States.

Number, term of office (years), salaries, etc.—Continued.

* In Ohio and a few other States, where the legislative sessions are biennial, the legislature holds adjourned sessions," practically amounting to annual meetings.

The Rhode Island legislature is required to meet annually the last Tuesday in May, at Newport, and an adjourned session to be holden annually at Providence. Unless extended by special vote.

STATE LEGISLATURES, RESOLUTIONS of.

(See JOINT RESOLUTIONS.)

STATIONERY.

The act of June 20, 1874 (Laws, 1, 43, p. 4), revived the laws in force in regard to stationery prior to March 3, 1873.

By the act of August 26, 1842, it is provided that all stationery, of every name and nature, for the use of the House of Representatives, shall be furnished by contract by the lowest bidder. The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall advertise, once a week for at least four weeks, in one or more of the principal papers published in the city of Washington, for sealed proposals for furnishing such articles, or the whole of any particular class of articles, specifying in such advertisement the amount, quantity, and description of each kind of articles

to be furnished; and all such proposals shall be kept sealed until the day specified in such advertisement for opening the same, when they shall be opened by or under the direction of the Clerk, in the presence of at least two persons; and the person offering to furnish any class of such articles, and giving satisfactory security for the performance thereof, under a forfeiture not exceeding twice the contract price in case of failure, shall receive a contract for doing the same; and in case the lowest bidder shall fail to enter into such contract and give such security within a reasonable time, to be fixed by such advertisement, then the contract shall be given to the next lowest bidder who shall enter into such contract and give such security. And in case of a failure to supply the articles by the person entering into such contract, he and his sureties shall be liable for the forfeiture specified in such contract, as liquidated damages, to be sued for in the name of the United States in any court having jurisdiction thereof.-Stat. at Large, Vol. V, pp. 526, 527. See also Stat. at Large, Vol. XXIV, p. 596.

By a resolution of the House on the 24th of July, 1868 (Journal, 2, 40, p. 1173), it is provided that the Clerk be authorized, as the agent of the House, to purchase, in the manner provided by law, on the best terms he may find practicable, such stationery as may be requisite for the use of the House and Clerk's office, giving preference in all cases to American manufacture, provided it be equally cheap and of as good quality; that he cause to be recorded in a well-bound book, suited to that purpose, the bills and invoices of all the stationery he may so purchase from time to time; that he deliver to the members of Congress and officers hereinafter named the amounts of stationery hereinafter specified, keeping an accurate account of the same, and also of the quantity and value of that used in the Clerk's office; and that hereafter, in the annual reports now required by law to be made by the Clerk, showing the amount of expenditure from the contingent fund of the House, he be required to state, accurately and distinctly, the quantity and cost of all the stationery delivered pursuant to the provisions hereof and that used in the Clerk's office; also the amount remaining on hand at the time of making such statement, and the amount of unexpended appropriation for stationery: Pro

det. That the amount frusei a nenders of Cingress By le amarezt na enge ten.

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And he is also authorized and required to deliver to every chairman of the committees of the House, for the use of sch committees, and to the Postmaster, Sergeant-at-Arms, and Doorkeeper, for the use of their respective offices, at every session of Congress, similar articles of stationery, not exceeding in value an amount which from time to time shall be fixed upon by the Committee on Accounts and approved by the Speaker.

By the act of the second session Fortieth Congress it is provided that no Representative shall receive any newspaper except the Congressional Globe; or stationery, or commutation therefor, exceeding $125 for any one session of Congress.-Stat. at Large, Vol. XV, p. 35.

STATUTES AT LARGE.

TABLE showing the contents of the twenty five volumes of the Statutes at Large.

5 Statutes of the 24th to the 28th Congresses, inclu- Jan. 14, 1836, to Mar. 3, 1845.

6

sive.

Private laws enacted by the first twenty-eight 1789-1845.
Congresses.

7

Indian treaties made during the first twenty- 1789-1815.
eight Congresses.

8 Foreign treaties made during the first twenty. 1789-1845.
eight Congresses.

[NOTE.-The synoptical index to the laws of the United States is an excellent analytical index to the first nine volumes. The Revised Statutes, second edition, contains the amendatory acts passed up to the close of the second session Forty-fourth Congress, ending March 4, 1877. The Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia and postroads, passed first session Forty-third Congress, contain also the public treaties in force on December 1, 1873. The supplement to the Revised Statutes, published in 1881, contains leg. islation of Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses, volumes 18, 19, 20, and 21.]

STENOGRAPHERS.

(See REPORTERS.)

STRIKE OUT, MOTION TO.

A motion to strike out and insert is indivisible; but a motion to strike out being lost, shall preclude neither amendment nor motion to strike out and insert.-RULE XVI, clause 7.

"If it is proposed to amend by striking out a paragraph, the friends of the paragraph are first to make it as perfect as they can by amendments before the question is put for striking it out."-Manual, p. 158.

Where it is voted affirmatively to strike out certain words and insert A, it is not afterward in order to strike out A and insert B.-Ibid., p. 159.

After A is inserted, however, it may be moved to strike out a portion of the original paragraph comprehending A, provided the coherence to be struck out be so substantial as to make this effectively a different proposition.-Ibid., p. 159.

(See AMENDMENT.)

A motion to recommit with instructions to strike out a paragraph or section inserted by the House is not in order, for the reason that it would not be in order as an amendment.-Journal, 1, 49, p. 2363. For the reason that it is not in order to do indirectly that which the House can not do directly.

STRIKE OUT ENACTING CLAUSE.

(See ENACTING CLAUSE, MOTION TO STRIKE OUT.)

SUBPOENAS.

(See also PROCESSES OF THE HOUSE.)

The question of the right of the file clerk of the House to produce before a court-martial a certain paper on the files of the House, under a subpoena duces tecum, having been referred to the Judiciary Committee in the first session of the Forty-sixth Congress, that committee, through its chairman (Mr. Knott), made an elaborate report on the question on the 22d of April,