Duplication of Serial Set Publications in the American State Papers: An Annotated Inventory

A principal rationale for compiling, editing, and printing the collection of early US Federal documents, known as the American State Papers, is clearly given in the report of the Secretary of the Senate, Walter Lowrie, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Matthew St. Clair Clarke, of Jan 4, 1832, titled Republication of congressional documents. Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives, of their proceedings, under the Act of 2d March, 1831, directing a republication of congressional documents. Here, Imholtz and Draper talk about the duplication of serial set publications in the American state papers.