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Volume 75 · 203

Public Law 87–85

To provide for the increased distribution of the Congressional Record to the Federal judiciary.

Approved July 11, 1961

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for the increased distribution of the Congressional Record to the Federal judiciary.

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

That section 73 of the Act of January 12, 1895, as amended (44 U.S.C. 183), relating to the gratuitous distribution of the Congressional Record is further amended (a) by inserting therein immediately after the paragraph reading:

“To the offices of the marshal and clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, each, two copies of the daily and one semi-monthly copy.”

an additional paragraph reading as follows:

“To each United States circuit and district judge, and to the chief judge and each associate judge of the United States Court of Claims, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the United States Customs Court, the Tax Court of the United States, and the United States Court of Military Appeals, upon request to a Member of Congress and notification thereof by such Member to the Public Printer, one copy of the daily. Copies so furnished shall be in addition to those authorized to be furnished to Members of Congress under the foregoing provisions of this section.”

and (b) by inserting therein immediately after the paragraph reading:

“To the library of the Supreme Court of the United States, two copies of the daily, two semimonthly copies, and not to exceed five bound copies.”

an additional paragraph reading as follows:

“To the library of each United States Court of Appeals, each United States District Court, the United States Court of Claims, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the United States Customs Court, the Tax Court of the United States, and the United States Court of Military Appeals, upon request to the Public Printer, one bound copy.”

Approved July 11, 1961.

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