By resolution of February 16, 1867, he is directed to furnish the "Globe," at each session, a list of the mem bers, with their post office address and the number of their seats.-Journal, 2, 39, p. 405.

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

List of members

&c.,to be furnished

to publishers of the

Globe.

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

He shall enter upon the Journal, subject to the control Enter petitions. and direction of the Speaker, such petitions and memorials

as may be handed to him by members for reference.— Rule 131.

calls

upon the President

partments.

He shall cause to be delivered all propositions adopted Delivers by the House, requesting information from the President, and heads of deor 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.]

&c., to the House

Committee

the

on

He shall refer all drawings, maps, charts, or other Shall refer maps, papers, which may at any time come before the House members of for engraving, lithographing, or publishing in any way, Printing. to the members of the Committee on Printing on the part of the House.-Rule 100.

He shall prepare and cause to be delivered to each 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 prepare list

of reports to be

made by officers

of government.

Shall send cop.

ies of the Journal

to States.

vertisements

in

Columbia and oth

He shall, at the end of each session, send a printed copy of the Journals of the House to the executive, and to each branch of the legislature, of every State.-Rule 14. By the act of July 20, 1868, it is provided that the In regard to adprovisions of section ten of an act "making appropriations the District of for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year er places. ending June thirtieth, 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.

Shall put decis

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 sixtyseven, 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 provision 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.-Sess. laws (2d sess. 40th Cong.) p. 82.

He shall note all questions of order, with the decision, of order at end of and put them together at the end of the Journal of every

ions of questions

Journal.

Shall enter notices of bills.

Shall certify bills which pass.

all

Shall sign House bills which pass.

Shall enroll and certify House bills,

both houses.

session-Rule 15.

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

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

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

He shall enroll on parchment all House bills which shall &c., which pass have passed both houses.-Joint Rule 6. And shall certify on the back of the roll that the bill originated in the House of Representatives.-Joint Rule 9. 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.

Entry of amendments in committee.

Shall distribute

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 Journal and index session of Congress, cause to be completed the printing

to members within

adjournment.

and primary distributions, to members and delegates, of thirty days after the Journal of the House, together with an accurate index to the same.-Rule 16.

library two copies

He shall retain in the library of his office, for the user shall retain in of the members there, two copies of all the books and of all public docuprinted documents deposited in the library.-Rule 17.

ments.

one bound copy of

each member.

ly statement

er's table.

of

He shall have preserved for each member of the House Shall preserve an extra copy, in good binding, of all the documents all documents for printed by order of either house at each session.-Rule 18. He shall make a weekly statement of the resolutions Shall make weekand bills upon the Speaker's table.-Rule 19. [This state- business on Speakment is printed and placed upon each member's table every Monday morning. There is, in like manner, placed upon their tables, every Friday morning, a statement on calendar also 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 state

ment of bills, &c.,

prepared.

sections of bills.

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

And also bills and joint resolutions.

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 He conveys mesfrom the House to the Senate are conveyed by the Clerk ate.

or one of his assistants.]

sages to the Sen

Clerk.

In addition to the foregoing, there are various other Other duties of duties appertaining to the office of Clerk, under the usage and practice of the House, which are discharged

by himself and his appointees.

esti

mates and dis

fund.

He prepares estimates of the expenses of the House of Prepares Representatives, and disburses the contingent fund of the burses contingent House, keeping accounts with the treasury of the United States of the various items of appropriation for that object. He also disburses the salary fund of the various Pays salaries. officers and employés of the House.

He keeps the minutes of proceedings in the House, Keeps Journal. and makes out, subject to the control of the Speaker, the Journal of said proceedings, in readiness for the same to be read at the next meeting of the House. He also

Keeps minutes of Committees of the Whole.

Reads.

Keeps the files.

Keeps bill-book.

Papers ordered to be printed, &c., endorsed, &c.

Engrosses bills and resolutions.

Enrolls bills and resolutions.

Petitions referred under rule.

prepares the index to the Journal at the end of each session.

He keeps the minutes of proceedings in Committees of the Whole; records all votes taken by yeas and nays, and prepares copies of the same for the printer of the Journal.

He reads all messages, bills, and other papers required by the House to be read, and calls the roll of members. He keeps the files of the House, preserving all petitions and other papers belonging to its archives, arranged alphabetically, and under the head of the Congress at which they were last acted upon.

He keeps a book in which are entered, numerically, the titles of all bills and joint resolutions; opposite which are noted, as they occur, all proceedings of the House thereon; also all proceedings of the Senate as they are reported to the House.

He places appropriate endorsements upon all papers presented in the House, and, after entering the same in books kept for the purpose, sends to the Government Printing Office all such as are ordered to be printed, and to the appropriate committee such as are referred without printing.

He engrosses upon paper all bills, joint resolutions, and resolutions of the House, and amendments of the House to Senate bills and joint resolutions which pass the House of Representatives, certifying the date of the passage of the same at the foot thereof.

He enrolls upon parchment all House bills and joint resolutions which have passed both houses, certifying upon the back that the same originated in the House, and then delivers them to the Committee on Enrolled Bills.

He journalizes all petitions and other papers handed to him under the 131st rule, and having endorsed them appropriately, takes them to the rooms of the proper committees, and there enters them in the committee books. He also keeps what is called the "Petition Book," in which is entered, alphabetically, each petition as presented, and the further action of the House thereon as it occurs.

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He keeps what is called the "Newspaper Book," in Newspapers. which are entered the accounts of members under the newspaper resolution, and orders from the publishers such newspapers and periodicals as may be directed.

He contracts for and furnishes to members all books Books. voted to them by the House, and keeps the accounts of the members for the same.

ments.

He distributes to members, governors, State legisla-Public tures, &c., all public documents (other than extra num bers) required by law, rule, or resolution to be distri. buted.

He purchases, keeps, and distributes the stationery Stationery. required for the use of the House. (See STATIONERY.)

He keeps the library of the House, in which are kept Library. copies of all documents printed by order of either house.

CLERKS OF COMMITTEES.

docu

which have leave

"No committee shall be permitted to employ a clerk Not to be employed without at the public expense without first obtaining leave of leave. the House for that purpose."—Rule 73. [Such leave is Committees usually granted to a portion of the committees, for a part to employ. or the whole of the session, as they may deem the service necessary; and four of the committees have permanent clerks, viz: of Claims, by resolution of February 18, 1843; of Ways and Means, by resolution of Febru ary 18, 1856; on Public Lands, by resolution of May 27, 1862; and on Appropriations, by resolution of December 12, 1865.]

COINAGE, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES, COMMITTEE ON.

and of what number.

There shall be appointed, at the commencement of each when appointed, Congress, a Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, to consist of seven members, and to this committee shall be referred all bills, resolutions, and communications to the House upon that subject.-Rule 148.

COMMERCE, COMMITTEE ON.

Duties of.

and of what num

There shall be appointed, at the commencement of when appointed, each Congress, a Committee on Commerce, to consist of ber. nine members.-Rule 74.

"It shall be the duty of the Committee on Commerce Duties of.