A Century of Lawmaking Now Online

[Elizabeth L. Brown]

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A Century of Lawmaking Now Online

The Library of  Congress National Digital Library Program and the 
Law Library of Congress announce the online publication of the
first part of  "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S.
Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873" as part of the 
American Memory Collections of the Library of Congress:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html.

This first release includes the records of the First and Second
Congresses, 1789-1793: the House and Senate Journals, the
Senate Executive Journal, the Annals of Congress, and the
Journal of William Maclay, Senator from Pennsylvania in the 
First Congress, approximately 4,400 pages in all.  The Journals are
available both as digital facsimile images and as searchable texts.
  The Annals of Congress are available as digital facsimile images
accompanied by searchable page headings (subject terms) and
indexes.  Users will now have unprecedented access to these 
historic records for research in law, history, genealogy, and
many other areas.     

The Law Library of Congress houses one of the fullest
collections of U.S. Congressional documents in their original 
format.  In its final form "A Century of Lawmaking" will bring 
together online records from the Continental Congress through 
the Forty-second Congress, some 355,000 pages in all.  Plans for
the second online release include the Journals of the Continental
Congress, the records of the Constitutional Convention, and the
subsequent debates over the adoption of the Constitution.  
Further releases will bring the records of the U.S. Congress up to
1873, the year in which the Government Printing Office assumed 
the publication of the proceedings of Congress in the
Congressional Record.  In addition, the final collection will
include the United States Statutes at Large from 1789 to 1873 
and the American State Papers, 1789-1838, legislative and
executive documents published by Congress.

For further information: Emily Lind Baker at ebak at loc.gov.   
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   Elizabeth L. Brown, M.L.S.                            
   National Digital Library Program, LIBN/NDL/VC(1300)   
   Library of Congress, Washington, DC  20540-1300       
   ebro at loc.gov                telephone: 202/707-2235   
                                                         
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