ments, beginning with the Fifty-third Congress, upon such plan as shall be approved by the Joint Committee on Printing; and the Public Printer shall, immediately upon its publication, deliver to him a copy of each and every document printed by the Government Printing Office; and the head of each of the Executive Departments, bureaus, and offices of the Government shall deliver to him a copy of each and every document issued or published by such Department, bureau, or office not confidential in its character. He shall also prepare and print in one volume a consolidated index of Congressional documents, and shall index such single volumes of documents as the Joint Committee on Printing shall direct. Of the comprehensive index and of the consolidated index two thousand copies each shall be printed and bound in addition to the usual number, two hundred copies for the use of the Senate, eight hundred copies for the use of the House, and one thousand copies for distribution by the superintendent of documents. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 62, 28 Stat. 610; 44 U. S. C., sec. 76.)

1970. Catalogue of Government publications.—A catalogue of Government publications shall be prepared by the superintendent of documents on the first day of each month, which shall show the documents printed during the preceding month, where obtainable, and the price thereof. Two thousand copies of such catalog shall be printed in pamphlet form for distribution. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 69, 28 Stat. 612; 44 U. S. C., sec. 77.)

1971. Documents in charge of departments to be turned over to Superintendent of Documents.-All documents at present remaining in charge of the several Executive Departments, bureaus, and offices of the Government not required for official use shall be delivered to the superintendent of documents, and hereafter all public documents accumulating in said Departments, bureaus, and offices not needed for official use shall be annually turned over to the superintendent of documents for distribution or sale. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 67, 28 Stat. 611; 44 U. S. C., sec. 78.)

1972. Reprinting documents required for sale.-The superintendent of documents is hereby authorized to order reprinted, from time to time, such public documents as may be required for sale, such order for reprinting to be subject to the approval of the Secretary or head of the Department in which such public document shall have originated: Provided, That the appropriation for printing and binding shall be reimbursed for the cost of such reprints from the moneys received by the superintendent of documents from the sale of public documents. (Mar. 28, 1904, 33 Stat. 584; 44 U. S. C., sec. 79.)

1973. Libraries of executive departments constituted depositories.-The libraries of the executive Departments, of the United States Military Academy, and the United States Naval Academy are hereby constituted designated depositories of Government publications, and the superintendent of documents shall supply one copy of said publications, in the same form as supplied to other depositories, to each of said libraries. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 98, 28 Stat. 624; 44 U. S. C., sec. 87.)

1973a. Documents and reports for foreign legations.-Documents and reports may be furnished to foreign legations to the United States upon request specifying those desired and requisition made upon the Public Printer by the Secretary of State: Provided, That such

gratuitous distribution shall only be made to legations whose Governments furnish to legations from the United States copies of their printed and legislative documents desired. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 75, 28 Stat. 620; 44 U. S. C., sec. 91.)

1974. Ownership of publications furnished officers for official use; free use in depositories.-Government publications furnished to judicial and executive officers of the United States for their official use shall not become the property of these officers, but on the expiration of their official term shall be by them delivered to their successors in office and all Government publications delivered to designated depositories or other libraries shall be for public use without charge. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 74, 28 Stat. 620; 44 U. S. C., sec. 92.)

1975. Exchange of documents.-Heads of Departments are authorized to exchange surplus documents for such other documents and books as may be required by them, when the same can be done to the advantage of the public service. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 95, 28 Stat. 623; 44 U. S. C., sec. 93.)

1976. Distribution of publications; mailing lists.-That no money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twelve, for services in any executive department or other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, in the work of addressing, wrapping, mailing, or otherwise dispatching any publication for public distribution, except maps, weather reports, and weather cards issued by an executive department or other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, or for the purchase of material or supplies to be used in such work; and on and after October first, nineteen hundred and twelve, it shall be the duty of the Public Printer to perform such work at the Government Printing Office. Each head of such executive department and other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, shall furnish from time to time to the Public Printer mailing lists, in convenient form, and changes therein, or franked slips, for use in the public distribution of publications issued by such department or establishment; and the Public Printer shall furnish copies of any publication only in accordance with the provisions of law or the instruction of the head of the department or establishment issuing the publications: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed as applying to orders, instructions, directions, notices, or circulars of information, printed for and issued by any of the executive departments or other Government establishments or to the distribution of public documents by Senators or Members of the House of Representatives or to the folding rooms and document rooms of the Senate or House of Representatives. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 92, 28 Stat. 623; Aug. 23, 1912, sec. 8, 37 Stat. 414; 44 U. S. C., sec. 95.)

1977. Departmental distribution of documents.-Government publications printed for or received by the Executive Departments, whether for official use or for distribution, shall be distributed by a competent person detailed to such duty in each Department by the head thereof. He shall keep an account in detail of all publications received and distributed by him. He shall prevent duplication, and make detailed report to the head of the Department. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 92, 28 Stat. 623; May 29, 1928, 45 Stat. 986; 44 U. S. C., sec. 96.)

PRINTING AND BINDING GENERALLY

1978. Government printing to be done at Printing Office.-All printing, binding, and blank book work for the Senate or House of Representatives and for the Executive and Judicial Departments shall be done at the Government Printing Office, except such classes of work as shall be deemed by the Joint Committee on Printing to be urgent or necessary to have done elsewhere than in the District of Columbia for the exclusive use of any field of service outside of said District. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 87, 28 Stat. 622; Mar. 1, 1919, 40 Stat. 1270; 44 Ù. S. C., sec. 111.)

1979. Same; exception. That hereafter such printing, binding, and blank-book work authorized by law, as the Public Printer is not able or equipped to do at the Government Printing Office, may be produced elsewhere under contracts made by him with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing. (Feb. 28, 1929, sec. 1, 45 Stat. 1400; 44 U. S. C., sec. 111a.)

1980. Illustrations and maps in documents and reports; orders for printing acted on within 1 year.-No document or report to be illustrated or accompanied by maps shall be printed by the Public Printer until the illustrations or maps designed therefor shall be ready for publication; and no order for public printing shall be acted upon by the Public Printer after the expiration of one year, unless the entire copy and illustrations for the work shall have been furnished within that period. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 80, 28 Stat. 621; 44 U. S. C., sec. 115.)

1981. No printing or binding unless authorized; style of binding.-No printing or binding shall be done at the Government Printing Office unless authorized by law. Binding for the Departments of the Government shall be done in plain sheep or cloth, except that record and account books may be bound in Russia leather, sheep fleshers, and skivers, when authorized by the head of a Department: Provided, The libraries of the several Departments, the Library of Congress, the libraries of the Surgeon General's Office, the Patent Office, and the Naval Observatory may have books for the exclusive use of said libraries bound in half Turkey, or material no more expensive. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 85, 28 Stat. 622; 44 U. S. C., sec. 116.) 1982. Certificate of necessity; estimate of cost.-When any Department, the Supreme Court, the Court of Claims, or the Library of Congress shall require printing or binding to be done, it shall be on certificate that such work be necessary for the public service; whereupon the Public Printer shall furnish an estimate of the cost by the principal items for such printing or binding so called for, after which requisitions shall be made upon him therefor by the head of such Department, the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice of the Court of Claims, or the Librarian of Congress; and the Public Printer shall place the cost thereof to the debit of such Department in its annual appropriation for printing and binding. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 93, 28 Stat. 623; 44 U. S. C., sec. 117.)

1983. Restrictions on use of appropriations for printing and binding for illustrations. That hereafter no part of the appropriations made for printing and binding shall be used for any illustration, engraving, or photograph in any document or report ordered printed by Con

gress unless the order to print expressly authorizes the same, nor in any document or report of any executive department or other Government establishment until the head of the executive department or Government establishment shall certify in a letter transmitting such report that the illustration is necessary and relates entirely to the transaction of public business. (Mar. 3, 1905, sec. 1, 33 Stat. 1213; 44 U. S. C., sec. 118.)

CONGRESSIONAL PRINTING IN GENERAL

1984. Printing of document not provided for by law.-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. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 2, 28 Stat. 601; Mar. 1, 1907, sec. 1, 34 Stat. 1013; 44 U. S. C., sec. 140.)

1985. Congressional Directory.-There shall be prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing a Congressional Directory, of which there shall be three editions during each long session and two editions during each short session of Congress. The first edition shall be distributed to Senators, Representatives, Delegates, the principal officers of Congress, and heads of Departments on the first day of the session, and shall be ready for distribution to others within one week thereafter. The number and distribution of such Directory shall be under the control of the Joint Committee on Printing. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 73, 28 Stat. 617; 44 U. S. C., sec. 149.)

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, BILLS, AND LAWS

1986. Congressional Record; number of copies to departments.-The Public Printer shall furnish the Congressional Record as follows and shall furnish gratuitously no others in addition thereto: * * *To the library of each of the Executive Departments, * * * one bound (Feb. 12, 1895, sec. 73, 28 Stat. 617; 44 U. S. C., sec.

copy. 183.)

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1987. Pamphlet copies of Statutes.-The Secretary of State shall cause to be edited, printed, published, and distributed pamphlet copies of the statutes of the present and each future session of Congress to the officers and persons hereinafter provided for; said distribution shall be made at the close of every session of Congress, as follows: * to the Department of Agriculture, fifty copies; * 1895, sec. 73, 28 Stat. 614; 44 U. S. C., sec. 195.)

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1988. Statutes at Large. After the close of each Congress the Secretary of State shall have edited, printed, and bound a sufficient number of the volumes containing the Statutes at Large enacted by that Congress to enable him to distribute copies, or as many thereof as may be needed, as follows: * to the Department of Agricul(Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 73, 28 Stat. 615; 44

ture, fifty copies; U. S. C., sec. 196.)

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EXECUTIVE AND DEPARTMENTAL PRINTING IN GENERAL

1989. Appropriations for printing not to be exceeded; limitation on number of reports; bureau reports. No printing shall be done for the Executive Departments in any fiscal year in excess of the amount of the appropriation, and none shall be done without a special requisition, signed by the chief of the Department and filed with the Public Printer. Of the annual report of the head of the Department without appendices there may be printed in any one fiscal year not to exceed five thousand copies, bound in pamphlet form; and of the reports of chiefs of bureaus without appendices there may be printed in any one fiscal year not to exceed two thousand five hundred copies, bound in pamphlet form. Heads of Executive Departments shall direct whether reports made to them by bureau chiefs and chiefs of divisions shall be printed or not. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 89, 28 Stat. 622; Mar. 3, 1925, sec. 4, 43 Stat. 1106; 44 U. S. C., sec. 213.)

1990. Number of copies to be printed of monthly crop report and other reports and bulletins.-The Secretary of Agriculture may print such number of copies of the monthly crop report, and of other reports and bulletins containing not to exceed one hundred octavo pages, as he shall deem requisite; and this provision shall apply to the maps, charts, bulletins, and minor reports of the Weather Bureau, which shall be printed in such numbers as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem for the best interests of the Government. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 89, 28 Stat. 622; 44 U. S. C., sec. 213.)

1991. Appropriations to which cost of printing and binding to be charged. 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