102 REPORT ON EXCHANGES. 



lie hereby is, directed to print fifty copies, in addition to the rej^ular 

 ninnber, of all documents hereafter printed by order of either house of 

 Congress, or by order of any Deimrtiuent or Bureau of the Government, 

 and whenever he shall be so directed by the Joint Committee on the 

 Library one hundred co])ies additional of all documents ordered to be 

 l)rinted, in excess of the usual number ; said fifty or one hundred copies 

 to be delivered to the Librarian of Congress, to be exchanged, under 

 direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, as provided by joint 

 resolution approved March 2, 18G7." 



"Section 2. And be it further rcmJced^ That 50 copies of each publi- 

 cation i)rinted niuier tlie direction of any Department or Bureau of the 

 Government, whether at the Congressional printing office or elsewhere, 

 shall be plained at the disposal of tlie Joint Committee on the Library, 

 to carry out the provision of said resolution." 



By this joint resolution fifty extra copies are ordered from the Public 

 Printer of all executive as well as Congressional docuuaents, including, 

 Lst. The Congressional issue, journals, committee reports, and miscel- 

 laneous documents; 2d. The Annual lieports of the Executive Dei)art- 

 ments and the several Bureaus; and od. The Memoirs, Monographs, 

 and Special lieports published by the Executive Departments and the 

 several Bureaus. 



Owing to the failure of the Public Printer to coraplj' with those x)or- 

 tions of the law relating to the second and third series of the United 

 States official publications — the annual reports and the memoirs, mono- 

 graphs, and special rei)orts published by the Executive Departments 

 and Bureaus of the Government (although occasionally some few of 

 the works of these classes have been received) — a circular letter was 

 addressed by the Smithsonian Institution on the 15th of February, 1881, 

 to all the Departments and Bureaus of the Government, soliciting co- 

 operation in compliance with the existing law^s, so as to enable the Insti- 

 tution, as agent of the Government, to carr^' out the provisions of the 

 Congressional resolutions. 



Among the rei)lies received that of the honorable Secretarj- of State 

 says : 



" I have ventured to suggest to the Joint Committee on the Library 

 the desirability of a i)ermanent i>rovision for the priiiling of these de- 

 sired co})ies." 



On March 7, ISSl, Professor P>aird addressed a communication to the 

 ITon. John Sherman, chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, 



suggesting: 



" I would therefore ask you respectfully to consider the several enact- 

 ments upon the subject of international exchange with which this In- 

 stitution is charged, and that such supplementary legislation be pro- 

 vided as will enable us to surmount the difficulties referred to." 



Appended to this letter a list was given of the more important doc- 

 uments not furnished to the Smithsonian Institution, although they arc 

 included in the series included by Congress for exchange purposes. 



Among such documents tlie following may be mentioned (assuming 



