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convenient, especially as it will then be possible to print the volumes uniform with 

 those of the report of the Centennial Commission, of which an edition of 5,000 

 copies has been published by order of Congress. 



The Public Printer, at my request, caused a careful examination to be made of the 

 manuscript and the illustrations, and reports as follows: 



Office of the Public Printer, 



Washington, D. C, January 9, 1883. 

 Sir: The estimated cost of 1,900 copies of the final report of the Centennial 

 Exhibition, estimated to make 1,544 pages, including 268 pages of photo-engraving, 

 printed on tinted paper, unboimd, will cost about $5,590.53, and each additional 

 1,000 copies, bound in two cloth volumes, about |1,532.43. 

 Very respectfully. 



Cadet Taylor, Chief Clerk. 

 Prof. S. F. Baird, 



Smithsonian Institution. 



Government Printing Office, Office of the Chief Clerk, 



Washington, D. C, January 12, 1883. 

 Dear Sir: Your favor of January 11 received, in which you ask if the estimate 

 sent you on the 9th instant includes the actual cost of making the engraving of the 

 268 pages, or only the presswork and paper. I beg to say that in the estimate sent 

 you we figured on 9,112 square inches photo-engraving, at 18 cents per square inch, 

 making a total cost of engraving $1,640.16. 



Very respectfully. Cadet Taylor, Chief Clerk. 



Prof S. F. Baird. 



From these it will be seen that the work will make three volumes of about 600 

 pages each, and that the regular edition of 1,900 copies will cost about $5,590, and 

 that each additional set will cost $1,532. The total cost, therefore, of the regular 

 edition of 1,900 copies, and of 5,000 extra copies, of three bound volumes each, will 

 amount, according to the estimate of the Printer, to $13,252.78. 



A considerable amount of careful clerical and other revision will l)e necessary to 

 prepare the manuscript for the use of the Public Printer, and to avoid unnecessary 

 expense and delay in his office I would therefore recommend an allowance of 

 $300 for this purpose as being strictly in the interest of economy and dispatch. 

 There is at present no one whose oflBcial business it is to do the very indispensable 

 work in question. 



In conclusion, I beg to submit the following suggestion, in the form of a joint reso- 

 lution, in regard to the publication of the report: 



"Besolred, etc., That there be printed and bound, in continuation of the series of 

 volumes heretofore published by Congress under joint resolution of June 20, 1879, 

 containing the final report of the United States Centennial Commission on the Inter- 

 national Exhibition of 1876, and uniform therewith, 5,000 copies of the report of the 

 board on behalf of the United States Executive Departments at said exhibition, 

 being the report which was submitted to Congress by the President of the United 

 States by special message of February 9, 1877, and again in his annual message of 

 December 3, 1877, of which number 3,000 copies shall be for the House, 1,000 copies 

 for the Senate, 200 copies for the Smithsonian Institution for distribution to such 

 foreign governments and others as made contributions from such exhibition to the 

 National Museum, 300 copies for the late members of said board, and 500 copies for 

 distribution by the late president of the Centennial Commission, the printing to be 

 done by "the Public Printer, under the supervision of the late chairman of said board, 

 upon whose order may be allowed by the Public Printer to the late secretary of the 



