Volume 52
Public Law 75–708
To amend the laws relating to the distribution of public documents to depository libraries.
Approved June 25, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the laws relating to the distribution of public documents to depository libraries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 4 of
Printing Act of 1895, amendment.
the Act (34 Stat. 1014) approved March 1, 1907 (U. S. C., title 44, sec. 85), be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows :
“85. Distribution of copies of publications to designated depositories and libraries; land-grant colleges as depositories.—
Upon request of the Superintendent of Documents, the Public Printer is hereby authorized and directed to either increase or diminish the number of copies of publications furnished for distribution, to designated depositories and State and Territorial libraries so that the number of copies delivered shall be equal to the number of libraries on the list: Provided, That the number thus delivered shall at no time exceed
Provisos.
Limitation.
Journals of Senate and House of Representatives, publications, etc.
the number authorized under existing statute: Provided further, That the Public Printer shall furnish the necessary number of copies as above provided, of the Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives, of all publications, not confidential in character, printed upon the requisition of any Congressional committee, of all Senate and House public bills and resolutions, and of all reports on private bills,
Allotment of copies.
concurrent or simple resolutions. The allotment of copies furnished for distribution to libraries shall be increased or reduced, from time to time, as the redistricting of States or the rearrangement of depository lists under provisions of law shall demand, to such numbers as may
Land-grant colleges.
be necessary to comply with the law. All land-grant colleges shall be constituted as depositories for public documents, subject to the provisions and limitations of the depository laws.
Inconsistent provisions repealed.
28 Stat. 608, 609.
“Any provision contained in sections 54, 55, or 57 of the Printing Act of 1895 (28 Stat. 608, 609; U. S. C., title 44, secs. 131, 147, and 189, or any other Act), which may be inconsistent herewith, is hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency only.”
Approved, June 25, 1938.