Chap. 76.—An ACT to amend an act passed January 8, 1867, entitled
an act authorizing the secretary of the commonwealth to distribute
Session Acts, &c., in certain cases.

Approved February 13, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act
passed January eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,
entitled an act authorizing the secretary of the common-
wealth to distribute Session Acts, and so forth, in certain
cases, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That when-
ever the secretary of the commonwealth shall be informed
by an order of a county or corporation court, that any judge,
justice of the peace, mayor, clerk of a court, attorney for the
commonwealth, sheriff, sergeant or treasurer of a city or
county has not received either from the state or from his
predecessor in office, and cannot by proper proceedings ob-
tain from the latter, a copy of the Code of eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, or of any Sessions Acts passed since that
date, or of Mayo’s Guide; or that having received such copy,
it has been destroyed or lost without fault on his part, it
shall be his duty to supply the same: provided he shall not
thereby reduco the stock in his custody to less than twenty-
five copies of either of said works.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.