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1867. time be directed by any joint Resolution of the said Houses, or in default of such Resolution, in such numbers as shall be directed by order of the Governor General in Council and to such Public Departments, Administrative Bodies and Officers, throughout Canada, as may be specified in any order to be for that purpose made from time to time by the Governor General in Council;

As to Bills assented to during and before the end of the session. Provided that when any Bill receives the Royal assent during and before the termination of any Session of Parliament, Her Majesty’s Printer shall, on intimation to that effect from the Secretary of State of Canada, cause distribution to be made of such number of copies thereof, to the same parties, and in like manner as is hereinbefore provided, in regard to the Acts of any Session.

List to be furnished of persons to receive copies. 11. The Secretary of State of Canada shall, within fifteen days after the close of each Session of Parliament, transmit to Her Majesty’s Printer a list of all the Public Departments, Administrative Bodies and Officers to whom such copies are to be transmitted as aforesaid, and shall also, from time to time, as occasion requires, furnish him with copies of all orders in Council made under the provisions of this Act.

If any copies remain, &c. 12. If after the distribution of the said printed Acts any copies remain in the hands of Her Majesty’s Printer, he may deliver any number thereof to any person by order of the Governor General, on notice thereof by the Secretary of State of Canada,—or to the Members of the Senate or of the House of Commons, on the order of the Speaker of the said Houses respectively.

How Statutes shall be printed and bound. Classification of Statutes. 13. The Statutes shall be printed in Royal Octavo Form, on fine paper, in Small Pica Type, thirty-two ems by fifty-five ems, including marginal notes in Minion, such notes referring to the year and chapter of previous Statutes, whenever the text amends, repeals or changes the enactments of former years; and shall be half-bound in Cloth with backs of White Sheep skin and lettered, with the exception of a certain number to be named by the Standing Committee on Printing which shall be bound in half-calf and gilt-lettered, and they shall be arranged for distribution in such manner either by the binding of the Public General Acts, and Acts of a local or private character in separate volumes, or by binding them together in the same volumes with separate indexes or otherwise as the Governor in Council may deem expedient.

Report by Printer as to number of copies distributed. And as to expense incurred by him. 14. Her Majesty’s Printer shall, before the opening of each Report by Session of Parliament, make a Report in triplicate to the Governor General, (to be by him laid before each House of Parliament within fifteen days after the opening of such Session), shewing the number of copies of the Acts of each Session which have 5