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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 23. 1895. 609 On THE SENATE Docunuivrs Ann Rnroucrs, BoUNn.—-To the Senate Library, fifteen copies; to the Library of Congress, two copies, and fifty copies additional for foreign exchanges; to House Library, iiiteen copies; to the superintendent of documents, five hundred copies, for distribution to State and Territorial libraries and designated depositories. These documents shall be bound in full sheep, and in binding documents the Public Printer shall give precedence to those that are to be distributed to libraries and to designated depositories: Provided, P~>·g¤1¤·>· That any State or Territorial library or designated depository entitled it£{§{f""?° °f °°"°"` to documents that may prefer to have its documents in unbound form, may do so by notifying the superintendent of documents to that effect prior to the convening of each Congress. · The remainder of said documents and reports shall be reserved by R¤¤¤rv¤<i methe 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 alter printing shall be delivered in unbound form to the superintendent of documents for distribution.' All of the ‘*usual number" shall be printed at one time. Sec. 55. There shall be printed of each Senate and House public bill g3*¤¤*·¤l>,¤P=‘¤¤*;**- and joint, concurrent, and simple resolution six hundred and twenty- m¤P,° M r°°° °` tive copies, which shall be distributed as follows: To Senate document gfgmsgygggi Pm_ room, two hundred and twenty-tive copies; office of Secretary of Senate, ammika. ’ fifteen copies; House document room, three hundred and eighty-five copies. There shall be printed of each Senate and House private bill two hundred and fifty copies, which shall be distributed as follows: To Senate document room, one hundred and thirty-five copies; to Secretary of Senate, fifteen copies; House document room, one hundred copies. The term private bill shall be construed to mean all bills for the relief of private parties, bills granting pensions, and bills removing political disabilities. All bills and resolutions shall be printed in bill Pri¤¤¤¤f Wk. ¤¤¤· form and unless specially ordered by either House shall only be printed when referred to a committee, when favorably reported back, and after their passage by either House. Sec. 56. There shall be printed in slip form one thousand eight hun- £*;:’tjigg;{°*~;‘1°¤*i¤¤· dred and ten copies of public and four hundred and sixty of private ' laws, postal conventions, and treaties, which shall be distributed as follows: To the House document room, one thousand copies of public and one hundred copies of private laws; to the Senate document room, tive hundred and fifty copies of public and one hundred copies of private laws; to the Department of State, five hundred copies of all laws; and to the Treasury Department, sixty of all laws. Postal conventions and treaties shall be distributed as private laws. Sec. 57. There shall be printed of the Journals of the Senate and gg::f“‘1° °‘ C"" House of Representatives seven hundred and twenty copies, which msmmuoa. shall be distributed as follows: To the Senate document room, ninety ,,£,fig;,;'§‘?°·°°°°·*"°‘°· copies for distribution to Senators, and twenty-five additional copies; to the Senate Library, ten copies; to the House document room, three hundred and sixty copies for distribution to members, and twenty-five additional copies; to the Department of State, four copies; to the superintendent of documents, one hundred and forty-four copies to be distributed to three libraries in each of the States and Territories tobe designated by the superintendent of documents; to the Library of Congress, twenty-tive copies; to the Court of Claims, two copies, and to the Library of the House of Representatives, ten copies. The remaining number of the Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives, consisting of twenty-five copies, shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, as the necessities of their respective offices may require, as rapidly as signatures are completed for such distribution. STAT-VOL Xxvm-——39