4. Authority for publication, stating whether specifically authorized by Congress (cite authority).

5. Date of first issue.

6. Where printed, whether at Government Printing Office, elsewhere in Washington, or outside District of Columbia.

7. Number of copies printed of last issue.

8. How distributed, stating separately number of copies for official, for free public, and for subscription distribution.

9. Annual receipts from subscription, if any.

10. Annual expense of printing and issuing the publication, stating the actual amount, if ascertainable, otherwise the estimated annual expense.

11. Annual cost of preparing publication for printing, including salaries, wages, materials, and other expenses properly chargeable to editorial and other work in connection with its preparation, other than that reported under preceding item.

12. Total annual cost of publication, including the two preceding items.

13. If publication is not printed at Government Printing Office, is it" urgent or necessary" to have it done "elsewhere than in the District of Columbia for the exclusive use of any field service outside of said District," as provided for in paragraph 3 of section 11? If so, submit reasons and recommendations therefor.

14. Is publication a duplication, in whole or in part, of any other Government publication, or does it relate to work which some other branch of the Government service has undertaken or is authorized by law to perform? If so, state reasons therefor.

15. Submit reasons and recommendations, if any, for continuance of publication until the close of the next regular session of Congress, if not specifically authorized by Congress.

INQUIRY IN Regard to ParAGRAPH 3 OF SECTION 11.

If any branch or officer of the Goverment service under your jurisdiction or supervision desires to submit a request to the committee for authority to have urgent or necessary printing, binding, and blank-book work done elsewhere than in the District of Columbia after July 1, 1919, for the exclusive use of any field service outside of said District, you are requested to transmit to the committee detailed information in regard to the same at as early a date as practicable that due consideration may be given to it before July 1.

This statement should set forth the kind or character of work to be done, the estimated cost of the same, and the place where it is proposed to have such printing, binding, or blank-book work done, together with such reasons or recommendations as you may desire to submit.

It is preferred that this statement be submitted separate from that called for under paragraph 2, above.

INQUIRY IN REGARD TO PARAGRAPH 1 OF SECTION 11.

The committee respect fully requests that its attention be promptly called to "any neglect, delay, duplication, or waste in the public printing and binding and distribution of Government publications" which may occur from time to time or which now exists.

It is urged that especial attention be given to duplications, which appear to the committee are now printed to considerable extent. If there is any form of duplication in the printing and distribution, either of your own service or the service of any other branch of the Government, you are also requested to advise the committee at an early date and to suggest any remedies or recommendations that you may desire to have the committee consider in this connection.

Likewise, the committee requests that it be informed from time to time of any neglect, delay, or waste in the public printing and binding and the distribution of Government publications that may come to your attention.

Hoping to secure your cooperation in the committee's efforts to effect needed economy in the public printing and binding and the distribution of Government publications without impairing the efficiency of any proper service, I beg to remain,

Respectfully yours,

MARK A. SMITH, Chairman.

NOTE.-Additional copies of this letter will be supplied on application to the Joint Committee on Printing.

REGULATIONS No. 2.

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,

JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING,
Washington, April 16, 1919.

SIR: Owing to delayed responses to the inquiry sent out by the Joint Committee on Printing under date of March 12, 1919, concerning journals, magazines, periodicals, and other similar publications printed and issued by any branch or officer of the Government service, authority is hereby given to continue such publications, except as hereinafter noted, until July 1, 1919, unless otherwise ordered by the Joint Committee on Printing, as provided for in section 11 of Public Act No. 314, Sixty-fifth Congress. It is urged, however, that prompt and full response be made to the committee's inquiry of March 12 in order that the committee may have adequate information with which to act finally upon the publications referred to.

2. The following publications are ordered to be discontinued in accordance with the committee's notice of March 12:

The Official U. S. Bulletin.-The House of Representatives, without any expressed dissent, adopted a provision in the sundry civil appropiation bill (H. R. 16104, 65th Cong.) ordering the Official Bulletin to be discontinued from and after April 1, 1919. Though this bill failed to become a law, the publication of the Official Bulletin was suspended by the Committee on Public Information on the date fixed by the House of Representatives. The Joint Committee on Printing concurs in this action and directs that no further issues of the Official Bulletin or any similar publication be printed or distributed at Government expense.

National School Service. This publication is printed semimonthly by the Division of Educational Extension, Department of the Interior, under an allotment from the President's war emergency fund. It costs from $6,500 to $7,500 for each issue of 582,700 copies. The emergency which this journal was intended to meet no longer exists and there does not appear to be any good reason for continuing such a large expenditure of public funds for this purpose, especially as a considerable part of the publication is devoted to other than school matters. The committee therefore directs discontinuance of the National School Service journal not later than June 1, 1919, the expiration of the contract for its printing.

3. The following publication are authorized to be continued until otherwise ordered by the committee or provided for by Congress: The Panama Canal Record, published by the Panama Canal at Balboa Heights, Canal Zone.

Alaska Railroad Record, published by the Alaskan Engineering Commission at Anchorage, Alaska.

Journals, magazines, and similar publications as printed and issued at Government expense at the Government Indian schools for the in

formation and instruction of the pupils at the respective Indian schools.

4. The joint committee further directs that all journals, magazines, periodicals, and other similar publications that may be continued under authority of section 11 of Public Act No. 314, Sixty-fifth Congress, shall be devoted exclusively to the work which the branch or officer of the Government issuing the same is required by law to undertake, and shall not contain any matter relating to the work which any other branch of the Government service is authorized to perform or any matter not necessary to the public business. (See sec. 94, 28 Stat. L., 623, and restriction on printing allotments, 40 Stat. L., 701.) No illustrations shall be used in such publications unless they are necessary and relate entirely to the transaction of the public business. (See 33 Stat. L., 1213.) This paragraph does not apply to Indian school publications referred to in paragraph 3 above.

5. It is requested that hereafter one copy of each issue of every journal, magazine, periodical, or other similar publication printed and issued by any branch or officer of the Government service be sent as soon as published to the Joint Committee on Printing, Capitol, Washington, D. C.

FIELD-SERVICE PRINTING.

6. In replying to the committee's inquiry in regard to paragraph 3 of section 11, as stated in its letter of March 12, it is desired that the statement shall include information as to the machinery, equipment, and material which any branch or officer of the Government service may have on hand for printing and binding purposes (other than for engraving and map or chart making), and the number of employees engaged in such work, with the approximate total annual wages paid them. Such statement shall also give the number, kind, and approximate cost of all printing presses, typesetting machines, and bindery machinery purchased or used for Government work, and the location of the same.

Respectfully,

EDGAR R. KIESS,

Acting Chairman.

REGULATIONS No. 3.

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING,
Washington, June 21, 1919.

SIR: The Joint Committee on Printing at its meeting to-day adopted the following resolutions, which are transmitted herewith for your information:

1. Resolved, That the Joint Committee on Printing, under authority vested in it by section 11 of Public Act No. 314, Sixty-fifth Congress, hereby authorizes that printing, binding, and blank-book work for the exclusive use of any of the following field services outside the District of Columbia, may be done elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office whenever it is deemed urgent or necessary by such service to have the work done elsewhere than in the District of Columbia:

(a) For any Government service in Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, the Panama Canal, the Philippines, Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or any other place outside.territorial United States, provided that the work is done in the territory, possessions, or country where the service is located.

(b) For the Railway Mail Service, including its division offices, and the local post offices, elsewhere than in Washington, D. C., provided that contracts for printing, binding, and blank-book work for the Postal Service which were existing and valid on March 1, 1919, are authorized to be completed in accordance with the terms of such contracts, but this does not apply to existing agreements between the Postmaster General and the Public Printer for printing, which shall hereafter be done in accordance with the law relating to the public printing and binding.

(c) For use on the separate reclamation projects under the direction of the Reclamation Service.

(d) For field use of the Forest Service, to be done at its supply depot printing plant.

(e) For the various navy yards and naval training stations, to be done at their respective printing plants, and for such other branches of the naval service outside of Washington as may properly be done at the nearest naval printing plant.

(f) For the immediate use of the Public Health Service in its field work for relief and sanitation.

(g) For the branch homes of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, to be done at the respective branch homes.

(h) A detailed report of the classes, including number of copies, description, and cost, of the printing herein authorized shall be submitted to the Joint Committee on Printing every three months, i. e., October 1, January 1, April 1, and July 1.

(1) No printing, binding, or blank book work shall be done elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office for any other field service of the Government except as may be specifically authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing in accordance with section 11 of Public Act No. 314, and no printing or binding so authorized shall be done elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office if it necessitates the purchase of additional machinery or equipment therefor unless approved by the committee.

2. Resolved, That such journals, magazines, periodicals, and other similar publications as are now being published by any officer or branch of the Government service may be continued until August 1, 1919, and they shall thereafter be discontinued unless otherwise authorized by the Joint Committee on Printing, and that before such date the committee accord a hearing to any