shall receive and deliver work.

Superintendent departments, as aforesaid, shall be executed in his office. It shall be the duty of said Superintendent to receive from the Clerk of the House all matter ordered by the House to be printed or bound, and when the same is executed, see that the volumes or sheets are promptly delivered to the officer authorized to receive the same, whose receipt therefor shall be a sufficient voucher by the Superintendent of their delivery.

Standard of pa

per to be fixed

mittee on Print

The Joint Committee on Printing shall agree and fix upon by Joint Com a standard of paper for the printing of Congressional documents; and in case of difference of opinion between the opinion as to Superintendent and the contractor for paper, with respect to be settled by to quality, the same shall be settled by said committee.

ing.

And difference of

quality of paper,

said Committee.

Engraving to be

procured under

said Committee.

Whenever any charts, maps, diagrams, views, or other enthe direction of gravings, shall be required to illustrate any document ordered to be printed by either house of Congress, such engraving shall be procured by the Superintendent of Printing, under the direction and supervision of the Committee on Printing of the house ordering the same.

The condition, cost. &c., of, to be

gress.

The condition of the printing, binding, and engraving, the reported to Con- amount and cost of paper, printing, binding, &c., a statement of the bids for materials, and other information in regard to the matters connected therewith, shall be reported to Congress on the first day of each session, or as soon as may be thereafter, by the Superintendent.—Stat. at Large, Vol. XII, pp. 117, 118, 119, 120.

What extra documents to bound.

be

Where extra copies of documents of the size of 250 pages and upwards are ordered to be printed, they shall be bound as directed by the Committee on Printing on the part of the House, at a cost not to exceed 12 cents per volume.—Stat. Not more than at Large, Vol. X, p. 190. In no case shall more than 1550 printed. copies of any document be printed, unless extra copies be How distributed. Ordered; and the said regular number (1550) shall be dis

1550 copies to be

tributed by the officers of the house first ordering the printing

of the same, to the same persons and in the same manner as such numbers heretofore ordered by both houses have been distributed. Stat. at Large, Vol. XI, p. 422.

Motions to print All motions to print extra copies of any bill, report, or other document, shall be referred to the members of the

extra copies.

Committee on Printing from the house in which the same may be made.-Stat. at Large, Vol. X, p. 34.

one house, and

"When bills which have passed one house are ordered to Bille passed in be printed in the other, a greater number of copies shall not ordered to be be printed than may be necessary for the use of the house other. making the order."-Joint Rule 18.

printed in the

House bills are

[The usual stage at which House bills are ordered to be At what stage printed is upon their report from a committee and their usually printed. commitment to a Committee of the Whole.]

printed without

"Maps accompanying documents shall not be printed under Maps not to be the general order to print, without the special direction of the special order. House."-Rule 139.

to be furnished

of

documents ac

ports of heads of

printed

to be delivered.

be

for

By the joint resolution of March 3d, 1863, it is provided Superintendent that, instead of furnishing manuscript copies to each house with copies of Congress, the heads of the several departments of govern- companying ment be required to furnish the Superintendent of the Public departments. Printing with copies of the documents usually accompanying their annual reports, on or before the 1st day of November of each year; whose duty it shall be to print, in addition to the number now required by law, two thousand copies for the use of the Senate, and five thousand for the use of the House, in Number to volumes (bound in the usual manner) of convenient size, and House, and when to deliver the same to the proper officers of each house, respectively, on or before the 3d Monday in December of each year. The number of any bill or joint resolution ordered or required to be printed by the Senate or House, under any rule of either house, shall not exceed six hundred, only 600 bills or unless specially directed by the house ordering the same. to be printed. The Secretary of the Treasury is required to furnish to Statement of imthe Superintendent of Public Printing, on or before Novem- ports. when to be ber 1st of each year, a condensed statement of exports and printed. imports, who shall print and bind as soon thereafter as practicable the usual number (1550) for the two houses, three hundred for the Treasury Department, two thousand for the Senate, and six thousand one hundred and fifty for the use of the members of the House.

joint resolutions

ports and ex

furnished and

Relations" to be

Six thousand copies of the "Commercial Relations" shall Commercial be printed and distributed as follows: one thousand five printed and dishundred and fifty for the two houses, four hundred and

fifty

tributed.

for the State Department, two thousand for the Senate, and three thousand for the use of the House. All lithographing and engraving, where the probable cost exceeds two hundred Contracts for en- and fifty dollars, shall be awarded to the lowest and best $250, how award- bidder for the interest of the government, after due advertisement by the Superintendent of Public Printing, under Form and style the direction of the Committee on Printing.

graving over

ed.

to be determined

dent.

The form and by Superinten- style in which the printing ordered by either house of Congress shall be executed, and the size of type to be used, shall be determined by the Superintendent of Public Printing, having proper regard to economy and workmanship.—Stat. at Large, Vol. XII, pp. 825, 826.

(See PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, BILLS, COMMITTEE ON PRINTING.)

To be appointed.

ties of.

PRINTING, JOINT COMMITTEE ON.

"A committee consisting of three members of the Senate and three members of the House of Representatives shall be appointed by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, to be called the Joint Committee on the Public Printing. The said committee shall pass upon the accounts of the Superintendent of the Public Printing. Said committee Power and du- shall have power to adopt such measures as may be deemed necessary to remedy any neglect or delay in the execution of the public printing: Provided, That no contract, agreement, or arrangement entered into by this committee, shall take effect until the same shall have been approved by that house of Congress to which the printing belongs, and, when the printing delayed relates to the business of both houses, until both houses shall have approved of such contract or arrangeAll motions to print extra copies of any bill, report, Motions to print ment. extra copies to be referred to House or other document, shall be referred to the members of the Committee on Printing from the house in which the same may be made."-Stat. at Large, Vol. X, p. 34.

members of.

May change from octavo to quarto.

Said committee may also direct a change in the size of the page of a document from octavo to quarto.-Ibid., p. 547. They may also cause the printed sheets for the finer deto be dry pressed. scription of books authorized to be printed by either house

May cause sheets

to be dry pressed before being bound, the cost not to exceed the sum of 50 cents per ream medium.—Ibid.,

p. 645.

may direct bind

extra documents.

The committee on the part of the House may direct the House members binding of extra copies of documents, the size of which shall ing of certain not be less than two hundred and fifty pages; the cost not to exceed 12 cents per volume.-Ibid., p. 190.

They may control the order in which the Superintendent May control the shall deliver matter to be printed.-Ibid., p. 31.

order in which printing is to be done.

of Standard of pa

per to be fixed on

in by.

procurement of

The committee shall agree and fix upon a standard paper for the printing of Congressional documents, and case of difference of opinion between the Superintendent and the contractor for paper with respect to the quality, the same shall be settled by said committee; and whenever any charts, shall direct the maps, diagrams, views, or other engravings shall be required engraving. to illustrate any document ordered to be printed by either house of Congress, such engraving shall be procured by the Superintendent, under the direction and supervision of the Committee on Printing of the house ordering the same.— Stat. at Large, Vol. XII, pp. 117 to 120.

tract for engra

direction of.

All lithographing and engraving, where the probable cost Award of conexceeds $250, shall be awarded to the lowest and best bidder ving to be under for the interest of the government, after due advertisement by the Superintendent of the Public Printing under the direction of the Committee on Printing.-Stat. at Large, Vol. XII, p. 826.

time come

of, shall report, on engra

ving.

"There shall be referred by the Clerk to the members of the House members Committee on Printing on the part of the House all drawings, &e., maps, charts, or other papers, which may at any before the House for engraving, lithographing, or publishing in any way; which committee shall report to the House whether the same ought, in their opinion, to be published; and if the House order the publication of the same, that said committee shall direct the size and manner of execution of all such maps, charts, drawings, or other papers, and contract by agreement, in writing, for all such engraving, lithographing, printing, drawing, and coloring, as may be ordered by the House; which agreement, in writing, shall be furnished by said committee to the Committee of Accounts, to govern said committee in all allowances for such works; and it shall

142

PRIORITY OF BUSINESS-PRIVATE BILLS AND PRIVATE BUSINESS.

May report at any time.

Question relative to, not debatable.

be in order for said committee to report at all times.”—Rule 100.

"It shall be in order for the Committee on Printing to report at any time."-Rule 101. And the right to report at any time carries with it the right to consider the matter when reported.-Journal, 1, 32, p. 195.

PRIORITY OF BUSINESS.

"All questions relating to the priority of business to be acted on shall be decided without debate."-Rule 66.

on Friday and Saturday.

66

PRIVATE BILLS AND PRIVATE BUSINESS.

Take precedence 'Friday and Saturday in every week shall be set apart for the consideration of private bills and private business in preference to any other, unless otherwise determined by a majority of the House."-Rule 128. And such bills may But may be con- also be considered in their order on other days, notwithstanding their precedence on Friday and Saturday.-Journal, 1, 19, p. 795.

sidered on other

days.

Majority may de

termine to

consider after disposing of.

A motion to go into a Committee

When all the private business has been disposed of on Fritonge what day or Saturday, it is competent for a majority to determine what business shall be considered.-Journal, 1, 26, p. 460. A motion to go into the Committee of the Whole House on of the Whole the State of the Union may be entertained on private bill cedence of mo. day (Journal, 2, 22, p. 212 et passim); but the motion to go into a Committee of the Whole House takes precedence (Journals, 1, 29, p. 850; 1, 30, p. 775), [unless (according to the general although not universal practice) a special order is pending in the former.]

House takes pre

tion to go into Union.

"The bills from the Court of Claims shall, on being laid before the House, be read a first and second time, committed to a Committee of the Whole House, and, together with the accompanying reports, printed."-Rule 122.

[Although there is no express rule requiring it, except in the preceding case in regard to bills from the Court of Claims, it is the usage in the commitment of private bills to send them to a Committee of the Whole House, while public bills are