PUBLIC PRINTING. Res. No. 13, of March 30, 1906, 572. Public Printing and Binding - Appropriations for, Res. No. 14, of March 30, 1906, 572. to Be Charged to Balance of Cost Public Printing Documents, etc., to Be Printed in Two or More Editions Maximum Copies - Requisitions on Public Printer - Allotments to Senators and Representatives Not Affected, 572. Act of June 30, 1906, Ch. 3914, 573 Sec. 2. Regular Annual Estimates for All Printing and Binding RequiredRestriction-Stamped Envelopes, etc., 573. Act of Feb. 26, 1907, Ch. 1635, 573 Sec. 1. Deputy Publ Printer-Duties of Office, etc., 573. Act of March 1, 1907, Ch. 2284, 573 Sec. 1. Public Printing and Binding, 573 Foint Committee on Printing to Remedy Delays, etc., 573- Extra Copies- By Simple Resolution By Concurrent or Joint Resolution Reference to Committee on Printing - Small Orders - Cattle and Horse Reports, 574 "Extra Copies" Construed, 574 Estimates Required with Order to Print Documents Departments, etc. - · Exception, 574 Documents Chargeable to Congress Allotment, 574 Public Printer to Furnish Stationery, Blanks, etc., to Congress - Excep tion, 575. Binding for Senators and Representatives, 575 2. (Publications by Congress - Repealed), 575. 3. Superintendent of Documents - Expenses to Be Specifically Appropriated for, 575. 4. Allotment to Depositories, etc. - Limit Modification - Land-grant Colleges, 575. 5. Order to Lapse if Whole Number Not Ordered in Two Years quent Editions, 575. 6. Repeal Provisions, 576. Joint Resolution No. 3, of Jan. 15, 1908, 576. Sec. 1. Printing for Congress, 576. 2. Binding Reports, etc., for State and Territorial Libraries, 576. 3. Repeal, 577 Act of May 27, 1908, Ch. 200, 577 Estimates for All Clerks, etc., in Printing Office to Be Submitted, 577. Act of March 4, 1909, Ch. 299, 577 Appropriation-Use of Fund-Emergencies — Report to Congress, 577. Machine Composition- Maximum Pay Per Hour, 577 CROSS-REFERENCES. Estimates of All Clerks, Employees, etc., see ESTIMATES, APPROPRIA TIONS, AND REPORTS. Printing in Indian Schools, see INDIANS. Joint Resolution To correct abuses in the public printing and to provide for the allotment of cost of certain documents and reports. [Res. No. 13 of March 30, 1906, 34 Stat. L. 825.] [Public printing and binding — appropriations for, to be charged to departments, etc., where documents originate-balance of cost- exception estimates of cost-effect.] That hereafter, in the printing and binding of documents or reports emanating from the Executive Departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Government, the cost of which is now charged to the allotment for printing and binding for Congress, or to appropriations or allotments of appropriations other than those made to the Executive Departments, bureaus, or independent offices of the Government, the cost of illustrations, composition, stereotyping, and other work involved in the actual preparation for printing, apart from the creation of manuscript, shall be charged to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation for the printing and binding of the Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government in which such documents or reports originate; the balance of cost shall be charged to the allotment for printing and binding for Congress, and to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation of the Executive Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government, in proportion to the number delivered to each; the cost of any copies of such documents or reports distributed otherwise than through Congress, or the Executive Departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Government, if such there be, shall be charged as heretofore: Provided, That on or before the first day of December in each fiscal year each Executive Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government to which an appropriation or allotment of appropriation for printing and binding is made, shall obtain from the Public Printer an estimate of the probable cost of all publications of such Department, bureau, or independent office now required by law to be printed, and so much thereof as would, under the terms of this resolution, be charged to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation of the Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government in which such publications originate, shall thereupon be set aside to be applied only to the printing and binding of such documents and reports, and shall not be available for any other purpose until all of such allotment of cost on account of such documents and reports shall have been fully paid. This resolution shall be effective on and after July first, nineteen hundred and six. [34 Stat. L. 825.] Joint Resolution To prevent unnecessary printing and binding and to correct evils in the present method of distribution of public documents. [Res, No. 14 of March 30, 1906, 34 Stat. L. 826.] [Public printing - documents, etc., to be printed in two or more editions — maximum copies requisitions on public printer-allotments to senators and representatives not affected.] That the Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized and directed to establish rules and regulations, from time to time, which shall be observed by the Public Printer, whereby public documents and reports printed for Congress, or either House thereof, may be printed in two or more editions, instead of one, to meet the public requirements: Provided, That in no case shall the aggregate of said editions exceed the number of copies now authorized or which may hereafter be authorized; And provided further, That the number of copies of any public document or report now authorized to be printed or which may hereafter be authorized to be printed for any of the Executive Departments, or bureaus or branches thereof, or independent offices of the Government may be supplied in two or more editions, instead of one, upon a requisition on the Public Printer by the official head of such Department or independent office, but in no case shall the aggregate of said editions exeeed the number of copies 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. [34 Stat. L. 826.] SEC. 2. [Regular annual estimates for all printing and binding required restriction — stamped envelopes, etc.] Hereafter there shall be submitted in the regular annual estimates to Congress under and as a part of the expenses for "Printing and binding," estimates for all printing and binding required by each of the Executive Departments, their bureaus and offices, and other Government establishments at Washington, District of Columbia, for each fiscal year; and after the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven no appropriations other than those made specifically and solely for printing and binding shall be used for such purposes in any Executive Department or other Government establishment in the District of Columbia: Provided, That nothing in this section shall apply to stamped envelopes, or envelopes and articles of stationery other than letter heads and note heads, printed in the course of manufacture. [34 Stat. L. 762.1 The above sec. 2 is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of June 30, 1906, ch. 3914. The [SEC. 1.] [Deputy public printer -duties of office, etc.] office of deputy public printer shall be filled by the selection and appointment by the Public Printer of a person skilled as a practical printer and versed in the art of bookbinding, and who shall perform the duties heretofore required of the chief clerk, have supervision of the buildings occupied by the Government Printing Office and perform such other duties as may be required of him by the Public Printer. [34 Stat. L. 943.] This is from the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act of Feb. 26, 1907, ch. 1635. An Act To amend an Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents. [Act of March 1, 1907, ch. 2284, 34 Stat. L. 1012.] [SEC. 1.] [Public printing and binding.] That section two of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, be amended to read as follows: The section here amended is given in 6 Fed. Stat. Annot. 644. "SEC. 2. PARAGRAPH 1. [Joint committee on printing, to remedy delays, etc.] That the Joint Committee on Printing shall have power to adopt such measures as may be deemed necessary to remedy any neglect or delay in the execution of the public printing and binding. "PAR. 2. [Reprinting bills, etc. - limit - authority required.] The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives may order the reprinting in a number not exceeding one thousand copies of any pending bill or resolution, or any public law not exceeding fifty pages, or any report from any committee or Congressional commission on pending legislation not accompanied by testimony or exhibits or other appendices and not exceeding fifty pages, when the supply shall have been exhausted. The Public Printer shall require each requisition for reprinting to cite the specific authority of law for its execution. "PAR. 3. [Resolutions necessary for more than 1,000 copies.] No committee of Congress shall be empowered to procure the printing of more than one thousand copies of any hearing or other document, which shall be germane thereto, for its use except by simple, concurrent, or joint resolution, as hereinafter provided. "PAR. 4. [Extra copies· by simple resolution - by concurrent or joint resolution reference to committee on printing · -small orders cattle and horse reports.] Orders for printing extra copies, otherwise than herein provided for, shall be by simple, concurrent, or joint resolution. Either House may print extra copies to the amount of five hundred dollars by simple resolution; if the cost exceeds that sum, the printing shall be ordered by concurrent resolution, except when the resolution is self-appropriating, when it shall be by joint resolution. Such resolutions, when presented to either House, shall be referred immediately to the Committee on Printing, who, in making their report, shall give the probable cost of the proposed printing upon the estimate of the Public Printer; and no extra copies shall be printed before such committee has reported: Provided, That the printing of additional copies may b performed upon orders of the Joint Committee on Printing within a limit of two hundred dollars in cost in any one instance: And provided further, That nothing in this paragraph shall be held to contravene the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered Eleven, approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four. "PAR. 5. ["Extra copies" construed.] The term 'extra copies' as used herein shall be construed to mean copies in addition to the usual number as defined in the Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and amendments thereto. "PAR. 6. [Estimates required with order to print documents — replies from Departments, etc. exception.] Either House may order the printing of a document not already provided for by existing law, but only when the same shall be accompanied by an estimate from the Public Printer as to the probable cost thereof. Any Executive Department, bureau, board, or independent office of the Government submitting reports or documents in response to inquiries from Congress shall submit therewith an estimate of the probable cost of printing to the usual number. Nothing in this paragraph relating to estimates shall apply to reports or documents not exceeding fifty pages. "PAR. 7. [Documents chargeable to Congress allotment.] The cost of the printing of any document or report hereafter printed by order of Congress which can not under the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered Thirteen, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, approved March thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, be properly charged to any other appropriation or allotment of appropriation already made, it shall, upon order of the Joint Committee on Print ing, be charged to the allotment of appropriation for printing and binding for Congress. “PAR. 8. [Public printer to furnish stationery, blanks, etc., to Congress exception.] Stationery, blank books, tables, forms, and other necessary papers preparatory to Congressional legislation, required for the official use of the Senate and the House of Representatives, or the committees and officers thereof, shall be furnished by the Public Printer upon requisition of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively. This shall not operate to prevent the purchase by the officers of the Senate and House of Representatives of such stationery and blank books as may be necessary for sale to Senators and Members in the stationery rooms of the two Houses as now provided by law. "PAR. 9. [Binding for senators and representatives.] Each Senator and Representative shall be entitled to the binding in half morocco, or material not more expensive, of but one copy of each public document to which he may be entitled, an account of which, with each Senator and Representative, shall be kept by the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House, respectively." [34 Stat. L. 1012.] SEC. 2. [Publications by Congress.] This section is repealed by sec. 3 of the Joint Resolution of Jan. 15, 1908, given infra, p. 577. SEC. 3. [Superintendent of documents-expenses to be specifically appropriated for.] That after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, no part of the expense of the administration of the office of superintendent of documents shall be charged to any appropriation or allotment of appropriation for the public printing and binding, but shall be otherwise specifically appropriated for; and the administration of said office of superintendent of documents shall be under the direction of the Public Printer, as heretofore. [34 Stat. L. 1014.] SEC. 4. [Allotment to depositories, etc.-limit-modification - landgrant colleges.] That upon request of the superintendent of documents the Public Printer is hereby authorized and directed to either increase or diminish the number of copies of publications furnished for distribution, to designated depositories or State and Territorial libraries, so that the number of copies delivered shall be equal to the number of libraries on the list: Provided, That the number thus delivered shall at no time exceed the number authorized under existing statute: And provided further, That the allotment of five hundred and one copies furnished for distribution to libraries be increased or reduced, from time to time, as the redistricting of States or the rearrangement of depository lists under provisions of law shall demand, to such numbers as may be necessary to comply with the law: And provided further, That all land-grant colleges shall be constituted as depositories for public documents, subject to the provisions and limitations of the depository laws. [34 Stat. L. 1014.] SEC. 5. [Order to lapse if whole number not ordered in two years — subsequent editions.] That in the printing of any document or report, or any publication authorized by law to be printed, or hereafter authorized to be printed, for distribution by Congress, the whole number of copies of which shall not have been ordered within two years from the date of the original order, the authority to print shall lapse, except as orders for subsequent editions may be approved by the Joint Committee on Printing, and then in no instance shall |