(a) Printing and distribution by Commonwealth.--Whenever the department commanders of the Grand Army of the Republic, the United Spanish War Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, the American Legion, the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, the Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., Inc., the American Veterans of World War II (AMVETS), Military Order of the Purple Heart, Jewish War Veterans, Catholic War Veterans, Inc., The Society of the 28th Division, A.E.F., the Marine Corps League and the Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated, shall report to the Department of Property and Supplies¹ the proceedings of the annual encampment or conventions of their respective departments, with such general and special orders and circulars and other data which may form a part of said proceedings, then the said proceedings, so reported, shall be considered Commonwealth records, and under the direction of the Department of Property and Supplies, shall be printed and bound, and a printed and bound copy thereof shall be sent to each post or detachment in this Commonwealth of the organization of whose proceedings the same is a report.

(b) Number of copies printed and distributed.--Not more than 1500 copies of each of such annual reports shall be printed and bound, and the balance remaining after the distribution provided for in subsection (a) may be requisitioned as follows: