370 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Government elsewhere tlian at the Government Printing Office there 

 shall be supplied to the Library of Congress for its own use and for 

 international exchange sixty-two copies, except as such number shall 

 be enlarged to not exceeding one hundred copies by request of the 

 Joint Committee on the Library. 



Res. March 2. 1901, No. 16, s. 3, 31 Stat. 14G5. 



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

 Exchange of surplus documents. 



Sec. 95. Heads of Departments are authorized to exchange sur- 

 plus documents for such other documents and books as may be re- 

 quired by them, when the same can be done to the advantage of the 

 public service. 



Act Jnnu;iry 12, 1895, c. 23. s. 95, 28 Stat. 623. 

 Departmental distribution of documents. 



Sec. 92. Government publications printed for or received by the 

 Executive Departments, whether for official use or for distribution, 

 shall be distributed by a competent person detailed to such duty in 

 each Department by the head thereof. He shall keep an account in 

 detail of all publications received and distributed by him. He shall 



f>rovent duplication, and make detailed report to the head of the 

 )epartment, who .shall transmit the same annually to Congress. 



Act January 12, 1895. c. 23. s. 92, 28 Stat. 623. 



Tlu" work of distribution of publications iii the deiiarlnients is trans- 

 ferred to the I'ublic I'linter by provisions of act August 23, 1912, c. 350, 

 set forth below. 



ACT AUGUST 23, 1912, c. 350. (37 Stat. 360.) 



No expenditures for distribution of publications by executive departments, ex- 

 cept maps, weather reports, etc.; Public Printer to perform the work; 

 departments to furnish mailing lists and franks; Public Printer to furnish 

 copies of publications in accordance with law or instructions of heads of 

 departments; provisions not to apply to departmental orders, instructions, 

 etc., and circulars. 

 Sec. 8. That no money appropriated by this or any other Act shall 

 be used after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twelve, 

 for services in any executive de^)artment or other Government estab- 

 lishment at Washington, District of Columbia, in the work of ad- 

 dressing, wrap|)ing, mailing, or otherwise dispatching any publica- 

 tion for public distribution, except maps, weather reports, and weather 

 cards issued by an executive tiepartnient or oth'er Government es- 

 tablishment at Wasiiington, District of Columbia, or for the purchase 

 of material or supplies to be used in such work; and on and after 

 October lir.st, nineteen hundred and twelve, it shall be the duty of 

 the Public Printer to perform .such work at the Government Printing 

 Office. Prior to October first, nineteen hundred and twelve, eacE 

 executive de|)artuiont and other Goveriunent establishment at Wash- 

 ington, District of Columbia, shall transfer to the Public Printer such 

 machines, equipment, and materials as are used in addressing, wrap- 

 ping, nuiiling. or otherwise disjjatching publications; and each head 

 of su<*h executive department and other Government establishment at 

 Washington, Di-trict of Colinnbia, shall furnish from time to time 

 to the Public Printer mailing lists, in convenient form, and changes 

 (herein, or franked slips, for use in the public distribution of publics- 



