THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 287. 1866. 305 CHAP. CCLXXXVH. —An Ac! to further regulate the Printing of public Documents, July 27, 1866- and the Purchase of Paper for the public Printing. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter it shall be the Number of duty of the superintendent of public printing, in place of the reports of gQl;l;;€;5$g°“’ the executive departments ordered by the act of June twenty-five, dep,m,,,,,,,ts sud eighteen hundred and sixty-tour, to cause to be printed and bound twenty- dopumenfs to l>¤ five hundred copies of the annual reports of the executive departments, §ll§;;i£;;]i:_ with such accompanying documents as the heads of those departments 18s4,ch.155., may respectively select, but not to exceed three hundred pages for the V°l·Xlll~ P- 184- use of said departments, respectively. Src. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever papers relating to additiopzl of · · . · t · a ers re a in foreign adairs shall be communicated to Congress, accompanying the an- golgomign mgm nual message of the President, 1t shall be the duty of the superintendent accggupanylng of public printing to cause to be printed and bound, in addition to the ¤¤¤¤¤lm¤SS¤g¤· usual number, two thousand copies for the use of the members of the Senate, four thousand copies for the use of the House, and two thousand tive hundred copies for the use of the State Department, in place of the numbers ordered by the act of June twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-tour. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in the publication of the re- Statement of port of the Secretary of the Navy the detailed statement of offers for sup- ?g$;;)’ftsgfPp1’“ plies and of articles embraced in each class under contract be omitted, secretary of and in lieu thereof the Secretary of the Navy shall prepare and submit ¤=*V>’ l° be °¥¤ll°‘ with his report a schedule embracing the offers by classes, indicating such t°d’ &°° as have been accepted. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the su- Superintendperintendent of public printing, at the commencement of each session of ;:;nlgnp“,£l'sub_ Congress, to submit to the joint committee on printing estimates of the mit 95[?m3_t;gg1;() quantity of paper of all descriptions which will, in his opinion, be re- °°m*¤l**°° pf quired for the execution of the public printing during the coming year. iiolipsgergggged The joint committee on printing shall then fix upon a standard of paper Committee to ibr the different descriptions of congressional and executive printing, and 2; g§‘H§_*;‘;g“*`d it shall be the duty of the superintendent of public printing, under the kinds Ofpapcn direction of the joint committee on printing, to advertise in only two news- P¥<>p<>S=}lS B0 papers published in each of the cities of New York, Cincinnati, Boston, ’;;gg_g;*,g5;d Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washitigton, for sealed proposals to furnish the government of the United States with paper, of the quality and in the quantity specified in the advertisements, and it shall be the duty of the superintendent to furnish samples of the standard papers adopted by the Samples. committee to applicants therefor; the said sealed proposals to be opened Pwposals to before and the award of contracts to be made by the joint committee on Q3é’l;t‘;‘;‘;,l;g"°* printing to the lowest and best bidder for the interest of the government: mime by, com- Providcd, That the advertisement for sealed proposals for furnishing llllxggémscmcut paper shall designate the minimum portion of each particular quality of for proposals to paper required for either three months, six months, or one year, as the state what. joint committee on printing may determine; but when the minimum portion so specified shall exceed in any case one thousand reatns, the advertisement shall state that proposals will be received for one thousand reams Pro osals of or more: And provided _/ierther, That no proposals. shall be considered by ¥¤{¤§¤l;l¤¤l¤F°{S the joint committee on printing, unless accompanied by satisfactory evi- b;“c§;;5f;,;d_ dence that the person or persons making said proposals are manufactur- Equitable time ers of or dealers in the description of paper which they propose to fur- Y0 P6 allowed for nish: And provided jiert/ter, That, in awarding contracts, an equitable G1£_)g__;2l;;;:tS' period of time for filling the same shall be designated and allowed by the valid {mlm joint committee on printing, without whose approval no contract shall be ¤t>pF<>Y<>¢l by valid: And providedfurther, That it shall be the duty of the superintend- °°Km‘mi°' rt ent of public printing to include in his annual report to Congress a de- O,»s,?;;?nt;$,%? tailed statement of all proposals made and contracts entered into for the entto include purchase of paper. “'h“°‘ vox,. xtv. 20
