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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 publication of advertisements, the accounts for 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 depart ment 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; To designate and that all printing of any kind ordered by the executive printing shall be departments shall be executed by the government printer, when practicable; and if not, at such office as may be desig nated by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, at rates not exceeding the current rates for such printing.

where executive

executed in certain cases.

To select newspapers in the other

tories for publica

By the act of March 29, 1867, (Sess. Laws, p. 266,) it is States and Terri- provided that so much of section seven of an act entitled “An tion of laws and act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the gov ernment for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes," approved March

treaties.

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 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.

By resolution of February 16, 1867, he is directed to 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.

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

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

He shall enter upon the Journal, subject to the control and Enter petitions. 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 by the House, requesting information from the President, 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.]

Delivers

Calls

upon the President

and heads of de

partments.

Shall refer maps,

Committee

the

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

100.

on

of reports to be

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

of government.

ies of the Journal

He shall, at the end of each session, send a printed copy of Shall send copthe Journals of the House to the executive, and to each branch to States. of the legislature, of every State.-Rule 14.

Shall put decis

ions of questions of

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

Journal.

Shall enter notices of bills.

Shall certify bills which pass.

Shall sign all House bills which

pass.

Shall enroll and certify House bills,

both houses.

-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 commit. tee.

Shall distribute Journal and index

thirty days after

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 session to members within of Congress, cause to be completed the printing and primary adjournment. distributions, to members and delegates, of the Journal of the House, together with an accurate index to the same.Rule 16.

library two copies

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

ments.

Shall preserve He shall have preserved for each member of the House an

one bound copy of

all documents for extra copy, in good binding, of all the documents printed by order of either house at each session.-Rule 18.

each member.

ly statement of

er's table.

Shall make week- He shall make a weekly statement of the resolutions and business on Speak- bills upon the Speaker's table.-Rule 19. [This statement is printed and placed upon each member's table every MonWeekly state- day morning. There is, in like manner, placed upon their on calendar also tables, every Friday morning, a statement of all the bills and

ment of bills, &c.,

prepared.

He numbers the sections of bills.

resolutions upon the calendar, designating whether in Committee of the Whole House or of the Whole House on the state of the Union]

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. 107. [He also gives num

bers 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 from the House He conveys mesto the Senate are conveyed by the Clerk or one of his assist- ate. ants]

sages to the Sen

Clerk.

In addition to the foregoing, there are various other duties Other duties of 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 officers and Pays salaries. employés of the House.

He keeps the minutes of proceedings in the House, and Keeps Journal. 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 prepares the index to the Journal at the end of each session.

of Committees of the Whole.

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

pre

He reads all messages, bills, and other papers required by Reads.

the House to be read, and calls the roll of members.

He keeps the files of the House, preserving all petitions and Keeps the files. 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 Keeps bill-book. 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 indorsements 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.

Papers ordered

to be printed, &c.,

indorsed, &c.

Engrosses bills and resolutions.

Enrolls bills and resolutions.

Petitions referred under rule.

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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 resolu tions 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 indorsed 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.

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

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

He distributes to members, governors, State legislatures, &c., all public documents (other than extra numbers) required by law, rule, or resolution to be distributed.

He keeps the stationery purchased for the use of the House, and furnishes the postmaster with such as he may from time to time call for for distribution to the members.

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

CLERKS OF COMMITTEES.

leave.

which have leave

Not to be em- "No committee shall be permitted to employ a clerk at the ployed without public expense without first obtaining leave of the House for Committees that purpose."-Rule 73. [Such leave is usually granted to to employ. a portion of the committees, for a part 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

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