The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-05-15
Proposals for State Printing,
st. Paul, Mimi, May 4th, 1891.

st. Paul, Mimi, May 4th, 1891.
The commissioners of printing will receive
sealed proposals for the prinitig OF the State OF
Minnesota, in accordance with Chapter of the
General Statutes and subsequent amendments,
the time of the contract to commence on the
first day of August, 1891, and to continue for
one year. Said proposals will be opened on
Tuesday, the second day of June, 1891, at IL
O'Clock a. m, in the Office of the Secretary of
State at the Capitol, in the City of ST. Pail.
The State printing is divided into five classes,
as follows:
The first class being the legislative printing of
the two houses, other than in pamphlet FORM
The second class being the printing of the
daily and permanent journals and other COM
munications connected Herewith.
The third class being the reports, commune
cations and documents ordered by the legislat-
ure, or by the executive departments in pam
phlet form, together with the volumes of ex
ecutive documents and the legislative manual.
The fourth class being the volumes of the
general and special laws.
The fifth class being all other miscellaneous
Job printing.
The following maximum prices for the several
classes named, are published for the informa-
ton of bidders:
COMPOSITION-Fir class fifty cents per
1000 ems, second, third and fourth classes
seventy cents per 1000 ems; fifth class $1.O0
per 900 ems.
PRESS WORK-First 100 impressions of
form, $1.OO, and additional 100 Impressions of
the same FORM 25 cents; a form being one side
of the sheet upon which the job is printed and
delivered, except that in book work. eight
pages octave, or - pages dHodecimo on me-
dunn or royal size paper, ape recognized as a
Drm.
F3LDIN C. no charge e made for
u...>...,s, 4..eeUs or lraco4on Unereof, elguo
cents.
STITCHING Including folding, collating
stabbing and cutting per 100 copies, S1.OO
BINDING = Including folding, collatlng, stab
bling, stitching, saving, sewing and trimming,
and pamphlet covering, for books of eight
pages or less, for one hundred copies, 81 .oO;and
for each additional eight pages, or fraction
thereof 20 cents for each 100 copies.
Binding in stiff covers including all work
tooling on the backs quarter binding per 100
copies, $4,000; alfbindng, sheep or roam. per
100 copies, SIS co. full cloth binding, cut flush,
Der 100 COPIES $500; full cloth, with squares.
per 100 copies, $50 90; full roam leather, with
squares, per 10Qcopies, $s0,00full law, per 100
copies, $1500O
Each proposal shall be in writing sealed and
addressed to the secretary OF state and II shall
be accompanied by bond executed in due form
by the bidders, with two sureties, satisfactory
to the commissioners in the penal sum of eight
thousand dollars.
Each class of printing to be bid for separately;
contract to be let to the person who will bid
the greatest percentum of discount from the
maximum prices established by law.
Bids to be made upon forms furnished from
the office of the secretary of state; also blank
forms of bond viii be furnished with the blank
bids. The right to reject any and all bids is
reserved by the state and the number of copies
of any work. and the general style thereof to be
subject to regulation by the commissioners, ir-
respective of work done under former contracts
F. P. BROWN, Secretary of State
A. BIERMAN, State Auditor.
47t4 JOSEPH BoBLETER. State Treasurer