The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-02-28
Chapter 159.
AN ACT in relation to State Printing

AN ACT in relation to State Printing.
SECT. l. There shall be chosen biennially,
by joint ballot of the legislature, on the same
day that other state officers are elected, pub
lie printer who shall hold his office for two
years and until some other person is elected in
his stead. He shall give bond, with sufficient
sureties, in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars,
for the faithful discharge of his duties, and
shall execute or furnish every kind of printing
for every department of the state government
for which the state shall be held to pay, except
ing the printing of the revised statutes and the
reports OF decisions.
SECT. 2 For the faithful discharge of his
duties he shall receive compensation as fol-
lows;
For book and pamphlet work: For plain
composition and for laws and statutes, for one
thousand ems forty-two cents; rule and figure
work, for one thousand ems, ninety cents: any
other irregular work at the discretion of the
auditor: Press work. For form of sixteen
pages or less, five hundred impressions, or
less, ninety cents; for each additional hundred
impressions, eighteen cents. For eight page
forms or less, law size, five hundred impress
sions, or less, ninety cents; for each additional
hundred impressions, eighteen cents.
Blank and circular work. covers, envelopes,
letter heads, bill heads, cards, ballots, ct cetera
F or plain composition, for one thousand ems,
forty eight cents; blank work, with rules ad-
justed into body lines, price and one-half; rule
and figure and tabular work, double price;
any other irregular work at the discretion of
the auditor. No blank job to be reckoned less
than one thousand ems. Press work: For
form Of five hundred Impressions or less, sew
enty five cents; each additional hundred i'm
pressions, fifteen cents. For press work requir-
ing colored OF copying ink, or other than black,
double price shall be charged. For any work
not hereinbefore specified, the printer shall
receive such compensation as shall be judged
reasonable by the auditor.
Hour work: Copy furnished to the printers
shall be leglbly written and properly prepared.
For correcting proof by reason of alteration in
the authors copy, thirty cents per hour shall
be charged. Work imperatively demanded land
required to be performed at night or out of the
usual hours of labor, shall be compensated by
extra allowance, at the discretion of the auditor
Paper and other stock: For paper and other
stock, an addition of fifteen per centupon the
actual cost, to be determined by the auditor, to
cover interest, freight, storage, insurance and
waste. All printing shall be executed in a
prompt, proper, substantial, faithful and work
manlilxe manner.
SECT. 3. The state printer shall be entitled
to complete all the reports of all state and leg
islative officers and commissioners for the
political years for which he was elected, and
shall finish all work on which any beginning
shall have been made.
partments shall give the state printer upor
delivery of any completed job of printing, 6
receipt therefor, which shall be attached to the
sample of the job submitted to The auditor, anc
which shall be the printers voucher for the
completion and delivery of the work. Printed
sheets of book work shall be delivered prompt
" into the hands of the public binder, and aftel
such delivery the responsibility of the printer
for such printed sheets shall cease.
SECT. 5. There shall be appointed by th'
governor and council to serve during theil
pleasure, an auditor of the state printing, wht
shall be an experienced practical printer. Al
bills tor state printing shall be audited by him
for which he shall receive such compensation
as the governor and council may deem just
SECT. g. This act shall take effect January
first, in the year of our Lord one Thousand
eight hundred and ninety-seven, and the frs
election of state printer shall occur on the same
day of said January that other state officers arr
elected. Approved March 26.l