§ 106A. PROMULGATION OF LAWS
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 Archivist of the United States
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 Archivist of the United States 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.
§ 106B. AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION
Whenever official notice is received at the National
Archives and Records Administration that any
amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United
States has been adopted, according to the provisions of
the Constitution, the Archivist of the United States shall
forthwith cause the amendment to be published, with his
certificate, specifying the States by which the same may
have been adopted, and that the same has become valid,
to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution
of the United States.
§ 112. STATUTES AT LARGE; CONTENTS;
ADMISSIBILITY IN EVIDENCE
The Archivist of the United States 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 Archivist of the United States issued in
compliance with the provision contained in section 106b
of this title. In the event of an extra session of Congress,
the Archivist of the United States 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.
§ 113. “LITTLE AND BROWN’S” EDITION OF
LAWS AND TREATIES; SLIP LAWS; TREATIES
AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES;
ADMISSIBILITY IN EVIDENCE
The edition of the laws and treaties of the United States,
published by Little and Brown, and the publications in
slip or pamphlet form of the laws of the United States
issued under the authority of the Archivist of the United
States, and the Treaties and Other International Acts
Series issued under the authority of the Secretary of State
shall be competent evidence of the several public and
private Acts of Congress, and of the treaties, international
agreements other than treaties, and proclamations by the
President of such treaties and international agreements
other than treaties, as the case may be, therein contained,
in all the courts of law and equity and of maritime
jurisdiction, and in all the tribunals and public offices of
the United States, and of the several States, without any
further proof or authentication thereof.
§ 201. PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION
OF CODE OF LAWS OF UNITED STATES AND
SUPPLEMENTS AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
CODE AND SUPPLEMENTS
In order to avoid duplication and waste—
(a) Publishing in slip or pamphlet form or in Statutes at
Large.—Publication in slip or pamphlet form or in the
Statutes at Large of any of the volumes or publications
enumerated in sections 202 and 203 of this title, shall,
in event of enactment, be dispensed with whenever the
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Represen-
tatives so directs the Archivist of the United States;
(b) Curtailing number of copies published.—Curtail-
ment of the number provided by law to be printed and
distributed of the volumes or publications enumerated
in sections 202 and 203 of this title may be directed by
such committee, except that the Director of the Gov-
ernment Publishing Office shall print such numbers
as are necessary for depository library distribution and
for sale; and
(c) Dispensing with publication of more than one Supple-
ment for each Congress.—Such committee may direct
that the printing and distribution of any supplement to
the Code of Laws of the United States or to the Code of
the District of Columbia be dispensed with entirely, ex-
cept that there shall be printed and distributed for each
Congress at least one supplement to each such code,
containing the legislation of such Congress.
