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Chap. 586: Providing more economical and improved methods for the publication and distribution of the Code of Laws of the United States and of the District of Columbia, and supplements. 1929-03-02 586 Chapter 45 Stat. 1540 70 2 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 public Chapter 586.— Joint Resolution Providing more economical and improved methods for the publication and distribution of the Code of Laws of the United States and of the District of Columbia, and supplements.
March 2, 1929.[[H. J. Res. 399](/us/bill/70/hjres/399).][[Pub. Res., No. 101](/us/bill/70/pubres/101).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Code of Laws of United States. That in order to avoid duplication and waste—
(a)Printing Supplement I as part of Statutes at Large dispensed with.*Ante*, p. 1007. Publication of Supplement I to the Code of Laws of the United States (Public—No. 621, 70th Congress) as a part of the Statutes at Large is dispensed with;
(b)Publishing in slip or pamphlet form or in the Statutes, may be dispensed with.*Ante*, p. 1007. Publication in slip or pamphlet form or in the Statutes at Large of any of the volumes or publications enumerated in the Act of May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 1007), as amended by this resolution, shall, in event of enactment, be dispensed with whenever the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives so directs the Secretary of State;
(c)Curtailment of number and distribution of the volumes by law may be directed by Committee.Exception. Curtailment of the number provided by law to be printed and distributed of the volumes or publications enumerated in such Act of May 29, 1928, as amended by this resolution, may be directed by such committee, except that the Public Printer shall print such numbers as are necessary for depository library distribution and for sale; and
(d)Printing and distribution of the pamphlets may be dispensed with.One for each Congress to be printed, etc. Such committee may direct that the printing and distribution of any supplement to the Code of Laws of the United States or to the Code of the District of Columbia be dispensed with entirely, except that there shall be printed and distributed for each Congress at least 1541one supplement to each such code, containing the legislation of such Congress. Sec. 2. Section 2 of such Act of May 29, 1928, is amended to read*Ante*, p. 1007, amended. as follows: " “Sec. 2. There shall be prepared and published under the supervisionPreparing and publishing under House Committee on Revision of the Laws, authorized.Supplements for each session to current edition of the Code. of the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives— “(a) A supplement for each session of the Congress to the then current edition of the Code of Laws of the United States, cumulatively embracing the legislation of the then current supplement, and correcting errors in such edition and supplement; “(b) A consolidation and codification of the laws, general andCodification of permanent laws relating to District of Columbia. permanent in their nature, relating to or in force in the District of Columbia, except such laws as are of application in the District of Columbia by reason of being laws of the United States general andTo be “The Code of the District of Columbia.” permanent in their nature. Such Code shall be designated ‘The Code of the District of Columbia’; “(c) A supplement for each session of the Congress to the thenSupplements for each session to current edition of District Code. current edition of the Code of the District of Columbia, cumulatively embracing the legislation of the then current supplement, and correcting errors in such edition and supplement; “(d) New editions of the Code of Laws of the United States andNew editions of both Codes. of the Code of the District of Columbia, correcting errors and incorporating the then current supplement. In the case of each code newTo be once in five years. editions shall not be published oftener than once in each five years. Copies of each such edition shall be distributed in the same mannerDistribution. as provided in the case of supplements to the code of which it is a new edition. Supplements published after any new edition shall not contain the legislation of supplements published before such new edition.” " Sec. 3. Section 4 of such Act of May 29, 1928, is amended to read*Ante*, p. 1007, amended. as follows: " “Sec. 4. In all courts, tribunals, and public offices of the UnitedAcceptance in all courts, etc. States, at home or abroad, of the District of Columbia, and of each State, Territory, or insular possession of the United States— “(a) The matter set forth in the edition of the Code of Laws ofMatter in current edition of Code of Laws, establish prima facie, the laws then in force. the United States current at any time shall, together with the then current supplement, if any, establish prima facie the laws of the United States, general and permanent in their nature, in force on the day preceding the commencement of the session following the last session the legislation of which is included. “(b) The matter set forth in the edition of the Code of the DistrictMatter in current edition of the District Code, establish prima facie the laws relating to the District, then in force. of Columbia current at any time shall, together with the then current supplement, if any, establish prima facie the laws, general and permanent in their nature, relating to or in force in the District of Columbia on the day preceding the commencement of the session following the last session the legislation of which is included, except such laws as are of application in the District of Columbia by reason of being laws of the United States general and permanent in their nature. “(c) The Code of the District of Columbia may be cited as ‘D. C.Reference titles. Code’. “(d) Supplements to the Code of Laws of the United States and to the Code of the District of Columbia may be cited, respectively, as ‘U. S. C., Sup.,’ and ‘D. C. Code, Sup.,’ the blank in each case being filled with Roman figures denoting the number of the supplement. “(e) New editions of each of such codes may be cited, respectively, as ‘U. S. C., ed.’ and ‘D. C. Code, ed.,’ the blank in each case 1542being filled with figures denoting the last year the legislation of which is included in whole or in part.” " Sec. 4. Form, style, etc., of publications to be prescribed by House Committee on Revision of the Laws. The publications provided for in such Act of May 29, 1928, as amended by this resolution, shall be printed at the Government Printing Office, and shall be in such form and style and with such ancillaries as may be prescribed by the Committee on Revision of Cooperation of Librarian of Congress.the Laws of the House of Representatives. The Librarian of Congress is directed to cooperate with such committee in the preparation Additional directions.of such ancillaries. Such publications shall be furnished with such thumb insets and other devices to distinguish parts, with such facilities for the insertion of additional matter, and with such explanatory and advertising slips, and shall be printed on such paper and bound in such material, as may be prescribed by such committee. Sec. 5. Bills and resolutions to or from the Committee to be printed, etc., as directed thereby. All bills and resolutions referred to or reported by the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives shall be printed in such form and style, and with such ancillaries, as such committee may prescribe as being economical and suitable, to so continue until final enactment thereof in both Houses of Congress; and such committee may also curtail the number of copies of such bills to be printed in the various parliamentary stages in the House of Representatives. Sec. 6. Additional copies of every public Act and Joint Resolution to be furnished the Committee when printed. The Public Printer is directed to print, in addition to the number provided by existing law, and, as soon as printed, to distribute in such manner as the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives shall determine, twenty copies in slip form of each public Act and joint resolution, beginning with the second session of the Seventieth Congress. Sec. 7. Functions of the committee may be vested in agency provided by Congress. The functions vested by this resolution in the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives may from time to time be vested in such other agency as the Congress may by *Proviso*.Printing, etc., under Joint Committee on Printing.concurrent resolution provide: *Provided*, That the printing, binding, and distribution of the volumes and publications enumerated in the Act of May 29, 1928, and this Act shall be done under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing. Approved, March 2, 1929.
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