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Title 1 — General Provisions

Chapter 3 — Code of Laws of United States and Supplements; District of Columbia Code and Supplements

§ 212. Additional distribution at each new Congress

Statutory text

In addition the Superintendent of Documents shall, at the beginning of the first session of each Congress, supply to each Senator and Representative in such Congress, who may in writing apply for the same, one copy each of the Code of Laws of the United States, the Code of Laws relating to the District of Columbia, and the latest supplement to each code: Provided, That such applicant shall certify in his written application for the same that the volume or volumes for which he applies is intended for his personal use exclusively: And provided further, That no Senator or Representative during his term of service shall receive under this section more than one copy each of the volumes enumerated herein.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. 1 U. S. C., § —

    Pub. L. 80–388 · 61 Stat. 633

    Enacted · 1 U.S.C. § 212

    (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)

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Credits

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 640.)

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