Pennsylvania Act 1883-45 — PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, DISTRIBUTION AND PRESERVATION

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PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, DISTRIBUTION AND PRESERVATION
                   Act of Jun. 1, 1883, P.L. 52, No. 45               Cl. 71
                                  AN ACT

     To provide for a better distribution and the permanent
        preservation of public documents.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That every library, literary
     and scientific association, and historical society incorporated
     under the laws of this Commonwealth, and owning a library of two
     thousand or more volumes, shall be entitled to receive one well
     bound volume of each of the Executive and Legislative Documents
     hereafter published, and such other publications as are
     authorized by law to be printed by the State printer.
        Section 2.  Each of the said incorporated associations and
     societies, in order to avail itself of the benefits of this act,
     shall certify under its seal, or, if it has no seal, under the
     hands of its proper officers, that it comes within the
     requirements of section one of this act, which certificate shall
     be filed with the Superintendent of Public Printing, who shall
     enter in a book to be kept for that purpose the name and address
     of the association or society so certifying, and shall, as soon
     as practicable, forward to said associations and societies, the
     Executive and Legislative Documents and other publications
     aforesaid: Provided, It shall be the privilege of the State to
     recall any or all of the said volumes in the event of the loss
     of their own files by fire or other casualty: Provided further,
     That the provisions of this act shall not be construed as
     authorizing the State printer to issue more volumes of said
     documents than are now or may hereafter be provided for by law.