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 610 FIFTYTHIRD CONGRESS. Stmss. III. Ch. 23. 1895. D9v=·¤‘¤¤¤¤¤*· Mc-- Sec. 58. Whenever printing not bearing a Congressional number mmm""' shall be done for any department or officer of the Government, except coniidential matter, blank forms, and circular letters not of a public character, or shall be done for use of Congressional committees, not of a conhdential 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 Distribution. removed; and of all 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. f,*;¤s:gf*;,*g,_,,,5 Sec. 59. Orders for printing extra copies shall be by simple, concurp.vLs,`§m¤¤2isa.rent, or joint resolution. Either House may print extra copies to the amount of five hundred dollars by simple resolution; if the cost exceeds that sum, the printing shall be ordered by concurrent resolution, except when the resolution is self-appropriating, when it shall be by joint resolution. Such resolutions, when presented to either House, shall be referred immediately to the Committee ou Printing, who, in making their report, shall give the probable cost of the proposed printing upon the estimate of the Public Printer; and no extra copies shall . be printed before such committee has reported. gmk3g?'- Sec. 60. There shall be one document room of the Senate and one of the House of Representatives, to be designated, respectively, the “Sen- ' ate and House document 1‘00111.” Each shall be in charge of a superintendent, who shall be appointed by the Sergcant—atArms of the Senate and the Doorkeeper of the House, respectively, who shall also appoint m- the necessary number of assistants: Provided, That this section shall not take eifect until the iirst day of the tirst session of the Fifty-fourth Congress. S¤i»·>¤·i¤;¤¤¤d¤¤* wtf Sec. 61. The Public Printer shall appoint a competent person to act 2,°§,}}Y‘°“ s' °"°"“ as superintendent of documents, and shall fix his salary. The supermms. intendent of documents so designated and appointed is hereby authorized to sell at cost any public document in his charge, the distribution of which is not herein specically directed, said cost to be estimated by the Public Printer and based upon printing from stereotyped plates; but only one copy of any document shall be sold to the same person, excepting libraries or schools by which additional copies are desired for separate departments thereof, and members of Congress; and whenever any officer of the Government having in his charge documents published for sale shall desire to be relieved of the same, he is hereby authorized to turn them over to the superintendent of documents, who shall receive and sell them under the provisions of this section. All moneys received from the sale of documents shall be returned to the Public Printer on the first day of each month and be by him covered into the Treasury monthly, and the superintendent of documents shall report annually the number of copies of each and every document sold by him, and the price of the same. He shall also report monthlyto the Public Printer the number of documents received by him and the disposition made of the same. He shall have general supervision of the distribution of all public documents, and to his custody shall be committed all documents subject to distribution, excepting those printed for the special official use of the Executive Departments, which shall be delivered to said Departments, and those printed for the use of the two Houses of Congress, which shall be delivered to the tolding rooms of said Houses and distributed or delivered ready for distribution to Members and Delegates upon their order by the superintendents of the folding rooms of the Senate and House of Representatives. wig:;; ¢1¤•¤¤¤<=¤¤¤ Sno, 62. The superintendent of documents shall, at the close of each ' regular session of Congress, prepare and publish a comprehensive index of public documents, beginning with the Fifty-third Congress,