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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
This template currently uses LegisLink.org, except for appendix volumes (any non-purely-numeric volume, 68A, 70A, 76A, and 77A As of January 2019), which link directly to the GPO. LegisLink links to various sources, depending on the exact document needed.
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 OFR assembles annual volumes of the enacted laws and publishes them as the United States Statutes at Large. By law, the text of the Statutes at Large is "legal evidence" of the laws enacted by Congress. [10] Slip laws are also competent evidence. [11] The Statutes at Large, however, is not a
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.
^A The first volume of the United States Reports predates the creation of the Supreme Court and does not contain any of its decisions. It is designated volume one because the same reporter, Alexander J. Dallas, published volumes 1–4. ^B Ernest Knaebel resigned as Reporter of Decisions in 1944, and the post was vacant for two years.
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
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 ...