An Act Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents

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Summary

The general powers of the Joint Committee on Printing are set forth. The standards of paper and the quantities of public printing are established. Of the Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 8,000 copies will be printed: 1,500 for the Senate, 3,000 for the House, and 3,500 for distribution by the Bureau of Ethnology. Of the report of the Smithsonian Institution, 10,000 copies will be printed: 1,000 for the Senate, 2,000 for the House, 5,000 for distribution by the Smithsonian Institution, and 2,000 for distribution by the National Museum.

Subject

  • Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology
  • United States Congress House
  • United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing
  • United States Congress Senate
  • United States National Museum

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • 28 Stat. 601
  • Title 44, Public Printing and Documents
  • Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

28 Stat. 601 (1895); ch. 23 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

  • 1895
  • 01/12/1895

Topic

  • Printing
  • Government publications
  • Annual Reports

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 3; Page Numbers: 601, 613, 616

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