The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-03-12

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That there shall be superintendent of
the public printing, who shall hold his
Office for the term of two yeals, who
shall receive for lis services a salary of
twenty-five hundred dollars per annum,
and who shall give bond with two sure
ties to be approved by the Secretary of
the Interior, in the penalty of twenty
thousand dollars for the faithful discharge
Of his duty under this law. The said
superintendent shall be practical prn-
ter, verSed in the various branches of
the arts of printing and book binding
and he shall not be interested directly
or indirectly in any contract for printing
for Congress or for any department Of
bureau of the government of the United
States. The first superintendent under
this law shall hold his office until the
commencement of the thirty-third Con-
gress, and the Superintendeuts thereaf.
ter appointed shall hold their Offices for
two years, commencing with the first
day of the session of each Congress.
Sec 3. And be ii .fwtAer enacted,
That it shall be the duty of said super
inlendent to receive from the Secretary
of the Senate and Clerk of the House
of Representatives all matter ordered
by Congress TO be printed, and from the
several chiefs of departments and heads
of bureaus all matter ordered by them
respectively, to be printed at the public
expense, and to keep faithful account
of the same, IN the order 10 which the
same shall be received, in a book or
books TO be by him kept for that pur-
pose. He shall deliver said matter TO
tue public printer or printers in the or
der in which it shall be received, unless
otherwise ordered bythe Joint committee
on printing. He shall inspect the work,
when executed by the public printer or
printers, and shall record in book or
books, to be by him KEEP, for that pur-
pose, the dates at which the returns of
said work ale made and whether the
same is executed in a neat and work.
man'ike manner, upon the paper iun-
iShrd to the public printers by said sup
erintendent, and the amount allowed by
said superintendent for the said print
Ing 1t shall be lis duty TO le,ise the
execution Of the public printing, to in.
Snrct the work when executed, and 10
see that the same is done with nratness
and despatch; to report every failure or
delinquency on the pat of the public
printer, and from time to time TO report
the said drlinQuencieS to the joint com
mittee Of Congress on printing, He
shall issue his certificate for the amount
due to the public printer for such work
as shall have been faithfully executed,
which certificate shall be made PAYABLE
to the public printer at the treasury Of
the United States, and shall not be as
sIgnablc OF transferable by Endorsement
or delivery 10 any third party. Said
certificate of the superintendent shall
be sufficient voucher for the comptlol-
Ter to pass, and for the treasurer, upon
the order Of the second comptroller, Ia
pay the same. So .....
Sec. A. And be Il JurtAer enacted,
That il shall be tie dnIy of the said su-
perintrndent of the public printing tc
advertise annually in one or more news.
papers Of general circulation in the
cities of Boston, New York, hladel-
phia, Baltimore, Washington, New Or
leans; Louisville, and Cincinnati, for the
space of sixty days prior to the first OI
December, for sealed proposals to fur
!, nish the government of the United States
all paper which may be necessary fol
the execution of the public printing, o.
quality and in quantity to be specified
in the said advertisements from year tc
year. He shall open such proposals a:
may be made, in the presence of the
President of the Senate and Speaker o.
The House of Representatives, on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday 81
December annually, provided Speaker
shall have been elected, ,or as soon there.
after as a speaker shall have been cleo
ted, and shall award the cont act fol
furnishing all of said paper, or such class
thereof as may be bid for TO the lowest
bidder, whose sample, accompanying his
bid, slsll most nearly approximate tc
the quality of paper (sizp, weight, and
texture all considered advertised fol
by the said superintendent The sam
pie offered with the bid accepted shal
be preserved by the said superintendent
and it shall be bis duty to compare these
with The naner furnished bv the nubli(