Section 2
SEC. 2. There shall be a Chief of the Bureau of Public Printing, who must be a practical printer and versed in the art of bookbinding, who shall receive an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars and who shall be known as the Public Printer. The duties of the Public Printer shall be: To take charge of all matter which is to be printed, engraved, lithographed, or bound; to keep an account thereof in the order in which it is received; to cause, the work to be promptly executed, and to assign any employee of any department of the Public Printing Office temporarily to another department, thereof, providing the interests of the public service will thereby be advanced. To superintend all printing, engraving, lithographing, and binding done at the Philippine Public Printing Office; to see that the sheets or volumes are promptly delivered to the person who is authorized to receive them, and the receipt of the person authorized to receive them shall be a sufficient voucher for their delivery. To make an annual report to the Civil Governor, through the Secretary of Public Instruction, and in it to specify the titles and the number of copies of each form, sheet, document, pamphlet, or volume printed, indicating in each case the authority under which the printing was done, and also to specify in said report the exact number of copies of books bound, giving the titles of the books and indicating in each case the authority under which the binding was done, and showing in detail at the same time the cost of the printing done under the orders of each of the several officers having authority to approve orders or requisitions for printing, and giving account of stock and supplies used and the amount on hand, and to make such other reports from time to time as the Secretary of Public Instruction shall require. To employ workmen who are thoroughly skilled in their respective branches of industry as shown by trial of their skill under his direction, in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Service Act. To deposit in the library of the Commission two copies of each document, pamphlet, or volume printed, which shall be properly bound, indexed, and preserved in this library; also to preserve in the office of the Public Printer one copy of each form, sheet, document, pamphlet, or volume printed, numbered according to the numbers of the orders under which they are printed; also to forward to the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, District of Columbia, one copy of each publication of a public nature.