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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 23. 1893. 605 Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, a sum of money not exceeding, Ame, p. ai. at any time, four—nfths of the penalty of his bond, to enable him to pay for work and material. . Sec. 29. Moneys received from sales of extra copies of documents, {§<*§·¤i1>=¤?r¤¤¤¤=l··¤- paper shavings, imperfections, waste gold leaf, leather and book-cloth amehd£c·3818,P·748' scraps, and for the sale of old and condemned material, shall be deposited by the Public Printer in the Treasury of the United States, and a detailed statement thereof shall be included in his annual report to Congress. Sec. 30. The Public Printer shall settle the account of his receipts Accounts. and disbursements in the same manner required of other disbursrng R‘S‘·“f’j_EEYj{·7‘“· otli cers. --·""°w ’W"""°””‘\—-. . Sec. 31. All printing offices in the Departments now in operation, mDg1;*"*¤*j¤° ,Q*’}3¢* 1 or hereafter put in operation, by law, shall be considered a part of the rnumim H ° l° Government Printing Office, and 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 irom the general I supplies of the Government Printing Office; and all paper and material Q • of every kind used in the said oiilccs for departmental 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 Prawn, ,' office in the Weather Bureau, or, to so much of the printing as is E‘°°""°"“‘ ; necessary to expedite the work of the Record and Pension Division of i the War Department nor to the printing office now in operation in the J 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 oublanks prepared Requisition for that purpose by the Public Printer, which shall be numbered con- _ secutively, and must be signed by some one designated by the head of f the Department for which the work is to be done, who shall be held f responsible for all work thus ordered, and who shall quarterly report to the head of the Department a classiiied statement of the work done, ‘ and the cost thereof, which report shall betransmitted to the Public _ Printer in time for his annual report to Congress. The Public Printer “°”°""’*‘“°“ °m"“" shall show in detail, in his annual report, the cost of operating cam! departmental office. Sec. 32. The Public Printer shall charge himself with, and be account- m$;g;g¤·°¤b*l**Y '°* able for, all material received for the public use. The foremen of print iaquiiasm. ing and binding shall make out estimates of the quantity and kind of mf§n§,g‘;f’°·“°““·l’·’“· material required for their respective departments, and file written requisitions therefor when it is needed. The Public Printer shall furnish the same to them on these requisitions, as required for the public service, and they shall receipt to him and be held accountable for all material so received. ` Sec. 33. If the Public Printer shall, by himself or through others, mP<=¤¤l*v *¤**l**¤¤*l· corruptly collude or have any secret understanding with any person ii. s., set. sm, it to defraud the United States, or whereby the United States shall be "“· "°°“‘°"· made to sustain a loss, he shall, on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction forfeit his office and be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not more than seven years, and fined in a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars. Sec. 34. Neither the Public Printer, chief clerk, foreman of print- t°£;_¤;*;_l*,;*€;g;° i¤· ing, foreman of binding, nor any of their assistants shall, during their p,s,,,.ec,3v¤¤,p.*:4; continuance in office, have any interest, direct or indirect, in the publ1— **¤*°¤‘°°· cation of any newspaper or periodical, or in any printing, binding, engraving, or lithographing of any kind, or in any contract for hirnishing paper or other material connected with the public printing,