272 ACTS OF CONGRESS. 



DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



Resolution of tbo House of Representatives, Anj^ust 8, 1882. 



Resolved^ That tbe Librarian of Congress, the Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and the Superintendent of Documents, Department 

 of the Interior, be and they^ are hereby requested to couipile the hiws 

 and reguhitious now in force governing the printing and distribution of 

 public documents; to prepare a tabuhited iStatemeut showing the num- 

 ber of documents printed by order of Forty-sixth and the tirst session 

 of the Forty-seventh Congress, and under general laws now in force, 

 and the disposition directed to be made of the same; and to repurt what 

 reductions should be made in the number of such documents, and to 

 present such other information at their command relating to i)ul>lic 

 documents as will tend to promote judicious legislation and submit the 

 draft of a bill to provide for the printing and distribution of documents, 

 and they shall report to the House at the beginning of the next session. 



