Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-28
Sonth Carolina gaws.
AN ACT
To Regulate the Public Printing.

To Regulate the Public Printing.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of South Carroll
ma, now met and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority of the same:
Section l. That it shall be the duty of the
clerk ofthe Senate and the clerk of the House,
Immediately after the passage Of this act, and
thereafter on the first day of December of ev-
cry second year, to advertise, for ten days, in
the daily papers Of Charleston and Columbia,
for sealed proposals for executing, for the term
of two years, the permanent and current print
ing Of the General Assembly as follows: 100
copies per day of the Senate calendar; 200
copies per day of the House calendar; 100
copies per day of the Senate journal; 250
cpies per day of the House journal 100 copies
of Senate bills and joint resolutions; 200
copies of House bills and joint resolutions;
1900 copies of the Governors messages; 500
copies each of the reports of the treasurer, at
torney- general, secretary Of State, comptrol-
ler-general, adjutant and inspectorgeneral,
superintendent of education; 500 copies each
of the reports Of the various public institu-
tions, such as Penitentiary, Lunatic Asylum,
State Orphan House, &C.. $500 copies of the
acts and joint resolutions; 500 copies Of the
journals Of the House and Senate 500 copies
of the reports and resolutions; 800 copies of
the Supreme Court decisions, (with the excu-
sive right to the State printer to print and
sell as many additional copies as he may deem
fit J together with such other printing Of eve
ry kind as may be ordered by the General
Assembly, or either branch thereof, and also
the printing required for the Executive and
other departments Of State, for and during
the said term of two years.
Sec. g. The said proposals shall state at
what price per page the party making the pro-
posals will print the number Of copies herein
required of each Of the said documents and
papers; and, also, provide all the materials
therefor, fold, stitch and trim the same; at
what price per page the party will furnish
each additional hundred copies of any such
documents or papers that may be ordered;
and at what price per volume the party will
bind, in law calf, the Supreme Court decisions
and 200 copies each of the acts and joint res
olutions, journals and reports and resolutions.
Sec. g. Such sealed proposals SHALL in eve
ry instance, be accompanied by bond, in
the sum Of thirty-fve thousand dollars, signed
by the party or parties making the proposals,
with two or more responsible persons as secu-
rites, conditioned, should the proposal be ac-
cepted, for the faithful performance of the
work in accordance with the bid contained in
the proposals; and no sealed proposals shall
be considered unless accompanied with such
bond and an agreement in writing to make
no discrimination on account of race or color
in the employment of printers.
Sec. 4. That the said sealed proposals shall
be addressed, one copy respectively, to the
chairman of the committee on printing of the
House of Representatives, and one copy to the
chairman of the printing committee of the
Senate, and within ten days after the meeting
of the General Assembly they shall open in
the presence of their respective committees
jointly such proposals by them received, and
award the contract to the lowest responsible
bidder for the same; Provided, That no con-
tract be awarded to exceed the sum of fifty
thousand dollars for the printing of any one
year.
Sec 5. That all acts or parts of acts, and
all joint resolutions or parts of joint resolu-
tions, inconsistent with this act be and the
same are hereby repealed.
Approved March II, Il. D. 1874.