Chapter XCV. *to provide for the Publication of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Attorney-General be, Attorney-General may contract for publishing
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Chap. XCV.— An Act *to provide for the Publication of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Attorney-General be, Attorney-General may contract for publishing opinions of attorneys-general since March 4, 1851. Style of publication.and he is hereby, authorized to contract on behalf of the United States with a suitable book-publisher for the printing and publishing of the un published opinions of the attorneys-general of the United States, deliv ered since the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, on the terms following, to wit:
The said opinions to be published in as many volumes as may be necessary, which shall be, as to the quality of paper, printing, and binding, of uniform style and appearance with the eighth volume of said opinions, published by Robert Farnham, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and, as nearly as possible, of uniform size THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 95, 96, 97. 1865. 515with said eighth volume, and which shall be numbered in regular order after the said eighth volume; the copyright thereof to be taken out by, and Copyright.be for the use of, the publisher, who shall deliver to the Attorney-General for the use of the United States, within one month after the publication thereof three hundred sets of said volumes, at the price of three dollars per volume, payable after they are so delivered.
And the At t orney-General is hereby authorized to employ a competent person to edit and prepare Editor, and his duties.the said opinions for publication, as aforesaid, with proper head-notes, and a full and complete index, and to supervise the said publication. When the said three hundred sets shall have been delivered for the use of the United States, the Attorney-General shall cause them to be distributed as follows: For the President of the United States, two sets; Distribution.for the Department of State, ten sets; for the Department of the Treas ury and the heads of the bureaus thereof, twenty-five sets; for the De partment of War and the heads of the bureaus thereof, twenty-five sets; for the Department of the Navy and the heads of bureaus thereof, fifteen sets; for the Department of the Interior and the heads of bureaus thereof, twenty sets; for the Department of the Post-Office, ten a c ts; for the Attorney-General’s office, ten sets; for the judges of the supreme court of the United States, one set each; for the library of said court, three sets; for the judges of the court of claims, the solicitor and assistant and deputy solicitors of said court, one set each; for the library of congress, fifty sets, for the use of both bouses of congress; the residue of the said three hundred sets to remain in charge of the librarian of congress, at the future disposal of congress.
And the sum of seven thousand dollars is Appropriation.hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap propriated, to pay for the editing of the said opinions and the price of the said three hundred volumes, which money shall be disbursed on vouchers approved by the Attorney-General. Approved, March 3, 1865.