or the work may be done and the materials purchased otherwise than by contract, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in any one year two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and not to exceed in the aggregate five hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated: And provided further, That of the amounts so appropriated not to exceed fifty thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be expended in the Yellowstone forest reserve east of the park, and not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the Yellowstone and Teton forest reserves south of the park.

Act June 28, 1902, c. 1301, § 1, 32 Stat. 466.

This is a further provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, cited above.

Sec. 3751.

TITLE XLIV.

THE PUBLIC PROPERTY.

ACT AUG. 7, 1882, c. 433, § 1.

[Superseded. Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, § 1.]

The provision of this act set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2529, is superseded by the more comprehensive and permanent provision contained in Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, § 1, set forth below.

ACT MARCH 3, 1903, c. 1007, § 1.

Secretary of Treasury may sell lands acquired by United States by devise.

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to sell such lands as have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States by devise, upon such terms and after such public notice by advertisement as he may deem best for the public interest.

Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, § 1, 32 Stat. 1112.

This is a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, cited above. It supersedes a provision of Act Aug. 7, 1882, c. 433, § 1, Comp. St. 1901, p. 2529, which authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to "sell such lands as have been acquired by devise," etc.

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TITLE XLV.

PUBLIC PRINTING, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

ACT JAN. 12, 1895, c. 23, §§ 37, 54, 59, 73, 94.

Congressional Record; extracts for Congressmen; mailing envelopes and franks.

The Public Printer is required to furnish the Department of Agriculture with franks for use by the Department for the distribution of seeds, by Res. May 19, 1902, No. 23, set forth below.

“Usual number" of documents and reports; distribution of House and Senate documents and reports; style of binding.

The last paragraph of section 54 of this act, as set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2553, which provides for the reservation by the Public Printer in unstitched form of the public documents and reports, the distribution of which is unprovided for by the preceding paragraphs of the section, subject to be bound in the number provided by law, upon orders from the Vice-President, Senators, Representatives, Delegates, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House, and for the delivery of such documents, if not called for and delivered to the Vice-President, etc., within two years after printing, in unbound form to the superintendent of documents for distribution, is modified by Res. June 30, 1902, No. 36, set forth below, which provides for the binding and delivery of such documents, if not called for and delivered within two years after printing, to the superintendent of documents for distribution to libraries.

Resolutions for printing extra copies.

The printing of additional copies of any of the reports of the Geological Survey, whenever any edition shall have become exhausted, upon requisition by the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized by Res. May 16, 1902, No. 22, set forth below.

Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac; sale.

The printing of the "usual number" of the Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac is discontinued by Res. May 13, 1902, No. 20, set forth below. and in lieu thereof the printing of 1100 copies is authorized.

Report of Geological Survey.

The report of the Director of the Geological Survey is limited to one volume of royal octavo size, by Res. May 16, 1902, No. 22, set forth below. Said resolution provides also for the printing of additional copies of any of the reports of the Survey when those already printed shall have become exhausted. It further provides that the Director of the Survey shall transmit to the Library of Congress two copies of every report of the Bureau, in addition to those already required to be so delivered.

Congressional Record; subscriptions.

[Amended. Act Jan. 30, 1903, c. 338.]

Two of the paragraphs of that part of section 73 of this act which relates to the Congressional Record are amended by Act Jan. 30, 1903, c. 338, set forth below.

Official Records of the Rebellion.

The Secretary of War is authorized to furnish two sets of the Official Records of the Rebellion to each member of the Fifty-Seventh Congress, and two sets to such permanent libraries and educational institutions as may be designated by such members, and for the purpose of furnishing such copies the Secretary is authorized to call upon the Public Printer to print and bind such additional volumes as may be necessary, and the plates are then to be destroyed, by a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, § 1, 32 Stat. 1145.

Official Register; preparation; contents.

The Comptroller of the Currency is required annually to transmit to the Secretary of the Interior a full and complete list of the officers, agents, clerks, and other employés in his office for publication in the Official Register, by a provision of Act April 28, 1902, c. 594, § 1, set forth below.

Patent-Office printing; Lithographing, etc.

The legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, the urgent deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, and the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, after making appropriations for producing the Official Gazette, copies of drawings of the weekly issue of patents, copies of designs, trademarks, and pending applications, and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications, provide that such work shall be done as provided by the provisions of this act (Comp. St. 1901, pp. 2575-2577), and contain a further proviso to the effect that such work may be done at the Government Printing Office, if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or, where there shall be no Joint Committee, of the Committee of either house, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government. Act April 28, 1902, c. 594, § 1, 32 Stat. 160. Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1, 32 Stat. 895. Act Feb. 14, 1902, c. 17, 32 Stat. 20. Act March 3, 1903, c. 1006, § 1, 32 Stat. 1054.

The Public Printer is authorized to print an edition of the Monthly Bulletin of the Bureau of American Republics, of not to exceed 5,000 copies, for distribution every month during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, by Act March 22, 1902, c. 272, 32 Stat. 88, and also for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, by Act Feb. 9, 1903, c. 530, 32 Stat. 812.

Restrictions on printing.

The sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, contains a proviso that none of the money appropriated therein for printing and binding shall be used for any illustration, engraving, or photograph in any document or report ordered printed by Congress unless the order to print expressly authorizes it, or in any document or report of any executive department or government establishment until the head of such department or establishment shall certify in the letter transmitting the report that the illustration is necessary and relates entirely to the transaction of public business. Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, § 3, 32 Stat. 1147.

ACT MARCH 2, 1895, c. 189, § 1.

Geological Survey; report on mineral resources; pamphlets; monographs and bulletins.

Further provisions relating to the publication and distribution of the reports, etc., of the Geological Survey, are contained in Res. May 16, 1902, No. 22, set forth below.

Provisions for the distribution to public libraries of the publications of the Geological Survey are contained in Act March 3, 1903, c. 1007, § 1, set forth below.

ACT JUNE 11, 1896, c. 420, § 1.

Geological Survey; reports on gauging of streams and utilization of water resources.

So much of this section, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2595. as restricts the reports of the Geological Survey in relation to the gauging of streams and to the method of utilizing the water resources to volumes in octavo form of not more than 100 pages in length and to editions of 5,000 copies, is rescinded by Res. May 16, 1902, No. 22, set forth below.

RES. MARCH 2, 1901, No. 16, § 1.

Distribution of documents to Library of Congress.

Two additional copies of every report of the Geological Survey are required to be deposited in the Library of Congress, by Res. May 16, 1902, No. 22, set forth below.

RES. MARCH 2, 1901, No. 17.

Report of Geological Survey; additional copies of certain parts.

Provisions for the publication of additional copies of any of the reports of the Geological Survey whenever they become exhausted are contained in Res. May 16, 1902, No. 22, set forth below.

ACT APRIL 28, 1902, c. 594, § 1.

Official Register; report of Comptroller of Treasury.

* * That for the fiscal year of nineteen hundred and two and thereafter, a full and complete list of all officers, agents, clerks, and other employees of the office of the Comptroller of the Currency, including bank examiners, receivers and attorneys for receivers, and clerks employed by such examiners and receivers, or any other person connected with the work of said office in Washington or elsewhere, whose salary or compensation is paid from the Treasury of the United States or assessed against or collected from existing or failed banks under their supervision or control, shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, relating to the Official Register.

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Act April 28, 1902. c. 594, § 1, 32 Stat. 138.

This is a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, cited above.

The reference in this provision to Act Jan. 12, 1885, is evidently intended for Act Jan. 12, 1895, c. 23, § 73, the provision of which, relating to the publication of the Official Register, is set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 2574.