UNITED STATES. Supreme Court. Opinions of the judges in the case of Smith vs. Turner, etc.
TANEY, Roger Brooke. Decision in the Merryman case.
41. Similarly Congress, Parliament, and other governmental bodies are authors of their journals, acts, minutes, laws, etc.; and other departments of government of their reports, and of the works published by them or under their auspices.
These are to be entered under the name of the country, city, or town, and not in the main alphabet under the word Congress, Parliament, City Council, or the like.
42. Laws on one or more particular subjects, whether digested or merely collected, must have author-entries both under the name of the country and under the name of the collector or digester.
Ex. Tilsley’s “Digest of the stamp acts” would appear both under Great Britain and Tilsley. {28}
43. Calendars of documents, regesta, etc., are to be entered under their maker, with a series-entry under the department which orders the publication.
Ex. Green, Mrs. M.. Anne Everett (Wood). Calendar of state papers, domestic, Charles II. The series-entry is under Great Britain. Master of the Rolls.
44. Works written officially are to be entered under the name of the department of government or society (see § [56]) or ecclesiastical district with a reference from the name of the official, if it is thought worth making.
Some libraries may refer always; most will refer only when the report has exceptional importance (1) from its subject, (2) from the treatment of its subject, (3) from its literary merits, (4) from the fame of its author, or (5) from having been separately published. Horace Mann’s reports, for example, should be catalogued under Massachusetts. Board of Education, to which heading a reference should be made from Mann. Presidents’ messages should appear under United States. President. Proclamations and all other official writings of kings should appear under the name of the country (division King or Crown), arranged by reigns, as,