United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 1
I. Resolution providing for the distribution of the secret journal and foreign correspondence of the old Congress, and of the journal of the convention which formed the constitution of the United States.
The President requested to cause each member and delegate of the present Congress, not entitled under resolution of March 27, 1818, Vice President, executive of each state and territory, &c., to be furnished with copies of the secret journals, &c.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be furnished to each member of the present Congress, and the delegates from territories, who may not be entitled to the same under the resolution of Congress, of the twenty-seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the President and Vice President of the United States, the executive of each state and territory, the attorney general, and judges of the courts of the United States, and the colleges and universities in the United States, each one copy; for the use of each of the departments, viz: State, Treasury, War, and Navy, two copies each; for the use of the Senate, five copies; for the use of the House of Representatives, ten copies; and for the library of Congress, ten copies, of the secret journals, and of the foreign correspondence, ordered to be printed by the several resolutions of Congress, passed on the twenty-seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of April twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and twenty: Also to each member of the present Congress,A copy of the journal of the convention, &c. to each member of the present Congress, &c. who has not received the same, one copy of the journal of the convention which formed the Constitution of the United States. And that the remaining copies be preserved in the library, subject to the future disposition of Congress.
Approved, January 11, 1822.