364 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



or maps designed therefor shall be ready for publication; and r 

 order for public printing shall be acted upon by the Public Print( 

 after the expiration of one year, unless the entire copy and illustr; 

 tions for the work shall have been furnished within that perio( 

 Provided. This section shall not apply to orders heretofore mat 

 for the printing of a series of volumes on one subject. 

 Act January 12, 189.5. c. 23. s. 80. 28 Stat. 621. 



RES. JANUARY 15. 1908, No. 3. Joint resolution amending an act relative 

 the public printing and binding, approved March first, nineteen hundred ai 

 seven. (35 Stat. 565.) 



Designation and binding of department publications ordered printed by Co 

 gress. 



That publications ordered printed by Congress, or either Hou 

 thereof, shall be in four series, * * * The publications in ea( 

 series shall l)e consecutively numbered, the numbers in each sori 

 continuing in unbroken sequence throughout the entire term of 

 Congress, * * * Provided^ That of the usual number, the copi 

 which are intended for distribution to State and Territorial librari 

 and other designated depositories of all annual or serial publicatioi 

 originating in or prepared by an Executive Department, burea 

 office, commission, or board shall not be numbered in the docume 

 or report series of either House of Congress, but shall be designat( 

 by title and bound as hereinafter provided, and the department 

 edition, if any, shall be printed concurrently with the " usu 

 number ; " * * * 



Ues. January 15. 1908. No. 3, s. 1. 35 Stat. 565. 



Previous siniiliir provisions were contained in section 2, act March 

 1907. c. 2284, 34 Stat. 1013. which section is expressly repealed by » 

 tion 3 of this act. 



ACT MARCH 1, 1907, c. 2284. (34 Stat. 1012.) 



Departments submitting reports or documents in response to inquiries frc 

 Congress, to submit estimate of cost of printing. 



Any Executive Department, bureau, board, or independent offi 

 of the Covernment sul)mitting reports or documents in response 

 inquiries from ('ongress shall submit thercAvith an estimate of t 

 probable cost of printint; to the usual number. Nothing in tl 

 paragrupli relating to estnnates shall apply to reports or documer 

 not e\o<M^(ling fifty pages. 



Act Marcli 1, 1007, c. 2284, s. 1. .^4 Stat. 1013. 



ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat 601.) 



No printing or binding unless authorized by law; style of binding for depa 

 ments. 



Sec. 8(). Xo printing or binding shall be done at the Governmc 

 Printing Oflice unless authorized l)y law. Binding for the Depai 

 ments of the Government shall be done in plain sheep or cloth, exce 

 that record and account books may be bound in Russia leather, she 

 Heshei's, and skivei-s, when authorized by the head of a Departmer 

 Proviflrd, The libraries of tlie several Departments * * * m 

 liiive books foi- the exclusive use of said libraries bound in half Ti 

 key, or material no more expensive. 



.\(t January 12. 1895. c. 23, s. 86. 28 Stat. 622. 



This section sui)ersodos Hev. St. se<'. 3785 and a provision of act Jn 

 20, 1878, c. -MA), s. 1, 20 St.it. 207. 



