The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-16
scarcely a fair one, as applying
State printing.


scarcely a fair one, as applying to
State printing.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
w. H. Seaman, Deputy Superinten-
| dent of Public instruction, was asked
the questions in their order, but dis
| posed of them without division:
| The law governing the matter" said
| Mr.. Seaman, leaves this office no OPP
| ton. Subdivision of Section 1857
Article II. of the school laws of Cali
fornia provides that it shall be the duty
of the Superintendent of Public In
struction to prepare, have printed, and
furnish all officers charged with the
administration of the laws relating to
blank forms and books as may be nee
essary to the discharge of their duties,
including blank teachers certificates
to be used by County Boards of Edu-
alton
Subdivision Z of the same section
and article" said Mr.. Seaman, pro
vides that it shall be the further duty
Of the Superintendent of Public In
struction to have the laws relating to
the public schools printed in pamphlet
form and to supply school officers and
school libraries with one copy each
! Mr.. Seaman, in conclusion, submitted
that the office could not, according to
the statutes controlling it, be conduct
ed either lawfully or effectively with
out printing, and called attention TO
Subdivision 3 of Section 1115, Article
XVI Of the State School Laws, which
reads: ''All certificates must be is
sued upon the blank forms prepared for
the purpose by the Superintendent of
Public Instruction.
The entire force of the office, Mr..
Seaman said, would be kept busy max
ing blank forms.
SUPREME. COURT.
Henry A. McCraney, Deputy Supreme
Court Clerk, said that while it would
be possible to keep the records of the
Supreme Court without the aid Of the
State Printer, it would be necessary to
fold them and stack them up in corn
ers. Unless reduced to book form, they
would be practically worthless for ref
erence. He was satisfied that the
printing might be legally dispensed
with, but expediency. accurateness and
efficiency would suffer.
STATE IREAS RER.
\ Deputy State Treasurer F. w. Jud-
son, when the questions were PROFOUND
ed to him, had this to say:
If al orders from this office, now in
the hands of the State Printer, are
filled and delivered before the middle
of June, we can probably get along
lawfully, but not efficiently, for the next
fiscal year. In anticipation that a
question was likely to arise as to how
printing might be obtained after the
LIST Of July, we endeavored to secure an
unusually large amount of supplies. If
there were no supplies on hand we GER
| tainly could not do our work efficient
ly with the clerical force We now have.
LAS to obtaining our books and sup
plies for the fiscal year commencing
July l, 1898, it would be a serious
drawback We're they not to be prepared
by competent printers and printing
presses"
| A member of the faculty of the State
| University was in the city yesterday
| for the purpose Of turning the annual
! University report and register, which
| had just been finished, over to the Su-
printendent of State Printing, to be put
| into type for distribution throughout
| the State. The member of the faculty
| received a cordial reception at the
| hands of superintendent Johnston, but
| when he produced his report was
knocked speechless that the State
| Printer could not publish it, and that
under the statute governing the matter
| he could not have it published else
where. The professor roamed about the
Capitol building with the roll of manu-
script under his arm. but found no
place whereat to deposit it.
The court rules provide that all briefs
and transcripts in cases filed in the Su-
preme Court shall be printed and a
given number of copies furnished. Yes
| terday the Attorney General sent a
| brief of Importance. in a case in which
the State is a party, to the Printing
| Office. 1t was returned with the COM
pliments of Mr.. Johnston, and the state
ment that owing to lack of funds the
brief could not be printed. AS the stat
ute requires all printing to be done in
| the State Printing Office, the brief is
not yet set up.
! Most of the heads of departments
visited yesterday, submitted that the
| contingent funds allowed them by the
late Legislature amounted to only
| small amounts, and as the Board of
Examiners had decided to allow no de-
fciencies for any purpose whatsoever,
the funds on hand would not pay even
for paper, to say nothing of the addi-
tional expense for clerical work, or for
the purchase of monographs or other
copying machines.