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Volume 49 · 957

Public Law 74–795

To provide for the compiling and publishing of the Official Register of the United States.

Approved August 28, 1935

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for the compiling and publishing of the Official Register of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the United States Civil Service Commission shall cause to be compiled, edited, indexed, and published each year an Official Register of the United States, which shall contain a full and complete list of all persons occupying administrative and supervisory positions in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government, including the District of Columbia, in connection with which salaries are paid from the Treasury of the United States. The register shall show the name; official title; salary, compensation, and emoluments; legal residence and place of employment for each person listed therein: Provided, however, That the Official Register shall not

Proviso.

Postmasters. Army and Navy personnel.

contain the name of any postmaster or assistant postmaster, or any officer of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, unless such officer is assigned as an administrative officer.

Sec. 2.

To enable the United States Civil Service Commission to

Data to be furnished by branches of the Government.

compile and publish the Official Register of the United States as early as practicable after the first of June of each year, the Executive Office, the legislative and judicial branches of the Government, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the head of each executive department, independent office, establishment, and commission of the Government shall, as of the 1st day of May of each year, beginning with May 1, 1936, supply to the United States Civil Service Commission the data required by this Act, upon forms approved and furnished by the Commission, in due time to permit the publication of the Official Register as herein provided; and no extra compensation

Work to be performed without additional compensation.

shall be allowed to any officer, clerk, or employee of the United States Civil Service Commission for compiling the Official Register.

Sec. 3.

Of the Official Register there shall be printed, bound, and

Distribution.

delivered to the Superintendent of Documents and charged to the Congressional allotment for printing and binding a sufficient number of copies for distribution as follows: To the President of the United States, four copies, one copy of which shall be for the library of the Executive Office; to the Vice President of the United States, two copies; to each Senator, Representative, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner in Congress, three copies; to the Secretary and the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and to the Clerk, the Sergeant at Arms, and the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, each one copy; to the library of the Senate and the House, each, not to exceed fifteen copies; to the library of the Supreme Court, two copies; to the Library of Congress, for international exchange and for official use in Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed one hundred and fifty copies; to the municipal library of the District of Columbia, two copies; and to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, ten copies. The “ usual number ” shall not

“Usual number” not printed.

be printed.

Sec. 4.

The head of each executive department, independent

Copies for executive departments, independent agencies, etc.

office? or establishment of the Government, not mentioned above, desiring copies of the Official Register shall issue, on or before May 1 of each year, a requisition upon the Public Printer for the number of copies of the Official Register necessary to meet its official requirements, the cost of such supply to be charged to the appropriations available for printing and binding for such executive department, independent office, or establishment.

Sec. 5.

That section 510 of the Revised Statutes of the United

Repeals.

R. S., sec. 610, p. 84.

Vol. 43, p. 1105; U. S. C., p. 487.

States and section 2 of the Act discontinuing the printing of certain Government publications, and for other purposes (4.3 Stat. 1105), approved March 3, 1925, and all Acts or parts of Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Approved, August 28, 1935.

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