Chapter 50. To amend the Act relating to the printing and distribution of public documents, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 50.— An Act To amend the Act relating to the printing and distribution of public documents, and for other purposes. January 20, 1905.[[H. R. 15225](/us/bill/34/hr/15225).][[Public, No. 17](/us/pl/34/17).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public printing.Reduction in number of reports, bills, etc.Vol. 28, p. 608, amended. That the Act entitled “An Act providing for the public printing and binding and distribution of public documents,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-live, be amended as follows:
That section fifty-four of said Act is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof as follows: “Usual number” of reports on private bills, etc., abolished.Copies to be printed.That hereafter the usual number of reports on private bills, concurrent or simple resolutions, shall not be printed. In lieu thereof there shall be printed of each Senate report on a private bill, simple or con-current resolution, three hundred and forty-five copies, which shall be Distribution.distributed as follows:
To the Senate document room, two hundred and twenty’ copies; to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; to 611the House document room one hundred copies; to the superintendent of documents, ten copies; and of each House report on a private bill, simple or concurrent resolution, two hundred and sixty copies, which shall be distributed as follows: To the Senate document room, one hundred and thirty-five copies; to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; to the House document room, one hundred copies; to the superintendent of documents, ten copies: *Provided,* That nothing contained*Provisos*.Binding reports in reserve volumes. in this Act shall be construed to prevent the binding of all Senate and House, reports in the reserve volumes bound for and delivered to the Senate and House libraries: *Provided,* That not lessReports on claims to be filed. than twelve copies of each report on bills for the payment or adjudication of claims against the Government shall be kept on tile in the Senate document room.
Sec. 2. That section fifty-five of said Act is hereby amended to readVol. 28, p. 60S. amended. as follows: " “Sec. 55. There shall be printed of each Senate and House publicPublic bills, etc.Copies to be printed. bill and joint resolution six hundred and twenty-five copies, which shall be distributed as follows: To the Senate document room, two hundredDistribution. and twenty-five copies; office of Secretary of Senate, fifteen copies; House document room, three hundred and eighty-five copies.
There shall be printed of each Senate- private bill, when introduced,Senate private bills. when reported, and when passed, three hundred copies, which shall be distributed as follows: To the Senate document room, one hundred and seventy copies; to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; to the House document room, one hundred copies; to the superintendent of documents, ten copies. There shall be printed of each House privateHouse private bills. bill, when introduced, when reported, and when passed, two hundred and sixty copies, which shall be distributed as follows:
To the Senate document room, one hundred and thirty-five copies; to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; to the House document room, one hundred copies; to the superintendent of documents, ten copies. The term ‘private bill’ shall be construed to mean all bills for the relief of private parties, bills granting pensions, bills removing political dis-abilities, and bills fol’ the survey of rivers and harbors. All bills andWhen bills are to be printed. resolutions shall bo printed in bill form, and, unless specially ordered by either House, shall only be printed when referred to a committee, when favorably reported back, and after their passage by either House.
Of concurrent and simple resolutions, when reported, and after theirConcurrent, etc., resolutions. passage by either House, only two hundred and sixty copies shall be printed, except by special order, and the same shall be distributed as follows: To the Senate document room, one hundred and thirty-five copies; to the Secretary of the Senate, fifteen copies; to the House dotmnient room, one hundred copies; to the superintendent of documents, ten copies.” " Approved, January 20, 1905.