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■ions issued by such department or establishment; and the Public 

 Printer shall furnish copies of any publication only in accordance 

 with the provisions of law or the instruction of the head of the de- 

 partment or establishment issuing the publication. The employment 

 ot all persons in the several executive departments and other Govern- 

 ment establishments at Washington, District of Columbia, wholly in 

 connection with the duties herein transferred to the Public Printer, 

 or whose services can be dispensed with or devolved upon another 

 because of such transfer, shall cease and determine on or before the 

 first day of October, nineteen hundred and twelve, and their salaries 

 or compensation shall lapse for the remainder of the fiscal year nine- 

 teen hundred and thirteen and be covered into the Treasury. A de- 

 tailed statement of all machines, equipment, and material transferred 

 to the Government Printing Office by operation of this provision and 

 of all employments discontinued shall be submitted to Congress at its 

 next session by the head of each executive department and other 

 Government establishments at "Washington, District of Columbia, in 

 the annual estimates of appropriations: Provided., That nothing in 

 this section shall be construed as applying to orders, instructions, 

 directions, notices, or circulars of information, printed for and issued 

 by any of the executive departments or other Government establish- 

 ments or to the distribution of public documents by Senators or 

 Members of the House of Representatives or to the folding rooms 

 and document rooms of the Senate or House of Representatives. 



Act August 23. 1912. c. .S.W. s. S, 37 Stat. 414. 



These are provisions! of the legislative, executive, and judicial appro- 

 priation act for the fiscal year 1913. cited above. 



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

 Inserting " compliments " forbidden. 



No report, document, or publication of any kind distributed by or 

 from an Executive Department or bureau of the Government shall 

 contain any notice that the same is sent with "the compliments" of 

 an officer of tlie Government, or with any special notice that it is so 

 sent, except that notice that it has been sent, with a request for an 

 acknowledgment of its receipt, may be given. 



Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, 28 Stat. 620. 



Libraries of executive departments constituted depositories of Government pub- 

 lications. 



Sec. 98. The libraries of the eight Executive Departments * * * 

 are hereby constituted designated depositories of Government publica- 

 tions, and the superintendent of documents shall supply one copy of 

 said publications, in the same form as supplied to other depositories, 

 to each of said libraries. 



Act .January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 98, 28 Stat. 624. 



lEES. AUGUST 3, 1882, No. 63. .loint resolution requiring the Public Printer to 

 publish certain decisions of the First Comptroller of the Treasury Depart- 

 ment. (22 Stat. 391.) 

 Decisions of Comptroller of Treasury; distribution. 



That the Public Printer be, and is, required to print not more than 

 one volume each year of the decisions and opinions of the First Comp- 

 troller of the Treasury Department, with such explanatory matter 



