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As usual, a considerahle number of requisitions for pi'inting and 

 binding were forwarded to the Government Printing Office upon 

 which work was either not undertaken, or, if undertaken, completed 

 only in part. The estimated cost of such uncompleted work for the 

 year ended June 30, 1919, was $119,117.21. This large "carry- 

 over" was due to the insufficiency of the appropriation to meet the 

 printing rccpiirements of the department. 



DETAILED STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES FROM THE REGULAR FUND FOR PRINTING 

 AND BINDING, BY CLASSES OF WORK, FOR EACH BUREAU. 



The following statement shows in detail the expenditures for 

 printing and binding for the various bureaus, divisions, and offices, 

 chargeable against the regular appropriation of .1^600,000. The classes 

 of work and the number of copies are given. 



The expenditures include, besides the charges for work ordered and 

 completed during the year, the final charges for work ordered in the 

 fiscal 3'ear 1918 but not completed in that A'ear, and the first charges 

 on work ordered in the fiscal year 1919 and completed only in part, the 

 final charges for which will be paid from the appropriation for 1920. 



The number of copies given is the number billed from the Govern- 

 ment Printing Office during the yeav. In some cases deliveries were 

 made in two or more lots, the early deliveries falling in one fiscal 

 year and the later deliveries in the succeeding year. For this reason 

 and because emergency publications charged to the food production 

 act and certain other acts are not included in this table, the num- 

 bers given here' do not agree entirely with the editions ordered, as 

 given in the table of publications issued during the year (pp. 9-10), 

 whicli includes emergency publications. 



Neither does the number of copies agree exactly with the number 

 received in the Distribution Section, which also includes emergency 

 publications. 



