distributed; (d) the number of copies of the Federal Register which shall be printed, reprinted, and compiled, the number which shall be distributed without charge to Members of Congress, officers and employees of the United States, or any Federal agency for their official use, and the number which shall be available for distribution to the public; and (e) the prices to be charged for individual copies of, and subscriptions to, the Federal Register and reprints and bound volumes thereof.

SEC. 7. No document required under section 5 (a) to be published in the Federal Register shall be valid as against any person who has not had actual knowledge thereof until the duplicate originals or certified copies of the document shall have been filed with the Division and a copy made available for public inspection as provided in section 2; and, unless otherwise specifically provided by statute, such filing of any document, required or authorized to be published under section 5, shall, except in cases where notice by publication is insufficient in law, be sufficient to give notice of the contents of such document to any person subject thereto or affected thereby. The publication in the Federal Register of any document shall create a rebuttable presumption (a) that it was duly issued, prescribed, or promulgated; (b) that it was duly filed with the Division and made available for public inspection at the day and hour stated in the printed notation; (c) that the copy contained in the Federal Register is a true copy of the original; and, (d) that all requirements of this Act and the regulations prescribed hereunder relative to such document have been complied with. The contents of the Federal Register shall be judicially noticed and, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, may be cited by volume and page number.

SEC. 8. Whenever notice of hearing or of opportunity to be heard is required or authorized to be given by or under an Act of the Congress, or may otherwise properly be given, the notice shall be deemed to have been duly given to all persons residing within the continental United States (not including Alaska), except in cases where notice by publication is insufficient in law, if said notice shall be published in the Federal Register at such time that the period between the publication and the date fixed in such notice for the hearing or for the termination of the opportunity to be heard shall be (a) not less than the time specifically prescribed for the publication of the notice by the appropriate Act of the Congress; or (b) not less than fifteen days when no time for publication is specifically prescribed by the Act, without prejudice, however, to the effectiveness of any notice of less than fifteen days where such shorter period is reasonable.

SEC. 9. Every payment made for the Federal Register shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt. The cost of printing, reprinting, wrapping, binding, and distributing the Federal Register and any other expenses incurred by the Government Printing Office in carrying out the duties placed upon it by this Act shall be borne by the appropriations to the Government Printing Office and such appropriations are hereby made available, and are authorized to be increased by such additional sums as are necessary for such purposes, such increases to be based upon estimates submitted by the Public Printer. The purposes for which appro

priations are available and are authorized to be made under section 10 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a National Archives of the United States Government, and for other purposes" (48 Stat. 1122) are enlarged to cover the additional duties placed upon the National Archives Establishment by the provisions of this Act. Copies of the Federal Register mailed by the Government shall be entitled to the free use of the United States mails in the same manner as the official mail of the executive departments of the Government. The cost of mailing the Federal Register to officers and employees of Federal agencies in foreign countries shall be borne by the respective agencies.

SEC. 10. The provisions of section 2 shall become effective sixty days after the date of approval of this Act and the publication of the Federal Register shall begin within three business days thereafter: Provided, That the appropriations involved have been increased as required by section 9 of this Act. The limitations upon the effectiveness of documents required, under section 5 (a), to be published in the Federal Register shall not be operative as to any document issued, prescribed, or promulgated prior to the date when such document is first required by this or subsequent Act of the Congress or by Executive order to be published in the Federal Register.

SEC. 11. Within six months after the approval of this Act each agency shall prepare and file with the committee a complete compilation of all documents which have been issued or promulgated prior to the date documents are required or authorized by this Act to be published in the Federal Register and which are still in force and effect and relied upon by the agency as authority for, or invoked or used by it in the discharge of, any of its functions or activities. The committee shall within sixty days thereafter report with respect thereto to the President, who shall determine which of such documents have general applicability and legal effect, and shall authorize the publication thereof in a special or supplemental edition or issue of the Federal Register. Such special or supplemental editions or issues shall be distributed in the same manner as regular editions or issues, and shall be included in the bound volumes of the Federal Register as supplements thereto.

SEC. 12. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to apply to treaties, conventions, protocols, and other international agreements, or procla-. mations thereof by the President.

SEC. 13. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed insofar as they conflict herewith.

SEC. 14. This Act may be cited as the "Federal Register Act."
Approved, July 26, 1935.

EXTRACT FROM THE INDEPENDENT OFFICES APPROPRIATION ACT, 1937,
APPROVED MARCH 19, 1936

[Public, No. 479, 74th Cong., p. 10]

National Archives

Salaries and expenses: For the Archivist and for all other authorized expenditures of the National Archives in performing the duties imposed by law, including personal services in the District of Columbia; supplies and equipment; purchase and exchange of books, includ

ing law books, and maps; contract stenographic reporting services; purchase of newspapers, periodicals, and press clippings; travel expenses, including not to exceed $500 for the expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of the National Archives; maintenance and operation of motor vehicles, including not more than one passenger-carrying automobile for official use; and all other necessary expenses, $598,000, together with $2,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1935, of which not exceeding $2,000 shall be immediately available for purchase of law books: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5) shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the National Archives when the aggregate cost involved does not exceed the sum of $50.

Printing and binding: For all printing and binding for the National Archives, $17,000.

Total, National Archives, $615,000.

APPENDIX II

BOOKS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED, PAPERS READ, AND ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES STAFF TO JUNE 30, 1936

ROBERT D. W. CONNOR, Archivist of the United States.

Plans for The National Archives. Paper read before a joint conference of State and local historical societies and of archivists under the auspices of the American Historical Association, December 28, 1934; before the Washington Chapter of the North Carolina Society of Colonial Dames of America, Washington, D. C., May 29, 1935; before the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio, April 23, 1935; before the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Cincinnati, April 25, 1935; before the Library Association of the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., May 1, 1935; before the Palaver Club, Washington, D. C., June 5, 1935; before the Washington Arts Club, June 6, 1935; before the summer school of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C., June 21, 1935; and read in the absence of the author by Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr., before the National Association of State Libraries and the American Association of Law Libraries, Denver, June 28, 1935; published under the title, "Shall the Constitution be Preserved?" in Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, 44:311-325 (July 1935) and, under the title, "The National Archives", in National Association of State Libraries, Proceedings and Papers, 38:6572 (1935).

Aims and Purposes of The National Archives. New York Times, February 10, 1935, sec. 4, p. 10.

Archives-At Last They Have a Home. Sphere (Washington, D. C.), March 1935, p. 27.

The National Archives. Radio interview broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company, March 11, 1935.

The National Archives. Commencement address at RandolphMacon College, Lynchburg, Va., June 4, 1935.

The National Archives. Address before the National Genealogical Society, Washington, D. C., October 5, 1935.

The National Archives. Address before the New York Chapter of the Special Libraries Association, New York, October 16, 1935. Our Federal Archives. Radio address broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company under the auspices of the Washington Evening Star, November 25, 1935; printed in the Washington Evening Star, November 26, 1935, and reprinted as a pamphlet (7 p.). Our National Archives. Paper read before the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, January 13, 1936, and before the Twelfth Annual Newspaper Institute of the North Carolina Press Association, Chapel Hill, N. C., January 22, 1936; published in Minnesota History, 17:1-19 (Mar. 1936).

ROBERT D. W. CONNOR-Continued.

The National Archives: Objectives and Practices. Paper read before the American Library Association, Richmond, Va., May 14, 1936, and read in the absence of the author by Dorsey W. Hyde, Jr., before the Special Libraries Association, Montreal, Canada, June 16, 1936.

DORSEY W. HYDE, JR., Director of Archival Service.

Educational Aims of the Community Museum. Paper read before the American Association of Museums, Washington, D. C., May 25, 1935.

The National Archives. Address before a conference on public documents of the American Library Association, Denver, June 27, 1935.

The National Archives of the United States. Paper contributed (not read) to the Second General Assembly of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History, Washington, D. C., October 14-19, 1935; reproduced by the Assembly.

Our National Archives-A New Field of Professional Effort. Special Libraries, 26: 257-260 (Nov. 1935).

The National Archives and Service to Scholarship. Paper read before the Conference of Eastern College Librarians, New York, November 30, 1935.

The National Archives. Address before a conference on archives and libraries of the American Library Association, Chicago, December 30, 1935.

The National Archives and Our Libraries. Library Journal, 61:7-9 (Jan. 1, 1936).

The National Archives. Address before the Baltimore Chapter of the Special Libraries Association, April 24, 1936.

Public Archives and Public Documents as Aids to Scholarship. Paper read before a conference on public documents of the American Library Association, Richmond, Va., May 13, 1936.

SOLON J. BUCK, Director of Publications.

The National Archives. Address before the Pennsylvania Historical Association and the Honorary History Society of Temple University, Philadelphia, October 26, 1935.

Frontier Economy in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Paper read before the American Historical Association and the Agricultural History Society, Chattanooga, Tenn., December 27, 1935; published in Agricultural History, 10:14-24 (Jan. 1936), and in Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, 19:113-122 (June 1936).

The National Archives and the Advancement of Science. Paper read before Section L (Historical and Philological Sciences) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, January 2, 1936; published in Science, 83:379–385 (Apr. 24, 1936).

The National Archives. Address before the Washington Club, Washington, D. C., March 17, 1936.

The National Archives. Address before classes in American history at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., April 1,