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, and there shall be no free distribution of such charts except to the 

 k Departments and officers of the United States requiring them for 

 public use; * * * 



Act Jaminry 12, 1895. c. 23, s. 76, 28 Stat. 620. 



RES. FEBRUARY 18, 1897, No. 13. Joint resohitiou i)rovi(ling for the di.stribu- 

 tioii of fhe maps ami atlases of the United States Geological Survey (*><) 

 Stat. 701.) 



Topographic and geologic maps and atlases; distribution. 



Il That the Director of the Geological Survey be, and is hereby, au- 

 ■ thorized and directed, on the approval of the Secretary of the 

 Interior, to dispose of the topographic and geologic maps and atlases 

 of the United States, made and published by the Geological Survey, 

 |) at such prices and under such regulations as may from time to time 

 be fixed by him and ajjproved by the Secretary of the Interior; and 

 that a number of copies of each map or atlas, * * * shall be 

 I distributed gratuitously amon^ * * =(= Departments of our own 

 \) Government, to literary and scientific associations, and to such educa- 

 tional institutions or libraries as may be designated by the Dii-ector 

 i , of the Survey and approved b}'^ the Secretary of the Interior. 



H Res. FelM-nary 18, 1897, No. 13, s. 1, 29 Stat. 701. 



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



Ownership of publications furnished officers for official use; free use of public 

 J actions in depositories. 



' Sec. 74. Government publications furnished to judicial and execu.- 

 tive officers of the United States for their official use shall not become 



' the property of these officers, but on the expiration of their official 

 term shall be by them delivered to their successors in office and all 

 Government publications delivered to designated depositories or other 



' libraries shall be for public use without charge. 



' Act .January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 74, 28 Stat. 620. 



I REV. ST. SEC. 1779. 

 Restriction upon payments for newspapers, etc. 



! Sec. 1770. No executive officer, other than the heads of Depart- 

 ments, shall apply more than thirty dollars, annually, out of the con- 

 1 tingent fund under his control, to pay for newspapers, pamphlets, 

 j periodicals, or other books or prints not necessary for the business of 

 j his office. 



i REV. ST. SEC. 192. 



Limit on expenditures for newspapers; preservation of files. 



Sec. 192. The amount expended in any one year for newspapers, 

 for any Department, * * * shall not exceed one hundred dollars. 

 And all newspapers purchased with the public money for the use of 

 eitljer of the Departments must be praserved as files for such De- 

 partment. 



!< ACT JUNE 22, 1906, c. 3514. (34 Stat. 389.) 

 Repeal, in part, of Rev. St. sec. 192. 



Sec. 7. So much of section one hundred and ninety-two of the Re- 

 vised Statutes of the United States as requires newspapers purchased 



