Chapter 113. To amend section 227 of the Judicial Code
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Chap. 113: To amend section 227 of the Judicial Code. 1929-01-29 113 Chapter 45 Stat. 1143 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 113.— An Act To amend section 227 of the Judicial Code. January 29, 1929.[[H. R. 9049](/us/bill/70/hr/9049).][[Public, No. 692](/us/pl/70/692).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section 227Supreme Court Reports.Vol. 36, p. 1154,. amended. of the Judicial Code be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 227. The reports provided for in section 225 shall be printed,Distribution of, by Attorney General, as specified.Vol. 44, p. 736. amended. 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 Court of Appeals, the judges of the district courts, the judges of the Court of Claims, the justices of the Customs Court, and judges of theCustoms Court added.
Court of Appeals, and of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the judges of the several Territorial courts, the United States Court for China, 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 General, 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 office of the Legislative Counsel, Senate branch; the office of the Legislative Counsel, House branch; 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 of the Army; 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 the 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 the Geological Survey, the Director of the Census, the Forester and Chief of Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; the purchasing agent, Post Office Department; 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 interstate Commerce Commission, sixteen copies; to the law library of1144the 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 law library of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, two 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 the 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 justices thereof in the conference room, robing room, and courtroom, six copies; to the Secretary of War for the use of the proper courts and officers of the Philippine Islands, seven copies; to the Secretary of War for military headquarters which now exercise or may hereafter exercise general court-martial jurisdiction, such number, not to exceed in time of peace twenty-five copies, as the Secretary of War may from time to time specify; and to each of the places where district courts of the United States are now holden, including Hawaii and Porto Rico, one copy.
Additional complete sets and digests to officers, etc., who have not yet received them.“The Attorney General shall distribute one complete set of said 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: *Proviso*.Limitation for military headquarters.*Provided*, That this Act shall not be construed so as to require that reports and digests printed prior to the date of approval of this Act shall be furnished to the Secretary of War for military headquarters.
Restriction as to courts not held in Government buildings.“No distribution of reports and digests under this section shall be 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. Preservation, etc.“The clerks of courts (except the Supreme Court) shall in all cases 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. Delivery from Public Printer as required.“The Public Printer shall turn over to the Attorney General, upon request, such reports as he may require in order to make the distribution authorized to be made by the Attorney General hereunder.” " Approved, January 29, 1929.
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