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office at Ottawa under the direction of the Superintendent of 
printing appointed by the Governor-General in Council. 
A branch of the department called the Stationery Office Station 
is under the management of the Superintendent of stationery, _y- 
an official appointed by the Governor-General in Council. 
He is authorized to purchase all paper or stationery required 
for printing, or for Parliament, or for the departments. In 
the case of paper necessary for Parliamentary printing, or for 
printing either the Canada Gazette or the departmental 
reports, purchases are made in accordance with contracts 
entered into, after tenders have been called for. In other 
cases the purchases are made by the Superintendent after 
approval by the Minister or the Queen’s Printer. 
The Superintendent of stationery supplies all articles of 
stationery to the different departments of state upon requi- 
sition signed by the Deputy Head, and to either House of 
Parliament upon the requisition of a Clerk of the House. 
He also has charge of both the sale of all official 
publications and the distribution of all public documents 
and papers. All moneys received by him are paid over to 
the Consolidated Fund. 
3. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
In 1879 a portion of the duties, up to that year per- 
formed by the Department of Public Works, was assigned to 
a new department called the Department of the Interior’, to 
be presided over by the Minister of the Interior. 
The statutory duties assigned to the department are : — 
(1) The management and control of the affairs of the Duties. 
North-West Territories. The grant of a constitution to these 
Territories has to a large extent relieved the department of 
this duty. 
(2) The control and management of all Crown lands 
being the property of the Dominion, including those known 
as ordnance and admiralty lands, and all other public lands 
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