Eight thousand copies of said report of the auditor general, together with his suggestions on the workings of existing laws and his propositions as to new enactments, shall be published for distribution, annually, as soon as it is prepared, with the title of the mineral statistics of Pennsylvania; and one copy thereof shall be sent by mail, by the auditor general, to each person who shall have furnished him with information as aforesaid, and the balance shall be delivered to the legislature for distribution.
52 P.S. § 1446