Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909, Third Edition Revised and Enlarged, Volume 1, Lists of Congressional and Departmental Publications Page: XVIII
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Changes in certain serial numbers
The serial numbers in this 3d edition of the Checklist are with a few exceptions the
same as those used in the 2d edition. The exceptions are indicated in the following
table:Publication
Eighth Census ........ ...............................................
Do .. ............... ................ .......... ... .. . ....- -----
Do .............. .............................................
Do ...................................................................
House reports................. .. ....... .....................
D o.. .... .. ... ... .. . .... .... ........ .. .... .. .. ........................
Paris Exposition .........................................................
D o . ......... .................... .... .. ......... .
Do. ;
Do .......................................... ........................
D o .... . .. .. .... .............. . .. ....... ........ . ... .
D o .... ..... ... ......................................................
Do ...................................................................
House reports...... .. ............. ........ .......... .... ........
D o ...................................................................
Ninth Census ...................... .. ... ...
D o ................................. ....................
D o ....................... .............................
Do., Compendium............................. ................
Senate journal ................ ....................... ....... .. .
Senate executive documents ..............................................
Do ........ ....... .......... ..... .................................
D o ...................................................................
Senate miscellaneous documents .. ..............................
D o ... .. ..... ...... . ... .. ........ ..... . .. . ..... .. .... ...........
House reports ... ... ...... .. ... .............-...
Senate miscellaneous documents .......................... .... ..........
House miscellaneous documents .......................... .......
D o ............ ......................................
House reports ................................................. ..........
D o ... ......... . ... .. .... ... .. ......... ...... ....... ... ...No. in
Volume second
edition
1 1204
2 1205
3 1206
4 1207
1 1202
2 1203
1 1353
2 1354
3 1355
4 1356
5 1357
6 1358
1 1351
2 1352
1 1479
2 1480
3 1481
.. ... 482
....... 1473
1 1474
2 1475
3 1476
1 1477
2 1478
3 3142
......... .........
17 ....
18.
1 3343
2 3344Serial numbers not possible for first 14 Congresses
Unfortunately it was not possible to apply the serial numbers to the first 14 Congresses,
and the scheme therefore begins with the 15th Congress. The reasons for
this will be made clear by an examination of the following excerpts from Congressional
procedure.
On Dec. 8, 1813, it was resolved in the House of RepresentativesThat
henceforward all messages and communications from the President of the United States, all letters
from the several departments of the Government, all motions and resolutions offered for the consideration
of the House, all reports of committees of the House, and all other papers which in the usual course
of proceeding or by special order of the House, shall be printed in octavo fold and separately from the
Journals, shall have their pages numbered in one continuous series of numbers, commencing and terminating
with each session.
On Dec. 14, 1813, it was orderedThat
the documents which were the subject of the order of the House of the 8th instant, instead of
having their pages numbered in one continuous series of numbers from the commencement to the ternmination
of each session, shall be themselves numbered in a regular series in the order of time in which they
shall be directed to be printed: The number of each document to be distinctly marked on the top of the
title-page and every subsequent page, in addition to the number of each page of such document.
Although this action was taken at the 2d session of the 13th Congress, and was immediately
applied by the House to some of its documents, and while it is true that the
Senate adopted a similar scheme at the 2d session of the 14th Congress for some of
its publications, still, it is also true that in both Houses the orders as to size and numbering
were not strictly adhered to until the commencement of the 1st session of
the 15th Congress, for up to that time in both Houses appear a series of folio documents
to which no numbers were affixed, and which could not, therefore, be embracedNo. in
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edition
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1358
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