Chapter 135.
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CHAP. 135.— An act to amend section six hundred and eighty-three of the Re vised Statutes relating to the distribution of the reports of the supreme court.February 12, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Supreme Court reports. Distribution of complete sets to circuit and district courts. R. S., sec. 683, p. 126, amended. That section six hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to provide for the distribution, by the Secretary of the Interior, of one set of the official reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, or an exact reprint of the same, comprising volumes one to one hundred and twenty-two, inclusive, or so many volumes as may be needed with those already supplied to make one such set, to each of the places where the circuit and district courts of the United States are regularly held: *Provided*, That where a circuit court and*Provisos*.
When circuit and District court are held at same place. district court are both holden at the same place, only one such set, or so many volumes as may be needed with those already supplied to make one such set, shall be distributed to that place: *Provided further*, That for the sets or parts of sets distributed as aforesaid not exceeding two dollars per volume shall be paid; and said report shallPrice. be kept by the clerks of said courts and their successors in office for the use of said courts and the officers thereof; and the sum of twenty-eightAppropriation. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to carry out the above provision.
Sec. 2. That, beginning with volume one hundred and twenty-three,Number for distribution increased. the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States shall deliver to the Secretary of the Interior, in addition to the number heretofore required by law to be so delivered by him, seventy-six copies of each volume of the reports of said decisions, for which additional copies he shall be allowed not exceeding two dollars per volume. And hereafter all the copies of said reports furnished by said reporter shall be distributed by the Secretary of the Interior in the manner heretofore authorized by law: *Provided*,*Provisos*.
That the Secretary of the Interior shall also distribute to each of theDistribution to courts. places where the circuit and district courts of the United States are regularly holden one copy of the reports so furnished, to be kept by the clerks of said courts and their successors in office, for the use of said courts and the officers thereof: *Provided further*, That where a circuit court and a district court are both holden at the same place, only one copy shall be distributed to that place, and the residue of the copies shall be deposited in the Library of Congress.
And the 662 To remain United States property.said reports, in all cases where the same are distributed as aforesaid, shall remain the property of the United States, and be preserved as such by the above-named officers, and by them to be turned over to R. S., sec. 386, p. 64, amended.their successors in office; and so much of section three hundred and eighty-six of the Revised Statutes as charges the Department of Justice with the distribution thereof is hereby repealed. Approved, February 12, 1889.