Weekly Council Bluffs bugle. (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1857-1860, 1858-05-19

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any saofe daaalte dates shaa tAese given
ahoTe.
Feaf eommittee further md thai shs blll
81 ssid Prinser has hsea audited led paid
In full.
Nouf committee further find that The last
session u Ehe tseheral Assembly passed
law reducing the compensation for the psAs-
lle printing, which vas approved IsnnaFy
18th, 1857. Said Lag was To Take eject
from and after its Publication In the Iowa
City Republican and Maquoksta Excelsior,
the papsf pabiished by said Ssass printpr
said law vas published In the Iowa City
Republican on the 2lst Of February, but
was not published In the mcquoketa Ex-
eeiaioF aatii the 18th Of Juns, 1851. BIZ
reason on fhna Withholding che publication
- all Ew 1kmaA,s
until the 18Th Of Jaus, 1851. and thus pre-
ysntiBg said law greEa taxing effect At the
time contemplated BIZ Tia General Aasam-
| blys faaa said State Printer obtained eanl-
penaagion for moat Of the public printing az
ihs rates provided by fhe former Rw,
which the GeAsraI Assembly expressly de-
signed to repeal, which repeal was only
prevented from taking eject by fhs neglect
u said Printer 10 perform his duty and
publish &Saa law at the time it was passed,
thsfaby iaas sing his compensation and
the piles % ths State printing 10 q large
amaHAs.
| Your COMMITTEES furthsT fad that the An
otter oE State employed CEum O. Boys, Of
Iowa City, to print the Census Reports, by
contrast, al Zoe. per 1000 ems.
That said Census Reports wags printed
and nearly ready fax distribution In june.
/ 1851, bat wes8 net distributed ap 20 the
time Of the commencement Of tbs pFsBeht
session Oh the GensEal Assembly, although
the law provided ''that . sasR a. said Cen
sus Returns are pxinted and ready for dis~
tributioh, 1t shall be the duty Of said All
ditog 10 diatributs the sasas p &c. Tbs
lRw also provided that st AssAktor should
have, for indsxing and aaakang said distEi-
button, three huadrsd dollars; oAe hundred
and hfty dollars Of which was dxAwn On
the 3lAt day OF January, and the remaining
one hundred and afkY dollars on the 10th
| daE Of February, 1887.
Your eommftts further 6nd that sald
Sta1s Priatsg has printed and received
compensation for TO large volumes, Of
T43 pagsa each, 90 as which contained
tia samsa maaiasi the daly difference being
in the title page, one beiBgAntitlsd "StHafs
DoeGmeats,H and tbs ether "Hsass uOcu-
ments." Ysar eommittes has not been
able to and any law or precedent aulhori-
Eing the printing Of said books. We find
Ia the senRks oaFnxi Of the last Geasral
Assembly, page aS0, that resolution was
adopted, providing that 40 documents As an
/ appendix to Senate Journal should be
printed, except EAs Report Of the Desmpiass
River commissioRsE, and ths report Of the
committee to investigate the affairs of the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, and
other stats oEseers, naRe Of which are
IpriRted In the books above referred ID. II
Is also worthy OF re@ark that the Census
Returns complete, eomPrisiRg All pages,
more than ons-hah of said books. are Brint-
ed ia sach Of said books, although the-Ssh-
sTal Assembly had provided By Law for the
printing and distribution Of said Returns in
a sspaFTts book.
YouE committee IL informea that after
TCrum q Roys had the fora set up, and had
printed said Cshaas Reports as per eoa'ract.
before referred 10, hat said State Printer
procured tham 10 work oH, en- paper fur
nixhed By the State, the Census Reports
Eembraeed In said beoka, which would coat
bat small Bun, - tbs form was already
set up, which was thersupoa bound Ih said
books, for which said State Printer charged
the State, and Was allowed 10 cents per
1000 eIas, (alihoagh Crum BoYe sst up
the form and priated tha same for the State
under e0atTAss at 20 eents Per 1000 ems,
all OF which was paid for at the ratsa 6xsd
~ The former law, az said State Printer
dld not pabliah the law reducing the rates
OF printing until after the aforesaid work
was done.
Your committee End that said State Prtn.
ter received the sum Of SIS, 4s6, 10 for print
Ing the two books before referred to, Tor
which we can find no authority Of law
The printing has also involved the State
ia the expense Of paper and binding. But
even admitting that II vac proper 70 print
the documents Of the Geaeral Assembly.
but one act should have bsen printed, which
should NOT have embraced Tie Census Re-
ports.
We are clearly Of the ouaaion that the
evasion Of the law by said State Printer in
negleeting to publish the same, the neglect
10 publish the laws by the time prescribed
| by law, the publication Of two books unau-
thoEized BY Law, under merely diAersnt
names, embracing improper matter, are
proper subjects for judicial Investigation.
We shsTssOrs recommend the adoption Of
the following resolution:
JARIus &. NEAL.
HkA TRIMBLg,
sANEEL REIEER,
CGasNsREtsa