The American State Papers.

The article discusses the problem in accounting the public documents of the first 14 Congresses in the U.S. It cites various problems associated with congressional printing of documents for the House and Senate during the first 14 Congresses. It cites Timothy Pickering, who introduced a series of resolutions on Congressional printing and passed by the House on December 14, 1813. It also examines several publications and reprint of reports from the House and the Senate and bibliographies on the early Congressional documents. Moreover, it supplicates for a national census of public papers of the first 14 Congresses through the "Documentary History of the First Federal Congress," by Dr. Charlene Bangs Bickford.