The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-23

JAdKsoS, MISC, December IL, 1885.
To the Honorable Commission to adjust
Accounts of Public Printer:

Accounts Of Public Printer:
The undersigned having been requested
by you to investigate IAN unadjusted settle
ment between the State OF Mississippi, and
the State Printer. extending from the year
1876 to the 18th day OF March, 1884," as
PSI } eiat Resolution approved on said last
named date, beg leave to report as follows:
At the last session of the Legislature the
matter Of public printing was referred to a
Joint Special Committee, the report of
which appears on pages 6ls and 619 OF
Senate journal The Committee state th;,t
latter thorough and careful investigation,
il appears that from 1876 to $50 inclusive,
the Public Printer failed to demand as
much as he was entitled to under the law
/ by difference at least equal to the def
cheney that occurred in the publication OF
! the Acts OF 1882, which was the result of
an inadyertence, and desire on the part
the Printer to conform to the uniform
/ style OF printing the Laws, and We there
fore exonerate the Printer from any inten-
| tional wrong The Committee recon-
mended that, "as full equivalent for any
damage that the State may have sustained
by said inadvertenee," that the Printer
| should pay 10 the State the sum of five
hundred dollars. Also that the Acts OF
1884 might be printed in the style OF 1882
and that there should BE- a reduction of u
per cent. on all the work done from the l 81
january, 1884, to the close OF the session
Pending the consideration of this Report
Senator Hyer offered "a resolution stating
at some length the equities of the matter
on the side OF the Stase Printer" and Sen
ator Marshall offered Resolution pro.
viding for a commission to adjust accounts
~ Sfsta printer - which r,aScad hoti
Houses.
In a published statement by Hon. j. w
c. Watson, Chairman of the Joint Special
Committee, dated March 10, 1884, he says
.'the only instance Of an ouerehdrge cas IN tn
Acts Of 1882"
Your COMMITTEES have, therefore, limited
their investigation to the Acts published
from 1876 to loS2, inclusive, and thereupoI
submit the following:
The Code oil 1880 (Sec. 1927 require
that the Laws shall be printed in small
plea type, and shall contain an average o
fifty printed lines to the page, and al
average Of ten words to the line. We find
by actual count, and measurement, tina
the Acts of 1882 contained only As printe'
lines to the page, and an average OF word
to the line The volume, as published, ex
elusive of the index, made 1910 pages
Had the pages been wldened ana EXTENDED
as required by the Code OF 1880, the vol
J | ume, exclusive of index, would not hav
exceeded $40 pages. Thus making differ
ence OF $50 pages. The price allowed toe
fore the reduction of % per cent. beini
S4.50 per page, Tor 5000 copies, the exces
charged is, therefore $4,000.
We find, however, that the Acts OF 1888
< were printed IN the style of preceding vol
| umes, Notwithstanding that the Code c
1877, required only AZ lines TO the page
and an average of eight words to the line
S The present State Printer printed the Act
Of 1876, 1877, 1878 and 1880, and the
: contain the number OF pages and excess {
matter, as follows: