prepared under the supervision of the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office
Other Titles
Comprehensive index of United States Government publications
Document catalogue
Binders title: Document catalog
Issues from some providers have title: Catalogue of the public documents of the 53d Congress, 2d Session - 76th Congress, 1st Session, March 4, 1893 - December 31, 1940 and of all departments of the governments of the United States
Began with [no. 1] (Mar. 4, 1893/June 30, 1895) and ceased with no. 25 (Jan. 1, 1939/Dec. 31, 1940)
Title varies slightly.
Being the "Comprehensive index" provided for by the act of Jan. 12, 1895.
"The Ames comprehensive index of the documents of the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congress is recognized as the most successful predecessor of the present volume"--Preface, v. 1, p. 3.