Chapter 43.
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CHAP. 43.— An act to amend section thirty-seven hundred and eighty of the Revised Statutes. Feb. 12, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, [R. S. 3780](/us/rs/s3780).Amended. That section thirty-seven hundred and eighty of the Revised Statutes be amended so as to read: " Public Printer to make contracts for lithographing and engraving, when.“When the probable cost of the maps or plates accompanying one work or document exceeds one thousand two hundred dollars, the lithographing or engraving thereof shall be awarded to the lowest and best bidder, alter advertisement, by the Congressional Printer, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Public Printing.
But the committee may authorize him to make immediate contracts for lithographing, or engraving whenever, in their opinion, the exigencies of the public service do not justify advertisements for proposals”. " Approved, February 12, 1883.