110 ANNUAL KEPORl^ SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908. 



Sec. 3. That upon the request of the Secretary of State the Secretary of War 

 is hereby authorized to furnish free transportation on government transports 

 from San Francisco to Japan and return of all government exhibits and for 

 such officials or employees connected with the commission or in charge of any 

 or all government exhibits. 



Sec. 4. That the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of 

 any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of pay- 

 ing the salaries and all other expenses herein authorized and incurred in ascer- 

 taining the general plan of said National Exposition and the preparation and 

 report to Congress of the plan and extent of our proposed participation therein 

 and the estimate of the amount necessary to meet the expense thereof during 

 the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, to be immediately available. 



(Approved, May 22, 1908; Statutes, XXXV, 183.) 



STATEMENT OF TRAVEL ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the head of each executive department and 

 other government establishment at Washington to submit to Congress at the be- 

 ginning of each regular session a statement showing in detail what officers or 

 employees (other than special agents, inspectors, or employees, who in the dis- 

 charge of their regular duties are required to constantly travel) of such execu- 

 tive department or other government establishment have traveled on official 

 business from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia during 

 the preceding fiscal year, giving in each case the full title of the official or em- 

 ployee, the destination or destinations of such travel, the business or work on 

 account of which the same was made, and the total expense to the United States 

 charged in each case. (Approved, May 22, 1908; Statutes XXXV, 244.) 



AMENDING ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING, 



Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 

 America in Congress assemhled, That publications ordered printed by Congress, 

 or either House thereof, shall be in four series, namely : One series of reports 

 made by the committees of the Senate, to be known as Senate reports ; one 

 series of reports made by the committees of the House of Representatives, to 

 be known as House reports ; one series of documents other than reports of com- 

 mittees, the orders for printing which originate in the Senate, to be known as 

 Senate documents, and one series of documents other than committee reports, 

 the orders for printing which originate in the House of Representatives, to be 

 known as House documents. The publications in each series shall be con- 

 secutively numbered, the numbers in each series continuing in unbroken 

 sequence throughout the entire term of a Congress, but the foregoing provisions 

 shall not apply to the documents printed for the use of the Senate in executive 

 session : Provided, That of the " usual number," the copies which are intended 

 for distribution to state and territorial libraries and other designated deposi- 

 tories of all annual or serial publications originating in or prepared by an 

 executive department, bureau, office, commission, or board shall not be num- 

 bered in the document or report series of either House of Congress, but shall 

 be designated by title and bound as hereinafter provided, and the departmental 

 edition, if any, shall be printed concurrently with the " usual number : " And 

 provided further, That hearings of committees may be printed as congressional 

 documents only when specifically ordered by Congress or either House thereof. 



