St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-22

serves the right to direct the form of adj
vertlSementS and the space they shall
OCCUPY, which in such case shall be
paid for at pro rata prices to those fixed
! in the contract"
Amendment accepted.
Aid. Cullen moved to amend said
resolution by adding the following:
1.-The Common Council of the city of
St. Paul hereby pledges itself to elect
such paper as the official paper for the
year 1889, and until Its successor is
elected"
Lost.
Aid. Sanborn moved to strike out the
following words in said resolution:
(which presents the lowest bid for
publishing the matter set forth in the
second clause of this resolution shall be
designated as the official paper of the
city, as provided by the city charter"
Adopted. Yeas ~, nays4 4.
Aid, SanbOrn offered the following
motion as substitute for the reSOlu-
ton of Aid. Yoerg, to-wit:
That the City Clerk be instructed to
advertise
First-For proposals for supplying all
the departments and offices of the city
OF st. Paul with all the printing, lithO-
graphing, books and stationery re-
Quired for the use of said departments
and offices.
Second-Also separate proposals for
publishing in daily newspaper OF gen.
eral circulation within the city of st.
Paul, the proceedings of the Common
Council and the various boards and de-
partmentS of the city government, and
OF all the notices and advertisements, of
Whatever nature, required by law to be
published in the official paper of the
city.
The City Clerk is hereby further di-
rected to furnish to each bidder a sam
pie copy of the principal forms of legal
notices, stating the number of times
each notice is required to be published
by law, for the information of the bidder.
No bid will be entertained by the
Common Council unless accompanied by
triplicate copies of advertisements whose
forms are furnished by the City Clerk,
from type set up by the bidder in the
exact form in which he proposes to exc
cute his contract, with price noted at
the foot of each advertisement for the
total number of insertions OF the adver-
tisement as required by law, computed
at the offered price per inch; the said
copies accompanying the bid accepted
shall be attached to the contract and
form part of the same, and no bills
under such contract shall be allowed to
be paid if the advertisement shall be
displayed or spread out to any greater
length than is eXampled in the Specl-
mems attached to said contract; nor in
case said advertisements shall be
crowded into less space than shown by
such samples. The Common Council,
however, reserves the right TO direct the
form of advertisements and the
space they shall occupy; which in
such case shall be paid for at
pro rata prices to those fixed in the
contract.
Said proposals to be received and
opened by the President of the Council
in the presence OF that body, at an adj
journed meeting of the Common Coun-
ell, to be held on Friday, Dec. 2S,
1883, at $50 O'Clock p. M; and that the
work described in the first section of
this resolution shall be let to the lowest
responsible bidder; and in the second
section, to newspaper having gem
eral daily circulation within this city.
and which has been published not less
than two years.
The Common Council reserves the
right to reject any and all bids. :,
All such bids shall be accompanied
by bond in the penal sum of $4,000,
with two or more responsible sureties,
guaranteeing the faithful performance
of contract if awarded.
Substitute adopted. Yeas ~, nays A..
Aid. Yoerg moved to amend the mo-
ton of Aid. Sanborn which was
adopted as substitute for his-Ald.
Yoerg' by adding the fol-
lowing, to-wit:
"In bidding, the prices paid under
the present contract with the city shall
be made the maximum rate"
Amendment adopted, and the resolu-
ton of Aid. Yoerg, as substituted by the
motion of Aid. Sanborn as amended,
adopted. Yeas 16, nays none.
Aid. Sanborn moved that when the
Council adjourns it adjourn to Friday,
Dec. 2S, 1888, at 80 O'Clock p. IN.
The motion prevailed. Yeas Ii.