8. In illustrating certain shapes or forms, as ⟙ rails, use gothic letters (case 288 cap. in long-primer text, and case 287 cap. in brevier text).
9. In solid matter, when extracts, etc., are set in smaller type, separate by using two leads; in leaded matter use three leads.
10. Use two leads before footnotes in all cases.
11. Where slugs are called for specially, use a slug of same body as type.
12. Separate center heads from text by slugs one size less than type used.
13. When two consecutive years are intended, set: 1875-76, 1801-2; when more than two consecutive years are intended: 1875-1879, 1895-1904; when two or more distinct years are intended: 1894, 1895; 1873, 1876; 1888, 1891, 1894.
14. When laws are set in long-primer type, document measure, the first line of the enacting clause must be set so as to conform to the following examples:
_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United_
_Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States_
15. In indexes, when the page folios overrun, retain only the first folio number in the leader line; but when necessary to save an overrun, figures may be run back to within an em leader of the words. When the folios overrunning make two or more lines, indent evenly not less than seven ems on the left, the folios in excess of even-length lines to be worked into the leader line. When the figures extend back into the leader line, use an en quad between the leaders and the first figure.
16. Never divide a word in a headline if it can possibly be avoided. In subhead and legend lines it is not necessary to make the first line full.
17. Always keep together, at the beginning or end of a line, such abbreviations as U. S. N.; D. C.; N. Y.; N. J.; M. D., etc. The contractions esq., sr., and jr. should always be in the same line with the name they follow.
18. Never divide the last word of a paragraph if it can be avoided; overrun if necessary. The last line of a paragraph should contain at least a four-letter word.
Unless special directions are given--sometimes necessary in particular cases--the following rules govern the printing of bills:
1. Bills are always set in English type, full-slugged.
2. A new bill is always all roman, italic being used only for the enacting clause and the word “_Provided_.”