United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 18
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XVIII.—An Act to provide for the purchase and distribution of certain copies of the Digest of the Laws of the United States, by Thomas F. Gordon.
500 copies to be purchased.
Price.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Department of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase for the United States, five hundred copies of the Digest of the Laws of the United States, compiled by Thomas F. Gordon, at the price of six dollars per copy, bound in calf-skin; and cause the same to be distributed as follows: one copy thereof to the President of the United States, one copy to the Vice President of the United States, one copy to each of the heads of departments, to the attorney general of the United States, to each of the senators and representatives, and to each delegate of the territories to the twentieth Congress; fifteen copies to the secretary of the Senate, for the use of the Senate; thirty copies to the clerk of the House of Representatives, for the use of that house; one copy to each branch of the legislature of each state and territory: and one copy to each of the executives of the several states and territories; and one copy to each incorporated college in the United States; and one copy to each justice of the Supreme Court; one copy to each district judge, and one copy to each judge of the courts of the territories of the United States, and of the District of Columbia; and cause the residue to be deposited in the library of Congress.
Appropriation of 3000 dollars.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appropriated, and paid out of any moneys in the treasury unappropriated, the sum of three thousand dollars, for the completion of the said purchase.
Approved, February 24, 1829.