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Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents

Chapter 11 — Executive and Judiciary Printing and Binding

§ 1123. Binding materials; bookbinding for libraries

Statutory text

Binding for the departments of the Government shall be done in plain sheep or cloth, except that record and account books may be bound in Russia leather, sheep fleshers, and skivers, when authorized by the head of a department. The libraries of the several departments, the Library of Congress, the libraries of the Surgeon General’s Office, and the Naval Observatory may have books for the exclusive use of these libraries bound in half Turkey, or material no more expensive.

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. Pub. L. 90–620 · 82 Stat. 1238

    Enacted · 44 U.S.C. § 1123

    Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1264

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1264

  2. District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2000

    Pub. L. 106–113 div. B § 1000(a)(9)(tIV)(s4732)(b)(24) · 113 Stat. 1501

    Struck · 44 U.S.C. § 1123

    Pub. L. 106–113 struck out “the Patent Office,” after “the Surgeon General’s Office,”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 106–113 struck out “the Patent Office,” after “the Surgeon General’s Office,”.

    Effective date note
    Amendment by Pub. L. 106–113 effective 4 months after Nov. 29, 1999, see section 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4731] of Pub. L. 106–113, set out as a note under section 1 of Title 35, Patents.

0 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 partial

Notes

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 116 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 86, 28 Stat. 622).

This section incorporates all but the first sentence of former section 116. The balance will be found in section 501 of the revision.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1999—Pub. L. 106–113 struck out “the Patent Office,” after “the Surgeon General’s Office,”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1999 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 106–113 effective 4 months after , see section 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4731] of Pub. L. 106–113, set out as a note under section 1 of Title 35, Patents.

Credits

1968–1999 · 2 acts
  1. 1968Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1264
  2. 1999Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4732(b)(24)], , 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–585.
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(Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1264; Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4732(b)(24)], , 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–585.)

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