4 USC § 141 - Collection, preparation and publication

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title: "4 USC § 141 - Collection, preparation and publication"
title_number: 4
title_name: "FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES"
section_number: "141"
section_name: "Collection, preparation and publication"
chapter_number: 5
chapter_name: "OFFICIAL TERRITORIAL PAPERS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-03-03"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 12, 65 Stat. 713; amended Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 107(f), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2292.)"
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# § 141. Collection, preparation and publication

The Archivist of the United States, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the “Archivist”, shall continue to completion the work of collecting, editing, copying, and suitably arranging for issuance as a Government publication, the official papers relating to the Territories from which States of the United States were formed, in the national archives, as listed in Parker’s “Calendar of Papers in Washington” Archives Relating to the Territories of the United States (to 1873)”, being publication numbered 148 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, together with such additional papers of like character which may be found.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 12, 65 Stat. 713; amended Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 107(f), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2292.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984— substituted “Archivist of the United States” and “Archivist” for “Administrator of General Services” and “Administrator”, respectively.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , see , set out as a note under , Public Printing and Documents.

### Similar Provisions; Repeal; Saving Clause; Delegation of Functions; Transfer of Property and Personnel

See note preceding this section.