Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-01-29

priated, viz. Under joint resolution OF
December 81, 1879, 20 ply the clalms
of tie Republican Pr:D ing Company,
$1,000; under act o Jan sary 30. Lei
ior current printing. S55.U .U0S under un
act to make appropriations and raise
supplies for the fiscal year cpnmencing
Move mber /, 1873, approved Fe nruary
l6, l73, for permanent printing 81 GOO.
At the special just closed there vas aL-
propriated, under act of'November 10,
1873. for printing imm grafton report,
ST5, ZOO; for printing decisions OF the Su-
preme Court, $4,000; for priI ting tax
dup 'icates, &c., S25, 900; so that the ag-
g,egate of appropriations to the Repubi,
can Printing Company during the last
twelve months amount to $iT4;000. The
Legislature has a'so appropriated during
the same period 100000 for pub. shing
the laws. The tO!a revenues of the
State from all resous ces during the fiscal
year ending October 81, 1878, were,
according to the State treasurer's report,
Sl,7l9,72S.3I.
In the statement of the treasurer of
undrawn appropriations, or deficiencies,
at the close Of the fiscal year ending
October 81, 1873; we find. Free schools,
S2l6, 1880 sa aries, SIG, 6,064.93; State
Normal School, S24,9S0 State Orphan
House, SIS, ,526. 3S; Lunatic Asylum,
80, ,9l5.7l; cureLt printing, $1,000; per-
manent printing, 49,, ,5S9. SO. The last
two item only have been provided for.
The act of November l9, 1873, authoriz-
es and requires the State treasurer to
issue certificates of indebtedness, reciev-
able for taxes, to4the Republican Print
ing Company, for 800, ,5S993, with
interest, and for the additional amount
Of sl25,0O0, appropriated by the act OF
November 10, 1873.
The contra ct for the prin ing is given
to the Republican Printing Company
under authority of the act of January %,
1871, as follows: "And they (the clerks
respectively of the Senate and House OF
Representatives. are further authorized
to provide by contract for the permanent
and current printing of the General As
sembly: Proriied, That said contract be
approved by the Senate and House of
Representatives" The present contract
is found on pages LASS and l ,426 Of
reports and resolutions Of the General
Assembly, 1S7O-'71, and sigued by j.
Woodruff and A. D. Jones, clerks of the
two Houses, respectively, on the second
part, and the Republican Printing Com
ptny on the first part. Mr.. Woodruff,
the clerk of the Senate, testified before
your committee that Mr.. A. 0. Jones,
tie clerk of the House, and himself,
composed and were the sole proprietors
of the Repub lean Printing Company.
He also stated that his company could
do all the printing of the General AS
sembly, with the decisions of the Su-
preme Court, and the printing of the
executive departments, for Sl00,000 per
annum, were the pay regular and assured.
This would be saving to the State, but
other prominent and responsible print
crs of the Republican party have said to
the undersigned that they would do the
entire work for $4,000 per annum.
The total disbursement for printing
under the first Republican Legislature oi
South Carolina, from September 1868, to
October 80, 1870, over two years, will be
found on page l07, report Of the joint
suecial financial investigating committee,
in the reports and joint resolutions of the
General Assembly, lS7l-72, stated thus:
Printing laws special session 1868,
SS, 764.25; printing bond stock and rec,
ord book, S359.SG; permanent printing,
S34, ,3l6.46.
The opportunity now presents itsseli
to Lagis ature composed of a majority
OF colored men, to abolish system OF
printing by which colored men are de.
barred the privilege of working in that
department of State service, and de-
prlved of its benefits, while the respon.
Sibility Of its vast expenditures rests
mainly upon them; and to inaugurate
one which by its recognition of the right
of their manhood, and by a great re,
trenchment in the expenditures OF the
revenues of the State, will vindicate to
the world their just claim to all the
rights of freemen. We subjoin state
mont, with the calculations carefully
made from high source, practical
printer and responsible man and republi.
can. of the cost of the permanent and
current printing of the General Assem-
bly,, session of lS7l-'72, with the .deciS.
ious of the Supreme Court, under the
present contract, and recommend that
the act under which the Republican
Printing Company was awarded the con.
tract for the public printing, be repealed,
and that the committee on public printing
be Instructed to draft and report to this
Huosea bill providing for the award OF
the lowest responsible bidder, who will
perform the work, employing compositors
irrespective OF race or color; provided,
that the entire cost of the public prinling
shall not exceed the SUN fifty thousand
dollars.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES A. BowLgY,
JOSEPH ID. BosToN,
s. s. CRITTENDEN,
\. B. MYERS,
Mr.. Thompson moved that the report
be received "a information and be post
poned, and made the special order fol-
Monday next, at l p. NJ, which was
finally agreed to.
The Actual Cost.
The allowing is the actual cost Of all
the printing done for the General As
sembly, for the session of lS7l-'72, care.
fully calculated according to the present
contract: