272 ACTS OF CONGRESS. 



DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



Resolutiou of the House of Representatives, Anj^ust 8, 1882. 



Resolved, That the 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 compile the hiws 

 and regulations now in force governing the printing and distribution of 

 pnblic documents; to prepare a tabulated statement showing the num- 

 ber of documents xmnted 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 rep( rt what 

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

 present such other information at their command relating to public 

 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. 



