Chapter 73. to continue the publication of the Supplement to the Revised Statutes
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CHAP. 73.— An Act to continue the publication of the Supplement to the Revised Statutes.April 9, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Supplement to Revised Statutes.To continue publication of. That the publication of the Supplement to the Revised Statutes, embracing the statutes general and permanent in their nature, passed after the Revised Statutes, with references connecting provisions on the same subject, explanatory notes, and citations of judicial decisions, be continued In one volume.Contents.and issued in one volume, to include the general laws of the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, with a table of alterations and a general index to the whole, By whom edited, etc.Vol. 31, p. 808.to be prepared and edited by the editor of the existing Supplement, authorized by the joint resolution of June Twenty-eighth, eighteen [R.
S., Sup., p. 582](/us/rs/t/s/p582).hundred and eighty, numbered forty-four (Supplement to Revised Statutes, page five hundred and eighty-two), to be stereotyped at the Plates, etc.Government Printing Office, using the present plates, as far as practicable, with such alterations as may be found necessary, the work Title thereto.and plates and all right and title therein and thereto to be in and fully belong to the Government for its exclusive use and benefit. Sec. 2. Number of copies, etc., for distribution.
That a sufficient number of copies be printed and bound for distribution, and to be distributed to members of Congress for themselves, and for distribution by them, to the departments, libraries, public officers, and others, the same number to each as heretofore provided by Congress for the distribution of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and the same number to the editor as to a member Additional copies.of Congress and such additional copies on the order of the Secretary of State as may be necessary from time to time to supply deficiencies For sale.and offices newly created, and for keeping for sale in the same manner and like terms as the Revised Statutes are required to be kept for Compensation.sale.
For preparing and editing said Supplement, including the legislation of the Fifty-first Congress, and the indexing and all clerical work necessary to fully complete the same, there shall be paid to said editor the sum of six thousand dollars. Sec. 3. To be prima fade evidence. That the publication herein authorized shall be taken to be prima facie evidence of the laws therein contained, but shall not change nor alter any existing law, nor preclude reference to nor control in case of any discrepancy, the effect of any original act passed by Congress.
Approved, April 9, 1890.