History of the Government printing office, at Washington, D. C., with a brief record of the public printing, 1789-1881 |
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... matter must pass before it becomes a finished , printed book . Printing is a slow and tedious business at best , notwithstanding the many and diversified improvements which have been invented to facilitate the rapid production of ...
... matter must pass before it becomes a finished , printed book . Printing is a slow and tedious business at best , notwithstanding the many and diversified improvements which have been invented to facilitate the rapid production of ...
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... matter is dexterously lifted out , and placed on a frame with brass bottom and wooden sides lined with brass , and called a " galley , " in which it is securely fastened by the aid of a piece of beveled wood , called a side - stick ...
... matter is dexterously lifted out , and placed on a frame with brass bottom and wooden sides lined with brass , and called a " galley , " in which it is securely fastened by the aid of a piece of beveled wood , called a side - stick ...
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... matter is now ready to be " made up " into pages , which is done by means of a gauge , of the exact length of the pages in the proposed book ; and , when so cast off into proper lengths , is securely tied up with a strong cord to ...
... matter is now ready to be " made up " into pages , which is done by means of a gauge , of the exact length of the pages in the proposed book ; and , when so cast off into proper lengths , is securely tied up with a strong cord to ...
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... matter how humble or unimportant the subject treated of in this document may be , the law provides for its distribution to every State and Territory of the Union ; while another law directs the distribution of a limited number , through ...
... matter how humble or unimportant the subject treated of in this document may be , the law provides for its distribution to every State and Territory of the Union ; while another law directs the distribution of a limited number , through ...
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Robert Washington Kerr. done below a fair and reasonable price , may be a matter of doubt , but it does not admit of a question that the compensation ought to be adequate to the object of procuring that work to be done at a proper time ...
Robert Washington Kerr. done below a fair and reasonable price , may be a matter of doubt , but it does not admit of a question that the compensation ought to be adequate to the object of procuring that work to be done at a proper time ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
advertise amount Annie Annual Report authorized bills Bindery blank books book-binding bound charge Chas Clerk colors Committee on Printing Committee on Public Congressional Printer Congressional Record contract Court CUTTER Cutting Machine Cylinder Presses debates Defrees delivered direction distribution District of Columbia dollars Double Medium edition electrotype employed employés engraving Executive Departments Folding Room Foreman of Printing Foundry furnish Government Printing Office Grinding Machine hereby House of Representatives houses of Congress hundred Interior John Joint Committee joint resolution June June 30 Library lithographing machinery Mary material matter ment North Capitol street number of copies octavo Pamphlet paper Patent Office plates postal convention President Press Room printing and binding Public Printing quarto Revised Statutes Ruling Machine Secretary Senate session of Congress sewing sheets Smithsonian Institution Stereotype stitching Superintendent thereof Thos thousand tion Treasury Department United volumes Washington Wire Book
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Página 179 - No advertisement, notice, or proposal for any Executive Department of the Government, or for any bureau thereof, or for any office therewith connected, shall be published in any newspaper whatever, except in pursuance of a written authority for such publication from the head of such Department ; and no bill for any such advertising, or publication, shall be paid, unless there be presented, with such bill, a copy of such written authority.
Página 183 - ... last day shall fall on a Sunday, Christmas day, or on any day appointed by the President of the United States as a day of public fast or thanksgiving, or on the Fourth of July, in which case the time shall be reckoned exclusive of that day also § 4Q.
Página 162 - Printing, and the contracts shall be awarded by them to the lowest and best bidder for the interest of the Government...
Página 23 - Taylor; to make a pro raía reduction in the compensation allowed, or to refuse the work altogether, should it be inferior to the standard...
Página 169 - Be is further resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to forward copies of this Memorial to the President and the Vice President of the United States...
Página 16 - For the expenses of firewood, stationery, and printing work, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, ten thousand dollars. There was appropriated, in the same law, for like purposes: for the Secretary of State, including the publication of the laws of the first session of the Third Congress, $2,261.67; for the Treasury Department, $4,000; and for the War Department, $800.
Página 187 - An act making appropriations for sundry civil expens.es of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, and for other purposes...
Página 172 - Interior, including those for the use of the surveyors-general and registers and receivers of public land offices, two hundred and fifty copies; to the Post-Office Department...
Página 159 - Institution, three Members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate, and three Members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker...
Página 176 - ... and contracts entered into for the purchase of paper and other materials, and for lithographing and engraving...