now authorized, or which may hereafter be authorized: Provided further, That nothing herein shall operate to obstruct the printing of the full number of any document or report, or the allotment of the full quota to Senators and Representatives, as now authorized, or which may hereafter be authorized, when a legitimate demand for the full complement is known to exist. Res. March 30, 1906, No. 14, 34 Stat. 826. RES. MARCH 28, 1904, No. 11. Joint resolution authorizing the reprinting of certain documents to be sold by the superintendent of documents. Stat. 584.) Reprinting of public documents subject to approval of heads of departments. (33 * * * the superintendent of documents is hereby authorized to order reprinted, from time to time, such public documents as may be required for sale, such order for reprinting to be subject to the approval of the Secretary or head of the Department in which such public document shall have originated: Provided, That the appropriation for printing and binding shall be reimbursed for the cost of such reprints from the moneys received by the superintendent of documents from the sale of public documents. Res. March 28, 1904, No. 11, 33 Stat. 584. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 61, 28 Stat. 610, mentioned in the portion of this resolution here omitted, provides for the appointment of the superintendent of documents and the sale of public documents by him. ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) Form and style of annual reports of executive officers. SEC. 91. The annual reports of executive officers shall be printed in the same type and form as the report of the head of the Department which it accompanies, unless otherwise ordered by the Joint Committee on Printing. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 91, 28 Stat. 623. Printing and binding for departments; certificate that work is necessary; estimate of cost; requisitions. * * SEC. 93. When any Department shall require printing or binding to be done, it shall be on certificate that such work be necessary for the public service; whereupon the Public Printer shall furnish an estimate of the cost by the principal items for such printing or binding so called for, after which requisitions shall be made upon him therefor by the head of such Department, the Public Printer shall place the cost thereof to the debit of such Department in its annual appropriation for printing and binding. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 93, 28 Stat. 623. * * * and This section supersedes Rev. St. sec. 3789 and act June 20, 1878, c. 359, s. 1, 20 Stat. 206. Restrictions on printing; exclusion of unnecessary matter from annual reports of executive officers. SEC. 94. No head of any Executive Department, or of any bureau, branch, or office of the Government, shall cause to be printed, nor shall the Public Printer print, any document or matter except that which is authorized by law and necessary to the public business; and executive officers, before transmitting their annual reports, shall carefully examine the same and all accompanying documents, and ex clude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports are necessary and relate entirely to the transaction of the public business. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 94, 28 Stat. 623. ACT MARCH 3, 1905, c. 1483. (33 Stat. 1156.) * * Restrictions on use of appropriations made for printing and binding, for illustrations, etc. That hereafter no part of the appropriations made for printing and binding shall be used for any illustration, engraving, or photograph in any document or report of any executive department or other Government establishment until the head of the executive department or Government establishment shall certify in a letter transmitting such report that the illustration is necessary and relates entirely to the transaction of public business. Act March 3, 1905, c. 1483, s. 1, 33 Stat. 1213. This is a proviso of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1906, cited above. ACT MARCH 3, 1905, c. 1484. (33 Stat. 1214.) Restrictions on printing for executive departments. Hereafter no book or document not having to do with the ordinary business transactions of the Executive Departments shall be printed on the requisition of any Executive Department or unless the same shall have been expressly authorized by Congress. Act March 3, 1905, c. 1484, s. 1, 33 Stat. 1249. This is a provision of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year 1905, cited above. PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) Department publications for distribution. SEC. 58. * * of all publications of the Executive Departments not intended for their especial use, but made for distribution, five hundred copies shall be at once delivered to the superintendent of documents for distribution to designated depositories and State and Territorial libraries. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 58, 28 Stat. 610. Sale and distribution of documents by superintendent of documents. SEC. 61. * * * * whenever any officer of the Government having in his charge documents published for sale shall desire to be relieved of the same, he is hereby authorized to turn them over to the superintendent of documents, who shall receive and sell them under the provisions of this section. He shall have general supervision of the distribution of all public documents, and to his custody shall be committed all documents subject to distribution, excepting those printed for the special official use of the Executive Departments, which shall be delivered to said Departments, Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 61, 28 Stat. 610. The work of distribution of publications in the departments is transferred to the Public Printer by provisions of act August 23, 1912, c. 350, set forth on p. 370, post. Index of public documents; heads of departments to furnish superintendent of documents copies of department documents. SEC. 62. The superintendent of documents shall, at the close of each regular session of Congress, prepare and publish a comprehensive index of public documents, beginning with the Fifty-third Congress, upon such plan as shall be approved by the Joint Committee on Printing; and the Public Printer shall, immediately upon its publication, deliver to him a copy of each and every document printed by the Government Printing Office; and the head of each of the Executive Departments, bureaus, and offices of the Government shall deliver to him a copy of each and every document issued or published by such Department, bureau, or office not confidential in its character. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 62, 28 Stat. 610. * Delivery of documents in charge of departments, to superintendent of documents. SEC. 67. All documents at present remaining in charge of the several Executive Departments, bureaus, and offices of the Government not required for official use shall be delivered to the superintendent of documents, and hereafter all public documents accumulating in said Departments, bureaus, and offices not needed for official use shall be annually turned over to the superintendent of documents for distribution or sale. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 67, 28 Stat. 611. Monthly catalogue of Government publications. SEC. 69. A catalogue of Government publications shall be prepared by the superintendent of documents on the first day of each month, which shall show the documents printed during the preceding month, where obtainable, and the price thereof. Two thousand copies of such catalogue shall be printed in pamphlet form for distribution. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 69, 28 Stat. 612. ACT FEBRUARY 25, 1903, c. 755. (32 Stat. 854.) Transfer of books, etc., from departments to Library of Congress and Public Library of District of Columbia. The head of any Executive department or bureau or any commission of the Government is hereby authorized from time to time to turn over to the Librarian of Congress, for the use of the Library of Congress, any books, maps, or other material in the library of the department, bureau, or commission no longer needed for its use, and in the judgment of the Librarian of Congress appropriate to the uses of the Library of Congress. Any books of a miscellaneous character no longer required for the use of such department, bureau, or commission, and not deemed an advisable addition to the Library of Congress, shall, if appropriate to the uses of the Free Public Library of the District of Columbia, be turned over to that library for general use as a part thereof. Act February 23, 1903, c. 755, s. 1, 32 Stat. 865. RES. MARCH 2, 1901, No. 16. (31 Stat. 1464.) Publications by departments printed elsewhere than at Government Printing Office. SEC. 3. That of any publication printed at the Government expense by direction of any Department, commission, bureau, or officer of the Government elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office there shall be supplied to the Library of Congress for its own use and for international exchange sixty-two copies, except as such number shall be enlarged to not exceeding one hundred copies by request of the Joint Committee on the Library. Res. March 2, 1901, No. 16, s. 3, 31 Stat. 1465. ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) SEC. 95. Heads of Departments are authorized to exchange surplus documents for such other documents and books as may be required by them, when the same can be done to the advantage of the public service. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 95, 28 Stat. 623. Departmental distribution of documents. SEC. 92. Government publications printed for or received by the Executive Departments, whether for official use or for distribution, shall be distributed by a competent person detailed to such duty in each Department by the head thereof. He shall keep an account in detail of all publications received and distributed by him. He shall prevent duplication, and make detailed report to the head of the Department, who shall transmit the same annually to Congress. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 92, 28 Stat. 623. The work of distribution of publications in the departments is transferred to the Public Printer by provisions of act August 23, 1912, c. 350, set forth below. ACT AUGUST 23, 1912, c. 350. (37 Stat. 360.) No expenditures for distribution of publications by executive departments, except maps, weather reports, etc.; Public Printer to perform the work; departments to furnish mailing lists and franks; Public Printer to furnish copies of publications in accordance with law or instructions of heads of departments; provisions not to apply to departmental orders, instructions, etc., and circulars. SEC. 8. That no money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twelve, for services in any executive department or other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, in the work of addressing, wrapping, mailing, or otherwise dispatching any publication for public distribution, except maps, weather reports, and weather cards issued by an executive department or other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, or for the purchase of material or supplies to be used in such work; and on and after October first, nineteen hundred and twelve, it shall be the duty of the Public Printer to perform such work at the Government Printing Office. Prior to October first, nineteen hundred and twelve, each executive department and other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, shall transfer to the Public Printer such machines, equipment, and materials as are used in addressing, wrapping, mailing, or otherwise dispatching publications; and each head of such executive department and other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, shall furnish from time to time. to the Public Printer mailing lists, in convenient form, and changes therein, or franked slips, for use in the public distribution of publica tions issued by such department or establishment; and the Public Printer shall furnish copies of any publication only in accordance with the provisions of law or the instruction of the head of the department or establishment issuing the publication. The employment of all persons in the several executive departments and other Government establishments at Washington, District of Columbia, wholly in connection with the duties herein transferred to the Public Printer, or whose services can be dispensed with or devolved upon another because of such transfer, shall cease and determine on or before the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twelve, and their salaries or compensation shall lapse for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen and be covered into the Treasury. A detailed statement of all machines, equipment, and material transferred to the Government Printing Office by operation of this provision and of all employments discontinued shall be submitted to Congress at its next session by the head of each executive department and other Government establishments at Washington, District of Columbia, in the annual estimates of appropriations: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed as applying to orders, instructions, directions, notices, or circulars of information, printed for and issued by any of the executive departments or other Government establishments or to the distribution of public documents by Senators or Members of the House of Representatives or to the folding rooms and document rooms of the Senate or House of Representatives. Act August 23, 1912, c. 350, s. 8, 37 Stat. 414. These are provisions of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1913, cited above. No report, document, or publication of any kind distributed by or from an Executive Department or bureau of the Government shall contain any notice that the same is sent with "the compliments" of an officer of the Government, or with any special notice that it is so sent, except that notice that it has been sent, with a request for an acknowledgment of its receipt, may be given. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, 28 Stat. 620. Libraries of executive departments constituted depositories of Government publications. SEC. 98. The libraries of the eight Executive Departments are hereby constituted designated depositories of Government publications, and the superintendent of documents shall supply one copy of said publications, in the same form as supplied to other depositories, to each of said libraries. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 98, 28 Stat. 624. RES. AUGUST 3, 1882, No. 63. Joint resolution requiring the Public Printer to publish certain decisions of the First Comptroller of the Treasury Department. (22 Stat. 391.) Decisions of Comptroller of Treasury; distribution. That the Public Printer be, and is, required to print not more than one volume each year of the decisions and opinions of the First Comptroller of the Treasury Department, with such explanatory matter |