(April 27th, 1816.)

3. SEC. 111. In case of the death, resignation, or dismission from office, of either of the officers before mentioned, excepting the president and vice president of the United States, the members of the senate, and house of representatives, and the judges of the supreme and district courts, the said copies of the laws delivered to them, as aforesaid, shall belong to, and be delivered up, to their respective successors in the said offices.

SEC. IV. The acts passed at each succeeding session of congress, including future treaties, shall be printed in a form corresponding with the said edition, and shall be distributed in the same manner as heretofore by law directed. [Altered, Infra, 11, &c.]

RESOLUTION of April 16, 1816.

Pamphlet edit. 154.

4. The secretary of state is authorised and directed to cause to be printed four thousand copies of the laws now in force on the subject of naturalization. And, of the copies which may be so provided, two shall be sent to each marshal of a judicial district of the United States, two to the clerk or prothonotary for each court of the United States, or of a particular state, which may, by law, admit persons to be naturalized, and two to each collector of the customs. The remaining copies, after reserving such as the president of the United States may deem proper for the use of the executive departments, shall be placed in the library of congress.

RESOLUTION of April 27, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 154.

5. Once in two years, a register, containing correct lists of all the officers and agents, civil, military and naval, in the service of the United States, made up to the last day of September of each year in which a new congress is to assemble, shall be compiled and printed under the direction of the secretary for the department of state. And to enable him to form such register, he, for his own department, and the heads of the other departments, respectively, shall, in due time, cause such lists as aforesaid, of all officers and agents, in their respective departments, including clerks, cadets and midshipmen, to be made and lodged in the office of the department of state. And the said lists, shall exhibit the amount of compensation, pay, and emoluments allowed to each officer, agent, clerk, cadet and midshipman, the state or county in which he was born, and where employed.

The secretary of the navy shall subjoin to the list of the persons employed in his department, the names, force and condition of all the ships and vessels belonging to the United States, and when and where built.

Five hundred copies of the said register shall be printed; and on the first Monday in January in each year, when a new congress shall be assembled, there shall be delivered to the president, the vice president, each head of a department, each member of the senate and house of representatives of the United States,

(March 9th, 1818.)

one copy of such register; and to the secretary of the senate, and clerk of the house of representatives, each, ten copies, for the use of the respective houses; twenty-five copies shall be deposited in the library of the United States, at the seat of government, to be used like other books in that library, and the residue of the said copies disposed of in such manner as congress shall from time to time direct.

ACT of January 20, 1817. Pamphlet edit. 200.

6. The president of the United States is authorised to cause the collection of laws, resolutions, and treaties, printed under authority of an act, entitled " An act providing for the printing and distributing of such laws of the United States as respect the public lands," passed on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten, to be revised, and the acts passed, and treaties formed, subsequent to the publication of the said collection, and relating to the public lands, to be embraced therein; the acts to be digested and arranged in their proper order, and fifteen hundred copies thereof to be printed and preserved for the future disposition of congress.

RESOLUTION of March 9, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 198.

The copies of the laws prepared and printed under the authority of the act, entitled "An act to authorise a new edition of the collection of laws respecting the public lands," shall be distributed in the manner following; that is to say, one copy shall be delivered to the president of the United States, the vice president, and to each member of the senate, house of representatives, and delegates from territories; fifteen copies shall be delivered to the secretary of the senate, and thirty copies to the clerk of the house of representatives, for the use of said houses respectively; one coру shall be delivered to each of the judges of the supreme court and clerk thereof, to each of the judges of the district court, and to each of the clerks, marshals, and attorneys, of each district; one copy shall be delivered to the secretary of state, to the secretary of the treasury, to the secretary of war, to the secretary of the navy, to the attorney general, to the director of the mint, to the first and second comptrollers of the treasury, to the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth auditors, and register of the treasury; to the treasurer; to the postmaster general, and to the two assistant postmasters general, and to the commissioner of the general land office; two copies shall be delivered to the legislatures of the several states and territories respectively; and one copy shall be delivered to each of the governors of the several states and territories; and one copy shall be delivered to each of the judges of the courts of the several territories; one copy shall be delivered to the surveyor general of the United States, the surveyor of the lands of the United States south of Tennessee, to the surveyor of the

(ACT of April 20th, 1818.)

public lands in the northern part of the late Mississippi territory, and the surveyor of the public lands in the territories of Illinois and Missouri; to each of the principal deputy surveyors one copy; there shall be delivered one copy to each of the registers and receivers of public moneys in land offices established, or that may hereafter be established in the several states and territories; and fifty copies shall be placed in the hands of the secretary of the treasury, to be distributed among the officers and clerks in his department, as he may think proper; two hundred and fifty copies shall be placed in the library, and remain there under the same regulations as the other laws of the United States; and the remainder shall be placed in the library, and each member of congress hereafter elected, shall, so long as any remain, exclusive of the two hundred and fifty copies before mentioned, be entitled to one copy at the commencement of that session of congress next succeeding his election.

RESOLUTION of March 27, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 201.

7. The journal of the convention which formed the present constitution of the United States, now remaining in the office of the secretary of state, and all acts and proceedings of that convention, which are in the possession of the government of the United States, shall be published under the direction of the president of the United States, together with the secret journals of the acts and proceedings, and the foreign correspondence, of the congress of the United States, from the first meeting thereof down to the date of ratification of the definitive treaty of peace, between Great Britain and the United States, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three, except such parts of the said foreign correspondence as the president of the United States may deem it improper at this time to publish. And one thousand copies thereof shall be printed, of which one copy shall be furnished to each member of the present congress, and the residue shall remain subject to the future disposition of congress.

RESOLUTION of April 3, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 202.

8. After the close of each session of congress, an alphabetical index of the acts and joint resolutions passed at the preceding session shall be prepared, printed, and distributed therewith, under the direction of the secretary for the department of state.

ACT of April 20, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 112.

SEC. 1. [Repealed, Infra, 20.]

9. SEC. II. Whenever official notice shall have been received, at the department of state, that any amendment which heretofore has been, or hereafter may be, proposed to the constitution of the United States, has been adopted, according to the provisions of the constitution, it shall be the duty of the said secretary of state, forthwith to cause the said amendment to be published in the said newspapers authorised to promulgate the laws,

(ACT of April 20th, 1818.)

with his certificate, specifying the states by which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the constitution of the United States.

10. SEC. 11. The proprietor of every newspaper in which the laws, resolutions, treaties, or amendments shall be so published, shall receive, as full compensation therefor, at the rate of one dollar for each printed page of the laws, resolutions, and treaties, as published in the pamphlet form, in the manner hereinafter directed. And if it shall appear, on the examination of any such account, that there has been any unreasonable delay or intentional omission in the publication of the laws aforesaid, the proper accounting officer of the treasury is hereby authorised and required to deduct, from such account, such sum as shall be charged therein, for the publication of any laws which shall have been so unreasonably deJayed or intentionally omitted. And in any such case it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to discontinue the publication of the laws in the newspaper belonging to such proprietor, and such newspaper shall, in no event, be again authorised, nor shall the proprietor thereof be again employed to publish the laws of the United States.

11. SEC. IV. The secretary of state shall cause to be published, at the close of every session of congress, and as soon as practicable, eleven thousand copies of the acts of congress at large, including all resolutions passed by congress, amendments to the constitution adopted, and all public treaties made and ratified since the then last publication of the laws; which copies shall be printed on paper, and in the size of the sheet and type, in a manner to correspond with the late revised edition of the laws, published by Bioren & Co. which copies shall be distributed in the following manner; To every person who has been president of the United States, one copy to each, during their respective lives; to the present and every future president and vice president, one copy to each, during their lives; one copy to the actual president and vice president, to be deemed an appurtenant to their offices respectively; to each member of the senate and house of representatives, and to each delegate in congress from any territory, one copy each; twenty copies to the secretary of the senate, and fifty copies to the clerk of the house of representatives, for the general use of the committees and members of the respective houses; to the judges and clerks of the supreme and district courts, and to the marshal and attorney of each district or section of a district, one copy each; to the secretaries of state, of the treasury, of war, and of the navy, and to each of their chief clerks, one copy each; one copy to the attorney general, to each of the comptrollers and au ditors, and to the register and treasurer of the United States, and to the commissioner of the revenue, and the commissioner of the general land office, and to the paymaster general, and the adjutant and inspector general, and to the commissary general of supplies, and the director of the mint; one copy to each collector, naval

(RESOLUTION of January 9th, 1820.)

officer, surveyor, and inspector of the customs; to the governors, judges, secretaries, and clerks, of the territories of the United States, one copy each; to the postmaster general, and each assistant, one copy; and one copy to each of the surveyors general of the lands of the United States, and to each register of a land office; and one copy to each publisher of a newspaper authorised to promulgate the same. The delivery of the said copies shall be under the direction of the secretary of state, or such officer as he shall, for that purpose, authorise.

12. SEc. v. Three hundred of the said copies shall be annually placed in the library of congress; and every member of congress, and every delegate shall be entitled to the use of a copy, during the session, and the same shall be returned and accounted for, as may be prescribed by the rules of the library. And one hundred of the said copies, authorised by this act to be printed, shall be delivered to the secretary of war, and fifty copies to the secretary of the navy, to be by them respectively distributed among such officers of the army and navy as the public service may require. Four hundred copies shall [be] reserved by the secretary of state, to be distributed by him, at his discretion, among the public and foreign ministers and consuls and other public agents.

SEC. VI. The residue of the said number of copies, authorised to be printed, shall be distributed among the several states and territories, in proportion to the number of representatives and delegates to which each state and territory may be entitled in cons gress, at the time of such distribution.

13. SEC. VII. Whenever the secretary of state shall enter into any contract with any person, for the publication of the laws, in the pamphlet form, as aforesaid, he shall require at least two good and sufficient sureties, for the faithful performance of the contract; and in every such agreement, it shall always be stipulated that the number of copies hereby authorised to be printed, shall be delivered at the office of the secretary of state, within thirty days after the adjournment of each session of congress, and that for every day's delay in such delivery, the person so contracting shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars, to be deducted from the com pensation to which he otherwise would have been entitled.

14. SEG. VIII. All acts, or parts of acts, heretofore passed, which in any manner contravene the provisions of this act, or which may be inconsistent with the same; and all acts, or parts of acts, in which are contained any provisions for the publication of the laws, either in a pamphlet form or in newspapers, be, and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, that such repeal shall not be construed to prevent the payment of any compensation that may be due, for the publication of the laws, previous to the promulgation of this act.

RESOLUTION of January 9, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 117. 15. The secretary of state is instructed to furnish to each mem ber of the present congress, and the delegates from territories,