366 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



allotment for printing and binding for Congress, or to appropriation? 

 or allotments of appropriations other than those made to the Execu- 

 tive Departments, bureaus, or independent offices of the Government. 

 the cost of illustrations, composition, stereotyping, and other work- 

 involved in the actual preparation for printing, apart from the ci-ea- 

 tion of manuscript, shall be charged to the appropriation or allotment 

 of appropriation for the printing and binding of the Department, 

 bureau, or independent office of the Government in which such docu- 

 ments or reports originate; the balance of cost shall be charged to 

 the allotment for printing and binding for Congress, and to th( 

 approjn-iation or allotment of appropriation of the Executive Depart- 

 ment, bureau, or independent office of the Government, in proportion 

 to the number delivered to each; the cost of any copies of such docu- 

 ments or reports distributed otherwise than through Congress, or the 

 Executive Departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Gov- 

 ernment, if such there be, shall be charged as heretofore: Provided. 

 That on or before the first day of December in each fiscal year each 

 Executive Department, bureau, or independent office of the Govern- 

 ment to whicli an appropriatiftn or allotment of appropriation for 

 printing and binding is made, shall obtain from the Public Printer 

 an estimate of the probable ca^t of all publications of such Depart- 

 ment, bureau, or independent office now required by law to be printed, 

 and so much thereof as would, under the terms of this resolution, be 

 «harged to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation of the 

 Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government in which 

 such publications originate, shall thereupon be set aside to be applied 

 only to the jn-iiiting and binding of sucli documents and reports, and 

 shall not be available for any other purpose until all of such allot- 

 ment of cost on account of such documents and reports shall have 

 been fully paid. 



This resolution shall be effective on and after July first, nineteen 

 hundred and six. 



Kcs. March 30. 1900, No. 13, 34 Stat 825. 



RES. MARCH 30, 1906. No. 14. Joint resolution to prevont unnocessury printing 

 and bimlin;; jind to cornHt evils in the j)resent method of distribution of 

 I»ui>lie documents. (34 Stiit. 826.) 



Documents and reports in tv/o or more editions; requisitions therefor; number 

 of copies limited to maximum authorized. 



That the Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized and 

 directed to establish rules and regulations, from time to time, which 

 .shall be observed by the Public Printer, wherein' public documents 

 and reports printed for Congress, or either House thereof, may be 

 printed in two or more editions, instead of one, to meet the public 

 requirements: Provided, That in no case shall the aggregate of said 

 edition-^ exceed the numlxM- of copies now authorized or which may 

 iiereafier 1h' authorized: .1//^/ proridcd further. That the number of 

 copies of any public document or report now authorized to be j^rinted 

 or wliieh may hereafter be authorized to be jn'inted for any of the 

 Executive Dejiartments, or bureaus or branches thereof, or inde- 

 ]K'ndent offices of the Government nuiy lie supplied in two or more 

 editions, instead of one, upon a requisition on the Public Printer by 

 the official head .of such Department or independent office, but in no 

 case shall the aggregate of .said editions exceed the number of copies 



