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Title 2 — The Congress

Part B · Chapter 65 — Senate Officers and Administration

§ 6575. Fees for copies from Senate journals

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Senate is entitled, for transcribing and certifying extracts from the journal of the Senate or the executive Journal of the Senate when the injunction of secrecy has been removed, except when such transcripts are required by an officer of the United States in a matter relating to the duties of his office, to receive from the persons for whom such transcripts are prepared the sum of 10 cents for each sheet containing one hundred words.

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. R.S. § 71

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 6575

    R.S. § 71

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 71

  2. House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act

    Pub. L. 104–186 title II § 204(61) · 110 Stat. 1718

    1. Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 6575

      Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Secretary of the Senate is” for “Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, are”

    2. Struck · 2 U.S.C. § 6575

      Pub. L. 104–186 struck out “or from the journal of the House of Representatives,” after “has been removed,”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Secretary of the Senate is” for “Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, are” and struck out “or from the journal of the House of Representatives,” after “has been removed,”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (61) Section 71 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 114) is amended— (A) by striking out “and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, are” and inserting in lieu thereof “is”; and (B) by striking out “or from the journal of the House of Representatives,”.

2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 114 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

R.S. § 71 derived from acts Sept. 15, 1789, ch. 14, § 6, 1 Stat. 69; Aug. 8, 1846, ch. 107, § 2, 9 Stat. 80; and Apr. 23, 1856, ch. 20, 11 Stat. 5.

Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Secretary of the Senate is” for “Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, are” and struck out “or from the journal of the House of Representatives,” after “has been removed,”.

Credits

1996 · 2 acts
  1. R.S. § 71
  2. 1996Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(61), , 110 Stat. 1738.
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(R.S. § 71; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(61), , 110 Stat. 1738.)

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