Volume 22
Public Law 47–350
to authorize the preparation and publication of a classified, analytical, and descriptive catalogue of all government publications from July fourth, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
Approved July 27, 1882
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the preparation and publication of a classified, analytical, and descriptive catalogue of all government publications from July fourth, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and novae of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.,
That there be prepared and published, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, a classified, analytical, and descriptive catalogue of all publications made by the authority of the Government of the United States and the preceding government of the Colonies, and all departments, bureaus, and offices thereof, from July fourth, seventeen hundred and seventy-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one; and upon the request of the said joint, committee, the officers of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the heads of all the executive departments and of all the bureaus and offices thereof, shall furnish to said joint committee all such information and assistance in reference to said publications as will facilitate or assist in the completion of said work; and the sum
Appropriation.
of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act which sum may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any ofiicer or employ^ of the United States.
Approved, July 27, 1882.