---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 144"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "144"
heading: "Copies of Statutes at Large"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/144"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Library of Congress"
---

# §144. Copies of Statutes at Large


Ten of the copies of the Statutes at Large, published by Little, Brown & Co., which were deposited in the Library prior to February 5, 1859, shall be retained by the [Librarian](/usc/2/179u.md?p=1) for the use of the justices of the Supreme Court, during the terms of court.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 96.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 96 derived from act Feb. 5, 1859, ch. 22, § 11, 11 Stat. 381.