Publication and distribution of public documents. Communication from J.G. Ames, Superintendent of Documents, Department of the Interior, A.R. Spofford, Librarian of Congress, and Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives relative to the publication and distribution of public documents. December 22, 1882. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing and ordered to be printed