Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1876-01-14
The Printing Bill.

tue f1OOkSe sVOO1 N~SS~o
edge Of the art of printing. its technical.
ties. etc.. 1t once recognized the iocon'
oruitv Of the bill and the unlimited Scope
# gave the Public Printer, IN doi'g thu
Territorial printing, to regulate tnt
matter to suit bis convenience ana bill
the Territory out Of tbousands OF dollar.
..,..l,v rs.--'- 'm was sounded, snd
Anew members ct the House nobly cham.
p oned the cause OF the people ags'..- +his
fraudulent effort 10 enrich Public Prin'
ter out Of the Territorial Treasury. and
We are pleased to note the fact that Brig
hem Reed, the ablest Representative Of
osilat.n county, stood out manfully
against the biz, offering "a . substitute
that the printing be let to the Lowest re-
epons,ble bidder.
Section one of the bill constitutes the
Governor, President Of the Council and
Speaker Of the House board to contract
with and appoint public printer, who
shall execute all public printing Of what
ever nature for the use of the legislative
Assembly, not provided for by the Or
ganic Act of the Territory nor paid fol
By the United States Government, and fos
the use of the Executive Department. the
Auditors aud Treasprer's offices Of the
Territory. and for the use OF the Supreme
Court; such contract to be made in writ.
ing and signed BY the contracting parties,
Such person or persons contracting to do
such pointing y provided for 10 this sc'
shall, for purposes OF reference herein,
be termed the Public Printer, and the
terms and conditions of the contract with
him TO be ex. cuted shall be hereinafter
provided. The newspaper in which said
Public Printer shall publish the laws Of
the Territory and Other official printing,
shall be known and designated a. the
O1ic,al Journal Of the Tertiary.
Sec. TO- That oil printing for the Ter
ritory, or for any Department Of the
Territorial Government, X for the Su.
preme Court, performed by the Public
Printer shall be executed on the following
terms:
For every square of matter "a square ID
be estimated by the space occupied BY ten
lines of solid nonpsreiD two dollars shall
be paid.
For every square At matter, Fple and
figure work, $3.50 shall be paid.
Sec. II. That in addition to the other
duties herein imposed on such Public
Printer, he shail be required 70 puu,isn IN
noppareil type in his Official Journal oil
legal advertisements required BY law to b<
published In Lewis = Clarke comfy.
Sec. IL That IN al the counties Of the
Territory, other than Lewis and Clarke
county. the Governor, President Of the
Council, and Speaker of the House Of
Representatives, or . majority of them,
shall also select and contract With the pro
prietor Or proprietors Of some journal, pub.
lished in each Of said counties, or in cast
no paper Is published 10 any county then
with the proprieto; or proprietors of Z
journal having Feas.anably large circula.
lion in said county. and designate apd
contract with such Journal to do all the
printing OF said county, In nonpsreil typo,
including the judicial printing or legal i'd
vertisements Of al officers and tribunals
therein, At the rates hereinbefore mention
ej,
The effect OF the bill on county print.
ing, We confess e9t te understand, In view
OF the explanation given BY The editor o
the Independent, who Is said TO be tn.
father OF the instrument. Section 10 ssys
''Fof every squsre Of matter, two dollar
shall DO paid,' and one would naturally
infer that that amount would be paid iol
every time such matter was published
But The Independent says not; that TIL
bill provides payment for the first inser'
ton. but REQUIRES subsequent legal pub
lications. Tho shortest time for whici
legal public .tIons are made embraces
twenty-one days and the longest thirty
days, or five weeks. If the Independent
jnterprets this bill correctly, where Is tn,
justice or equity Of lie requirements y
far 10 u relates TO county printing. w,
do not think the publishers OF the Terri
tory will submit to Law requiring then
to do legal advertising for nothing; tina
IL. to receive pay for one insertion ant
follow i up win two Or fess Rratuitou
ies.rtsons. q ths case may be.