Chapter I: On the Prelates Set Over the Censure of Books

30. In whose hands there is the power of approving or permitting editions and versions of the sacred Bibles is clear from those things which were established above (n. 7).

31. Let no one dare to publish again into the light books proscribed by the Apostolic See; but if, from a grave and reasonable cause, some singular exception in this matter should seem to be admitted, that shall never be done unless the license of the Sacred Congregation of the Index has first been obtained, and the conditions prescribed by it have been observed.

32. Those things which in any way pertain to causes of beatifications and canonizations of the servants of God cannot be published without the approval of the Congregation set over the guarding of sacred rites.

33. The same is to be said concerning collections of decrees of individual Roman Congregations: namely, these collections cannot be published unless license has first been obtained, and the conditions prescribed by the moderators of each Congregation have been observed.

34. Vicars and apostolic missionaries should faithfully observe the decrees of the Sacred Congregation set over the propagation of the faith concerning books to be published.

35. The approval of books whose censure, by force of the present Decrees, is not reserved to the Apostolic See or to Roman Congregations, belongs to the Ordinary of the place in which they are made public.

36. Regulars, besides the license of the bishop, should remember that by the decree of the sacred Council of Trent they are bound to obtain from the prelate to whom they are subject the faculty of publishing the work into the light. But each concession is to be printed at the beginning or at the end of the work.

37. If an author dwelling at Rome should wish to print a book not in the City, but elsewhere, besides the approval of the Cardinal Vicar of the City and of the Master of the Sacred Apostolic Palace, no other is required.