]

Additional requisites prescribed for persons claiming to be authors or proprietors of maps, charts or books.
1790, ch. 15.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person who shall, from and after the first day of January next, claim to be the author or proprietor of any maps, charts, book or books, and shall thereafter seek to obtain a copyright of the same agreeable to the rules prescribed by law, before he shall be entitled to the benefit of the act, intituled “An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned,” he shall, in addition to the requisites enjoined in the third and fourth sections of said act, if a book or books, give information by causing the copy of the record, which, by said act he is required to publish in one or more of the newspapers, to be inserted at full length in the title-page or in the page immediately following the title of every such book or books; and if a map or chart, shall cause the following words to be impressed on the face thereof, viz: “Entered according to act of Congress, the day of 18 (here insert the date when the same was deposited in the office) by A. B. of the state of (here insert the author’s or proprietor’s name and the state in which he resides.)

Same rules prescribed with respect to persons who shall invent, and design, engrave, etch, or work historical or other prints.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of January next, every person, being a citizen of the United States, or resident within the same, who shall invent and design, engrave, etch or work, or from his own works and inventions, shall cause to be designed and engraved, etched or worked, any historical or other print or prints, shall have the sole right and liberty of printing, re-printing, publishing and vending such print or prints, for the term of fourteen years from the recording of the title thereof in the clerk’s office, as prescribed by law for maps, charts, book or books: Provided, he shall perform all the requisites in relation to such print or prints, as are directed in relation to maps, charts, book or books, in the third and fourth sections of the act to which this is a supplement, and shall moreover cause the same entry to be truly engraved on such plate, with the name of the proprietor, and printed on every such print or prints as is herein before required to be made on maps or charts.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any print-seller or other person whatsoever, from and after the said first day of January next,

  1. See notes to “an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors, during the time therein mentioned,” May 31, 1790, chap. 15, vol. i. page 124.