368 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



elude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, 

 and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters 

 transmitting such reports are necessary and relate entirely to the 

 transaction of the public business. 



Act January 12. 1895, c. 23, s. 94, 28 St:U. 623. 

 ACT MARCH 3, 1905, c. 1483. (33 Stat. 1156.) 



Restrictions on use of appropriations made for printing and binding, for illus- 

 trations, etc. 



* * * That hereafter no part of the appropriations made for 

 printing and binding shall be used for any illustration, engraving, or 

 photograph =i= * * i^ any document or report of any executive 

 dei)artment or other Government establishment until the head of the 

 executive department or Government establishment shall certify in a 

 letter transmitting such report that the illustration is necessary and 

 relates entirely to the transaction of public business. 



Act March 3. 1905, c. 1483, s. 1, 33 Stat. 1213. 



Tills i.s a proviso of tbe sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 190G, cited above. 



ACT MARCH 3, 1905, c. 1484. (33 Stat. 1214.) 



Restrictions on printing for executive departments. 



Hereafter no book or document not having to do with the ordinary 

 business transactions of the Executive Departments shall be printed 

 on the requisition of any Executive Department or unless the same 

 shall have been expressly authorized by Congress. 



Act Marcli 3, 1905, c. 14S4. s. 1. 33 Stnt. 1249. 

 Thi.s Is a provision of the deficiency ai>propriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1905. cited above. 



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PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



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



Department publications for distribution, ~" 



Skc. 58. * * * of all publications of the Executive Depar 

 ments not intended for their especial use, but made for distribution, 

 five hundred copies shall be at once delivered to the superintendent or 

 documents for distribution to designated depositories and State and 

 Territorial libraries. 



.\ot .Tanuary 12, 1S95. c. 23, s. 58. 28 Stat. 010. 

 Sale and distribution of documents by superintendent of documents. 



Sec. G1. * * * whenever riny officer of the Government having 

 in his cliarge documents published for sale shall desire to be relieved 

 of the same, he is hereby authorized to turn them over to the super- 

 iiiteudenl of documents, wlio shall receive and sell them under the 

 provisions of this section. * * * 1l^^ shall have general super- 

 vision of the distribution of all public documents, and to his custody 

 shall be commitled all documents subject to distribution, excepting 

 those printed for the special official use of the Executive Depart- 

 ments, Avhich shall be delivered to said Departments, * * * 



Act January 12, 1895. c. 23. s. 61, 28 Stnt. 610. 



Tlu' work of (listrlbiilion t)f piihlicatious in the departments is trans- 

 ferred It) the Public Trlnter by provisions of act August 23, 1912, c. 350. 

 Bet forth on p. 370, post. 



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