In 1874, the U.S. government began to fund the reports' publication (), creating the "United States Reports". The earlier, private reports were retroactively numbered volumes 1–90 of the "United States Reports", starting from the first volume of "Dallas Reports". Therefore, decisions appearing in these early reports have dual citation forms: one for the volume number of the United States Reports; and one for the set of nominate reports. For example, the complete citation to "McCulloch v. Maryland" is 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316 (1819).