FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 359. 1878. 207 PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the Printing, bindpublic printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceed- ingi ¤¤d Devel`- ings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Court of Claims, and the departments, and for the necessary materials or articles which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, one million two hundred and two thousand dollars; and out of the sum hereby appropriated, printing and binding may be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, namely: For printing and binding for the State Department, seventeen thou- pimqbuticn of sand dollars; for the Treasury Department, two hundred and twelve appropriation for thousand dollars; for the War Department, seventy-tour thousand dol- P“”*”“gi°t°· lars; for the Navy Department, fifty-three thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, one hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars; for the Agricultural Department, eleven thousand dollars; ior the Department of Justice, seven thousand dollars; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars; for the Post-Office, one hundred and eleven thousand dollars; for the Congressional Library, nineteen thousand dollars; for the Supreme Court of the United States, twenty thousand dollars; for the Court of Claims, ten thousand dollars; and for printing and binding for Congress, including the proceed- {nge and debates of Congress, five hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. And hereafter no binding shall be done for any department of the Binding, new and government exceptin plain sheep or cloth, and no hooks shall be printed ivhvu w be dcrw. and bound except when the same shall be ordered by Congress or are P°*’» 32:* authorized by law, except record and account books which may be bound in Russia leather sheep tleshers and skivers, when authorized by the head of a department, and this restriction shall not apply to the Congressional Library. And when any department shall require print- Printing for dcing to be done the Public Printer shall furnish to such department an P;'"”'°"‘”· °°“"‘*'· estimate of the cost by the principal items for said printing so called ° °' tor; and he shall place to the debit of such department the cost of the same, on certification of the head of the department, Supreme Court, Court of Claims, or Library of Congress, that said printing is necessary ; and the Public Printer is hereby authorized to employ three Adduiimat clerks. additional clerks of the third class, to make the estimates. . That the sum of thirteen thousand dollars, being the unexpended Printing anu balance of the sum appropriated by act approved December fifteenth, l>i¤<“¤g*`°¥m*F¤’¥~ eighteen hunded and seventy-seven, for printing and binding lor the 523,;* fhg 3* Library of Congress, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated, and ’1' ' may be expended for completing the new general catalogue of the Library, now in progress. Government Printing Officez For the construction of outside nre- Fire-escape ladescape ladders for the Government Printing Office, three thousand dol- dmlars. To enable the Public Printer to pay for the telephonic wire connect- Telephones. ing the Capitol with the Government Printing Office, and for the rent of the telephones, one hundred and nfty dollars, or so much of the same as may be necessary. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated Congressional to purchase, of the present owners and proprietors, the iollowing prop- Glebql Md Globe erty to wit: Twenty-five thousand bound volumes of the Congressional b“f}$;‘,§,;l00f Globe, forty thousand unbound volumes of the Congressional Globe,' forty-six thousand metal plates for printing the Congressional Globe, twenty-four thousand composition plates for printing the Congressional Globe, the two-story tire-proof brick building situate in the rear of the Globe building on Pen nsylvania avenue, and the copyright for the complete work: Provided, That the Public Printer, the Secretary of the Proviao. Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall examine the said property, and shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury
