* * * as he may furnish, and for distribution in the manner provided in section seven of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four (eighteenth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and thirteen), providing for the publication of the statutes, one-half the number therein mentioned. Res. August 3, 1882, No. 63, 22 Stat. 391. Act June 20, 1874, c. 333, s. 7, 18 Stat. 113, mentioned in this provision, relates to the preparation and distribution of the Statutes at Large by the Secretary of State, and provides that he shall distribute certain numbers of copies, or as many thereof as may be needed, to various officials, Government establishments, and executive departments, allotting "to the Department of Agriculture, five copies." ACT MARCH 3, 1911, c. 231. (36 Stat. 1087.) Court of Claims reports; distribution. SEC. 143. * * * At the end of every term of the court he [the clerk of the Court of Claims] shall transmit a copy of its decisions to the heads of Departments; * to the chiefs of bureaus, and to other officers charged with the adjustment of claims against the United States. Act March 3, 1911, c. 231, s. 143, 36 Stat. 1136. This section incorporates therein the provisions of Rev. St. sec. 1057, which section is expressly repealed by section 297 of this act. Supreme Court reports and digests thereof; distribution. SEC. 227. The Attorney General shall distribute copies of the Supreme Court reports as follows: *the Secretary of Agricul * ture, each Assistant Secretary of each Executive Department, the Forester, Department of Agriculture, and the heads of such other executive offices as may be provided by law, of equal grade with any of said offices, each one copy; * * * He shall also distribute one complete set of said reports, and one set of the digests thereof, to such executive officers as are entitled to receive said reports under this section and have not already received them, * Such reports and digest shall remain the property of the United States, and shall be preserved by the officers above named and by them turned over to their successors in office. Act March 3, 1911, c. 231, s. 227, 36 Stat. 1154. ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) The Public Printer shall furnish the Congressional Record as follows and shall furnish gratuitously no others in addition thereto: * To the library of each of the eight Executive Departments, one bound copy. * Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, 28 Stat. 617. Examination of Congressional Record; departments to order publications required; limit bills and resolutions for departments. SEC. 90. The heads of Executive Departments, and such executive officers as are not connected with the Departments, respectively, shall cause daily examination of the Congressional Record for the purpose of noting documents, reports, and other publications of interest to their Departments, and shall cause an immediate order to be sent to the Public Printer for the number of copies of such publications re quired for official use, not to exceed, however, the number of bureaus in the Department and divisions in the office of the head thereof. The Public Printer shall send to each Executive Department and to each executive office not connected with the Departments, as soon as printed, five copies of all bills and resolutions, When the head of a Department desires a greater number of any class of bills or resolutions for official use, they shall be furnished by the Public Printer on requisition promptly made. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 90, 28 Stat. 623. Pamphlet copies of statutes; distribution. * * * The Secretary of State shall cause to be edited, printed, published, and distributed pamphlet copies of the statutes of the present and each future session of Congress to the officers and persons hereinafter provided for; said distribution shall be made at the close of every session of Congress, as follows: * to the Department of Agriculture, fifty copies; * ** Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, 28 Stat. 614. Copies of the Statutes at Large; distribution. After the close of each Congress the Secretary of State shall have edited, printed, and bound a sufficient number of the volumes containing the Statutes at Large enacted by that Congress to enable him to distribute copies, or as many thereof as may be needed, as follows: *to the Department of Agriculture, fifty copies; Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, 28 Stat. 615. ACT MARCH 4, 1907, c. 2919. (34 Stat. 1371.) Index to Statutes at Large; distribution. The Public Printer shall cause the new index to the Statutes at Large, now being prepared in accordance with the plan approved by the Judiciary Committees of both Houses of Congress, to be printed, bound and distributed in the manner now provided by law for the printing, binding and distribution of the United States Statutes at Large. Act March 4, 1907, c. 2919, s. 1, 34 Stat. 1398. Provisions for the printing, binding, and distribution of the Statutes at Large are contained in act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, set forth above. ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) Revised Statutes and supplements; distribution. The Secretary of State shall cause to be printed and bound at the Government Printing Office as many volumes of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States, volume one, second edition, eighteen hundred and seventy-four to eighteen hundred and ninety-one, authorized under the Act of April ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as may be needed for distribution to designated depositories, State and Territorial libraries and to United States Courts not already supplied, and for sale by his office at the cost thereof. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, 28 Stat. 614. Res. May 22, 1878, No. 22, 22 Stat. 251, providing for the distribution of the second edition of the Revised Statutes, allots "to the Department of Agriculture, five copies." Res. June 7, 1880, No. 44, provides for a supplement to be "distributed as provided for the distribution of the Revised Statutes" by Res. May 22, 1878, No. 22, "and such additional copies, on the order of the Secretary of State, as may be necessary from time to time # to supply deficiencies and offices newly created." Act April 9, 1890, c. 73, 26 Stat. 50, mentioned above, provides for a supplement to be distributed to Members of Congress for distribution by them to "the departments, libraries, public officers and others, the same number to each as heretofore provided for the distribution of the Revised Statutes of the United States." Further provisions for the publication and distribution of supplements of the Revised Statutes are contained in act February 27, 1893, c. 167, s. 1, 27 Stat. 477, act June 4, 1897, c. 2, s. 1, 30 Stat. 30, and act March 3, 1901, c. 853, s. 1, 31 Stat. 1162. Congressional Directory; distribution. There shall be prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing a Congressional Directory, of which there shall be three editions during each long session and two editions during each short session of Congress. The first edition shall be distributed to Senators, Representatives, Delegates, the principal officers of Congress, and heads of Departments on the first day of the session, and shall be ready for distribution to others within one week thereafter. The number and distribution of such Directory shall be under the control of the Joint Committee on Printing. * * Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, 28 Stat. 617. Official Register; distribution. The Secretary of the Interior shall cause the Official Register to be edited, indexed, and published by the chief clerk of the Interior Department, on the first day of December following the first day of July above mentioned. * Of the Official Register three thousand copies shall be printed and bound, which shall be distributed as follows: * * to the Department of Agriculture, fifteen copies; **** Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, 28 Stat. 619. Other provisions of this section relating to the preparation and contents of the Official Register, are set forth on p. 306, ante, under "Offices, Clerks, and Employees." The Director of the Census is required to edit, index, and publish the Official Register, and the provision above set forth, imposing that duty upon the Department of the Interior is repealed, by a provision of act June 7, 1906, c. 3048, set forth on p. 306, ante, under "Officers, Clerks, and Employees." Specifications and drawings of patents; distribution. The Commissioner of Patents, upon the requisition of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to continue the printing of the following: * * * Copies of the specifications and drawings of each patent issued, bound in monthly volumes, one copy for each of the Executive Departments of the Government, which copies shall be certified under the hand of the Commissioner and seal of the Patent Office, and shall not be taken from the depositories for any other purpose than to be used as evidence; * * * * Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, 28 Stat. 619. Coast and Geodetic Survey charts; distribution. SEC. 76. The charts published by the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be sold at cost of paper and printing as nearly as practicable; and there shall be no free distribution of such charts except to the Departments and officers of the United States requiring them for public use; * * * Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 76, 28 Stat. 620. RES. FEBRUARY 18, 1897, No. 13. Joint resolution providing for the distribution of the maps and atlases of the United States Geological Survey. (29 Stat. 701.) Topographic and geologic maps and atlases; distribution. That the Director of the Geological Survey be, and is hereby, authorized and directed, on the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to dispose of the topographic and geologic maps and atlases of the United States, made and published by the Geological Survey, at such prices and under such regulations as may from time to time be fixed by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior; and that a number of copies of each map or atlas, * * * shall be distributed gratuitously among * * ** Departments of our own. Government, to literary and scientific associations, and to such educational institutions or libraries as may be designated by the Director of the Survey and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Res. February 18, 1897, No. 13, s. 1, 29 Stat. 701. ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) Ownership of publications furnished officers for official use; free use of public actions in depositories. SEC. 74. Government publications furnished to judicial and executive officers of the United States for their official use shall not become the property of these officers, but on the expiration of their official term shall be by them delivered to their successors in office and all Government publications delivered to designated depositories or other libraries shall be for public use without charge. Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 74, 28 Stat. 620. REV. ST. SEC. 1779. Restriction upon payments for newspapers, etc. SEC. 1779. No executive officer, other than the heads of Departments, shall apply more than thirty dollars, annually, out of the contingent fund under his control, to pay for newspapers, pamphlets, periodicals, or other books or prints not necessary for the business of his office. REV. ST. SEC. 192. Limit on expenditures for newspapers; preservation of files. * * SEC. 192. The amount expended in any one year for newspapers, for any Department, shall not exceed one hundred dollars. And all newspapers purchased with the public money for the use of either of the Departments must be preserved as files for such Department. ACT JUNE 22, 1906, c. 3514. (34 Stat. 389.) Repeal, in part, of Rev. St. sec. 192. SEC. 7. So much of section one hundred and ninety-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States as requires newspapers purchased for the use of the Executive Departments to be preserved for the permanent files of such Departments be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Act June 22, 1906, c. 3514, s. 7, 34 Stat. 449. This section is a part of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year 1907, cited above. ACT FEBRUARY 16, 1889, c. 171. An act to authorize and provide for the disposition of useless papers in the Executive Departments. (25 Stat. 672.) Accumulation of useless papers in departments; report to Congress; examination by committee; sale or other disposition. That whenever there shall be in any one of the Executive Departments of the Government an accumulation of files of papers, which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of such Department and have no permanent value or historical interest, it shall be the duty of the head of such Department to submit to Congress a report of that fact, accompanied by a concise statement of the condition and character of such papers. And upon the submission of such report, it shall be the duty of the presiding officer of the Senate to appoint two Senators, and of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint two Representatives, and the Senators and Representatives so appointed shall constitute a joint committee, to which shall be referred such report, with the accompanying statement of the condition and character of such papers, and such joint committee shall meet and examine such report and statement and the papers therein described, and submit to the Senate and House, respectively, a report of such examination and their recommendation. And if they report that such files of papers, or any part thereof, are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of such Department, and have no permanent value or historical interest, then it shall be the duty of such head of the Department to sell as waste paper, or otherwise dispose of such files of papers upon the best obtainable terms after due publication of notice inviting proposals therefor, and receive and pay the proceeds thereof into the Treasury of the United States, and make report thereof to Congress. Act February 16, 1889, c. 171, 25 Stat. 672. This act is amended and its provisions extended by a provision of act March 2, 1895, c. 189, set forth below. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell or otherwise dispose of the accumulation of files and obsolete or worthless documents and publications, by a provision of act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, set forth on p. 23, ante. ACT MARCH 2, 1895, c. 189. (28 Stat. 910.) Accumulation of useless papers in department buildings. That the Act entitled "An Act to authorize and provide for the disposition of useless papers in the Executive Departments," approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to include in its provisions any accumulation of files of papers of a like character therein described now or hereafter in the various public buildings under the control of the several Executive Departments of the Government. Act March 2, 1895, c. 189, 28 Stat. 933. This is a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year 1896, cited above. |