receipt of a document

- The Register of Copyrights shall, upon receipt of a document as provided by subsection (a) and of the fee provided by section 708, record the document and return it with a certificate of recordation.

I had to reread the Ethicist's (Oct. 15) advice to a question on the handling of the accidental receipt of a document listing the salaries of a company's employees to make sure I was reading it correctly.

In fact, because it is easier for the Documents Recordation Section of the Cataloging Division to correct the date of recordation prior to recording the document, persons seeking adjustment of the date of receipt of a document submitted for recordation are encouraged to submit requests as soon as possible.