United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Resolution 6
VI. Resolution directing the distribution of a compilation of congressional documents, and for other purposes.
Distribution of the compilation of congressional documents.
Act of March 2, 1831, ch. 65.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, directed to distribute, by mail or otherwise, the compilation of documents directed to be published by the act entitled “An act making provision for a subscription to a compilation of congressional documents,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, in the following manner, to wit:
To the President of the United States, and to each person who has been President, one copy.
To the Vice President of the United States, one copy.
To the Department of State, four copies, viz: one for the use of the secretary, one to be deposited in the patent office, and the two other to remain in the library of that department.
For the ministers of the United States, in foreign countries, fifty copies, to be deposited in and distributed under such regulations as may be made by the Department of State.
To the Treasury Department, twelve copies, namely: for the use of the secretary, one copy; and for the use of the first and second comptrollers, the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth auditors; the treasurer, register, solicitor, and commissioner of the general land office; one copy each.
To the War Department, thirteen copies, namely; for the use of the Secretary, one copy; for the use of the commanding general of the army of the United States, the paymaster general, the adjutant general, the commissary general of purchases, the ordnance department, commissary general of subsistence, quartermaster general, engineer department, topographical bureau, one copy each; and for the use of the military academy, three copies.
To the Navy Department, fifty-four copies; namely: for the use of the Secretary, one copy; for the use of the commissioners of the navy board, one copy; and to enable the Secretary of the Navy to place one copy in every public armed vessel of the United States, when in commission, under such regulations as the said secretary shall prescribe, fifty-two copies.
To the general post-office, three copies; namely: for the use of the Postmaster General, one copy, and for the use of each of the assistants postmaster general, one copy.
To the library of Congress, five copies.
To the library of the Senate, ten copies.
To the library of the House of Representatives, twenty copies.
To each member of the Senate and House of Representatives, and delegates of the twenty-first and twenty-second Congress, one copy.
To the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, each, one copy.
To Mr. O. Rich, agent for the Congress Library, in London, one copy, to be disposed of by him in some suitable manner, in return for a donation made by authority of the British government, to the library of Congress, of the volumes of the record commission publications.
To supply the several states and territories of the United States, eighty-one copies, viz: for the use of the governor and each branch of the legislature of every state, one copy; for the use of the governor of each of the territories, one copy; and two copies to be deposited in the archives of each of said territories, for the use of the legislature thereof.
To each incorporated college and athenæum in the United States, not exceeding sixty-nine, one copy.
Further distribution of Secret Journals of old Congress.Sec. 2. And be it further resolved, That, of the copies of the Secret Journals of the old Congress, remaining for distribution, there be a further distribution as follows, namely: that one copy of each volume be delivered to each member of both houses of Congress, and that the residue remain for a future order of distribution.
Documents of the two houses.Sec. 3. And be it further resolved, That the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House be, and they hereby are, directed to divide the remaining documents of the two houses from the fourteenth to the eighteenth Congress inclusive, and to keep them for the use of each house in their respective libraries.
Distribution of Journal of the Convention for forming the Constitution.Sec. 4. And be it further resolved, That the copies of the Journal of the Convention for forming the present Constitution, remaining for distribution, be equally divided between the two houses of Congress, to be kept in their respective libraries.
Approved, July 10, 1832.