Chapter LXXIX. to provide for the Reporting and Printing of the Delates in Congress
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CHAP. LXXIX.— An Act to provide for the Reporting and Printing of the Delates in Congress.April 2, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatContract to be made for reporting, &c., the debates in Congress for two rears from March 4, 1871. the congressional printer is hereby directed to enter into a contract, in behalf of the general government, with Franklin Rives, Jefferson Rives, and George A.
Bailey, for the reporting and printing of the debates in Congress for the term of two years, on and from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, in accordance with a proposed form of contract from the said Rives and Bailey, submitted to and approved by the joint committee on public printing on the part of the Senate. Sec. 2. ThatAppropriation. for the purpose aforesaid there be appropriated and paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the accounts having been approved, as in previous years, by the secretary of the Senate and by the clerk of the House, or their representatives.
Sec. 3. ThatNo person to be employed as a reporter for the House without the approval of the Speaker.Proposals to be invited by advertisement, for reporting, &c., the debates of the 43d, 44th, and 45th Congresses.No debates to be reported, &c., at public expense after, &c., except, &c. [Last proviso repealed. See *Post,* p. 510.] no person shall be employed as a reporter for the House without the approval of the Speaker of the House: *Provided,* That it shall lie the duty of the joint committee on public printing to publish an advertisement once a week, for four weeks, in one newspaper in each of the cities of Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, St.
Louis, and San Francisco, inviting proposals in detail for reporting and for printing, together and separately, the debates of the forty-third, the forty-fourth, and the fortylifth Congresses, together or separately, and to rejvort all proposals which may be received before the designated day to Congress, at the earliest practicable date, with estimates, hereby directed to be made by the congressional printer, of the cost of reporting the debates and of printing them at the government printing office, accompanied by the recommendations of the joint committee ou public printing on all proposals and estimates so submitted; and that the bills for such advertising be paid in equal parts from the contingent funds of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: *And provided further,* That no debates shall be reported or published at public expense, after the close of the present Congress, except upon written contracts entered into therefor under the authority of Congress.
Approved, April 2, 1872.