The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-04
TIE PUBLIC PRINTING BILL.
Providing for . Printing Board
and Defining Its Duties.
A Full Synopsis Of Senator Pollock
Measure Regulating and De
gning Prices How the
Contract Is To Be
Awarded. 5w= .=#=..-.

Senator Pollock, chairman OF the Printing
fsommittee introduced In the Senate few
DAYS axo bill to regulate the public print
ing.
The act provides for the election OF a print
snD board to consist OF two members OF thu
Ssnate. two members Of tho House. the State
Auditor. Attorney General and Secretary o
state. whose duty 1t will be to advertise bien
nially for sealed proposals for all stationery
and printing paper, for printing, binding ant
distributing the laws, journals and depart
Ment reports. reports OF the Supreme Court
and oil other printing and binding and sta
tionery used In the legislative and az Other
departments of the State, and TO award the
contract for the same 10 the lowest responsible
bidder below such maximum rates and under
such regulations as furtherprovtded Tor. Con
tracts cannot be- awarded 70 any but citizens
NJ the State. and no member or officer or any
III the departments Ut the State shall be In
any way Interested in contract. All such
snntraets shall he subject to the approval Of
kha Governor, President Of the Senate and
tho Speaker OF the House, or any two OF them.
Should two Of these fail or refuse to approve
4 contract the Printing Board is required to
ra-adyertise Mt once for sealed proposals,
and SO continue until n contract Is awarded
and approved. The board ia to serve for the
term OF four years. while printing contracts
are to be entered into Tor a period no longer
than two years. The State Printer is required
tp supply all bills, reports or other docn-
uicnts ordered forprinting within forty-eight
hours after receiving the copy, unless a
bnxer time be granted, and to print each
document In the order In which they shall DO
numbered and delivered to him. and re.
barn In The same order. All department
officers who are required to make
reports to the General Assembly shall cause
the same to be printed for the use of the
feRlslature and shall present the same with
IN the first week of the session. The State
Printer Ia required to have ready for delivery
the journals OF both houses within sixty days
after receiving the copy from the Secretary
pt State, under penalty OF forfeiting $50 per
plration OF the time. Each member Of the
Legislature is entitled TO q copy Of the Jour-
nal OF both houses; also copy OF the acts
passed by the General Assembly OF which he
was D. member. The State Printer must fur
1ish each house proof sheets OF tho official
journal containing the previous days pro
seedlings, and after the same has been ap-
proved 1t shall be published once In the Off
cial journal OF the State after which 1t shall
hn made up in book form but In no case shall
charge be made for the proof sheets furnished
for the use Of the two houses aforesaid. The
Secretary Of State Is to be furnished with
copies OF the official journal containing any
pf the laws OF Joint resolutions of the Gon-
arai Assembly. which he shall cause TO bo
sent to the Judges and clerks Of courts, to be
amed by them until they receive the laws i'll
pamphlet form. For These copies ut the off
ranl journal the State Printer s entitled to
receive not more than 81 per hundred copies.
THE act then proceeds TO enumerate at
aangth specifications and prices at which
printing for the State or any department Of
the State shall be performed by the State
Printer, which are omitted from this synop
sis.l All State officers arc required TO keep y
and make d monthly report Ut the same To
the Auditor. Tho State Printer IL also re-
luired to makea monthly report to the Audi
Tor Of Public Accounts Of all public work
done by him, which. Il found correct, will en-
title him to pay. Before entering On the dis
charge Of his duties tho Stats Printer Is re-
uuired to furnish bond for $4,000 with good
and solvent security. All laws shall be pub
alshed once In the official Journal, and shall
become operative the day after publication
In the rest of the State. All gene
raj laws of the State must be published
once In the French and once In the German
language ~ two daily papers published Ia
French and German respectively In this
State, the compensation for translation and
publication not to exceed tho maximum rates
liked In this act for the PRONUNCIATION Of said
laws. All judicial advertisements IN the par
lsh OF Orleans to be published In daily pa
per In the English language, to be selected
,y the defendant or party charged with the
Ufrduct OF the proceedings provided he shall
make tho selection within three days Of the
service Of notice Of seizure or process on him.
should there be no newspaper published In
,ald parish, said advertisement may be
poeted as now provided BY existing laws.
In all parishes outside That Of Orleans
,uch advertising shall be done In an
English newspaper; and II there 30
10 newspaper. shall be done by
costing said notices at or near the front door
Ind at two other public places ~ different
sarts OF the parish, providing that this act
ihall not Interfere with the completion or any
contracts existing at the timo 1T goes in'A8
ished In parish the defendant or party in
rested by the law with the direction Of the
proceedings shall have the right to select the
II applied FOR within three days
liter notice OF such proceedings, or the selz-
are made under the process. should the de-
endant neglect to select, the plaintiff shall
have the right to do SO. and In the failure or
refusal OF either to select the sheriff, consta-
,le, clerk or other officer charged by law
With the carrying out Of the proceedings shall
,elect The cost Of such advertisements not
70 exceed, In Orleans parish ninety cents per
,Quare or fraction thereof, for the first inser-
ion and thirty-tiye cents for each subsequent
Insertion; and In the other parishes 81 per
lQuAT6 IOT IHe HISL LlIlle anu lily Genus ZOE
saeh subsequent time. A square to be meas
lred as ten lines solid agate type. Police
aries and municipal corporations In all par
She's including Orleans, are prohibited from
ordering public printing Of any kind, unless
he same be done under contract and adju-
iication to the lowest responsibility bidder
md the price therefor shall not In any case
,xceed the price fixed for judicial advertise
ments, and for other printing or job work |
hey shall in no case exceed the MAXIMUM
law to take effect Immediately after Its pro
Mitigation and that act No. 40 Of 1871 rela-
i've to the State Printer, to thu official journal
II the State, and to the pub Jig printing, etc.
md all laws and parts 81 laws on the same
subject matter. and Id conflict with the pro-
Tislons or this act, are repealed.
POLilI les.