pressions as a token, and eight pages for each form, octavo size, provided two hundred and forty impressions shall constitute a token except when the work ordered shall not amount to that many impressions, then any less quantity shall be counted as a token; for press work, per quire, of all blanks, circulars and other work of like character, when printed on one side of a sheet of folio post or any larger sized paper, for the first quire, one dollar and seventy-five cents; for the balance of the first ream, fifty cents per quire and twenty-five cents per quire for every quire in excess of one ream. When printed on note, letter, cap, or any larger paper, less than folio post, for the first quire one dollar and thirty cents; for the balance of the first ream thirty cents per quire, and twenty cents per quire for every quire in excess of one ream: Provided, that twentyfour impressions or any fractional excess thereof shall constitute a quire; and when the work ordered shall not amount to that many impressions, then any less number shall be considered as a quire. For printing bills and other documents of not more than six pages, for the current use of the legislature, two dollars and twenty-five cents per page for two hundred and fifty copies, and for any additional copies that may be ordered nothing additional shall be charged except for press work; and all bills and other documents exceeding six pages shall be estimated and paid for as book and pamphlet work. For ruling folio post, or any larger sized paper, single form, twenty cents per quire; each additional form fifteen cents per quire. For ruling note, letter, cap or any other paper less than folio post, single form, ten cents per quire, each additional form seven cents per quire.

4. For drying, pressing and folding by the printer no compensation shall be allowed to the contractor. For folding and stitching the laws, journals and other public documents, fifteen cents per hundred signatures; for binding full calf at the rate of one dollar per hundred signatures; sheep, eighty cents; for half binding, seventyfive cents; for muslin backs and paper covers, fifteen cents; for pamphlet binding in plain covers, two cents; for preparing the laws, journals and court reports for distribution, two dollars per hundred copies. For book paper, twenty-two cents per pound; for flat paper, thirty-two cents per pound; for record paper, forty-five cents per pound; for envelopes, 6's or less, $3.50 per thousand; 9's or less, $6.00 per thousand; 14's or less, $7.50 per thousand, and $1.50 per thousand for printing all envelopes ordered to be printed.

For making blank books of record ful! bound, Russia ends, fronts and bands, cap size, $1.75 per quire; demy, $2.25 per quire; medium, $2.75 per quire; royal, $3.25 per quire; super royal, $4.00 per quire; imperial, $5.25 per quire. Provided, that the paper used in books of record shall be of quality to be approved as aforesaid by the commissioners of printing, and of the following weights: Cap, twenty pounds per ream; demy, thirty-two pounds; medium, forty pounds; royal, forty-two pounds; super royal, fifty-two pounds;

imperial, sixty-six pounds; and that where such books are ordered the rates for making record books shall cover the whole cost including the price of paper.

5. The commissioners of public printing or any two of them, shall within two days after the expiration of the term for receiving proposals as aforesaid, proceed to open in public all such proposals by them received, and they shall award the contract for printing, binding, printing paper and stationery, to the lowest responsible bidder therefor.

If two or more persons bid the same and the lowest price, the commissioners shall award the contract to such one of them as, in their opinion, will best subserve the interest of the State; and the successful bidder shall, if he desire, have twenty days after notice of acceptance of his bid in which to commence the printing or binding under said contract.

6. The bills for the two houses of the legislature together with such resolutions and other matters as may be ordered by the two houses or either of them, to be printed in bill form, shall be printed with long primer type, each page to measure in width not less than thirty-one ems, and in length not less than fifty-four ems of the text type with a long primer reglet in each space between the lines. In estimating this class of work no entire blank page shall be counted or charged for.

7. (Acts 1872-3, p. 629.) The journals of the two houses of the legislature, all reports, communications or other other documents, except bills ordered by the legislature, or either branch thereof, executive documents, the laws and joint resolutions, and the reports of the decisions of the supreme court of appeals, shall be priated solid and without any reglet between the lines, except the captions or headings of the supreme court reports and laws, and shall be in size, style of printing, and binding in all respects equal to and uniform with the work of the same class, heretofore executed for the State.

8. (Acts 1875, p. 172.) In estimating the composition for the printing of blanks, blank-books, circulars and other like work the face of the type only, excluding the space occupied by leads or other fillings, shall be measured.

9. (Ib.) In estimating the composition of all laws, journals, public documents and pamphlets, every fraction of a page shall be counted as a full page, but no entire blank page shall be counted or charged for. But one charge shall be made for the composition of all documents ordered to be printed by both branches of the legislature and no charge or allowance shall be made for composition when extra or additional copies are ordered to be printed; but this rule shall only apply in the first instance to orders made, for the same document, on the same or succeeding day, by both branches of the legislature; and in the second instance to orders for additional copies which are made before the original order is filled. In esti

mating press-work, if any document makes less than eight pages, or if the last form is not a full form of eight pages the same shall be counted as a full form, except where two or more documents ordered can be printed on the same form.

10. (Acts 1872-3, p. 629.) When a contract has been made by the commissioners of public printing, it shall be submitted to the governor, and with it shall be submitted also, for his examination, the bond which accompanied the proposal accepted, the accepted proposal itself, and all competing proposals received by the commissioners. If the governor approve the contract thus submitted, he shall within two days after receiving the same, indorse the fact thereon, and transmit it to the auditor to be filed by him in the auditor's office. If the governor does not approve such contract, he shall within two days after receiving the same, notify the commissioners of the fact, and they shall proceed to re-let the contract, advertising for new proposals for such length of time as they may deem proper. The contract awarded under the re-letting herein provided for, shall take effect immediately or at such time as the commissioners shall direct, (not to exceed twenty days after such award,) upon the bond of the contractor or contractors being approved as sufficient by the attorney-general. In case of his disapproval of the contract or bond, as aforesaid, the commissioners may make a temporary contract for said printing, binding, stationery and printing paper, at rates not exceeding those prescribed by law. Upon the coutract being approved by the governor, at the time of the origina: letting or the bond being approved as sufficient by the attorney-general, in case of a re-letting of the contract as herein provided, the auditor shall immediately notify the successful bidder that his contract or bond, (as the case may be,) has been approved. If from death or any other cause there is a failure on the part of the contractor or contractors to proceed with the execution of the contract, within twenty days after notice of the acceptance of his bid, the commissioners shall proceed to re-let the contract to the lowest responsible bidder, subject to the approval of the attorneygeneral, as to the sufficiency of the bond, in the manner hereinbefore provided.

Any contract awarded for the contract period ending on the second Wednesday of January, 1875, and disapproved before the passage of this act, may be re-let by the commissioners as herein prescribed in cases of other disapprovals, and upon the approval of the bond by the attorney-general.

11. The secretary of state shall be the superintendent of public printing. He shall examine, estimate and determine the value of all work done by the contractor; and upon his estimate, accompanied by his official certificate of their correctness, the bills for paper, printing and binding shall be paid, but no bill shall be paid unaccompanied by the certificate of the said officer that the work therein charged for has been done and delivered. No certificate of

the said superintendent of public printing shall in any case be appended to accounts for work partially completed, nor shall any money be paid on any account for unfinished work or unfilled orders for paper. In case of any disagreement between the contractor and superintendent as to the measurement or value of any work, the commissioners of printing shall immediately hear and determine the case. Their decision shall be final, and the certificate of the superintendent shall be rendered in accordance therewith. The said superintendent shall see that the printing and binding be properly and promptly executed, and report any negligence on the part of the contractor to the commissioners of printing, who, for good cause, may transfer the work to others, holding the contractor and his sureties liable for any damage or additional cost that may be incurred by the State.

12. Contracts for paper, printing, binding and stationery may be annulled by the commissioners of public printing for failure or manifest inability of the contractors to comply therewith, especially in any one of the following instances: When the contractor for printing shall fail to supply the legislature with at least fifty separate pages of printed matter per day, should the current orders of the two houses require that amount; when he shall fail to print the acts and deliver them to the person authorized to receive them, within forty days after the adjournment of the legislature; or where the binder shall fail to bind them within thirty days after they are delivered to him: Provided, that no failure of the clerk to furnish the index or side notes shall, of itself, justify an abrogation of the contract; when the printer shall fail to print the journals of the two houses within two months after the adjournment of the legislature, or where the binder shall fail to bind them within four months after such adjournment: Provided, that no failure of the clerk to furnish his indexes promptly shall operate to the prejudice of either contractor, nor shall any failure on the part of the printer operate to the prejudice of the binder; when the printer shall fail to print and the binder to bind the reports of departments and institutions by the fifteenth day of January: Provided, that the copy of the treasurer's report be placed in the printer's hands by the fifteenth of October; the copy of the reports of institutions by the first of November, and the copy of the other reports by the twentieth of November preceding the fifteenth day of January, as aforesaid: And provided further, that the binder shall not be held responsible for the delay of the printer; when the contractor for paper shall deliver to the State any class of paper that may fall below the requirements of this act, or of the commissioners of public printing. The annulling of the contract under any of the conditions above set forth shall render a contractor and his sureties liable to the State for any damages that may be incurred thereby.

13. The superintendent of the state printing shall file with the auditor at the time of rendering his estimate therefor a copy of each

item of book, pamphlet or job work executed by the contractor. The actual number of ems or tokens in all work required to be so measured and estimated, shall be certified by the said superintendent as just and correct before the auditor shall audit the same.

And at least once in every six months, at such times as shall be designated by the said commissioners, the said superintendent shall make to said commissioners a report, in writing, of all books, documents, paper, envelopes, and all other articles and materials delivered to him by the contractor, together with the amount (and to whom) issued, used, worked up, lost, destroyed or in any manner disposed of by him; and also a detailed statement of the amount of all such articles and materials remaining on hand at the date of said report, which report and statement shall be sustained by the affidavit of said superintendent, and said reports shall be filed in the auditor's office.

14. The clerk of the house of delegates shall superintend the printing of the laws and all matter directed by law to be printed therewith; also the journal of the house and all printing ordered by the house, or by joint order or resolution of the two houses; and the clerk of the senate shall superintend the printing of the journal of the senate and all printing ordered by the senate. If any such printing or any other printing or binding required by the State be not properly and promptly executed, or if any paper or stationery contracted for be not properly and promptly delivered, the failure thereof shall be forthwith reported by the superintendent to the commissioners of public printing, and with the approval of said commissioners others may be employed to do the work or any part thereof, or furnish the paper or stationery or any part thereof, and should such printing, binding, paper or stationery exceed in cost the contract price, then the contractors for the public printing, binding, printing paper, or stationery, shall be liable to the State upon their bonds for such excess of costs.

15. (Acts 1875, p. 172.) Except as provided in the previous section, all officers of the State authorized to procure paper or stationery, or to have any printing or binding done at the expense of the State, are required to have the same done by the contractor or contractors for the public printing, binding and stationery, upon requisition made through the superintendent of public printing who is hereby authorized to order the same from the said contractor or contractors, and if he fail to do so the commissioners of public printing shall order the same; and no money shall be paid out of the treasury for paper, stationery, printing or binding done in contravention of this section.

16. The contractor or contractors for public printing and binding shall print and bind two hundred and fifty copies of the journal of the house of delegates, and the same number of the journal of the senate, in octavo form, and they shall be, substantially and in a workmanlike manner, half bound and delivered to the secretary of