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Title 44 — Public Printing and Documents

Chapter 13 — Particular Reports and Documents

§ 1301. Agriculture, Department of: report of Secretary

Statutory text

The annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture shall be submitted and printed in two parts, as follows:

part 1, containing purely business and executive matter necessary for the Secretary to submit to the President and Congress;

part 2, reports from the different bureaus and divisions, and papers prepared by their special agents, accompanied by suitable illustrations as are, in the opinion of the Secretary, specially suited to interest and instruct the farmers of the country, and to include a general report of the operations of the department for their information.

In addition to the usual number, there shall be printed of part 1, one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand copies for the House of Representatives, and three thousand copies for the Department of Agriculture; and of part 2, one hundred and ten thousand copies for the use of the Senate, three hundred and sixty thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and thirty thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture, the illustrations for part 2 to be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, and executed under the supervision of the Director of the Government Publishing Office, in accordance with directions of the Joint Committee on Printing, and the title of each of the parts shall show that each part is complete in itself.

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. § 1301

    Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1265

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1265

  2. Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015

    Pub. L. 113–235 div. H title I § 1301(c)(1) · 128 Stat. 2130

    Substituted · 44 U.S.C. § 1301

    Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in last par

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in last par.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) by striking “Public Printer” each place that term appears and inserting “Director of the Government Publishing Office”; and

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 241 (Jan. 12, 1895, ch. 23, § 73, 28 Stat. 612).

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–235 substituted “Director of the Government Publishing Office” for “Public Printer” in last par.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Unavailability of Department Funds To Produce Part 2 of Annual Report

Funds available to Department of Agriculture not to be used to produce part 2 of annual report of Secretary (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture), see title I of Pub. L. 103–111, 107 Stat. 1048, set out as a note under section 2207 of Title 7, Agriculture.

Credits

1968–2014 · 2 acts
  1. 1968Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1265
  2. 2014Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), , 128 Stat. 2537.
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(Pub. L. 90–620, , 82 Stat. 1265; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(c)(1), , 128 Stat. 2537.)

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