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 FORTY-NINTD CON GRESS. Sess. I. C11. 902. 1886. 255 For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings Allo¤¤)¤¤¤ ofonand debates, nine hundred and ten thousand dollars; and printing and P’°P“°**°°· binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recom-` mended to be done by the Committee on Printing, shall be so recommended in a report containing an estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of the amount and cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made (all reserve work shall be bound in sheep); and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress the printing of which is chargeable to this appropriation, shall cause the same to be carefully examined and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of public business; for the State Department, fifteen thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars; for the War Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars (of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General’s Office); for the Navy Department, sixty thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars (of which sum ten thousand dollars is appropriated for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office); for the Department of Justice, seven thousand dollars; for the Post- Office Department, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, eighteen thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, five thousand dollars; for the Supreme ~ Court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for the Court of Claims, fourteen thousand dollars; for the Library of Congress twelve thousand dollars; and for -the Executive Onice, three thousand dollars. And hereafter the scientific reports known as the monographs M on e graphs, and bulletins of the Geological Survey shall not be published until spe- wo-. Geological cific and detailed estimates are made therefor, and specific appropria- Sg{){,°F{;e5‘°*u‘°tP*i tions made in pursuance of such estimates; and no engraving for the §',,m§c,uy ,,?p,f,_ annual reports or for such monographs and bulletins, or of illustrations, printed for. sections, and maps, shall be done until specific estimates are submitted therefor and specinc appropriations made based on such estimates: Provided, That these limitations shall not apply to the current fiscal hmm. year, nor to any of the reports, mineral resources, monographs, or bul- Not to apply fo letins that may have been transmitted for publication to the Public P’°¤°¤° 6¤°¤l¥°*“· Printer prior to the passage of this act: Provided further, That all printing and engraving for the Geological Survey, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department, and the Signal Service shall hereafter be estimated for separately and in detail, and appropriated for separately for each of said Bureaus. And no more than an allotment of 0ne·half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended. _ To enable the Public Printer to com ply with the provisions of the law Leave m emzrauting fifteen days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government ployoegrggvogif- Printing Omce, ninety-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may 'igsl mg ‘ be necessary. _ _ _ For protection from destruction by fire of the Public Printing Office Protection of buildings and property, at Washington, District of Columbia, by the in- Prugtnsrig mg f f lo o troduction therein of such methods as the Architect of the Capitol and **8***** · the Public Printer may regard as most cdicient for the purpose, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.