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• Voting:

  House and Committee of the Whole, 379-381

  Pairs, 382

  Yeas and nays, 381-382

• Congressional Record Index, 406-416

  Abbreviations and acronyms, 406-409

  Capitalization, 409-411

  Flush cap lines, 412

  General instructions, 406

  Punctuation, 411

  Roman and italic, 412

  Samples, 413-416

  Spacing, 409

• Congressional work:

  Back title, 428, 430

  Cover and title pages, 423-426, 429, 431-432

  Joint explanatory statement, 427

  Reports and hearings (2.39), 15, 417-432

• Consonants:

  A, an, before (5.16-5.19), 92

  Doubled (5.14, 5.15), 92

  Hyphen, to avoid tripling (6.7), 96

• Contents (15.20-15.30), 305-307

  Part of book (2.3i, 2.12), 10, 11

  Type (15.28-15.30), 306-307

• Contractions, apostrophe to indicate (8.11, 8.12), 195, 196
• Copy (see also Preparing copy):

  Blank pages, avoid more than two (1.15), 2

  Corrections marked (1.19-1.20), 2

  Covers to be indicated (1.13), 2

  Fold-ins, avoid use of (1.14), 2

  Folioing looseleaf or perforated work (1.12), 2

  Footnote references (1.7), 1

  Illustrations:

  Instructions (1.8), 1

  Position (1.8), 1

  Separate sheets (1.8), 1

  Legible (1.2), 1

  Numbering (1.3), 1

  Paper stock (1.16), 2, 3

  Paragraph, begin with (1.4), 1

  Proofreader's marks (1.22), 4-5

  Proper names, signatures, etc., plainly marked (1.5), 1

  Reprint, in duplicate (1.3), 1

  Style sheets furnished (1.11), 2

  Trim size (1.11, 1.17), 2

  Typewritten, one side only (1.3), 1

• Corrections:

  Author's (1.19-1.20), 2

  Proofreading (2.79-2.80), 19

• Counties and geographic divisions, 348-369

  Common misspellings, 369-370

• Cover:

  Kind to be indicated (1.13, 2.5), 2, 10

  Report sample, 8

• Crown (3.35), 37-38, 54
• Currency (see also Money), 334-338

 

• D
• Dagger (13.68-13.69, 15.14), 290, 304
• Dash (8.60-8.75), 204-206

  Em dash (8.60-8.70), 204-205

  En dash (8.72-8.75), 206

  Figures, letters (8.72-8.73, 9.12, 12.7), 206, 223, 270

  Not to be used for and (8.75), 206

  Not to be used for to (8.74, 13.111), 206,295

  Proportion (8.32), 199

• Date columns (see Tabular work).
• Datelines, Addresses, and Signatures (16.1-16.28), 309-319
• Dates:

  Abbreviations (9.44-9.46, 13.5), 233, 281

  A.D., B.C. (8.52, 12.9c), 203, 271

  Commas with (8.49, 8.52, 12.9c), 202, 203,271

  En dash (8.73-8.75, 12.9c), 206, 271

  Ordinals in (12.10), 274

  Roman numerals (12.29), 280

  Tabular work (13.5), 281