Shall certify extracts from Journal.

Fees.

May use books in Congressional Library.

Shall advertise for proposals for stationery.

Shall transmit certain petitions

of Claims.

at the expiration of their terms of service, as provided in section one of this act.-Stat. at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 365. He shall, on application, certify extracts from the Journal of the House of Representatives, and for such copies shall receive the same fees as are allowed by law to the Secretary of State for similar services.-Stat. at Large, Vol. IX, p. 80.

He may, with permission of the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, have the use of the books in the Congressional Library upon the same conditions as members of Congress.-Stat. at Large, Vol. IV, p. 429. He shall advertise for proposals for furnishing stationery for the use of the House of Representatives.Stat. at Large, Vol. V, pp. 526, 527.-(See STATIONERY.)

By the act of March 3, 1863, he is required to transmit and bills to Court to the Court of Claims all petitions and bills praying or providing for the satisfaction of all private claims against the Government, founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government, unless otherwise ordered by resolution of the House.Stat. at Large, Vol. XII, p. 765.

To select newspapers in States

for publication of laws, &c.

By the act of March 2, 1867, Stat. at Large, Vol. XIV,p. lately in rebellion 466, it is provided that it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the House of Representatives to select in Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas, one or more newspapers, not exceeding the number now allowed by law, in which such treaties and laws of the United States as may be ordered for publication in newspapers according to law shall be published, and in some one or more of which so selected all such advertisements as may be ordered for publication in said districts, by any United States court or judge thereof, or by any officer of such courts, or by any executive officer of the United States, shall be published, the compensation for which, and other terms of publication, shall be fixed by said Clerk at a rate not exceeding two dollars per page for the publication of treaties and laws, and not exceeding one dollar per square of eight lines of space for the publica

tion of advertisements, the accounts of which shall be adjusted by the proper accounting officers and paid in the manner now authorized by law in the like cases; and said Clerk shall, as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, notify each head of the several Executive Departments, and each judge of the United States courts therein, of the papers selected by him in accordance with the foregoing provisions; and thereupon and thereafter it shall be the duty of the several executive officers charged therewith to furnish to such selected papers only an authentic copy of the publications to be made, as aforesaid; and no money hereby or otherwise appropriated shall be paid for any publications or advertisements hereafter to be made in said districts; nor shall any such publication or advertisement be ordered by any Department or public officer otherwise than as herein provided: Provided, That the rates fixed in this section to be paid for the publication of the treaties and laws of the United States in the States therein designated shall also be paid for the same publications in all the States not designated in this section; and that all printing of any kind ordered

printing shall be

by the Executive Departments shall be executed by the To designate Government Printer, when practicable; and, if not, at where executive such office as may be designated by the Clerk of the executed in cerHouse of Representatives, at rates not exceeding the current rates for such printing.

By the act of March 29, 1867, (Stat. at Large, Vol. XV, pp. 7, 8,) it is provided that so much of section seven of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as relates to the publication of the treaties and laws of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, extended to the States not therein designated, and to the Territories; and that it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, upon receiving notice of the designation of newspapers under the act aforesaid and this section, promptly to furnish to such newspapers authentic copies of the treaties and laws of the United

tain cases.

To select newsother States and

papers in the

Territories for laws and treaties,

publication of

laws in newspa

ter March 4, 1875.

States, to be published as aforesaid; Provided, That it shall be lawful to print the laws and treaties of the United States as aforesaid in three newspapers in Louisiana: And provided further, That the rates fixed by previous laws shall not be hereby increased.

Publication of By the act of June 20, 1874, it is provided that the pers to cease af publication of the laws in newspapers shall cease after the 4th day of March, 1875.-Sess. Laws, 1, 43, p. 90. List of mem- By resolution of February 16, 1867, he is directed to furnished to the furnish the "Globe" at each session, a list of the members, with their post-office address, and the number of their seats.-Journal, 2, 39, p. 405.

bers, &c., to be

publishers of the

Globe.

Attest writs.

Enter petitions.

Delivers calls upon the Presi

The following duties are imposed upon the Clerk by the Rules of the House, viz:

He shall attest all writs, warrants, and subpoenas issued by the House.-Rule 8.

He shall enter upon the Journal, subject to the control and direction of the Speaker, such petitions and memorials as may be handed to him by members for reference.-Rule 131.

He shall cause to be delivered all propositions adopted. dent and heads of by the House, requesting information from the President, Departments. or directing it to be furnished by the heads of Departments.-Rule 53. [His practice is to deliver in person all calls upon the President, and to transmit calls upon the Departments by a messenger or through the mail.] He shall refer all drawings, maps, charts, or other members of the papers, which may at any time come before the House Printing. for engraving, lithographing, or publishing in any way, to the members of the Committee on Printing on the part of the House.-Rule 100.

Shall refer maps, &c., to the House

Committee on

Shall prepare

list of reports to

cers of Government.

He shall prepare and cause to be delivered to each be made by offi- member, at the commencement of every session of Congress, a list of the reports which it is the duty of any officer or Department of the Government to make to Congress.-Rule 13.

Shall send cop He shall, at the end of each session, send a printed copy of the Journal of the House to the executive, and to

ies of the Journal to States.

each branch of the legislature, of every State.-Rule 14.

vertisements in

Columbia and

By the act of July 20, 1868, it is provided that the In regard to adprovisions of section ten of an act "making appropria- the District of tions for sundry civil expenses of the Government for other places. the year ending June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes," approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be, and they are hereby, extended to one additional newspaper in the District of Columbia from the date of the approval of said act, the same to be selected by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

And also, that all advertisements, notices, proposals for contracts, executive proclamations, treaties, and laws to be published in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, shall be published in the papers now selected under the provisions of section ten of an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the year ending June. thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes," and shall also be published in the paper selected under the provisions of the second section of this act: Provided, That no advertisement to any State, District, or Territory other than the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia, shall be published in the papers designated, unless at the direction first made of the proper head of a Department.-Stat. at Large, Vol. XV, p. 110.

He shall note all questions of order, with the decision, and put them together at the end of the Journal of every session.-Rule 15.

Shall put decisions of questions of order at end of

Journal.

He shall enter upon the Journal notices of bills which Shall enter nomay be handed in by members.-Rule 15.

tices of bills.

He shall certify a bill that has passed, noting the day Shall certify of its passage at the foot thereof.-Rule 127.

bills which pass.

He shall sign all House bills which have passed the Shall sign all House.-Joint Rule 5.

which

House bills which

pass.

Shall enroll and And bills, &c., which

He shall enroll on parchment all House bills shall have passed both houses.-Joint Rule 6. shall certify on the back of the roll that the bill origi nated in the House of Representatives.-Joint Rule 9.

certify House

pass both houses.

Entry of amend ments in commit

tee.

Shall distribute Journal and in

within thirty

And all orders, resolutions, and votes which are to be presented to the President for his approbation, shall also, in the same manner, be previously enrolled, examined, and signed.-Joint Rule 10.

He shall enter on a separate paper all amendments adopted in Committee of the Whole to a bill or report.Rules 107, 109. [The 107th Rule refers to manuscript bills, having been adopted prior to the practice of printing bills.]

He shall, within thirty days after the close of each dex to members session of Congress, cause to be completed the printing days after ad and primary distribution, to members and delegates, of the Journal of the House, together with an accurate index to the same.-Rule 16.

journment.

Shall retain in library two cop

documents.

one bound copy of

each member.

He shall retain in the library of his office, for the use ies of all public of the members there, two copies of all the books and printed documents deposited in the library.-Rule 17. Shall preserve He shall have preserved for each member of the House all documents for an extra copy, in good binding, of all the documents printed by order of either house at each session.-Rule 18. Shall make He shall make a weekly statement of the resolutions of business on and bills upon the Speaker's table.-Rule 19. [This stateSpeaker's table. ment is printed and placed upon each member's table Weekly state- every Monday morning. There is, in like manner, placed on calendar also upon their tables, every Friday morning, a statement of all the bills and resolutions upon the calendar, designating whether in Committee of the Whole House or of the Whole House on the state of the Union.]

weekly statement

ment of bills, &c.,

prepared.

He numbers the sections of bills.

The number prefixed to the section of a bill, being merely a marginal indication, and no part of the text of the bill, the Clerk regulates that.-Manual, p. 111. [He And also bills also gives numbers to the bills and joint resolutions as and joint resolutions. they are introduced or reported.]

He conveysmessages to the Sen

ate.

Clerk.

Messages (between the two houses) shall be sent by such persons as a sense of propriety in each house may determine to be proper.-Joint Rule 4. [All messages from the House to the Senate are conveyed by the Clerk or one of his assistants.]

Other duties of In addition to the foregoing, there are various other duties appertaining to the office of Clerk, under the