cised and performed by the Committee then in existence of either House.-28 Stat. L., p. 910.

The Joint Committee on Printing shall appoint a competent person, who shall edit such portion of the reports and documents accompanying the annual message of the President or made directly to Congress as they may deem suitable for popular distribution, and prepare an alphabetical index thereto.28 Stat. L., p. 617.

For other duties of the Joint Committee on Printing, see act of January 12, 1895, relating to public printing.-28 Stat. L., p. 601.

Hereafter the preparation of memorial addresses on deceased Senators and Members of the House of Representatives shall be done under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing without extra expense therefor.-28 Stat. L., p. 447.

If a resolution reported by the Committee on Printing authorizes, in addition to printing for the use of the House or Houses, printing for any other use, the privileged character of the report is lost.

Resolutions reported by the Committee on Printing, authorizing printing for the use of the House, or of the two Houses, are considered in the House when reported.-Journal, 1, 47, pp. 1728, 1729.

PRINTING, PUBLIC.

All documents referred to committees or otherwise disposed of shall be printed unless otherwise specially ordered.-Rule XLV, clause 1.

Motions to print additional numbers of any bill, report, resolution, or other public document shall be referred to the Committee on Printing; and the report of the committee thereon shall be accompanied by an estimate of the probable cost thereof. Unless ordered by the House, no bill, resolution, or other proposition reported by a committee shall be reprinted unless the same be placed upon the Calendar. Of bills which have passed the Senate, and of House bills as amended by the Senate, when referred in the House, there shall be printed four hundred copies.-Rule XLV, clause 2.

A resolution to print documents "to be distributed pro rata among the Members of the House" is a proposition to print "for the use of the House," and a report thereon is consequently privileged.-Journal, 1, 52, p. 292.

A bill regulating the printing for the use of the Departments, as well as for the two Houses, is not privileged under the rule. Journal, 1, 53, p. 80.

It is a violation of the rules of the House to print in the Record papers accompanying a message of the President, unless ordered by the House.-Journal, 1, 54, p. 133.

The following extracts are taken from the printing act of January 12, 1895 (28 Stat. L., p. 601):

Whenever any document or report shall be ordered printed by Congress, such order to print shall signify the "usual number" of copies for binding and distribution among those entitled to receive them. No greater number shall be printed unless ordered by either House, or as hereinafter provided. When a special number of a document or report is ordered printed, the usual number shall also be printed, unless already ordered.

The usual number of documents and reports shall be one thousand six hundred and eighty-two copies.

There shall be printed of each Senate and House public bill and joint, concurrent, and simple resolution six hundred and twenty-five copies.

There shall be printed of each Senate and House private bill two hundred and fifty copies.

There shall be printed in slip form one thousand eight hundred and ten copies of public and four hundred and sixty of private laws.

There shall be printed of the Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives seven hundred and twenty copies. The foregoing documents, reports, etc., to be distributed as follows:

The documents bound in full sheep are distributed as follows:

NOTE.-Under Rule XLV, 400 copies additional of Senate bills, and House bills with Senate amendments, when referred in the House, are printed.

The remainder of said documents and reports shall be reserved by the Public Printer in unstitched form, and shall be held subject to be bound in the number provided by law, upon orders from the Vice-President, Senators, Representatives, Delegates, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House, in such binding as they shall select, except full morocco or calf; and when not called for and delivered within two years after printing shall be delivered in unbound form to the superintendent of documents for distribution.-28 Stat. L., p. 609. Under the act of January 12, 1895 (28 Stat. L., p. 601) the following documents are authorized to be printed annually, and distributed as follows:

CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS, DISTRIBUTION OF.

Whenever in the division among Senators, Representatives, and Delegates of documents printed for the use of Congress there shall be an apportionment to each or either House in round numbers, the Public Printer shall not deliver the full number so accredited at the respective folding rooms, but only the largest multiple of the number constituting the full mem

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bership of each or either House, including the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and Clerk and Doorkeeper of the House, which shall be contained in the round numbers thus accredited to each or either House, so that the number delivered shall divide evenly and without remainder among the Members of the House to which they are delivered; and the remainder of all documents thus resulting shall be turned over to the superintendent of documents, to be distributed by him, first, to public and school libraries for the purpose of completing broken sets; second, to public and school libraries that have not been supplied with any portion of such sets; and, lastly, by sale to other persons; said libraries to be named to him by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress; and in this distribution the superintendent of documents shall see that as far as practicable an equal allowance is made to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate.-28 Stat. L., p. 612.

ORDERS OR REQUISITIONS.

All future orders or requisitions for printing or binding shall be governed by the provisions of this act; and all printing, binding, and other work incident to stationery or blank books required for the Senate and House of Representatives, or the committees and officers thereof, except such stationery and blank books as may be purchased by the officers of the Senate and House of Representatives for sale to Members in the stationery rooms of the two Houses, together with the material necessary to such work, shall be furnished by the Public Printer on requisition of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives respectively: Provided, That each Senator and Representative shall be entitled to the binding in half morocco, or material no more expensive, of but one copy of each public document to which he may be entitled, an account of which, with each Senator and Representative, shall be kept by the Secretary and Clerk, respectively: And provided further, That in printing preliminary reports and other papers for the use of committees no more than fifty copies shall be ordered unless expressly authorized by the Committee on Printing of each House, respectively.

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