Cochise review., 1901-01-12
SNAP SHOT JUDGMENT.


 cox Range News, CoCHIsE REVIEW the Tombstone Daily Prospector and the Tombstone Epitaph. The bids were opened at p m on Friday and after comparison of the different bids for job printing the REVIEW was awarded the contract for printing all tax receipts except licenses and the remainder of the job printing was awarded to the Prospector. For pub fishing the proceedings of the board of supervisors the bids ranged from 20 cents per inch to nine cents and for all other advertising the bids ranged from forty cents per inch for the first inser- tion to 20 cents. The lowest bidder for the county advertising was the Tombstone Weekly Epitaph. This publication offered to print the board proceedings at nine cents per inch. It also bid to do all adv. for 20 cents per inch. This bid was the lowest by 50 per cent. The question was raised that under the law passed by the last Legis- lature (Act r, lS99) it was the duty of the board of supervisors to award the advertising to weekly paper in the county provided it was the lowest bid der. Until the meeting of the last Leg islature the law relating to county ad- vertising did state specifically that if daily newspaper was published within the county, then the advertising must be given to that paper. The law was found in Section Act No 83 of the Laws of 1891 and read as follows:
 SEC. 3 All advertisements, notices, 1 proclamations, proceedings of Boards of Supervisors and all other public ad- vertisements shall be given to a daily paper or papers if such be published within the county in which said adver- tisements, proclamations, etc., are pub- l lished, and if no such daily newspaper or papers be published within such notices, proclamations, shall be given to weekly paper within such county. And in case where all daily and week. ly papers within county refuse to ac- cept public printing at the prices emu merated in this Act, the officers of such counties shall have such printing done in some daily, and if there be no daily then in weekly paper in some adjoin- ing county; provided, however, the prices paid for such printing must in no case exceed the prices enumerated in this Act. Nothing in this Act con- tained shall be construed to authorize a charge or payment for any legal ad- vertisement or notice for any more in- sertions of the same than is required by law to be made, and if any such ad- vertisement or notice shall be publish ed in daily newspaper the same shall be paid for only for the number of in- ertions thereof required by law to be made notwithstanding such advertise ment or notice may have been inserted and published oftner than required by law.
 When the last Legislature convened a bill was introduced and passed known as Act F which abrogated the old sec- tion and committed all parts of the section which related to the discrimi- ration in favor of the daily. The new law on this subject was as follows:
 Be it enacted by the Legislative As
 sembly of the Territory of Arizona:
 Section l. That Section of Act No. S3 of the Sixteenth Legislative As sembly of the Territory of Arizona, approved March 19, 1891, and entitled "An Act to Regulate the Prices of Territorial and County Printing with in the Territory of Arizona" be amended so as to read as follows:
 Sec. 3. In case where all papers within county refuse to accept pub. lie printing at the prices enumerated in this Act, the officers of such county shall have such printing done in some paper in some adjoining county, pro- vided, however, the prices paid for such printing must in no case exceed the price enumerated in this act.
 Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to authorize a charge or payment for any legal advertisement or notice for any more insertions of the same than is required by law to be made, and if such advertisement or mo- tice shall be published in newspaper the same shall be paid for only for the number of insertions thereof required by law to be made, notwithstanding such advertisements or notices have been inse' ted and published oftener than required by law.
 All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed
 Sec. :. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pas sage.
 Approved March 3rd. 1899.
 Under the last. Act it was clearly the intention of the Legislature to sub-