Chapter 4.
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CHAP. 4.— AN ACT providing for the printing and distribution of the Biennial Register.Dec. 15, 1877. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Biennial Register. That in lieu of the number of copies of the Biennial Register now authorized by law to be printed, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be printed twenty-five hundred copies of the said work, to be distributed as follows:
To the President of the United States, four copies, one copy of which shall be for the library of the Executive Mansion; to the Vice-President How distributed.of the United States, two copies; to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, one copy; to the Secretary of the Senate, one copy; to the Clerk of the House, one copy; to the Library of the Senate, fifty copies, of which one copy shall be supplied to each standing committee of the Senate; to the Library of the House of Representatives, seventy-five copies, of which one copy shall be supplied to each standing committee of the House; to the Library of Congress, twenty-five copies; to the Department of State, two hundred and fifty copies; to the Treasury Department, one hundred and fifty copies; to the War Department, fifty copies; to the Navy Department, twenty copies; to the Department of Justice, twenty-five copies; to the Post-Office Department, one hundred copies; to the Department of the Interior, two hundred and fifty copies; to the Department of Agriculture, five copies; to the Smithsonian Institution, four copies; to the State library and State historical society of each State, and to the executive of each Territory, and to the designated depository of public documents in each congressional district in the United States, one copy each, and the remaining copies shall be kept by the Secretary of the Interior as a reserve, from which he may supply newly-created offices; and members of Congress one additional copy each.
Sec. 2. That hereafter the lists directed by sections one hundred and ninety-eightMaterials forR. S., 198, p. 30.R. S., 510,p. 83. and five hundred and ten of the Revised Statutes to be furnished by the several departments and offices of the Government for the Biennial Register shall be made up to the last day of June of each year in which a new Congress is to assemble, and shall be filed as soon thereafter as practicable in the Department of the Interior. Approved, December 15, 1877.