CHAPTER XLV. The flag to be 13 stripes and 37 stars. Par. FLAG AND SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES. Par. 1875. The flag to be 13 stripes and 1877. Seal of the United States. 1878. Secretary of State to keep and use the seal. 37 stars. 1876. A star to be added for every new State. 1875. The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union 1.v. 1. p.341; Apr. Of the flag shall be [forty-five] stars, white in a blue field. Jan. 13, 1794, c. 4, 1818, c. 34, s. 1, v. 3, p. 415. Sec. 1791, R. S. A star to be 1876. On the admission of a new State into the Union added for every new State. one star shall be added to the union of the flag; and such Apr. 4, 1818, c. 34. 8. 2. v. 3. p. 415. addition shall take effect on the fourth day of July then Sec. 1792, R. S. United States. next succeding such admission.1 Seal of the 1877. The seal heretofore used by the United States in` Sept. 15, 1789, c. Congress assembled is declared to be the seal of the United 14. s. 3. v. 1. p. 68. States. Sec. 1793, R. S. The Union of the flag now contains forty-five stars, arranged in accordance with the following order: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, March 17, 1896. The field or union of the national flag in use in the Army will on and after July 4, 1896, consist of forty-five stars, in six rows, the first, third, and fifth rows to have eight stars, and the second, fourth, and sixth rows seven stars each, in a blue field, arranged as follows: DANIEL S. LAMONT, Held that there was no law precluding an alien residing in the United States, the subject of a foreign government with which we are at peace, from displaying the flag of his country on his dwelling. (Dig. J. A. Gen., 148, par. 4.) all Secretary of State to keep and use the seal. Sept. 15, 1789, c. be 14, s. 4. v. 1. p. 68; Mar. 18, 1874, c. Mar. 3, 1875, c. 1878. The Secretary of State shall keep such seal, and shall make out and record, and shall affix the same to, civil commissions for officers of the United States, to appointed by the President, by and with the advice and 57, v. 18, p. 23; consent of the Senate, or by the President alone. But the 131, s. 14, v. 18, p. seal shall not be affixed to any commission before the same Marbury has been signed by the President of the United States, nor 158. to any other instrument, without the special warrant of the President therefor. 420. v. Madison, 1 Cr., Sec. 1794, R. S. CHAPTER XLVI. The Joint Committee on Printing. THE PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING. There shall be a Joint Committee on Printing, consisting of three members of the Senate and three members of the House of Representatives, who shall have the powers hereJan. 12, 1895, inafter stated. Act of January 12, 1895. (28 Stat. L., 601). v. 28, p. 601. Duties. Sec. 2, ibid. The Public Printer. Sec. 17, ibid. The Joint Committee on Printing 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; and the committee shall have power to order reprinted not exceeding three hundred copies of a public bill pending before either House of Congress, when the supply shall have become exhausted, and the interests of the public service demand immediate action. Sec. 2, ibid. THE PUBLIC PRINTER. The President of the United States shall nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint a suitable person, who must be a practical printer and versed in the art of bookbinding, to take charge of and manage the Government Printing Office. The title of said officer shall be Public Printer. He shall receive a salary of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and shall give bond in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, said bond to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. Sec. 17, ibid. It shall be the duty of the Public Printer to purchase all materials and machinery which may be necessary for the Government Printing Office; to take charge of all matter which is to be printed, engraved, lithographed, or bound; to keep an account thereof in the order in which it is received, and to cause the work to be promptly executed; to superintend all printing and binding done at the Government Printing Office, and to see that the sheets or volumes are promptly delivered to the officer who is authorized to receive them. The receipt of such officer shall be a sufficient voucher for their delivery. Sec. 18, ibid. Chief Clerk: of Printing. There shall be appointed by the Public Printer a chief Sec. 18, ibid. clerk, who shall be a practical printer and versed in the Foreman art of bookbinding, whose salary shall be two thousand Preca, ibid. four hundred dollars per annum; and a foreman of printing and a foreman of binding, who must be practically and thoroughly acquainted with their respective trades, who shall each receive a salary of two thousand one hundred dollars per annum. Sec. 41, ibid. BRANCH OFFICES IN EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. All printing offices in the Departments now in operation, or hereafter put in operation, by law, shall be considered a part of the Government Printing Office, and shall be under the control of the Public Printer, who shall furnish all presses, types, imposing stones, and necessary machinery and material for said offices from the general supplies of the Government Printing Office; and all paper and material of every kind used in the said offices for departmental work, except letter and note paper and envelopes, shall be supplied by the Public Printer; and all persons employed in said printing offices and binderies shall be appointed by the Public Printer, and be carried on his pay roll the same as employees in the main office, and shall be responsible to him: Provided, That the terms of this Act shall not apply to the office in the Weather Bureau, or, to so much of the printing as is necessary to expedite the work of the Record and Pension Division of the War Department nor to the printing office now in operation in the Census Office; but the Public Printer, with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing, may abolish any of these excepted offices whenever in their judgment the economy of the public service would be thereby advanced. Sec. 31, ibid. Branch offices. Sec. 31, ibid. Orders for work: Sec. 31, ibid. All work done in the said offices shall be ordered on blanks prepared for that purpose by the Public Printer, Reports. which shall be numbered consecutively, and must be signed by some one designated by the head of the Department for which the work is to be done, who shall be held responsible for all work thus ordered, and who shall quarterly report to the head of the Department a classified statement of the work done and the cost thereof, which report shall be transmitted to the Public Printer in time for his annual report to Congress. The Public Printer shall show in detail, in his annual report, the cost of operating each departmental office. Ibid. done at Govern Office. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. Printing to be All printing, binding, and blank books for the Senate or ment Printing House of Representatives and for the Executive and Judicial Departments shall be done at the Government Printing Office, except in cases otherwise provided by law. Sec. 87, ibid. Sec. 87, ibid. None to be done elsewhere except law. Sec. 86, ibid. No printing or binding shall be done at the Government authorized by Printing Office unless authorized by law. Binding for the Departments of the Government shall be done in plain sheep or cloth, except that record and account books may be bound in Russia leather, sheep fleshers, and skivers, when authorized by the head of a Department: Provided, The libraries of the several Departments, the Library of Congress, the libraries of the Surgeon-General's Office, the Patent Office, and the Naval Observatory may have books for the exclusive use of said libraries bound in half Turkey, or material no more expensive. Sec. 86, ibid. No printing to be done in excess No printing shall be done for the Executive Departments of appropria in any fiscal year in excess of the amount of the appropri tion. Sec. 89, ibid. Number of copies limited to 1,000. Ibid. Reports of bu reaus. law. Sec. 94, ibid. ation, and none shall be done without a special requisition, signed by the chief of the Department and filed with the Public Printer. No report, publication, or document shall be printed in excess of the number of one thousand of each in any one fiscal year without authorization therefor by Congress, except that of the annual report of the head of the Department without appendices there may be printed in any one fiscal year not to exceed five thousand copies, bound in pamphlet form; and of the reports of chiefs of bureaus without appendices there may be printed in any one fiscal year not to exceed two thousand five hundred copies, bound in pamphlet form. Heads of Executive Departments shall direct whether reports made to them by bureau chiefs and chiefs of divisions shall be printed or not. Sec. 89, ibid. No printing to No head of any Executive Department, or of any bureau, be done except authorized by branch, or office of the Government, shall cause to be printed, nor shall the Public Printer print, any document or matter except that which is authorized by law and necessary to the public business; and executive officers, before transmitting their annual reports, shall carefully examine the same and all accompanying documents, and exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports are necessary and relate entirely to the transaction of the public business. Sec. 94, ibid. |