Custody of records. General duties of the secretary of state. SECTION 93. Distribution of statutes, journals and documents. 94. Census. 95. Duty of marshals. 96. Duty of county clerks. 97. Secretary's report of result. 98. Penalty for refusing to give information. 99. Compensation of marshals and county clerks. 100. Census of Indians. § 90. The secretary of state is charged with the custody of all statutes and joint resolutions of the legislature, all documents which pass under the great seal, and of all the books, records, deeds, parchments, maps and papers now deposited in his office, or which may hereafter be there deposited, pursuant to law, and he shall from time to time make all necessary provisions for their arrangement and preservation. 1 R. S., 384, § 1. § 91. It is the duty of the secretary of state: 1. To attend at every session of the legislature, for the purpose of receiving bills which shall have become laws, and to perform such other duties as may then be devolved upon him by resolution of the two houses or either of them; 2. To attend the governor whenever required by him, for the purpose of receiving documents which have passed the great seal; 3. To receive and keep all conveyances and mortgages belonging to the state; 4. To receive and record, in proper books, the depositions made or furnished him, as required by law, by resident aliens desirous to take and hold real property. 5. To distribute annually the statutes, the legislative journals and documents, and the reports of the court of appeals as required by section 93; 6. To distribute the acts of congress received at his office, in the same manner as the statutes of this state; 7. To transmit to the clerk of every county and town hereafter erected, a complete set, if possible, of the revised and subsequent statutes, and to the clerk of every new county, a complete set of the reports of the court of appeals; and whenever any volume of the statutes or reports furnished to any county or town is destroyed by fire, to replace it, if possible; 8. To purchase under the direction of the goyernor such of the statutes and reports, which he is required to distribute, as are not provided for him in some other manner; 9. To transmit annually, in the month of May, to each county clerk, a certified list of licensed pedlars, and a copy of the reports received by him for the preceding year, from the agents of the state prisons. 1 R. S., 284, 385, 386. tion of § 92. The original statutes and joint resolutions Preserva passed at each session, the secretary of state shall original statutes and immediately thereafter cause to be bound in vol corrected copy. Distribu tion of stat umes of convenient size. He shall also compare with this original a copy of the printed statutes; ntes, journals nals documents. § 93. Immediately after the bills, statutes, journals and documents of any session are bound, in the manner provided for in article IX of this chapter, the secretary of state shall distribute the same as follows: 1. To the clerk of the senate, for the use of the senate, four copies of the bills; and to the clerk of the assembly, for the use of the assembly, eight copies; 2. To the clerk of the senate, for the use of the senate, sixteen copies of the statutes, journals and documents; and to the clerk of the assembly, for the use of the assembly, eighteen copies; 3. To the governor, for the use of the executive chamber, to the lieutenant-governor, to each member of the legislature, to each of the clerks of the two houses, to each judge of the court of appeals, to each justice of the supreme court; and to the following for their respective offices: the secretary of state, the comptroller, the treasurer, the state engineer and surveyor, the attorney-general, the bank and insurance superintendents, the state superintendent of public instruction, the state superintendent of weights and measures, the auditor of the canal department, to each county clerk, to the canal commissioners for their office, the inspectors of state prisons for their office, and to the librarian of the state library for the use of the library, each one copy of the statutes, journals and documents;' 4. To each of the incorporated colleges of the state one copy of the statutes and documents ;' 5. To the athenæums of the cities of Philadelphia, Boston, New York and Albany, and to the Historical Society of the city of New York, one copy each of the statutes and journals;' 6. And, with the advice of the trustees of the state library, to such literary and scientific institutions and societies, not exceeding twenty in number, as in their judgment will preserve the same, and make them most accessible and useful to the public, one copy each of the statutes, journals and documents;* 7. To each of the following officers, namely: town clerks, for the use of their respective towns; district attorneys, to be delivered to their succes sors in office, and supervisors' clerks for the use of the board of supervisors, one copy of the statutes;' 8. To the secretary of state of the United States, four copies of the statutes." All which are to be transmitted at the expense of the state; the statutes, journals and documents, for the use of each county,, and for the members of the legislature and other officers therein, to be transmitted in boxes, to the clerk of each county and the rest in such manner as the secretary may think best the statutes to be transmitted within sixty days after the adjournment of the legislature.' He shall also put up, in boxes, the laws directed to be sent by the governor to the several states in the Union, and shall transmit the same at the expense of the state in such manner as the governor shall direct. And he shall also offer for sale at an advance not exceeding ten per cent on the original cost, such number of copies as the senate and assembly may by joint resolution direct." thereafter, the secretary of state shall cause to be made a census of the state. He shall appoint for this purpose one or more marshals in each town or ward, and furnish each marshal with a certificate of his appointment, designating the district for |