Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-12
TdE CRY pRINIING.

By proceedings Of Council on Tuesday night, it
will be seen an effort was made electa City Prin-
ter, and as guidance for the Council IN their
action, a committee was appointed to receive
proposals from the Press Of the City, TO sec, we
presume, who would do it cheapest, and elect
accordingly. We have but one law in existence
in relation to this subject, the one passed on the
a1st OF February, 1856, and under which the
printing, is nov done. That Law provides that
the publications Of the city shall be done in t'e0
papers and that each shall be paid for its labor
az follows:-One insertion, 80 cents per square;
9 insertions, 95 cents; 3insertions, 30 cents;
week, 81 40; weeks, $3.50; and when the
length exceeds 10 squares, q reduction of 10
per cent. on the above bill. These prices are
low enough, as any printer viii see at glance,
scarcely the rates charged by the country press
for advertising In their weekly papers. But
whenever the Council shall repeal this Law, and
decide in what manner the work is to be done
hereafter, we will be prepared to make our '6id "
However, we think the Council voted Tues
day night under miSapprchension of what the
law really is The ordinance referred to by the
Mayor, providing for the election of City Print
or. the Wharton ordinance of 1860 was re-
pealed ON the 21st of February, 1856. To show.
that we are right in this, we extract from the
proceedings OF Council Of that date:-
'Mr. Jacob presented an ordinance entitled
An ordidance repeating all ordinances hereto
fore passed concerning city Printer and Print
ing for the city which being twice heard, was
passed in tenor and form as recorded IN Ordi-
nance Book No. 2, page 425.
ION motion of Mr. JACOB the following order
was passed.
Ordered, That committee Of three to be call.
cd the Committee on Printing, beGppointed, and
that the subject of printing be referred to said
committee with direction to report at next meet
ing some plan proper in its opinion for procnr-
ing the necessary printing for the city.
"WhereuPon the Mayor appointed as said
committee, Messrs Htzhugh, Forbes and Dor
sew"
The ordinance adopted above, is recorded in
Ordinance Book No. 2, page 425, in words as
follows:
''-4n Oy1liaraee Tspealiug all Ordinances here.
t0torc passed cotcer1iiRg a CITY Printer and
Printing. tor. the city.
81. Be it ordained that the ordinance provid-
ing for the election of City Printer, and all
ordinances concerning printing for the city, be
and the same are hereby repealed.
49, This ordinance shall bc in force from and
after the 21st day Of February, 1855.
PASSED February 81, 1856.
Read and approved, signed and attested,
Feb g. 1855.
GEO. W. SrcHTs, Clerk"
From the proceedings of Council of the 2sth
of February, 1885, we make the following ex-
tracts:
"The special committee appointed to report
proper plan to be adopted by the Council in re-
iation to the city printing, made report; which
being under consideration, the LIST and End Sec
tons of saidreport were severally, on motion,
adopted.
'';rhe Sd section of said report being under
consideration, Mr.. Jacob moved to strike out the
word "twO, "(newspapers,l and the ayes and
noes being called, said motion was lost by the
following YOte-Ayes 8, Noes IL
"And therefore the said third section was
adopted, and also the remaining part of said re-
port was adopted, and ordered to be filed"
The main features of the above report were,
that the printing of the City should be done in
two papers, and the prices paid for printing
should be as before stated, and it is the same
law under which the AFgUs and InteLIigsacer
ure now doing the Printing. Whatever course
the Council may deem best to adopt for doing
the printing in thefuture, will be cheestnlly ac-
quiesced in by US. All we wish to do by this
article is to SGT the Council right, and rot have
them elect a printer under a law repealed year
ago. Honestly, we think tho present law is
right and proper, and will continue to think so,
should it remain in force, whether we get any
of the printing ornot.