The United States Statutes at Large, typically referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress. The Statutes at Large is prepared and published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) .
Under the provisions of 1 U.S.C. 112, the printed edition of the Statutes at Large is legal evidence of the laws, concurrent resolutions, proclamations by the President, and proposed and ratified amendments to the Constitution. Read More
Note that appendix volumes are presented with the corresponding main volume: 68A, 70A, 76A, 77A
In the 1870s, Congress authorized the first official codification of Federal statutes, and it enacted the Revised Statutes of the United States into positive law on June 22, 1874. The first edition of the Revised Statutes (1875) was published in the Statutes at Large as Parts 1 and 2 of Volume 18. Parts 1 and 2 will be made available by GPO in the future.
A second edition of the Revised Statutes was published in 1878 but was not enacted into law. The 1878 second edition and a selection of supplements to the Revised Statutes are available on GovInfo.
An Index to the Federal Statutes, 1874-1931 is also available on GovInfo.