Act February 16, 1889, c. 171, mentioned and amended by this provision, is set forth above. See note under that act relating to disposal of accumulation of files, etc., in the Department of Agriculture.

ACT JUNE 19, 1878, c. 317. An act to protect public libraries in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. (20 Stat. 171.)

Injuring or destroying, stealing, etc., books, etc.; punishment.

That any person who shall steal, wrongfully deface, injure, mutilate, tear, or destroy any book, pamphlet, or manuscript, or any portion thereof, belonging to the Library of Congress, or to any public library in the District of Columbia, whether the property of the United States or of any individual or corporation in said District, or who shall steal, wrongfully deface, injure, mutilate, tear, or destroy any book, pamphlet, document, manuscript, print, engraving, medal, newspaper, or work of art, the property of the United States, shall be held guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall, when the offense is not otherwise punishable by some statute of the United States, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than twelve months, or both, for every such offense.

Act June 19, 1878, c. 317, 20 Stat. 171.

ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 321. (35 Stat. 1088.)

Stealing, injuring, or destroying, etc., records, books, etc., of the United States. SEC. 128. Whoever shall wilfully and unlawfully conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, or destroy, or attempt to conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, or destroy, or, with intent to conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, destroy, or steal, shall take and carry away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 128, 35 Stat. 1111.

This is a section of "An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," cited above, incorporating therein the provisions of Rev. St. sec. 5403, which section is expressly repealed by section 341 of this act.

Unlawfully removing, injuring, or destroying records, books, etc., of United States, by officer in charge thereof.

SEC. 129. Whoever, having the custody of any record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing specified in the preceding section, shall wilfully and unlawfully conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, falsify, or destroy any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or thing, shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall moreover forfeit his office and be forever afterward disqualified from holding any office under the Government of the United States.

Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 129, 35 Stat. 1112.

This is a section of "An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," cited above, incorporating therein the provisions of Rev. St. sec. 5408, which section is expressly repealed by section 341 of this act.

REV. ST. SEC. 882.

Copies of department books, records, papers, or documents as evidence.

SEC. 882. Copies of any books, records, papers, or documents in any of the Executive Departments, authenticated under the seals of such Departments, respectively, shall be admitted in evidence equally with the originals thereof.

ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 320. (35 Stat. 1075.)

Copyright not to subsist in works in public domain or in Government publications; effect of publication by Government of copyrighted material. SEC. 7. That no copyright shall subsist in the original text of any work which is in the public domain, * * or in any publication of the United States Government, or any reprint, in whole or in part, thereof: Provided, however, That the publication or republication by the Government, either separately or in a public document, of any material in which copyright is subsisting shall not be taken to cause any abridgment or annulment of the copyright or to authorize any use or appropriation of such copyright material without the consent of the copyright proprietor.

Act March 4, 1909, c. 320, s. 7, 35 Stat. 1077.

FRANKS AND FRANKING.

ACT MARCH 3, 1877, c. 103. (19 Stat. 319.)

Letters, packages, etc., on official business transmitted free; endorsement on official envelopes.

SEC. 5. That it shall be lawful to transmit through the mail, free of postage, any letters, packages, or other matters relating exclusively to the business of the Government of the United States: Provided, That every such letter or package to entitle it to pass free shall bear over the words "Official business" an endorsement showing also the name of the Department, and, if from a bureau or office, the names of the Department and bureau or office, as the case may be, whence transmitted.

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Act March 3, 1877, c. 103, s. 5, 19 Stat. 335.

The last part of this section, here omitted, prohibiting the use of official envelopes to avoid payment of postage on private mail matter, and providing punishment therefor, is incorporated in act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 227, set forth below.

Providing official envelopes; endorsement of penalty thereon.

SEC. 6. That for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, it shall be the duty of each of the Executive Departments of the United States to provide for itself and its subordinate offices the necessary envelopes and in addition to the endorsement designating the Department in which they are to be used, the penalty for the unlawful use of these envelopes shall be stated thereon.

Act March 3, 1877, c. 103, s. 6, 19 Stat. 336.

This and the preceding section are parts of "An act establishing postroads and for other purposes," cited above.

ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 321. (35 Stat. 1088.)

Fraudulent use of official envelopes; penalty.

SEC. 227. Whoever shall make use of any official envelope, label, or indorsement authorized by law, to avoid the payment of postage or

registry fee on his private letter, packet, package, or other matter in the mail, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars.

Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 227, 35 Stat. 1134.

This is a section of "An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," cited above, incorporating therein provisions of act March 3, 1877, c. 103, s. 5, which provisions are expressly repealed by section 341 of this act.

ACT JULY 5, 1884, c. 234. (23 Stat. 156.)

Letters, packages, etc., transmitted free; endorsements on official envelopes, enclosure of penalty envelopes, with return address; official mail matter registered free.

SEC. 3. That section twenty-nine of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (United States Statutes at Large, page three hundred and sixty-two), be, and it is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

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"The provisions of the fifth and sixth section of the act entitled 'An act establishing post-routes, and for other purposes' approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for the transmission of official mail-matter, be, and they are hereby, extended to all officers of the United States Government, not including members of Congress, the envelopes of such matter in all cases to bear appropriate indorsements containing the proper designation of the office from which or officer from whom the same is transmitted, with a statement of the penalty for their misuse. Provided, That any Department or officer authorized to use the penalty envelopes may inclose them with return address to any person or persons from or through whom official information is desired, the same to be used only to cover such official information, and indorsements relating thereto: Provided further, That any letter or packet to be registered by either of the Executive Departments, or Bureaus thereof, or by the Agricultural Department, may be registered without the payment of any registry fee; and any part-paid letter or packet addressed to either of said Departments or Bureaus may be delivered free; but where there is good reason to believe the omission to prepay the full postage thereon was intentional, such letter or package shall be returned to the sender: Provided further, That this act shall not extend or apply to officers who receive a fixed allowance as compensation for their services, including expenses of postages. And section thirty-nine hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, so far as the same relates to stamps and stamped envelopes for official purposes, is hereby repealed."

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Act July 5, 1884. c. 234, s. 3, 23 Stat. 158.

Act March 3, 1877, c. 103, ss. 5, 6, mentioned in this section, are set forth above.

ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.)

Contract for official envelopes for departments, by Postmaster General; business address, etc., thereon forbidden.

SEC. 96. The Postmaster-General shall contract for all envelopes, stamped or otherwise, designed for sale to the public, or for use by his own or other Departments, and may contract for them to be plain or with such printed matter as may be prescribed by the Department making requisition therefor: Provided, That no envelope furnished

by the Government shall contain any business address or advertisement.

Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 96, 28 Stat. 624.

ACT JUNE 26, 1906, c. 3546. (34 Stat. 467.)

Contracts for official envelopes for departments, by Postmaster General.

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The Postmaster-General is authorized to extend for a period not exceeding six months, the contract for official, registry, and deadletter envelopes for the postal service for the calendar year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six; and thereafter the Postmaster-General shall contract, for a period not exceeding four years, for all envelopes, stamped or otherwise, designed use by the * Executive Departments, and all Government bureaus and establishments, and the branches of the service coming under their jurisdiction, and may contract for them to be plain or with such printed matter as may be prescribed by the Department making requisition therefor:

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Act June 26, 1906, c. 3546, 34 Stat. 476.

This is a provision of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year 1907, cited above.

ACT MARCH 3, 1883, c. 128. (22 Stat. 531.)

Penalty envelopes for answers to be inclosed in official communications to Members of Congress.

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And it shall be the duty of the respective departments to inclose to Senators, Representatives and Delegates in Congress, in all official communications requiring answers, or to be forwarded to others, penalty envelopes addressed as far as practicable, for forwarding or answering such official correspondence.

Act March 3, 1883. c. 128, s. 2, 22 Stat. 563.

This is a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1884, cited above.

The portion of this section omitted here, authorizing the heads of departments to make requisitions on the Postmaster General for official postage stamps, is superseded by act July 5, 1884, c. 234, s. 3, set forth above, amending act March 3, 1879, c. 180, s. 29.

ACT MARCH 1, 1899, c. 327. (30 Stat. 959.)

Franking privilege extended to Hawaiian Islands.

The franking privilege, as the same is regulated by law, shall extend to the Hawaiian Islands.

Act March 1, 1899, c. 327, s. 4, 30 Stat. 966.

This is a provision of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year 1900, cited above.

ACT JUNE 26, 1906, c. 3546. (34 Stat. 467.)

Matter admitted to mails under penalty privilege restricted to matter admissible on payment of postage.

That hereafter no article, package, or other matter, except postage stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and internal-revenue stamps, shall be admitted to the mails under a penalty privilege, unless such article, package, or other matter, except postage stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, postal cards,

and internal-revenue stamps would be entitled to admission to the mails under laws requiring payment of postage.

Act June 26, 1906, c. 3546, 34 Stat. 477.

This is a provision of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year 1907, cited above.

Lending or permitting use of frank by or for any committee, organization or association, unlawful.

That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person entitled under the law to the use of a frank to lend said frank or permit its use by any committee, organization, or association, or permit its use by any person for the benefit or use of any committee, organization, or association : *

Act June 26, 1906, c. 3546, 34 Stat. 477.

This is a further provision of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year 1907, cited above.

ACT JUNE 8, 1896, c. 370. An act to regulate mail matter of the fourth class. (29 Stat. 262.)

Nonmailable matter; limit on weight.

That mailable matter of the fourth class shall embrace all matter not embraced in the first, second, or third class which is not in its form or nature liable to destroy, deface, or otherwise damage the contents of the mail bag or harm the person of anyone engaged in the postal service, and is not above the weight provided by law, which is hereby declared to be not exceeding four pounds for each package thereof, except in case of single books weighing in excess of that amount, and except for books and documents published or circulated by order of Congress, or printed or written official matter emanating from any of the Departments of the Government

Act June 8, 1896, c. 370, 29 Stat. 262.

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This provision is superseded by act August 24, 1912, c. 389, s. 8, set forth below.

ACT AUGUST 24, 1912, c. 389. (37 Stat. 539.)

Limit on weight and size; nonmailable matter.

SEC. 8. That hereafter fourth-class mail matter shall embrace all other matter, including farm and factory products, not now embraced by law in either the first, second, or third class, not exceeding eleven pounds in weight, nor greater in size than seventy-two inches in length and girth combined, nor in form or kind likely to injure the person of any postal employee or damage the mail equipment or other mail matter and not of a character perishable within a period reasonably required for transportation and delivery.

Act August 24, 1912, c. 389, s. 8, 37 Stat. 557.

This section is a part of the postal service appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above.

TELEGRAPHS.

ACT FEBRUARY 4, 1874, c. 22. An act in relation to the lines of telegraph connecting the Capitol with the various Departments of the Government. (18 Stat. 14.)

Telegraph lines connecting public buildings in Washington; supervision; operation.

That the lines of telegraph, connecting the Capitol with the various Departments in Washington, constructed under and by virtue of the