ll of the executive and judicial
8 departments at Washington, and for the Senate and House of
9 Representatives and the Congressional printing office.

1 Sec. 3. _And be it further enacted_, That the heads of
2 the several executive and judicial departments, and the Secretary
3 of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives,
4 shall, on or before the twentieth day of November, in
5 each year, furnish, or cause to be furnished, to the Congressional
6 Printer estimates of the articles and the quantity of each
7 which will be required for their several departments for the
8 year following.

1 Sec. 4. _And be it further enacted_, That the Joint Committee
2 on Public Printing shall then fix upon standards of
3 paper for the different descriptions of public printing, and for
4 all stationery and articles required, and the Congressional
5 Printer shall, under their direction, advertise in two newspapers
6 published in each of the cities of Boston, New York,
7 Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Cincinnati, and in
8 any other city where in their judgment it may become necessary,
9 for sealed proposals to furnish the government with
10 paper and all other articles of the quality and in the quantities
11 specified in the advertisement, which shall specify the
12 quantity and quality of all the articles required; and he shall
13 furnish to the applicants samples of the standard articles
14 which have been adopted.

1 Sec. 5. _And be it further enacted_, That the advertisements
2 for sealed proposals shall specify the minimum portion
3 of each article required for either three months, six months,
4 or one year, as the Joint Committee on Public Printing may
5 determine; but when the minimum portion so specified exceeds
6 in any case one thousand reams of paper, the advertisements
7 shall state that proposals will be received for one
8 thousand reams or more.

1 Sec. 6. _And be it further enacted_, That all sealed proposals
2 to furnish any article shall be opened in the presence
3 of the Joint Committee on Printing, and the contracts shall be
4 awarded by the committee to the lowest and best bidder for
5 each article or class for the interest of the government; but
6 they shall not consider any proposal which is not accompanied
7 by satisfactory evidence that the person making it is a manufacturer
8