Chapter IV. to authorize the Commissioners to revise the Statutes to print their Reports
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CHAP. IV.— An Act to authorize the Commissioners to revise the Statutes to print their Reports.March 24, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatEach commissioner to revise the statutes may have his work printed on his written order.1871, ch. 115.Vol. xvi. p. 517. the proviso in the act of March three, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, directing “that no printing shall hereafter be executed except on written order under, the direction of heads of departments, or by the two houses of Congress, as authorized by law,” shall not be construed to affect the printing required by the commissioners to revise the statutes, in the execution of their duties; but their reports, indexes, and other papers immediately incidental to their work, may be printed upon the written order of the commissioner by whom the same may have been prepared.
Approved, March 24, 1871.