of the United States, or other public function, except as may hereafter be expressly authorized by law. Act April 28, 1902, c. 594, s. 1, 32 Stat. 152. This is a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1903, cited above. ACT MARCH 3, 1883, c. 143. (22 Stat. 603.) Shutting off flow of water in public buildings. * all officers in charge of public buildings in the District of Columbia shall cause the flow of water in the buildings under their charge to be shut off from five o'clock post meridian to eight o'clock ante meridian: Provided, That the water in said public buildings is not necessarily in use for public business. Act March 3, 1883, c. 143, 22 Stat. 615. This is a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1884, cited above. ACT MARCH 3, 1877, c. 105. (19 Stat. 344.) Report of consumption of gas in public buildings. * * That the superintendent of meters at the Capitol shall hereafter take the statement of the meters of the several Department buildings in the city of Washington and render to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department the consumption of gas each month in said buildings respectively. Act March 3, 1877, c. 105, 19 Stat. 359. This is a proviso annexed to the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1878, cited above. A proviso in the same words accompanied the similar appropriation act for the preceding fiscal year. ACT JULY 29, 1892, c. 320. (27 Stat. 322.) Laws of District of Columbia for protection of property and preservation of peace and order, extended to buildings and grounds of United States in the District. SEC. 15. That the provisions of the several laws and regulations within the District of Columbia for the protection of public or private property and the preservation of peace and order be, and the same are hereby, extended to all public buildings and public grounds belonging to the United States within the District of Columbia. And any person guilty of disorderly and unlawful conduct in or about the same, or who shall willfully injure the buildings or shrubs, or shall pull down, impair, or otherwise injure any fence, wall, or other inclosure, or shall injure any sink, culvert, pipe, hydrant, cistern, lamp, or bridge, or shall remove any stone, gravel, sand, or other property of the United States or any other part of the public grounds or lots belonging to the United States in the District of Columbia, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than fifty dollars. Act July 29, 1892, c. 320, s. 15, 27 Stat. 325. Restriction of expenditures for production of electricity, from appropriations for buildings. SEC. 9. No appropriation heretofore or hereafter made for the construction or equipment of any executive or municipal building in the District of Columbia shall be expended for the production of elec tricity for light or power, unless, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury, such necessary electric current for light and power can not be obtained at a less cost. Act March 4, 1907, c. 2918, s. 9, 34 Stat. 1371. This section is a part of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1908, cited above. PUBLIC PRINTING. ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) Department printing offices to be part of Government Printing Office; control and supervision of Public Printer; act not to apply to Weather Bureau printing office; requisitions for work. SEC. 31. All printing offices in the Departments now in operation, or hereafter put in operation, by law, shall be considered a part of the Government Printing Office, and shall be under the control of the Public Printer, who shall furnish all presses, types, imposing stones, and necessary machinery and material for said offices from the general supplies of the Government Printing Office; and all paper and material of every kind used in the said offices for departmental work, except letter and note paper and envelopes, shall be supplied by the Public Printer; and all persons employed in said printing offices and binderies shall be appointed by the Public Printer, and be carried on his pay roll the same as employees in the main office, and shall be responsible to him: Provided, That the terms of this Act shall not apply to the office in the Weather Bureau, * ** but the Public Printer, with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing, may abolish any of these excepted offices whenever in their judgment the economy of the public service would be thereby advanced. All work done in the said offices shall be ordered on blanks prepared for that purpose by the Public Printer, which shall be numbered consecutively, and must be signed by someone designated by the head of the Department for which the work is to be done, who shall be held responsible for all work thus ordered, and who shall quarterly report to the head of the Department a classified statement of the work done and the cost thereof, which report shall be transmitted to the Public Printer in time for his annual report to Congress. The Public Printer shall show in detail, in his annual report, the cost of operating each departmental office. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 31, 28 Stat. 605. Form and style of work for departments. SEC. 51. The forms and style in which the printing or binding ordered by any of the Departments shall be executed, and the material and the size of type to be used, shall be determined by the Public Printer, having proper regard to economy, workmanship, and the purposes for which the work is needed. Act January 12, 1895. c. 23, s. 51, 28 Stat. 608. Illustrations and maps in documents and reports; orders for printing to be acted upon within one year. SEC. 80. No document or report to be illustrated or accompanied by maps shall be printed by the Public Printer until the illustrations . or maps designed therefor shall be ready for publication; and no order for public printing shall be acted upon by the Public Printer after the expiration of one year, unless the entire copy and illustrations for the work shall have been furnished within that period: Provided, This section shall not apply to orders heretofore made for the printing of a series of volumes on one subject. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 80, 28 Stat. 621. RES. JANUARY 15, 1908, No. 3. Joint resolution amending an act relative to the public printing and binding, approved March first, nineteen hundred and seven. (35 Stat. 565.) Designation and binding of department publications ordered printed by Congress. That publications ordered printed by Congress, or either House thereof, shall be in four series, * * The publications in each series shall be consecutively numbered, the numbers in each series continuing in unbroken sequence throughout the entire term of a Congress, *** Provided, That of the usual number, the copies which are intended for distribution to State and Territorial libraries and other designated depositories of all annual or serial publications originating in or prepared by an Executive Department, bureau, office, commission, or board shall not be numbered in the document or report series of either House of Congress, but shall be designated by title and bound as hereinafter provided, and the departmental edition, if any, shall be printed concurrently with the usual number:" * * Res. January 15, 1908, No. 3, s. 1, 35 Stat. 565. 66 Previous similar provisions were contained in section 2, act March 1, 1907, c. 2284, 34 Stat. 1013, which section is expressly repealed by section 3 of this act. ACT MARCH 1, 1907, c. 2284. (34 Stat. 1012.) Departments submitting reports or documents in response to inquiries from Congress, to submit estimate of cost of printing. Any Executive Department, bureau, board, or independent office of the Government submitting reports or documents in response to inquiries from Congress shall submit therewith an estimate of the probable cost of printing to the usual number. Nothing in this paragraph relating to estimates shall apply to reports or documents not exceeding fifty pages. Act March 1, 1907, c. 2284, s. 1, 34 Stat. 1013. ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) No printing or binding unless authorized by law; style of binding for departments. SEC. 86. No printing or binding shall be done at the Government Printing Office unless authorized by law. Binding for the Departments of the Government shall be done in plain sheep or cloth, except that record and account books may be bound in Russia leather, sheep fleshers, and skivers, when authorized by the head of a Department: Provided, The libraries of the several Departments may have books for the exclusive use of said libraries bound in half Turkey, or material no more expensive. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 86, 28 Stat. 622. This section supersedes Rev. St. sec. 3785 and a provision of act June 20, 1878, c. 359, s. 1, 20 Stat. 207. Printing, binding, and blank books for executive departments. for the Departments shall be done at the Government Printing Office, except in cases otherwise provided by law. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 87, 28 Stat. 622. ACT JUNE 28, 1902, c. 1301. (32 Stat. 419.) Supplies for executive departments to be furnished by Public Printer. The Public Printer is authorized hereafter to procure and supply, on the requisition of the head of any Executive Department or other Government establishment, complete manifold blanks, books, and forms, required in duplicating processes; also complete patented devices with which to file money-order statements, or other uniform official papers, and to charge such supplies to the allotment for printing and binding of the Department or Government establishment requiring the same. Act June 28, 1902, c. 1301, s. 1, 32 Stat. 481. This is a paragraph of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1903, cited above. ACT JANÚARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) Appropriations for printing not to be exceeded; limitation on number of copies of reports, etc.; annual reports of heads of departments and chiefs of bureaus. SEC. 89. No printing shall be done for the Executive Departments in any fiscal year in excess of the amount of the appropriation, and none shall be done without a special requisition, signed by the chief of the Department and filed with the Public Printer. No report, publication, or document shall be printed in excess of the number of one thousand of each in any one fiscal year without authorization therefor by Congress, except that of the annual report of the head of the Department without appendices there may be printed in any one fiscal year not to exceed five thousand copies, bound in pamphlet form; and of the reports of chiefs of bureaus without appendices there may be printed in any one fiscal year not to exceed two thousand five hundred copies, bound in pamphlet form: * * * Heads of Executive Departments shall direct whether reports made to them by bureau chiefs and chiefs of divisions shall be printed or not. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 89, 28 Stat. 622. A proviso of this section, here omitted, relating to the printing of the monthly crop report and other reports and bulletins of the Department of Agriculture, and maps, etc., and minor reports of the Weather Bureau, is set forth on p. 24, ante. RES. MARCH 30, 1906, No. 13. Joint resolution to correct abuses in the public printing and to provide for the allotment of cost of certain documents and reports. (34 Stat. 825.) Appropriations chargeable with cost of printing and binding for executive departments; estimate of cost of publications required by law, and application of appropriation thereto. That hereafter, in the printing and binding of documents or reports emanating from the Executive Departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Government, the cost of which is now charged to the allotment for printing and binding for Congress, or to appropriations or allotments of appropriations other than those made to the Executive Departments, bureaus, or independent offices of the Government, the cost of illustrations, composition, stereotyping, and other work involved in the actual preparation for printing, apart from the creation of manuscript, shall be charged to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation for the printing and binding of the Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government in which such documents or reports originate; the balance of cost shall be charged to the allotment for printing and binding for Congress, and to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation of the Executive Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government, in proportion to the number delivered to each; the cost of any copies of such documents or reports distributed otherwise than through Congress, or the Executive Departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Government, if such there be, shall be charged as heretofore: Provided, That on or before the first day of December in each fiscal year each Executive Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government to which an appropriation or allotment of appropriation for printing and binding is made, shall obtain from the Public Printer an estimate of the probable cost of all publications of such Department, bureau, or independent office now required by law to be printed, and so much thereof as would, under the terms of this resolution, be charged to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation of the Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government in which such publications originate, shall thereupon be set aside to be applied only to the printing and binding of such documents and reports, and shall not be available for any other purpose until all of such allotment of cost on account of such documents and reports shall have been fully paid. This resolution shall be effective on and after July first, nineteen hundred and six. Res. March 30, 1906, No. 13, 34 Stat. 825. RES. MARCH 30, 1906, No. 14. Joint resolution to prevent unnecessary printing and binding and to correct evils in the present method of distribution of public documents. (34 Stat. 826.) Documents and reports in two or more editions; requisitions therefor; number of copies limited to maximum authorized. That the Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized and directed to establish rules and regulations, from time to time, which shall be observed by the Public Printer, whereby public documents and reports printed for Congress, or either House thereof, may be printed in two or more editions, instead of one, to meet the public requirements: Provided, That in no case shall the aggregate of said editions exceed the number of copies now authorized or which may hereafter be authorized: And provided further, That the number of copies of any public document or report now authorized to be printed or which may hereafter be authorized to be printed for any of the Executive Departments, or bureaus or branches thereof, or independent offices of the Government may be supplied in two or more editions, instead of one, upon a requisition on the Public Printer by the official head of such Department or independent office, but in no case shall the aggregate of said editions exceed the number of copies |