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Finding Old Congressional Reports

JoanShear | 29 September, 2006 16:51

Question: Patron needed to find House Reports 73-85 and 73-152 and Senate Reports 73-41 and 73-47 (1933).

Answer: Generally our holdings of House and Senate Reports only go back to 1959. However, if these reports are part of the legislative history of some major legislation, it is possible that we could have them in a compiled Legislative history. Luckily the patron knew that these reports are part of the legislative history of the Securities Act of 1933. Checking the "Sources of Compiled Legislative History," which has been annotated with call numbers of items in our collection, we quickly determined that our library has a copy of an eleven volume "Legislative History of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934," compiled by Jack S. Ellenberger and Ellen P. Remembering that the Compiled Legislative Histories is also on Hein Online we were quickly able to locate the same eleven volume set is electronically, providing the patron with a choice of print or online versions of the 1933 House and Senate Reports.


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