Public Printing (1876)

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48

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82 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tablishment, who is also foreman 'of printing, H. T. Brian, who being examined in reference to his department answers as follows: By Mr. Singleton: Question. How is it possible, then, for Congress to judge of the correctness of work done in the Congressional Printing Oftice if you lump your charges, as you have stated yon do ? Answer, we lump them on one job; we would not lump that job with something else. Q. Is this the only job you do where you lump the charges ? A. We charge the work at sixty cents. What we lose on the lean we gain on the fat. Q. Do your books, then, show in any instance the cost and detailed statement of anyjoo of work done in that office 1 A. They will show the approximate cost. Q. Could any expert in book-keeping take the books kept in the Congressional Printing Office ana figure out under each head what any job of work has cost ? A. He could not on one job; he could on the whole. Q. What do you mean by " he could on the whole 1" A. On the whole amount of work done. Q. Where errors have been made in the cost of composition, or binding, or any other item going to make up the expenses, could any expert tell when and how those errors have occurred ? A. I don't believe he could. Q. Don't you know he could not ? A. I don't believe he could. Q, In regard to the charges for the press-work, don't the books of the Congressional Printing Office show that charges have been made for more press-work than has absolutely been done hi the office ? A. The books show press-work on every job. The fact is, we combine the jobs where they can be combined. Q. When you combine them and make but one impression, turning out eight separate jobs, do you not find the press-work charged eight times on that particu- larjob? A. Yes, ...

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