REPORT OF THE CHIEF, DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS, SIR: I have the honor to present herewith my annual report as Chief of the Division of Publications for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911. During the year the Department issued 3,337 requisitions on the Public Printer, calling for the printing of nearly 12,400,000 blank forms, 5,276,000 reports and pamphlets, 2,254,000 letterheads, 98,000 envelopes, 371,000 circulars and decisions, and 3,507,000 memorandum sheets; the making of about 2,268,000 index and guide cards and folders, and 28,000 blank books, and the binding of nearly 3,000 miscellaneous volumes. Of blank forms there was an increase during the year in the number printed of nearly 2,750,000, or 28.40 per cent; of reports, pamphlets, etc., there was an increase of about 2,160,000, or 69.16 per cent; of letterheads an increase of 197,500, or 9.60 per cent; of envelopes an increase of 12,700, or 14.81 per cent; of circulars and decisions an increase of 19,750, or 5.63 per cent; of index cards an increase of 650,500, or 65.44 per cent, and of guide cards and folders an increase of 197,000, or 46.18 per cent. There were slight decreases in the number of miscellaneous books bound and in the number of memorandum sheets printed, while of blank books made there was a decrease of 24,908, or 47.02 per cent, due to the increased use of blank forms for record and index purposes. In addition, orders to the number of 500 were placed with the envelope contractors for the making and printing of about 7,200,000 penalty envelopes, while orders were placed with the contractors for the making of 182,855 sheets of special watermarked papers on which to print declarations of intention and petitions for naturalization, and 59,929 sheets of the distinctive safety paper on which to print certificates of naturalization. During the year there were received from the various outside. services of the Department 11,918 requisitions for blank forms and 329 requisitions for printed stationery and from the bureaus and offices of the Department located in Washington 380 requisitions for printed stationery. The 11,918 requisitions for blank forms called for 8,822,000 blanks and 344,000 books and pamphlets, and the 709 requisitions for printed stationery for 7,200,000 envelopes, 2,250,000 letterheads, 3,300,000 memorandum sheets, 8,000 ste26321°- -C & L 1911- -48 753 nographers' notebooks, 5,300 blank books, 1,150,000 index and guide cards, 158,000 vertical folders, and 132,000 blank forms. Further, there were distributed by the Division during the fiscal year a total of approximately 5,000,000 reports and pamphlets, a number largely in excess of the total issues of the Department for any prior fiscal year. Taken as a whole these summary figures show maximum results from the appropriation and facilities available and a substantial increase in accomplishments over the preceding year. APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES. Appropriations.-There was allotted to the Department for printing and binding during the last fiscal year $375,000, and for the publication of the World Trade Directory, prepared by the Bureau of Manufactures, a further allotment of $6,500 was made, making the total amount available for printing and binding for the Department in Washington, D. C., and its various outside services, exclusive of the Bureau of the Census, $381,500. No allotment was made for printing for the Bureau of the Census, as the lump appropriation for the Thirteenth Decennial Census provided for the cost of the printing for that Bureau. The act authorizing the publication of the World Trade Directory provided that the volume should be sold by the Public Printer in accordance with the law governing the sale of public documents at not less than $5 per volume. The act provided also that 100 copies of the Directory should be delivered to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for the use of the Bureau of Manufactures. Expenditures. Of the $375,000 available for printing and binding, $370,030.22 was expended, leaving a balance of $4,969.78 in this fund to be covered into the Treasury. The total allotment ($6,500) for printing the World Trade Directory was consumed in printing one copy of the work, the Department paying out of its general allotment $840.45 for 100 bound copies and 50 copies printed on one side for office use by the Bureau of Manufactures. The increase in expenditures for the regular work of the Department as compared with the fiscal year 1910 was $8,499.79, or 2.35 per cent. COST OF PRINTING AND BINDING, BY BUREAUS. There was no allotment during the year of amounts that could be spent by the different offices, bureaus, and services of the Department for printing and binding, each request from whatever source in the Department being considered on its individual merits. The Division keeps a record, however, of all expenditures from this fund by offices, bureaus, and services, and the following table shows the cost of the work for each of them, other than the Bureau of the Census, during the fiscal years 1910 and 1911, together with the estimated cost of the work on hand but not completed on June 30, 1911. 1 Of this amount, $1,337.43 was for supplies furnished to the Bureau of the Census, which reimbursed the Department's allotment to that extent. QUANTITY AND COST OF PRINTING AND BINDING, BY CLASSES. The following statement shows the amount and cost of each class of work called for by requisitions on the Public Printer during the fiscal year 1911 and affords a comparison with the amount and cost of similar classes ordered during the preceding fiscal year. The increase in the number of reports and pamphlets printed in 1911 over 1910 is due principally to the act of June 25, 1910, which authorized the edition of the Daily Consular and Trade Reports to be increased from 10,000 to not exceeding 20,000 copies. More than |