Missouri Revised Statutes Title XI. Education and Libraries § 180.040. Duty of librarian--secretary of state to deliver certain books and reports

The librarian shall have the custody, charge and safekeeping of all maps, charts and other things of every kind whatsoever, property belonging to the library, and shall take special care that none of them be lost or injured; and he shall cause the seal of the supreme court to be stamped on the outside of each volume. The secretary of state shall deliver to the librarian, as soon as received by him, one copy of the following books, viz.: The acts of each session of congress, acts of the several states and territories, the journals of the general assembly of this state, the journals of the general assemblies of the several states and territories, also one copy of the journals of each house of congress, and of all books, reports, state papers and documents ordered by congress or either house thereof to be distributed among the states, also, five copies of the acts of the general assembly of this state, which the librarian shall cause to be bound, if the same be not already done, and placed in the library.