Chapter 862. To amend section sixty-eight, chapter twenty-three, of volume twenty-eight of the United States Statutes at Large
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CHAP. 862.— An Act To amend section sixty-eight, chapter twenty-three, of volume twenty-eight of the United States Statutes at Large. April 6, 1904. [[H. R. 10866](/us/bill/58/hr/10866).] [[Public, No. 84](/us/pl/58/84).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section sixty-eight, Public printing. Congressional documents. Vol. 28, p. 612, amended. chapter twenty-three, of volume twenty-eight of the United States Statutes at Large be, and the same is hereby, amended so that it shall read as follows:
" “Whenever in the division among Senators, Representatives, and Distribution. Delegates of documents printed for the use of Congress there shall be an apportionment to each or either House in round numbers, the Public Printer shall not deliver the full number so accredited at the respective 160 folding rooms, but only the largest multiple of the number constituting Sergeant-at-Arms, House of Representatives, added. the full membership of each or either House, including the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and Clerk, Sergeant-at-Arms, and Doorkeeper of the House, which shall be contained in the round numbers thus accredited to each or either House, so that the number delivered shall divide evenly and without remainder among the members of the House to which they are delivered; and the remainder of the documents thus resulting shall be turned over to the superintendent of documents, to be distributed by him, first, to public and school libraries for the purpose of completing broken sets; second, to public and school libraries that have not been supplied with any portions of such sets, and, lastly, by sale to other persons; said libraries to be named to him by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress; and in this distribution the superintendent of documents shall see that as far as practicable an equal allowance is made to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate.
” " Approved, April 6, 1904.