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Volumes 1 to 64 (1789–1951) of the Statutes at Large at the Library of Congress; Volume 65 et seq. (1951–present) of the Statutes at Large at Govinfo (U.S. Government Publishing Office) Volumes 1 to 18 (1789–1875) of the Statutes at Large made available by the Library of Congress American Memory collections
The Statutes at Large: . Edition by Owen Ruffhead, from "Magna Charta" down to the Acts of 4 Geo. 3: 9 volumes, London. "Printed for Mark Basket, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and by the Assigns of Robert Basket; And by Henry Woodfall and William Strahan, Law Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty", 1763–1765.
Session laws are the collection of statutes enacted by a legislature during a single session of that legislature, often published following the end of the session as a bound volume. The United States Statutes at Large is an example of session laws which are published biennially, because the United States Congress meets for two years per session ...
The first edition of the United States Code (published as Statutes at Large Volume 44, Part 1) includes cross-reference tables between the USC and two of these unofficial codes, United States Compiled Statutes Annotated by West Publishing Co. and Federal Statutes Annotated by Edward Thompson Co.
Volumes 1 through 18, which have all the statutes passed from 1789 to 1875, are available on-line at the Library of Congress, here. In the list below, statutes are listed by X Stat. Y, where X is the volume of the Statutes at Large and Y is the page number, as well as either the chapter or Public Law number. See examples below.
The Revised Statutes of the United States (in citations, Rev. Stat.) was the first official codification of the Acts of Congress. It was enacted into law in 1874. The purpose of the Revised Statutes was to make it easier to research federal law without needing to consult the individual Acts of Congress published in the United States Statutes at Large.
§ 109 – Repeal of statutes as affecting existing liabilities. § 110 – Saving clause of Revised Statutes. § 111 – Repeals as evidence of prior effectiveness. § 112 – Statutes at Large; contents; admissibility in evidence. § 112a – United States Treaties and Other International Agreements; contents; admissibility in evidence.
At the end of a Congressional session, slip laws are compiled into the Statutes at Large, which are called "session laws", published by the Government Printing Office (GPO). [2] Today, most of the public laws, but not private laws, are drafted as amendments to the United States Code.