378 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



REV. ST. SEC. 882. 



Copies of department books, records, papers, or documents as evidence. 



Sec. 882. Copies of any books, records, papers, or documents in any 

 of the Executive Departments, authenticated under the seals of such 

 Departments, respectively, shall be admitted in evidence equally with 

 the originals thereof. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 320. (35 Stat. 1075.) 



Copyright not to subsist in works in public domain or in Government publica- 

 tions; effect of publication by Government of copyrighted material. 



Sec. 7. That no copyright shall subsist in the original text of any 

 work which is in the public domain, * * * or in any publication 

 of the United States Government, or any reprint, in whole or in 

 part, thereof: Provided^ hoioever^ That the publication or republica- 

 tion by the Government, either separately or in a public document, 

 of any material in which copyright is subsisting shall not be taken 

 to cause any abridgment or annuunent of the copyright or to author- 

 ize any use or appropriation of such copyright material without the 

 consent of the copyright proprietor. 



Act March 4. 1909, c. 320. s. 7, 35 Stat. 1077. 



FRANKS AND FRANKING. 



ACT MARCH 3, 1877, c. 103. (19 Stat. 319.) 



Letters, packages, etc., on official business transmitted free; endorsement on 

 official envelopes. 



Sec. 5. That it shall be lawful to transmit through the mail, free 

 of postage, any letters, packages, or other matters relating exclusively 

 to the business of the Government of the United States: Provided, 

 That every such letter or package to entitle it to pass free shall bear 

 over the words "Official business" an endorsement showing also the 

 name of the Department, and, if from a bureau or office, the names of 

 the Department and bureau or office, as the case may be, whence trans- 

 mitted. * * * 



Act March 3. 1S77, c. 103, s. 5, 19 Stat. 335. 



The last part of this section, here omitted, i)rohibiting the U3e of official 

 envelopes to avoid payment of postage on private mail matter, and provid- 

 ing punishment therefor, Is Incorporated in act March 4, 1909, c. 321, 

 s. 227, set forth below. 



Providing official envelopes; endorsement of penalty thereon. 



Sec. G. That for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, it shall 

 bo the duty of each of the Executive Departments of the United 

 States to provide for itself and its subordinate offices the necessary 

 envelopes: and in addition to the endorsement designating the Depart- 

 ment in which they are to be used, the penalty for the unlawful use 

 of these envelopes shall be stated thereon. 



Act Marcli 3. 1877, c. 103, s. G. 19 Stat. 330. 



Tills and tlie preceding section are parts of "An act establishing post- 

 roads and for other pnriwses," cited above. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1909. c. 321. (35 Stat. 1088.) 

 Pr.Tudulent use of official envelopes; penalty. 



Sec. 227. Whoever shall make use of any official envelope, label, or 

 indorsement authorized by law, to avoid the payment of postage or 



