Chapter 267. To provide for the printing and distribution of the Supreme Court Reports, and amending sections 225, 226, 227, and 228 of the Judicial Code
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CHAP. 267.— An Act To provide for the printing and distribution of the Supreme Court Reports, and amending sections 225, 226, 227, and 228 of the Judicial Code. July 1, 1922.[[H. R. 11450](/us/bill/67/hr/11450).][[Public, No. 272](/us/pl/67/272).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Supreme Court Reports. That section 225 of the Judicial Code is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 225. Preparation, etc., by reporter.
Vol. 38, p. 1153, amended. It shall be the duty of the reporter to prepare the decisions of the Supreme Court for printing and publication in bound volumes, as and when directed by the court or the Chief Justice; and when so directed to cause to be printed and published advance copies of said decisions in pamphlet installments. Printing at Government Printing Office.“The reporter, by requisition upon the Public Printer, shall have the printing and binding herein required done at the Government *Post*, p. 1081.Printing Office.
Approval of style, etc.“The quality and size of the paper, type, format, proofs, and binding shall be determined by the reporter subject to approval of the court or the Chief Justice. Authority for printing and binding.“Authority is hereby conferred upon the Public Printer for doing the printing and binding specified herein.” " Sec. 2. That section 226 of the Judicial Code is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 226. Reporter. Salary, expenses, etc. Vol. 30, p. 1153, amended. *Ante*, p. 774.
The salary of the reporter shall be $8,000 per annum, payable out of the Treasury in monthly installments, which shall be in full compensation for the services required by law. He shall also be allowed for professional and clerical assistance and stationery not to exceed $3,500 per annum, to be paid upon vouchers signed by him and approved by the Chief Justice. He shall be furnished a room in the Capitol, with suitable furniture, convenient to the space occupied by the Supreme Court and the law library thereof.
” " Sec. 3. That section 227 of the Judicial Code is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 227. Distribution. Attorney General to distribute copies as specified. Vol. 36, p. 1154, amended. The reports provided for in section 225 shall be printed, bound, and issued within eight months after said decisions have been rendered by the Supreme Court, and within said period the Attorney General shall distribute copies of said Supreme Court reports as follows: To the President, the Justices of the Supreme Court, the judges of the Court of Customs Appeals, the judges of the Circuit Courts of Appeal, the judges of the district courts, the judges of the Court of Claims, the judges of the Court of Appeals and of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the judges of the several Territorial courts, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Postmaster General, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, the Solicitor General, the Assistant to the Attorney General, each Assistant Attorney General, each United States district attorney, each Assistant Secretary of each of the executive departments, the Assistant Postmaster 817General, the Secretary of the Senate for use of the Senate, the Clerk of the House of Representatives for the use of the House of Representatives, the governors of the Territories, the Solicitor for the Department of State, the Treasurer of the United States, the Solicitor of the Treasury, the Comptroller General of the United States, the Assistant Comptroller General, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Director of the Budget, the Assistant Director of the Budget, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the Director of the Mint, the solicitor of the General Accounting Office, each of the chiefs of divisions in the General Accounting Office, the counsel of the Bureau of the Budget, the Judge Advocate General, War Department; the Chief of Finance, War Department; the Judge Advocate General, Navy Department; the Paymaster General, Navy Department; the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Commissioner of General Land Office, the Commissioner of Pensions, the Commissioner of Patents, the Commissioner of Education, the Commissioner of Navigation, the Commissioner General of Immigration, the Director of Geological Survey, the Director of the Census, the Forester and Chief of Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; the purchasing agent, Post Office Department; the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, the marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, the chairman United States Shipping Board; the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; the Military Academy at West Point, New York: and the heads of such other executive offices as may be provided by law of equal grade with any of said offices, each one copy; to the law library of the Supreme Court, twenty-five copies; to the law library of the Department of the Interior, two copies; to the law library of the Department of Justice, five copies; to the Secretary of the Senate for the use of committees of the Senate, thirty copies; to the Clerk of the House of Representatives for use of the committees of the House, thirty-five copies; to the marshal of the Supreme’ Court as custodian of the public property used by the court for the use of the justice thereof in the conference room, robing room, and court room, three copies; to the Secretary of War for the use of the proper courts and officers of the Philippine Islands, and for the headquarters of military departments in the United States, twelve copies; and to each of the places where district courts of the United States are now holden, including Hawaii and Porto Rico, one copy.
“The Attorney General shall distribute one complete set of saidAdditional complete sets of reports and digests to officers, etc., who have not received them. reports and one set of the digests thereof to such executive officers as are entitled to receive said reports under this section and have not already received them; to each United States judge and to each United States district attorney who has not received a set; to each of the places where district courts are now held to which reports have not been distributed and to each of the places at which a district court may hereafter be held, the edition of said reports and digests to be selected by the judge or officer receiving them.
“No distribution of reports and digests under this section shall beRestriction. made to any place where the court is held in a building not owned by the United States unless there be at such place a United States officer to whose responsible custody they can be committed. “The clerks of courts (except the Supreme Court) shall in all casesPreservation, etc. keep the said reports and digests for the use of the courts and of the officers thereof. Said reports and digests shall remain the property of the United States and shall be preserved by the officers above named and by them turned over to their successors in office.
“The Public Printer shall turn over to the Attorney General, uponDelivery from Public Printer, as required. request, such reports as he may require in order to make the distribution authorised to be made by the Attorney General hereunder.” " 818 Sec. 4. Section 228 of the Judicial Code is hereby amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 228. Number to be printed, etc. Vol. 36, p. 1155, amended. The number of bound volumes and advance pamphlet installments, to be printed under the provisions of section 225, shall be determined by the reporter from estimates furnished by the Attorney General and the Superintendent of Documents, and the prices for said Sale by Public printer at approved price.bound volumes and pamphlet installments to be sold by the Public Printer shall be fixed by the reporter with the approval of the Attorney General and shall equal the cost of composition, plating, printing, and binding, and such additional amount as shall equal as nearly as may be, one-half the sums appropriated for the salary and expenses of the reporter under the provisions of section 226.
Receipts covered into the Treasury.“Receipts from the sale of said reports and pamphlet installments shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. Reprints.“Whenever the supply of bound copies of any volume produced under any requisition pursuant to section 1 of this Act shall have been disposed of, reprints from the original plates shall be made at the Government Printing Office from time to time in sufficient numbers Determination of price, etc.to meet current demands.
Such reprints shall equal, as nearly as possible, in quality of presswork, paper, and binding the original editions, and shall be sold at the price fixed for the latest volume published when the reprints are made; so much of the money thus derived as equals the cost of making and distributing the reprints sold shall Distribution of receipts.be credited to the appropriation for printing and binding, the remainder thereof shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.
” " Sec. 5. Effective as of November 1, 1921. *Proviso.* Deduction of payments already made for October 1921, term. That the provisions of this Act shall be effective as of November 1, 1921: *Provided, however,* That there shall be deducted from the salary and allowances fixed by section 226 of the Judicial Code, as amended hereby, such sums as may have been paid or allowed out of the Treasury to. the reporter for work done by him in the preparation for printing and binding of reports of decisions rendered since the opening of the October, 1921, term of the Supreme Court.
Appropriation authorized annually.Such sums as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of sections 225, 226, 227, and 228 of the Judicial Code as amended by this Act are hereby authorized to be appropriated annually out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 1, 1922.