Senate Resolution 6; 41st Congress, 1st Session A Bill to provide stationery for Congress and the several departments, and for other purposes

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To provide stationery for Congress and the several departments, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That upon the passage of this act the heads of each of the

executive and judicial departments at Washington, District of

Columbia, shall immediately cause estimates to be made of

the amount of stationery and other articles which will be

required by them for the ensuing year, which are now furnished

as stationery or under stationery contracts, and forward

the same to the Congressional Printer, who shall immediately

issue proposals for such articles and stationery and make

purchases of the same, in the manner and under the regulations

provided for in this act.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the

Printer shall, at the beginning of each session of Congress,

submit to the Joint Committee on Public Printing estimates

of the quantity of paper, of all descriptions, which will, in his

opinion, be required for the public printing during the ensuing

year; and also estimates of the quantity and articles of

stationery required for each and all of the executive and judicial

departments at Washington, and for the Senate and House of

Representatives and the Congressional printing office.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the heads of

the several executive and judicial departments, and the Secretary

of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives,

shall, on or before the twentieth day of November, in

each year, furnish, or cause to be furnished, to the Congressional

Printer estimates of the articles and the quantity of each

which will be required for their several departments for the

year following.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Joint Committee

on Public Printing shall then fix upon standards of

paper for the different descriptions of public printing, and for

all stationery and articles required, and the Congressional

Printer shall, under their direction, advertise in two newspapers

published in each of the cities of Boston, New York,

Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Cincinnati, and in

any other city where in their judgment it may become necessary,

for sealed proposals to furnish the government with

paper and all other articles of the quality and in the quantities

specified in the advertisement, which shall specify the

quantity and quality of all the articles required; and he shall

furnish to the applicants samples of the standard articles

which have been adopted.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the advertisements

for sealed proposals shall specify the minimum portion

of each article required for either three months, six months,

or one year, as the Joint Committee on Public Printing may

determine; but when the minimum portion so specified exceeds

in any case one thousand reams of paper, the advertisements

shall state that proposals will be received for one

thousand reams or more....