(a) The comptroller of the treasury shall furnish each judge and chancellor and each circuit, chancery, criminal and common law court with a copy of each volume of such reports, gratis, and shall, in like manner, deposit with the secretary of state twenty-five (25) copies of each volume, to remain in that office subject to the direction of the general assembly, and shall also deliver to the state librarian copies requested, to be exchanged with departments and libraries of the United States, and of the several states and territories, and the librarian shall immediately distribute the same at the expense of the state.(b) The comptroller of the treasury shall also deliver, gratis, to the order of the University of Tennessee thirty (30) copies of each volume for its use, and for exchanges.Acts 1871, ch. 99, § 5; impl. am. Acts 1879, ch. 31, § 8; Shan., § 5767; mod. Code 1932, § 9965; Acts 1935, ch. 181, § 5; C. Supp. 1950, § 9965; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-617.
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