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Show Tho Government I'rliiltn Oltiec. Washington, 8. Congressional Printer Clapp slates with re thence to the cases ol misappropriation of . money derived from the sale ot public pub-lic properly, that he has merely applied such receipts to the p.iymenl of employes on the pay roll. He snys the law limits the amount that the congressional printer cm draw in advmve from the treasury to two thirds of the amount of bis bond; tiial when t he work w:is increased by authorizing die olliee to print the Coiitwsiwl Record the pay roll was increased beyond tin: amount that on Id be thus drawn, and he therefore followed tbe practice of hi predecessor predeces-sor by usini the proceeds of sides tc supply tbe deficiency, as the only means of preventing a stoppage of Lht government works. |