Whenever a bill, order, resolution, or vote of the Senate and House of Representatives, having been approved by the President, or not having been returned by him with his objections, becomes a law or takes effect, it shall forthwith be received by the Administrator of General Services from the President; and whenever a bill, order, resolution, or vote is returned by the President with his objections, and, on being reconsidered, is agreed to be passed, and is approved by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and thereby becomes a law or takes effect, it shall be received by the Administrator of General Services from the President of the Senate, or Speaker of the House of Representatives in whichsoever House it shall last have been so approved, and he shall carefully preserve the originals.

§ 112. Statutes at large; contents; admissibility in

evidence

The Administrator of General Service shall cause to be compiled, edited, indexed, and published, the United States Statutes at large, which shall contain all the laws and concurrent resolutions enacted during each regular session of Congress; all proclamations by the President in the numbered series issued since the date of the adjournment of the regular session of Congress next preceding; and also any amendments to the Constitution of the United States proposed or ratified pursuant to article V thereof since that date, together with the certificate of the Administrator of General Services issued in compliance with the provision contained in section 106b of this title. In the event of an extra session of Congress, the Administrator of General Services shall cause all the laws and concurrent resolutions enacted during said extra session to be consolidated with, and published as part of, the contents of the volume for the next regular session. The United States Statutes at Large shall be legal evidence

of laws, concurrent resolutions, treaties, international agreements other than treaties, proclamations by the President and proposed or ratified amendments to the Constitution of the United States therein contained, in all the courts of the United States, the several States, and the territories and insular possessions of the United States.

c. 82 Stat. 1249 (44 U.S.C. 710, 711)*

§ 710. Copies of Acts furnished to Public Printer

*

The Administrator of General Services shall furnish to the Public Printer a copy of every Act and joint resolution, as soon as possible after its approval by the President, or after it has become a law under the Constitution without his approval.

§ 711. Printing Acts, joint resolutions, and treaties

The Public Printer, on receiving from the Administrator of General Services a copy of an Act or joint resolution, or from the Secretary of State, a copy of a treaty, shall print an accurate copy and transmit it in duplicate to the Administrator of General Services or to the Secretary of State, as the case may be, for revision. On the return of one of the revised duplicates, he shall make the marked corrections and print the number specified by section 709 of this title.** Approved October 22, 1968.

d. 82 Stat. 1252 (44 U.S.C. 729)**

§ 729. United States Statutes at Large; references in margins

The Administrator of General Services shall include in the references in margins of the United States Statutes at Large the number of the bill or joint resolution (designating S. for Senate bill, H. R. for House bill, S.J. Res. for Senate joint resolution and H.J. Res. for House joint resolutions, as the case may be) under which each Act was approved and became a law, the reference in the margins to be placed within brackets immediately under the date of the approval of the Act at the beginning of each Act as printed beginning with Volume 32 of the United States Statutes at Large.

Approved October 22, 1968.

*Codified as positive law.

**The slip form of the laws is competent evidence of the laws, under Pub. L. 89-497, July 8, 1966 (80 Stat. 271; 1 U.S.C. 113).

REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 20 OF 1950, PURSUANT TO

REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1949

64 Stat. 1272, 3 C.F.R. 1011 (1949-1953 Compilation),
5 U.S.C. App. I

STATUTES AT LARGE AND OTHER MATTERS

SECTION 1. Functions transferred from Department of
State to Administrator of General Services. There are
hereby transferred to the Administrator of General
Services the functions of the Secretary of State and the
Department of State with respect to:

(a) The receipt and preservation of the_original copies of bills, orders, resolutions and votes (R.S. 204, as amended);

(b) The publication of acts and joint resolutions in slip form and the compilation, editing, indexing, and publication of the United States Statutes at Large, except such functions with respect to treaties and other international agreements (1 U.S.C. 112; R.S. 204, as amended; R.S. 210, as amended; R.S. 3805, as amended; R.S. 3806, as amended; Act of Jan. 12, 1895, 28 Stat. 609 and 615, as amended; Act of April 12, 1904, 33 Stat. 587); (c) The certification and publication of amendments to the Constitution of the United States (R.S. 205) and the preservation of such amendments;

(d) Certificates of appointment of the electors of the President and Vice President and certificates of the votes of such electors for President and Vice President (3 U.S.C. 6, 11-13); and

(e) The collection, copying, arranging, editing, copy reading, and indexing of the official papers of the Territories (Act of March 3, 1925, 43 Stat. 1104, as amended; Act of July 31, 1945, 59 Stat. 510).

SECTION 2. Abolition of functions. (a) The duty of the Secretary of State of procuring copies of all statutes of the several States is hereby abolished, but this shall not limit his authority to procure copies of such State statutes as may be needed in the performance of his functions (R.S. 206).

(b) The duty of the Secretary of State of publishing Executive proclamations and treaties in a newspaper in the District of Columbia is hereby abolished (Act of July 31, 1876, 19 Stat. 105, as amended, 44 U.S.C. 321).

SECTION 3. Performance of transferred functions. The Administrator of General Services may from time to time make such provisions as he shall deem appropriate authorizing the performance by any other officer, or by any agency or employee, of the General Services Administration of any function transferred to such Administrator by the provisions of this reorganization plan.

SECTION 4. Transfer of records, property, personnel, and funds. There are hereby transferred to the General Services Administration, to be used, employed, and ex

pended in connection with the functions transferred by the provisions of this reorganization plan, the per records and property now being used or held in connection with such functions, the personnel employed in connection with such functions, and the unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds available or to be made available for use in connection with such functions. Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall determine to be necessary in order to effectuate the transfers provided for in this section shall be carried out in such manner as the director shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate.

OFFICIAL TERRITORIAL PAPERS

65 Stat. 712 (4 U.S.C. 141-144, 146, Chapter 5)

§ 141. Collection, preparation and publication

The Administrator of General Services, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the "Administrator", shall continue to completion the work of collecting, editing, copying, and suitably arranging for issuance as a Government publication, the official papers relating to the Territories from which States of the United States were formed, in the national archives, as listed in Parker's "Calendar of Papers in Washington Archives Relating to the Territories of the United States (to 1873)", being publication numbered 148 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, together with such additional papers of like character which may be found.

§ 142. Appointment of experts

For the purpose of carrying on the work prescribed by section 141 of this title, the Administrator, without regard to the Classification Act of 1949 and the civil service laws and regulations thereunder, may engage the services, either in or outside of the District of Columbia, of not to exceed five historical experts who are especially informed on the various phases of the territorial history of the United States and are especially qualified for the editorial work necessary in arranging such territorial papers for publication.

§ 143. Employment and utilization of other personnel; cost of copy reading and indexing

(a) In carrying out his functions under this chapter, the Administrator may employ such clerical assistants as may be necessary.

(b) The work of copy reading and index making for the publication of the papers described in section 141 of this title shall be done by the regular editorial staff of the General Services Administration, and the cost of

this particular phase of the work (prorated each month according to the number of hours spent and the annual salaries of the clerks employed) shall be charged against the annual appropriations made under section 146 of this title.

§ 144. Cooperation of departments and agencies

The heads of the several executive departments and independent agencies and establishments shall cooperate with the Administrator in the work prescribed by section 141 of this title by permitting access to any records deemed by him to be necessary to the completion of such work.

§ 146. Authorization of appropriations

For the purposes of this chapter, there are authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, sums of not more than $50,000 for any one fiscal year.

CUSTODY OF RECORDS; OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL

SOCIETY

65 Stat. 640 (25 U.S.C. 199a)

§ 199a. Custody of Records; Oklahoma Historical Society

Title to records of Indian tribes heretofore placed with the Oklahoma Historical Society of the State of Oklahoma by the Secretary of the Interior shall remain vested in the United States and such records shall be held by the said society under rules and regulations prescribed by the Administrator of General Services; Provided, That copies of any such records, documents, books, or papers held by the said society when certified by the secretary or chief clerk thereof under its seal, or by the officer or person acting as secretary or chief clerk, shall be evidence equally with the original, and in making such certified copies the said secretary or acting secretary and the said chief clerk or acting chief clerk shall be acting as a Federal agent, and such certified copies shall have the same force and effect as if made by the Administrator of General Services as provided in section 399(b) of Title 44: Provided further, That whenever such certified copies are desired for official use by the Federal Government they shall be furnished without cost: Provided further, That any such records held by the said society shall be promptly returned to the government official designated by the Administrator of General Services upon his request therefor. (Mar. 27, 1934, ch. 93, 48 Stat. 501; Oct. 25, 1951, ch. 562, § 4 (5), 65 Stat. 640.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

Section 399(b) of Title 44, referred to in the text, was