Chapter 18.
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CHAP. 18.— An act to limit the cost, of indexing the Congressional Record.Mar. 31, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Index to Congressional Record limiting coat of. That, the Joint Committee on Printing be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to make the necessary provisions and arrangements for issuing the index of the Congressional Record semi-monthly during the sessions of Congress; that the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, directed to print and distribute the same number of copies of said semi-monthly index as be prints and distributes of the daily issue of the Record, and to the same persons and in the same manner; that the Public Printer shall employ such person to prepare said index as shall be designated by the Joint Committee on Printing who shall also fix and regulate the compensation Jo be paid by the Public Printer for the said work, and direct the form and *Proviso*.manner of its publication: *Provided, however*, That the rate of compensation allowed for preparing the said semi-monthly indexes, including also their compilation into a complete session index, shall not exceed, for each page of the printed Congressional Record, the average that it cost per page of the Congressional Record for compiling the session *Proviso*.index of the Forty sixth Congress: *And provided further*, That there may be employed and paid on said work, at times not interfering with their ordinary employment, persons who are also employed and paid in any other office or employment under the Government.
Sec. 2. 21 Stat,, 516. That the joint resolution approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, entitled “Joint resolution to provide for printing and distributing the index of the Congressional Record semi-monthly”, is hereby repealed. Approved, March 31st, 1884.