Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-04-12

An Act to establish State Printing Office
and to create the office of Superintendent
of State Printing.
Improved March II, 1879
The people Of the State of Nevada, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact a
follows:
SECTION 1. The office of Superintendent
of State Printing is hereby created, and after
the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and eighty-one, all printing Excepting ad yer
tising) shall be done under his superintend-
ence in An Office hereafter provided for.
SEC. 2. No person other than practical
printer shall be eligible to the office of the
Superintendent of State Printing.
SIC 3. The Secretary Of State, State Con-
troller and State Treasurer, shall be known
as the g State Board of Printing Commits
sioners, who shall, thirty days prior to the
convening of the next session of the Lesisla-
turs, appoint Superintendent of State
Printing, said Superintendent to hold Office
for two years, and thereafter said officer shall
be elected by the people in accordance with
proclamation by the Governor, as provided IN
the case of all other State officers.
SEC. 4. The Superintendent of State
Printing before entering upon the discharge
of the duties Of his Office shall give a good
and sufficient bond to the people of the State
Of Nevada in the SUN of ten thousand dol
lars, with two or more sureties, to be ap-
proved by the Board designated in Section
Three of this Act, for the faithful perform
ance of his duties, which bond shall be filed
in the Office of the Secretary of the State.
SEC. 5. The duties of the Superintendent
Of State Printing shall be as follows: He
shall have the entire charge and superintend-
snce of the State Printing and all matters
to his Offices He shall take charge
Of and be responsible for all manuscripts or
other matter which may be placed in his
land to be printed, and shall cause the same
20 be promptly executed. He shall receive
rom the Senate or Assembly all matter or
Tered by either House to be printed and
pound, or either printed or bound, and shall
leep record of the same, ana of the order
n which it may be- received, and when the |
york shall have been executed he shall de- |
lver the finished sheets or volumes to the Ser
eant-at-Arins or any department, az the case
aay be, or either house authorized to receive
hem. He shall receive aud promptly exc
ute all orders for printing required to DO
one by the various State officers. He shall
nploy such compositors, pressmen or assist
nts as the exigency of the work may from
me to time require, and may at any time
ischarge such employees, procided, that at
o time shall he pay said compositors, press
len or assistants higher rate of wages than
recognized by the employing printers Of the
tate of Nevada. He shall at no time EN-
10y more compositors, ,pressmsn or assist
ats than the necessities Of the State printing
Jay require, and he shall not permit any
her than State work to be done in the State
.inting office. The Superintendent OF State
rinting shall on the first day of December
each year, make a report in writing to the
overnor, embracing record of the complete
ansactions of his Office.
SEC. g. He shall, not, during his contin-
.nce in office, have any interest, direct or
direct, in any contract for furnishing paper
other printing stock or material connected
it'll the State printing.
SEC 7. The State Board of Printing Com
are hereby authorized instruct