therewith will be honored by the Chief of the Division

An unused credit from one month may be carried over and used in a succeeding month. In case the publications are furnished by the bureaus, and not taken from the stock of the Division of Publications, the method of procedure will be the same. The miscellaneous orders for the sending of publications shall be made out in duplicate and forwarded to the Division of Publications, where a record will be kept of the number of publications sent, the date forwarded, and the postage required. The original copy shall be retained in the Division of Publications and the dupliIcate in the bureau concerned.

181. Revision of Mailing Lists.-All foreign mailing lists should be revised at least once in two years.

182. Library Mailing Lists.-The library of the department will maintain (1) a list of foreign libraries and institutions ("Library list ") which receive all the publications of the department; (2) lists of libra

ries and institutions which receive regularly the Yearbook and the Farmers' Bulletins; and (3) an exchange list to which is sent regularly the monthly list of publications of the department. No general consular list will be maintained, and any distribution to these officials must be specially arranged for each publication that it is desired to send and be approved by the Assistant Secretary in charge of publication activities.

183. Miscellaneous Foreign Requests, including requests for publications selected from the monthly lists, received by bureaus and not from special correspondents to whom the department is under obligation to grant the request, shall be referred to the librarian of the department, who, in determining whether the applicants are entitled to receive publications free of charge, shall be governed by the regulations bearing on the distribution of publications to foreign addresses. All requests from applicants who, in the opinion of the librarian, are not entitled to receive the publications free of charge, shall be referred to the Division of Publications, and the chief of that division shall inform the applicants as to the possibility of obtaining the publications from the Superintendent of Documents.

184. Exchanges Received. When arranging exchanges with institutions, societies, and journals, the bureaus shall request that the exchanges be addressed to the library of the department, unless it is ascertained upon inquiry that the library is already receiving a sufficient number of copies.

185. International Exchange, Smithsonian Institution.—All publications, except the Experiment Station Record, Regulatory Announcements of interest and

value to foreign countries, the Journal of Agricultural Research and reprints of articles therefrom, documents sent to reviewing journals, and those for which bureau chiefs desire prompt delivery, will be sent to addresses which can not be reached under the penalty frank-that is, all foreign countries except Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Shanghai, China-by means of the International Exchange through the Smithsonian Institution. The excepted publications referred to will be mailed direct from the Division of Publications under postage.

PRINTING AND BINDING.

186. Requisitions.-The Chief of the Division of Publications will sign all requisitions on the Public Printer for printing or binding chargeable to the printing fund of the department, except for work payable from the allotment of the Weather Bureau. No communication or papers pertaining to work chargeable to that fund will be recognized by the Government Printing Office officials unless they bear the stamp of the Division of Publications or the Weather Bureau, as the case may be.

187. Paper Stock.-Under the law the Public Printer is prohibited from accepting from the department paper stock for printing and binding chargeable to the department's allotment for public printing and binding, except in the case of pads (the stock for which may or may not be furnished), and envelopes and tags, which the Public Printer can not furnish. Paper stock may, however, be furnished the Public Printer, when he is the successful bidder, in connection with printing and binding for a bureau designated by the Comptroller of the Treasury as a field service.

188. Letterheads and Printed Cards.-All requisitions for the printing of letterheads will be made on the Public Printer through the Division of Publications of the department, and all printed cards required by bureaus of the department for use in the continuance of card-index systems, or in the establishment of new systems, must be procured from the Government Printing Office through the Division of Publications.

189. Expenditure of the Printing Fund.-In the expenditure of the printing fund preference will be given to new publications and emergency printing, but except upon the authority of the Secretary no printing shall be ordered by the Chief of the Division of Publications in excess of the allotment to any bureau during any fiscal year.

Reprints of publications, when original editions have become exhausted, shall be ordered only upon the approval of the Assistant Secretary in charge of publication activities or, when duly authorized by him, by the Chief of the Division of Publications. Applicants for publications that are exhausted will be referred by the Chief of the Division of Publications to the superintendent of documents and informed as to the price at which the publications may be purchased. (See "Style and size of editions of department bulletins," par. 152 of these regulations.)

(See "Corrections and alterations in proof," par. 153 of these regulations.)

190. Rush Orders for Printing of Forms.-The quantity of blank forms on hand should be maintained uniformly so as to avoid the necessity for submitting rush orders for the printing of forms, the supply of which has become exhausted.

ANNUAL REPORTS TO CONGRESS, PROJECTS, FINANCIAL AND OTHER STATEMENTS.

191. Annual Report of the Secretary.-The Secretary shall annually make a general report of his acts to Congress. (R. S., sec. 528.) This report will deal with such matters as the Secretary may desire to submit to the President and to Congress.

The manuscript will be furnished to the Public Printer not later than November 15, and the final proof returned to the Public Printer not later than November 20.

192. Annual Reports of Chiefs of Bureaus.—The chiefs of bureaus shall annually make a report to the Secretary for transmission to Congress. (R. S., sec. 528.) This report will deal only with the work performed and results accomplished during the fiscal year. Manuscripts of these reports must be submitted to the Secretary not later than August 1, and furnished to the Public Printer not later than October 15. The final proof must be returned to the Public Printer not later than November 10.

193. Estimates of Appropriations.-Estimates of appropriations for transmission to Congress must be submitted annually to the Office of the Secretary on prescribed forms not later than September 1, for review and action by him. As finally approved, they are required by law to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury on or before October 15. (31 Stat., 1009; 34 Stat., 448; 37 Stat., 415; 38 Stat., 680.)

In preparing estimates of appropriations the chief of each bureau should carefully scrutinize all projects then under way to determine whether their further prosecution will justify the additional expenditure of Government funds. Where further expenditure can