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 612 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 23. 1895. document, and hereafter all public documents accumulating in said Departments, bureaus, and offices not needed for official use shall be annually tupned over to the superintendent of documents for distriution or sa e. u d°°· Sec. 68. Whenever in the division among Senators, Representatives, zmmmmou. and Delegates of documents printed for the use of Congress there shall be an apportionment to each or either House in round numbers, the Public Printer shall not deliver the full number so accredited at the respective folding rooms, but only the largest multiple of the number constituting the full membership of each or either House, including the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and Clerk and Doorkeeper of the House, which shall be contained in the round numbers thus accredited to each or either House, so that the number delivered shall divide evenly and without remainder among the members of the House to which they are delivered; and the remainder of all documents thus resulting shall be turned over to the superintendent of documents, to be distributed by_him, first, to public and schoollibraries for the purpose of completing broken sets; second, to public and school libraries that have not been supplied with any portion of such sets; and, lastly, by sale to other persons; said libraries to be named to him by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress; and in this distribution the superintendent of documents shall ee that as far as practicable an equal allowance is made to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate. _ I ngzgow ¤f Publi- Sec. 69. catalogue of Government publications shall be prepared by the superintendent of documents on the first day of each month, which shall show the documents printed during the preceding month, where obtainable, and the price thereofl Two thousand copies of such _ _ catalogue shall be printed m pamphlet form for distribution. _ _ p£:;1s;;m¤¤¤¤ ¤f¤¤ Sec. 70. El‘he_supe1-mtendent of documents shall thoroughly investigate the condition of all libraries that are now designated depositories, and whenever he shall ascertain that the number of books in any such library, other than college libraries, is below one thousand, other than Government publications, or it has ceased to be maintained as a public library, he shall strike the same from the list, and the Senator, Representéuége, ordDelegate shall designate another depository that shall mee e con itions herein required. _t§‘:L§({¤,§0*:;;j¤•· Sw- Srzc. 71. There shall be one folding room of the Senate and one fold- ‘ ing room of the House of Representatives. They shall be in charge of superintendents, appointed respectively by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and Doorkeeper of the House, who shall also appoint the mgiganuung mm. necessary assistants. _All reports or documents to be distributed for Senators, Representatives, and Delegates shall be folded and distributed from the folding rooms, unless otherwise ordered and each Senator, Representative and Delegate shall be notified in writing once every sixty days of the number and character of publications on hand and assigned to him for use and distribution. mg*:_P;•;:}°sgf),, fsf-}: Sec. 72. Any Senator, Representative, or Delegate having public documents to his credit at the expiration of his term of office shall takethe same prior to the convening of the next succeeding Congress, and if he shalilfinot do so within such period he shall forfeit them to his successor in office. m_{j;fs’j °°P*°° °* "°°· Sec. 7 3. Extra copies of documents and reports shall be printed mgsmbu- and moe. promptly when the same shall be ready for publication, and shall be ‘ bound in paper or cloth as directed by the Joint Committee on Print. in g, baud shall be of the number following in addition to the usual · num er: The Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture shall hereafter be submitted and printed m two parts, as follows: Part one, which shall contain purely business and executive matter which it is necessary for the Secretary to submit to the President and Congress; part two, which