PUBLIC PRINTING. 365 



inting, binding, and blank books for executive departments. 

 8ec. 87. All printintr, biiuliiiir, mid blank books * * * for the 

 xecutive * * * Departments shall be done at the Government 

 rinting Office, except in cases otherwise provided by law. 



Act Jjuiunry 12, lS9r>. c. 23. s. 87. 28 Stat. 022. 

 This section supersedes IJev. St. sec. 3786. 



:T JUNE 28. 1902, c. 1301. (32 Stat. 419.) 



ipplies for executive departments to be furnished by Public Printer. 



The Public Printer is authorized hereafter to procure and supply, 

 1 the requisition of the head of any Executive Department or other 

 overnment establishment, complete manifold blanks, books, and 

 inns, required in duplicatinir processes; also complete patented 

 jvices with which to file money-order statements, or other uniform 

 ficial pajx'rs, and to charg^e such supplies to the allotment for 

 rinting and binding of the Department or Government establish- 

 ent requiring the same. 



Act June 28, 1902. c. 1301, s. 1, 32 Stat. 481. 



This is a paragraph of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1903, cited above. 



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



jpropriations for printing not to be exceeded; limitation on number of copies 

 of reports, etc.; annual reports of heads of departments and chiefs of 

 bureaus. 



Sec. 89. No printing shall be done for the Executive Departments 

 I any fiscal year in excess of the amount of the appropriation, and 

 5ne shall be done without a special requisition, signed by the chief 

 F the Department and filed with the Public Printer. 

 No report, publication, or document shall be printed in excess of 

 le number of one thousand of each in any one fiscal year without 

 ithorization therefor by Congress, except that of the annual report 

 F the head of the Department without appendices there may be 

 rinted in any one fiscal year not to exceed five thousand copies, 

 ")und in pamphlet form; and of the reports of chiefs of bureaus 

 ithout appendices there may be printed in any one fiscal year not 

 ) exceed two thousand five hundred copies, bound in pamphlet 

 )rm ; * * * 



Heads of Executive Departments shall direct whether reports made 

 > them by bureau chiefs and chiefs of divisions shall be printed or 

 at. 



Act January 12. 1895, c. 23, a. 89. 28 Stat. 622, 



A proviso of this section, here omitted, relatin,ii to the printing of the 

 monthly crop report and other reitorts and hull«»tins of the Department 

 of ApriVulture, and maps. etc.. and minor reports of the Weather Bureau, 

 is set forth on p. 24, ante. 



ES. MARCH 30, 1906. No. 13. Joint resolution to correct abuses in the public 

 printing and to provide for the allotment of cost of certain documents and 

 reports. (34 Stat. 82.5.) 



ppropriations chargeable with cost of printing and binding for executive 

 departments; estimate of cost of publications required by law, and applica- 

 tion of appropriation thereto. 



That hereafter, in the printing and binding of documents or reports 

 manating from the E.xecutive Departments, bureaus, and independ- 

 nt offices of the Government, the cost of which is now charged to the 



