VI. Resolution directing the manner in which the printing of Congress shall be executed, fixing the prices thereof, and providing for the appointment of a printer or printers.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the printing of Congress, unless when otherwise specially ordered, shall be done in the following form and manner, viz:
Form and manner of printing.Bills, as heretofore, with english type, on foolscap paper. Rule or table-work, in royal octavo size, where it can be brought into that size, by any type not smaller than brevier; and where it cannot, in such form as to fold conveniently into the volume. All other printing with a small pica type, on royal paper, in pages of the same size as those of the last edition of the laws of the United States, including the marginal notes.
And the following prices shall be allowed and paid for the above described work: For the compensation of every page of bills,Prices allowed.
Composition. one dollar; of every page of small pica, plain work, one dollar; of every page of small pica, rule-work, two dollars; of every page of brevier, rule-work three dollars and fifty cents; and for a larger form of brevier rule-work, in proportion.
For the press-work of bills, including paper, folding, and stitching—for fifty copies, twenty-five cents per page;Press-work. for four hundred copies, one dollar and twenty-five cents per page; for the press-work of tables, other than those in the regular octavo form, for six hundred copies, including as above, five dollars and fifty cents per form; for the press work of the journals, of nine hundred copies, including as above, one dollar per page; for all other printing, in the octavo form, of six hundred copies, including as above, eighty-seven and a half cents per page; and for a larger of smaller number in proportion.
Each house to ballot for a printer.
Printer to give bond, with sureties.
In case of delay, &c.That as soon as this resolution shall have been approved by the President of the United States, each house shall proceed to ballot for a printer to execute its work during the next Congress; and the person having the greatest number of votes shall be considered duly elected; and shall give bond, with sureties, to the satisfaction of the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, for the prompt, accurate, and neat, execution of the work; and in case any inconvenient delay should be, at any time, experienced by either House, in the delivery of its work, the secretary and clerk, respectively, may be authorized to employ another printer to execute any portion of the work the Senate or House, and charge the excess, in the account of such printer, for executing such work, above what is herein allowed, to the printer guilty of such negligence and delay:Proviso. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall preclude the choice of the same printer by the Senate and by the House of Representatives.
Approved, March 3, 1819.
VII. Resolution declaring the manner in which the vessels composing the navy of the United States shall be named.
Ships of the navy to be named by the Secretary, under direction of the President.
First class after states.
Second after rivers.
Third after principal cities and towns.
No two of the same name.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the ships of the navy of the United States, now building, or hereafter to be built, shall be named by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President of the United States, according to the following rule, to wit: Those of the first class shall be called after the states of this Union; those of the second class after the rivers; and those of the third class after the principal cities and towns; taking care that no two vessels in the navy shall bear the same name.
