Chapter 2284. To amend an act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents
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CHAP. 2284.— An Act To amend an act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents. March 1, 1907. [[S. 8510](/us/bill/59/s/8510).] [[Public, No. 153](/us/pl/59/149).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public printing and binding.Vol. 28, p. 601, amended. That section two of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, be amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 2. Joint Committee on Printing, to remedy delays, etc. Paragraph 1. That the Joint Committee on Printing shall have power to adopt such measures as may be deemed necessary to remedy any neglect or delay in the execution of the. public printing and binding. “Par. 2. Reprinting bills, etc.Limit. The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives may order the reprinting in a number not exceeding one thousand copies of any pending bill or resolution, or any public law not exceeding fifty pages, or any report from any committee or Congressional commission on pending legislation not accompanied by testimony or exhibits or other appendices and not exceeding fifty pages, when the supply shall have been exhausted.
The Public Printer Authority required.shall require each requisition for reprinting to cite the specific authority of law for its execution. “Par. 3. Resolutions necessary for more than 1,000 copies. No committee of Congress shall be empowered to procure the printing of more than one thousand copies of any hearing or other 1013document, which shall be germane thereto, for its use except by simple, concurrent, or joint resolution, as hereinafter provided. “Par. 4. Orders for printing extra copies, otherwise than herein Extra copies.provided for, shall be by simple, concurrent, or joint resolution.
By simple resolution.Either House may print extra copies to the amount of five hundred dollars by simple resolution; if the cost exceeds that sum, the printing By concurrent or joint resolution.shall be ordered by concurrent resolution, except when the resolution is self-appropriating, when it shall be by joint resolution. Such resolutions, Reference to Committee on Printing.when presented to either House, shall be referred immediately to the Committee on Printing, who, in making their report, shall give the probable cost of the proposed printing upon the estimate, of the Public Printer; and no extra copies shall be printed before such committee has reported: *Provided*, That the printing of additional copies *Provisos.*Small orders.may be performed upon orders of the Joint Committee on Printing within a limit of two hundred dollars in cost in any one instance: *And provided further*, That nothing in this paragraph shall be held Cattle and Horse reports.Vol. 33, p. 584.to contravene the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered Eleven, approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four.
“Par. 5. The term ‘extra copies’ as used herein shall be construed Extra copies construed.Vol. 28. p. 608.to mean copies in addition to the usual number as defined in the Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and amendments thereto. “Par. 6. Either House may order the printing of a document not Estimates required with order to print documents.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 Replies from Departments, etc.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 Exception.in this paragraph relating to estimates shall apply to reports or documents not exceeding fifty pages. “Par. 7. The cost of the printing of any document or report hereafter Documents chargeable to Congress allotment.*Ante*, p. 825.printed by order of Congress which can not under the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered Thirteen, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, approved March thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, be properly charged to any other appropriation or allotment of appropriation already made, it shall, upon order of the Joint Committee on Printing. be. charged to the allotment of appropriation for printing and binding for Congress.
“Par. 8. Stationery, blank books, tables, forms, and other necessary Public Printer to furnish stationery, blanks, etc., to Congress.papers preparatory to Congressional legislation, required for the official use of the Senate and the House of Representatives, or the committees and officers thereof, shall be furnished by the Public Printer upon requisition of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively. This shall not operate Exception.to prevent the purchase by the officers of the Senate and House of Representatives of such stationery and blank books as may be necessary for sale to Senators and Members in the stationery rooms of the two Houses as now provided by law.
“Par. 9. Each Senator and Representative shall be entitled to the Binding for Senators and Representatives.binding in half morocco, or material not more expensive, of but one copy of each public document to which he may be entitled, an account of which, with each Senator and Representative, shall be kept by the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House, respectively.” " Publications by Congress.Vol. 28, p. 621, amended. Sec. 2. That section eighty-one of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, be amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 81. Par. 1. That publications ordered printed by Congress, Classification.or either House thereof, shall be in four series, namely: One series of Reports. 1014reports made by the committees of the Senate, to be known as Senate Reports: one series of reports made by the, committees of the House Documents.of Representatives, to be known as House Reports; one series of documents other than reports of committees, the orders for printing which originate in the Senate, to be known as Senate Documents, and one series of documents other than committee reports, the orders for printing which originate in the House of Representatives, to be known as Numbering throughout a Congress.House Documents.
The publications in each series shall be consecutively numbered in the order in which they are received, the number of each series continuing in unbroken sequence throughout the entire term of a Congress; but these provisions shall not apply to documents printed in confidence for the use of the Senate in executive session or Designation of Department annual reports, etc.to confidential hearings of committees. If the publication so ordered be an annual report or serial publication originating in or prepared by an Executive Department, bureau, office, commission, or board, it shall not be numbered in the document or report series of either House of Congress, but shall be designated by title, as hereinafter provided.
Usual number.Of all Department reports required by law to be printed, the usual number shall be printed concurrently with the departmental edition. “Par. 2. Binding reports for State and Territorial libraries. In the binding of Congressional numbered documents and reports, and Departmental publications furnished for distribution to State and Territorial libraries entitled by law to receive them, every publication of sufficient size on any one subject shall hereafter be bound separately, and receive the title suggested by the subject of the volume: and the others, if of a general public character, shall be arranged in convenient volumes and bound in a manner as directed by Minor reports unbound.the Joint Committee on Printing: and those not of a general public character shall be delivered to the depositories in unbound form and Exception.ten copies shall be bound and distributed as follows:
To the Senate library, three copies; to the House library, three copies: the Library of Congress, three copies, and to the office of the superintendent of documents, one copy.” " Sec. 3. Superintendent of documents.Expenses to be specifically appropriated for.*Post*, p. 1399. That after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, no part of the expense of the administration of the office of superintendent of documents shall be charged to any appropriation or allotment of appropriation for the public printing and binding, but shall be otherwise specifically appropriated for; and the administration of said office of superintendent of documents shall be under the direction of the Public Printer, as heretofore.
Sec. 4. Allotment to depositories, etc. That upon request of the superintendent of documents the Public Printer is hereby authorized and directed to either increase or diminish the number of copies of publications furnished for distribution, to designated depositories or State and Territorial libraries, so that the number of copies delivered shall be equal to the number of *Provisos.*Limit.libraries on the list: *Provided*, That the number thus delivered shall at no time exceed the number authorized under existing statute:
Modification. *And provided further*, That the allotment of live hundred and one copies furnished for distribution to libraries be increased or reduced, from time to time, as the redistricting of States or the rearrangement of depository lists under provisions of law shall demand, to such numbers as may be necessary to comply with the law: *And provided further*, Land-grant colleges.That all land-grant colleges shall be constituted as depositories for public documents, subject to the provisions and limitations of the depository laws.
Sec. 5. Order to lapse if whole number not ordered in two years. That in the printing of any document or report, or any publication authorized by law to be printed, or hereafter authorized to be printed, for distribution by Congress, the whole number of copies of which shall not have been ordered within two years from the date of the original order, the authority to print shall lapse, except as orders Subsequent editions.for subsequent editions may be approved by the Joint Committee on 1015Printing, and then in no instance shall the whole number exceed the number originally authorized by law.
Sec. 6. That section titty-nine of the Act approved January twelfth, Repeal provisions.VOL 28, pp. 610, 621, 624, 961.eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, and sections eighty-one and ninety-nine of said Act, and the amendment thereto in the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Statutes at Large, volume twenty-eight, page nine hundred and sixty-one, chapter one hundred and eighty-nine, and all other laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.
Approved, March 1, 1907.