Title 15, chap. 2. SEC. 1436. Any staff officer of the Navy who has perChiefs of Bu- formed the duty of a chief of a Bureau of the Navy Departreaus exempted ment for a full term shall thereafter be exempt from sea Mar. 3, 1871, s. duty, except in time of war. from sea duty. 10, v. 16, p. 537. of Bureau. Title 15, chap. 4. SEC. 1471. The chiefs of the Bureau of Medicine and Rank and title Surgery, Provisions and Clothing, Steam Engineering, and of certain chiefs Construction and Repair, shall have the relative rank of Title of Bureau Commodore while holding said position, and shall have Clothing chang. respectively the title of Surgeon-General, Paymaster-Gened to Supplies eral, Engineer-in-Chief, and Chief Constructor. of Provisionsand and Accounts. Mar. 3, 1871, s. 12, v. 16, p. 537. rank of commo When below SEC. 1472. When the office of chief of Bureau is filled by a line officer below the rank of commodore, said officer shall have the relative rank of commodore during the time he holds said office. dore. Ibid. Rank ofchiefs of Bureaus retired. Ibid. SEC. 1473. Officers who have been or who shall be retired from the position of chiefs of the Bureau of Medicine and Title of Bureau Surgery, of Provisions and Clothing, of Steam EngineerClothing changing, or of Construction and Repair, by reason of age or end Supplies length of service, shall have the relative rank of commo of Provisions and Accounts. dore. Title 15, chap. 8. SEC. 1565. The pay of chiefs of Bureaus in the Navy Pay of chiefs Department shall be the highest pay of the grade to which they belong, but not below that of commodore. of Bureaus. Ibid. Title 10. Clerical force. July 5, 1862, v 12, p. 510; July 2, SEC. 416. There shall be in the Department of the Navy: One chief clerk, at a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars a year, so long as there is no assistant secre1864, s. 4, v. 13, p. tary of the Navy, and at a salary of two thousand two 373; July 2, 1866, hundred dollars a year when there is an assistant secretary Mar. 3, 1871, s. 3, of the Navy. 8. 8, v. 14, p. 207; v. 16, p. 492; Mar. 3, 1873, s. 1, v. 17, p. 501. See notes 1 and 2. 2, 509. ment. Appointment, That the title "appointment clerk," office of the SecreNavy Depart. tary, Navy Department, provided for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year etc., clerk. eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby amended to The act here read: "Clerk in charge of civil employments and labor May 28, ch. 252 regulations at navy-yards, who shall also perform the duties (29) Stat. 16, of appointment clerk of the Navy Department, two thou"appointment sand two hundred and fifty dollars." referred to, 1896, appropriated for clerk, $1,800." Navy Depart State, War, and The President is hereby authorized and directed to desment building. ignate from the Engineer Corps of the Army or the Navy, an officer well qualified for the purpose, who shall be detailed to act as superintendent of the completed portions of the State, War, and Navy Department building, under direction of the Secretaries of State, War, and Navy, who are Commission for hereby constituted a commission for the purposes of the care care and supervision of build and supervision of said building, as hereinafter specified. Said officer shall have charge of said building, and all the ing. Note 1.-The legislative act of August 5, 1882, authorized the appointment of an Assistant Secretary from civil life. No appointment was made, and the provision was repealed March 3, 1883. (See act July 11, 1890, chap. 667, p. 254, authorizing appointment of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy.) Note 2.-Office of Naval Solicitor abolished. See act of June 19, 1878, chap. 329, 20 Stat. L., p. 205, which repeals part of sec. 349 R. S. See note under agents of Gov. engines, machinery, steam and water supply, heating, light- Superintendent. ing, and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and all other sec. 3614. Title, fixtures in said building, and all necessary repairs and alter- attorneys and ations thereof, as well as the direction and control of such ernment. force of engineers, watchmen, laborers, and others engaged about the building or the apparatus under his supervision; of the cleaning of the corridors and water closets; of the approaches, side-walks, lawns, court-yards, and areas of the building, and of all rooms in the sub-basement which contain the boilers and other machinery, or so much of said rooms as may be indispensable to the proper performance of his duties as herein provided. Office of the superintendent: One clerk class one; one Employees in chief engineer, at one thousand two hundred dollars; six ent's office. Superintendassistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; one captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; forty-five watchmen; one machinist, at nine hundred dollars; one skilled laborer, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; seventeen firemen; four conductors of the elevator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two assistant conductors of the elevator, at five hundred dollars each; sixteen laborers; one laborer, at six hundred dollars; and fifty-four charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, eighty-two thousand three hundred dollars. SEC. 3. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, and laborers provided for in this act, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each. SEC. 31. All printing offices in the Departments now in operation, or hereafter put in operation, by law, shall be considered a part of the Government Printing Office, and Pay of assist ant messengers. Department of Public Printer. fices to be under Proviso. Requisitions. shall be under the control of the Public Printer, who shall furnish all presses, types, imposing stones, and necessary machinery and material for said offices from the general supplies of the Government Printing Office; and all paper and material of every kind used in the said offices for departmenal work, except letter and note paper and envelopes, shall be supplied by the Public Printer; and all persons employed in said printing offices and binderies shall be appointed by the Public Printer, and be carried on his pay roll the same as employees in the main office, and shall be responsible to him: Provided, That the terms of this Act shall not apply to the office in the Weather Bureau, or, to so much of the printing as is necessary to expedite the work of the Record and Pension Division of the War Department nor to the printing office now in operation in the Census Office; but the Public Printer, with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing, may abolish any of these excepted offices whenever in their judgment the economy of the public service would be thereby advanced. All work done in the said offices shall be ordered on blanks prepared for that purpose by the Public Printer, which shall be numbered consecutively, and must be signed by some one designated by the head of the Department for which the work is to be done, who shall be held. responsible for all work thus ordered, and who shall quarterly report to the head of the Department a classified statement of the work done and the cost thereof, which Cost of branch report shall be transmitted to the Public Printer in time for his annual report to Congress. The Public Printer shall show in detail, in his annual report, the cost of operating each departmental office. ⚫ffices. Form and style of work. SEC. 51. The forms and style in which the printing or R.S, sec. 3790, binding ordered by any of the Departments shall be exep. 745, amended. cuted, and, the material and the size of type to be used, shall be determined by the Public Printer, having proper regard to economy, workmanship, and the purposes for which the work is needed. Sale of stereotypes, etc. SEC. 52. The Public Printer shall sell, under such regulations as the Joint Committee on Printing may prescribe, to any person or persons who may apply additional or duplicate stereotype or electrotype plates from which any Government publication is printed, at a price not to exceed the cost of composition, the metal and making to the Government and ten per centum added: Provided, That the full amount of the price shall be paid when the order is filed: Copyrighting And provided further, That no publication reprinted from such stereotype or electrotype plates and no other Government publication shall be copyrighted. Provisos. forbidden. Duplication. R. S., sec. 3794, p. 745. SEC. 53. The Public Printer shall examine closely the orders of the Senate and House for printing, and in case of duplication he shall print under the first order received. SEC. 54. Whenever any document or report shall be R. S., sec. 3792, ordered printed by Congress, such order to print shall sig p. 745, amended. nify the "usual number of copies for binding and distri Usual number of documents. bution among those entitled to receive them. tions. SEC. 58. Whenever printing not bearing a Congressional Department, number shall be done for any department or officer of the etc., publica. Government, except confidential matter, blank forms, and circular letters not of a public character, or shall be done for use of Congressional committees, not of a confidential character, two copies shall be sent, unless withheld by order of the committee, by the Public Printer to the Senate and House Libraries, respectively, and one copy each to the document rooms of the Senate and House, for reference; and these copies shall not be removed; and of all Distribution. publications of the Executive Departments not intended for their especial use, but made for distribution, five hundred copies shall be at once delivered to the superintendent of documents for distribution to designated depositories and State and Territorial libraries. SEC. 67. All documents at present remaining in charge Disposal of of the several Executive Departments, bureaus, and offices documents accumulating. of the Government not required for official use shall be delivered to the superintendent of documents, and hereafter all public documents accumulating in said Departments, bureaus, and offices not needed for official use shall be annually turned over to the superintendent of documents for distribution or sale. eris. SEC. 73. Of the Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and of Nautical Almathe papers supplementary thereto, one thousand five hun-nac and Ephemdred copies; one hundred copies for the Senate, four hundred for the House, and one thousand for distribution or sale by the Navy Department. The five hundred copies printed for Congress and the usual number shall be for the calendar year next following, and those for the Navy Department for the third year following. The Secretary of the Navy is also authorized to cause additional copies of the Ephemeris, and of the Nautical Almanacs extracted therefrom, to be printed for the public service and for sale to navigators and others: Provided, That all moneys received from sales of Proviso. the Ephemeris and of the Nautical Almanacs shall be depos ited in the Treasury and placed to the credit of the general fund for public printing. Sales. Naval Observa-. Of the Observations of the Naval Observatory, one thou-Observations, sand eight hundred copies; three hundred for the Senate, tory. seven hundred for the House, and eight hundred for distribution by the Naval Observatory, and of the astronomical appendixes to the above observations, one thousand two hundred separate copies, and of the meteorological and magnetic observations one thousand separate copies for distribution by the Naval Observatory. Of the Report of the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, one thousand five hundred copies of part Coast and Geodetic Survey. Session laws. one; two hundred copies for the Senate, six hundred copies for the House, and seven hundred copies for distribution by the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and two thousand eight hundred copies of part two; two hundred for the Senate, six hundred for the House, and two thousand for distribution by the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The Secretary of State shall cause to be edited, printed, published, and distributed pamphlet copies of the statutes Sale and distri- of the present and each future session of Congress to the bution of U. S. officers and persons hereinafter provided for; said distribuperintendent tion shall be made at the close of every session of Congress, Documents. as follows: statutes by Su To the President and Vice-President of the United States, two copies each; to each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress, one copy; to the Librarian of the Senate, for the use of Senators, one hundred copies; to the Librarian of the House, two hundred copies, for the use of Representatives and Delegates; to the Library of Congress, fourteen copies; to the Department of State, including those for the use of legations and consulates, six hundred copies; to the Treasury Department, three hundred copies; to the War Department, two hundred copies; to the Navy Department, one hundred copies; to the Department of the Interior, including those for the use of the surveyors-general and registers and receivers of public land offices, two hundred and fifty copies; to the Post-Office Department, fifty copies; to the Interstate Commerce Commission, ten copies; to the Department of Labor, five copies; to the Civil Service Commission, three copies; to the Department of Justice, including those for the use of the Chief Justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court and the judges and officers of the United States and Territorial courts, five hundred copies; to the Department of Agriculture, fifty copies; to the Smithsonian Institution, five copies; to the Government Printing Office, two copies; to the governors and secretaries of Territories, one copy each. After the close of each Congress the Secretary of State shall have edited, printed, and bound a sufficient number of the volumes containing the Statutes at Large enacted by that Congress to enable him to distribute copies, or as many thereof as may be needed, as follows: To the President of the United States, four copies, one of which shall be for the library of the Executive Mansion; to the Vice-President of the United States, one copy; to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress, one copy; to the Librarian of the Senate, for the use of Senators, one hundred copies; to the Librarian of the House, for the use of Representatives and Delegates, two hundred copies; to the Library of Congress, fourteen copies; including four copies for the Law Library; to the Department of State, including those for the use of the legations and consulates, three hundred and eighty copies; to the Treasury Department, including those for the use of officers of customs, three hundred copies; to the War Department, seventy-five copies; to the Navy Department, seventy-five copies. |