THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Suss. I. C11. 91. 1852. 31 superintendent shall be a practical printer, versed in the various branches , , of the arts of printing and book-binding, and he shall not be interested Q°°lm°°°°”°‘ directly or indirectly in any contract for printing for Congress or for any department or bureau of the government of the United States. The first superintendent under this law shall hold his office until the commence- Term of 0mm_ ment of the thirty-third Congress, and the superintendents thereafter appointed shall hold their offices for two years, commencing with the first da.y of the session of each Congress. SEO. 3. And be it furzher enacted, That it shall be the duty of said His duties. superintendent torcceive from the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives all matter ordered by Congress to be printed, and from the several chiefs of departments and heads of bureaus all matter ordered by them respectively, to be printed at the public cxpcuse, and to.kecp 2. faithful account of the same, in the order in which the same shall be received, in e book or books to be by him kept_ for that purpose. Ho shall glelivcrsaid matter to the public printer or printers in the order in which it shall be received, unless otherwise ordered by the joint committee on printing. He shall inspect the work, when exccuted by the public printer or printers, and shall record in a. book or books, to be by him kept for that purpose, the dates at which the returns of said work are made and whether the same is executed in a neat and workmaulike manner, upon the paper furnished to the public printers by said superintendent, and the amount allowed by said superintendent for the said printing: It shall be his duty to supervise the execution of the public printing, to inspect the work when executed, and to see that the same is done with neatness and despatch; to report every failure or delinquency of duty on the part of the public printer, and fx·om.time to time to report the said dclinqucncies to the joint committee of Congress on printing. He shall issuehis certificate for the amount due to the ms cmmcm public printer for such work as shall have been faithfully executed, which of W¢·rk d<>¤¤, *0 oertiicatc shall be made payable to the public printer at the treasury ggfgwgé of the United States, and shall not be assignable or transferable by in- femble. dorsemeut or delivery to any third party. Said certillcate of the superintendent shall be a sufficient vouc cr for the comptroller to pass, and for the treasurer, upon the order of the second comptroller, to pay the same. Sm. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Pr<>1>¤¤¤1s f<>r said superintendent of the public printing to advertise annually in one Eggs? Q; gg; or more newspapers of general circulation in the cities of Boston, New superintendent. York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, New Orleans, Louisville, and Cincinnati, for the space of sixty days prior to the first of Decem— ber, for sealed proposals to furnish the government of the United States all paper which may be necessary for the execution of the public printing, of quality and in quantity to be speeiied in the said advertisements from year to year. He shall open such proposals as may be made, in p,·0p0S,,;S,b(,w the presence of the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House wd Whw ¤P¢¤~ of Representatives, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of De- °d' cembcr annually, provided a. Speaker shall have been elected, or as soon thereafter as za. Speaker shall be elected, and shall award the contract Cont¤mts,now for furnishing all of said paper, or such class thereof as may be bid for *“"“d°d· to the lowest bidder, whose sample, accompanying his bid, shall most nearly approximate to the quality of paper (size, weight, and texture all considered) advertised for by the said superintendent. The sample Smpg, to g,, oiferod with the bid accepted shall be preserved by the said superb- presmd M ¤ tendent, and it shall be his duty to compare these with the paper fur· mm ' nished by the public contractor; aud he shall not accept any paper from the contractor which does not conform to the sample preserved as aforesaid. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the public printing to deliver the paper for the printing of the United States upon
