Brooklyn Naval Lyceum, and a copy for the library of the Naval Institute at Charlestown, Massachusetts, sixty-five copies; to the Department of the Interior, including those for the use of the surveyors-general and registers and receivers of public land-offices, two hundred and fifty copies; to the Post Office Department, fifty copies; to the Department of Justice, including those for the use of the chief and associate justices, the judges and the officers of the United States and territorial courts, four hundred and twenty-five copies; to the Department of Agriculture, five copies; to the Smithsonian Institution, two copies; to the Government Printing Office, one copy; and the Secretary of State shall supply deficiencies and offices newly created. Also, the Department was ordered to sell the Revised Statutes and the laws of each session at the cost of the paper, press work, and binding, with ten per cent thereof added thereto to any person applying for the same," the proceeds to be paid into the Treasury. Following the provisions of the law, the system at the present day is as follows: As soon as a law or resolution is passed by Congress and signed by the President, or passed by a two-thirds vote over the President's veto, it is sent to the Department of State. There it is numbered and classed either as "public" or "private," and is compared with the printed bill upon which it was based, which had been received by the Department before it became a law. The bill is altered so as to be identical with the law, and becomes the "copy" for the Government Printing Office. Up to July, 1838, all the laws and resolutions were copied in the Department in full in books provided for the purpose; but the law requiring this was in that year repealed, and this unnecessary labor ceased. The proof, being received from the Government Printing Office, is compared, not with the "copy," but with the original engrossed act or resolution, the revised and re-revised proof being similarly dealt with. As finally printed, the act or resolution appears on separate, unbound sheets. These are termed the "slip laws," and are for free distribution; and certified copies under the seal of the Department can be had on application, the "slip law," before the certification, being again compared with the original. The pamphlet publication of the statutes is made from the "slip laws;" but, after they are given to the printer and "set up," they have the benefit of comparison with the originals, making, in all, four separate readings. Having passed into the hands of the Editor of the Laws, they are printed under his supervision, and appear as the Statutes at Large. The original laws and resolutions are, after the final reading, bound and placed on file; and the stereotype plates from which th printing is done are sent to the Department State and deposited there. In addition to the laws themselves, ther deposited with the Department of State are known as the "pocketed laws." These a the bills or resolutions of Congreich ing to the President within ten da journment of Congress, haven approval. They have not 1 Congress with 1 ply fail beca are all set. they are be heading The immecia: being gress. a.. followin deposite credited :.. :: .12 .50 ...do...... .55 Laws of second session, 44th Cong., 1876-'77..........pamphlet...$0.48 .60 ....do...... .46 .72 .55 Statutes at Large, Vol. 21, 46th Cong., 1879-'81...........bound.... 2.50 ....do.......50 The Revised Statutes (Edition 1878) embraces the laws of a general and permanent nature in force December 1, 1873, and the specific amendments thereof made during |