to make full account the United States sion. the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Door- Doorkeeper keeper of the House of Representatives, to make out a of the property of full and complete account of all the property belonging in their posses to the United States in their possession, at such dates and at the expiration of their terms of service, as provi ded in section one of this act.-Acts 2d Sess. 41st Cong., p. 365 tracts from Jour. nal. Fees. ilege. He shall, on application, certify extracts from the Shall certify ex 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. Authority to frank mail matter is conferred upon the Franking priv Clerk, to cover all correspondence to and from him, and all printed matter issued by authority of Congress, and all speeches, proceedings, and debates in Congress, and all printed matter sent to him; his franking privilege to commence with the term for which he is elected and to expire on the 1st Monday in December following each term of office.-Stat. at Large, Vol. XII, pp. 708, 709. in Congressional Library. He may, with permission of the President of the Sen- May use books ate 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. stationery. shall transmit and bills to Court certain petitions of Claims. He shall advertise for proposals for furnishing sta- Shall advertise tionery for the use of the House of Representatives.-for proposals for Stat. at Large, Vol. V, pp. 526, 527.-(See STATIONERY.) By the act of March 3, 1863, he is required to transmit 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. By the act of March 2, 1867, (Sess. Laws, pp. 100, 101,) To select newsit is provided that it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Patien House of Representatives to select in Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, rebellion for publication of laws, &c. 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 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 provi sions; 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 advertisments hereafter to be made in said districts, nor shall any such publication or adver tisement 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: To designate and that all printing of any kind ordered by the exeprinting shall be cutive departments shall be executed by the Government printer, when practicable; and, if not, at such office as may be designated by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, at rates not exceeding the current rates for such printing. where executive executed in cer tain cases. papers in the othritories for publi cation of laws and treaties. By the act of March 29, 1867, (Sess. Laws, p. 266,) it is. To select newsprovided that so much of section seven of an act entitled or States and Ter "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 sixtyseven, 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. bers, &c., to be By resolution of February 16, 1867, he is directed to List of memfurnish the "Globe," at each session, a list of the mem- furnished to the publishers of the bers, with their post office address, and the number of Globe. their seats.-Journal, 2, 39, p. 405. The following duties are imposed upon the Clerk by the Rules of the House, viz: He shall attest all writs, warrants, and subpoenas is- Attest writs. sued by the House.-Rule 8. He shall enter upon the Journal, subject to the con- Enter petitions. trol and direction of the Speaker, such petitions and memorials as may be handed to him by members for reference.-Rule 131. upon the Presi departments. He shall cause to be delivered all propositions adopted Delivers calls by the House, requesting information from the President, dent and heads of 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 Shall refer maps papers, which may at any time come before the House members of the for engraving, lithographing, or publishing in any way, Printing. &c., to the House Committee on Shall prepare list of reports to cers of Govern 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 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. ment. Shall send cop. ies of the Journal to States. vertisements in lumbia and other places. He shall, at the end of each session, send a printed copy of the Journal of the House to the executive, and to each branch of the legislature, of every State.-Rule 14. In regard to ad- By the act of July 20, 1868, it is provided that the the District of Co- provisions of section ten of 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," 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 ap proved 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 se lected 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.-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. session.-Rule 15. tices of bills. He shall enter upon the Journal notices of bills which Shall enter nomay be handed in by members.-Rule 15. He shall certify a bill that has passed, noting the day Shall of its passage at the foot thereof.-Rule 127. certify hills which pass. He shall sign all House bills which have passed the Shall sign all House.-Joint Rule 5. House bills which pass. pass both houses. He shall enroll on parchment all House bills which Shall enroll and certify House shall have passed both houses.-Joint Rule 6. And bills, &c., which 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. ments in commit He shall enter on a separate paper all amendments Entry of amendadopted in Committee of the Whole to a bill or report.― tee. Rules 107, 109. [The 107th Rule refers to manuscript bills, having been adopted prior to the practice of printing bills.] Journalandindex .in thirty days af He shall, within thirty days after the close of each Shall distribute session of Congress, cause to be completed the printing to members with and primary distributions, to members and delegates, of the Journal of the House, together with an accurate index to the same.-Rule 16. ter adjournment. Shall retain in library two cop documents. Shall preserve one bound copy of all documents for each member. ly statement of He shall retain in the library of his office, for the use of the members there, two copies of all the books and ies of all public printed documents deposited in the library.-Rule 17. He shall have preserved for each member of the House an extra copy, in good binding, of all the documents 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 ment 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.] Speaker's table. on Wockly state ment of bills, &c., prepared. The number prefixed to the section of a bill, being Henumbers the merely a marginal indication, and no part of the text of sections of bills. |