Title 1 of the United States Code

Chapter 1

• – Words denoting number, gender, person, etc.
• – "County" as including "parish," etc.
• – "Vessel" as including all means of water transportation.
• – "Vehicle" as including all means of land transportation.
• – "Company" or "association" as including successors and assigns.
• – Limitation of term "products of American fisheries."
• – Definition of "marriage" and "spouse".
• – "Person", "human being", "child", and "individual" as including born-alive infant.

Chapter 2

• – Enacting clause.
• – Resolving clause.
• – Enacting or resolving words after first section.
• – Numbering of sections; single proposition.
• – Title of appropriation Acts.
• – Printing bills and joint resolutions.
• – Promulgation of laws.
• – Amendments to Constitution.
• – Parchment or paper for printing enrolled bills or resolutions.
• – Repeal of repealing act.
• – Repeal of statutes as affecting existing liabilities.
• – Saving clause of Revised Statutes.
• – Repeals as evidence of prior effectiveness.
• – Statutes at Large; contents; admissibility in evidence.
• – United States Treaties and Other International Agreements; contents; admissibility in evidence.
• – United States international agreements; transmission to the United States Congress.
• – "Little and Brown's" edition of laws and treaties; slip laws; Treaties and Other International Act 1 Series; admissibility in evidence.
• – Sealing of instruments.

Chapter 3

• – Publication and distribution of Code of Laws of United States and Supplements and District of Columbia Code and Supplements.
• – Preparation and publication of Codes and Supplements.
• – District of Columbia Code; preparation and publication; cumulative supplements.
• – Codes and Supplements as evidence of the laws of United States and District of Columbia; citation of Codes and Supplements.
• – Codes and Supplement; where printed; form and style; ancillaries.
• – Bills and resolutions of Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives; form and style; ancillaries; curtailment of copies.
• – Copies of acts and resolutions in slip form; additional number printed for Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives.
• – Delegation of function of Committee on the Judiciary to other agencies; printing, etc., under direction of Joint Committee on Printing.
• – Copies of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; conclusive evidence of original.
• – Distribution of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; slip and pamphlet copies.
• – Copies to Members of Congress.
• – Additional distribution at each new Congress.
• – Appropriation for preparing and editing supplements.

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