United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/3rd Session/Resolution 12
XII. Resolutions, relative to the distribution of the laws of the United States.
Distribution of the laws of the United States.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of state cause to be distributed among the members of the present Congress, copies of the laws of the United States, ordered by law to be printed, as soon as the same shall be completed.
Resolved, That so many of the remaining copies of the laws as are not already directed to be distributed, be deposited in the Congressional library.
Approved, March 3, 1815.