PERIODICALS AND FIELD PRINTING St REPORTS SUBMITTED TO THE Joint Committee on Printing SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION IN COMPLIANCE WITH Section 11 of Public Act No. 314, 65th Cong. JULY 22, 1919 Printed for the use of the Joint Committee on Printing WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1919 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING. REED SMOOT, Senator from Utah, Chairman. EDGAR R. KIESS, Representative from Pennsylvania, Vice Chairman. MARCUS A. SMITH, Senator from Arizona. ALBERT JOHNSON, Representative from Washington. JAMES V. MCCLINTIC, Representative from Oklahoma. GEORGE H. CARTER, Clerk. Committee Room No. 69, Capitol, Ground Floor, West. Phone: Main 3120, Branch 49. 2 AUTHORITY. [Section 11 of Public Act No. 314, Sixty-fifth Congress, approved Mar. 1, 1919.] The Joint Committee on Printing shall have power to adopt and employ such measures as, in its discretion, may be deemed necessary to remedy any neglect, delay, duplication, or waste in the public printing and binding and the distribution of Government publications: Provided, That hereafter no journal, magazine, periodical, or other similar publication shall be printed and issued by any branch or officer of the Government service unless the same shall have been specifically authorized by Congress, but such publications as are now, being printed without specific authority from Congress may, in the discretion of the Joint Committee on Printing, be continued until the close of the next regular session of Congress, when, if authority for their continuance is not then granted by Congress, they shall not thereafter be printed: Provided further, That on and after July 1, 1919, all printing, binding, and blank-book work for Congress, the Executive office, the judiciary, and every executive department, independent office, and establishment of the Government shall be done at the Government Printing Office, except such classes of work as shall be deemed by the Joint Committee on Printing to be urgent or necessary to have done elsewhere than in the District of Columbia for the exclusive use of any field service outside of said District. 4 PERIODICALS AND FIELD PRINTING. REGULATIONS No. 1. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, SIR: By direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, your attention is respectfully invited to the following provisions of section 11 of Public Act No. 314, Sixty-fifth Congress, approved March 1, 1919: 1. That the Joint Committee on Printing shall have power to adopt and employ such measures as, in its discretion, may be deemed necessary to remedy any neglect, delay, duplication, or waste in the public printing and binding and the distribution of Government publications: 2. Provided, That hereafter no journal, magazine, periodical, or other similar publication shall be printed and issued by any branch or officer of the Government service unless the same shall have been specifically authorized by Congress, but such publications as are now being printed without specific authority from Congress may, in the discretion of the Joint Committee on Printing, be continued until the close of the next regular session of Congress, when, if authority for their continuance is not then granted by Congress, they shall not thereafter be printed: 3. Provided further, That on and after July 1, 1919, all printing, binding, and blank-book work for Congress, the Executive Office, the judiciary, and every executive department, independent office, and establishment of the Government shall be done at the Government Printing Office, except such classes of work as shall be deemed by the Joint Committee on Printing to be urgent or necessary to have done elsewhere than in the District of Columbia for the exclusive use of any field service outside of said District. In accordance with the authority conferred upon the Joint Committee on Printing by paragraph 2 of the foregoing section, the Public Printer has been instructed not to print any "journal, magazine, periodical, or other similar publication "after May 1, 1919, unless the same shall have been specifically authorized by Congress or the Joint Committee on Printing has authorized its continuance until the close of the next regular session of Congress. The foregoing instruction also applies to publications printed at Government expense elsewhere than at the Government Printing Office. In this connection you are requested to submit the following information to the 'committee concerning the publications referred to, which are now printed and issued by any branch or officer of the Government service under your jurisdiction or supervision: INQUIRIES IN REGARD TO PARAGRAPH 2 OF SECTION 11. 1. Name of publication (copy of same to be submitted with reply). 2. How often issued. 3. By whom issued, specifying the particular branch or officer of the Government service. |