United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 1

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Thirteenth Congress, 2nd Session, Resolution 1
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Dec. 27, 1813.

Resolution for the printing and distribution of an additional number of the journals of Congress, and of the documents published under their order.

Distribution of the journals of Congress and documents.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That of the public journals of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, of the present and every future congress, commencing with the present session, and of the documents published under the orders of the Senate and of the House of Representatives respectively, from the commencement of the present session, there shall be printed two hundred copies beyond the number usually printed; of which twenty-five copies shall be deposited in the library of the United States, at the seat of government, to be delivered to members of Congress during any session, and to all other persons authorized by law to use the books in the said library, upon their application to the librarian, and giving their responsible receipts for the same, in like manner as for other books. And that so many other of the said copies shall be transmitted, in like manner as the acts of congress are transmitted, to the executives of the several states and territories, as shall be sufficient to furnish one copy to each executive, one copy to each branch of every state and territorial legislature, one copy to each university and college in each state, and one copy to the Historical Society incorporated, or which shall be incorporated, in each state: and that the residue of the said two hundred copies be deposited in the library of the United States, subject to the future disposition of Congress.

Approved, December 27, 1813.