Chapter XVIII. *to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court.*(*b*)(*b*) See notes to the act of March 3, 1817, ch. 63
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Chap. XVIII.— An Act *to provide for reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court.*(*b*)(*b*) See notes to the act of March 3, 1817, ch. 63. Feb. 22, 1827. [Expired.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 63.Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 34. Act of Aug. 29, 1842, ch. 264.A reporter of the decisions to be appointed by the Supreme Court with an annual compensation of 1000 dollars.Proviso.
That a reporter shall, from time to time, be appointed by the Supreme Court of the United States, to report its decisions, who shall be entitled to receive from the treasury of the United States, as an annual compensation for his services, the sum of one thousand dollars: *Provided, nevertheless,* That the said compensation shall not be paid, unless the said reporter shall print and publish, or cause to be printed and published, the decisions of the said court, made during the time he shall act as such reporter, within six months after such decisions shall be made; and shall deliver eighty copies of the decisions, so printed and published, to the Secretary of State, without any expense to the United States; which copies shall be distributed as follows, to wit: to the President of the United States, the judges of the Supreme Court, the judges of the district courts, the Attorney General of the United States, the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Navy, the comptrollers of the treasury, and the judges of the several territories of the United States, one copy each; five copies for the use of each House of Congress; and the residue of the copies shall be deposited in the library of Congress; *And provided, also,* That theProviso. said decisions shall be sold, to the public at large at a price not exceeding five dollars a volume.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That in case of the death, resignation, or dismission from office, of either of the officers before mentioned, the said copies of [the] decisions delivered to them, as aforesaid, shall belong, and be delivered over, to their successors in said offices. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That this act shall be and continue in force for three years, and no longer. Approved, February 22, 1827.