Year: 1868

composition upon the bills, resolutions, and
other matters contained in the first class, the
same shall be measured as solid small plea
matter, and every necessary fraction of page
shall be counted as full page, but no entire
blank page shall be counted or charged for.


SEC. 6. The journals of the two houses
Of the Legislature specified in the second
class shall be printed in medium octave form,
on small plea type, with at least fourteen hun
dred emsin a page, without any unnecessary
lead, blank or broken lines or pages.


Sec. 7. The volumes Of public documents
and reports, communications and other mat.
ters specified in the third class, shall be print
cd on the same kind of type, and the pages
shall be Of the same size as required for the
journals in the preceding section; Provided,
That so much of the annual reports Of the Of
ticers Of the executive departments and of tho
superintendents of the public institutions as
contains the remarks Of those officers may be
single loaded with leads not exceeding in thick.
ness six to plea. The volumes Of the public
documents shall contain nothing that is to be
inserted in the laws and journals of the same
year, and the various reports, communications
and other documents inserted therein, shall
follow each other in as close, compact order
as is consistent with good workmanship, with
out the intervention of unnecessary blanks or
separate title or half title pages, and the pag-
ing thereof shall be ccssecutive, and at the
conclusion there shal! Le an index referr-
ing to the particular page at which each sep
arate document commences. In all cases
when by order of the Legislature or either
branch thereof any document is printed in
pamphlet form by the contractor for the print
ing of the volume of public documents, which
shall also be inserted in the volume of public
documents, and in all cases when any such doc
ument is so printed in pamphlet form by the
contractor for the printing of the journals,
which shall also bo printed in the journals,
but one charge shall be made or allowed for
the composition thereof.


Sec. 8. The laws specified in the fourth
class, shall be printed in medium octave form,
on good small plea type, the pages to be of
the same size and form as those Of the journals
aud documents, specified in the two preceding
sections, with marginal notes to the general
laws in nonpariel type similar to those hereto
fore inserted.


SEC. 9. The printing for the executive de-
partments, embraced in the fifth class, shall be
executed in style consistent with good work.
manship, and with due reference to economy.
In estimating the composition, all work in
script type, or Of which script is the chief
kind used, shall be estimated as plea, and
measured by the surface actually covered, and
not by the size Of the sheet used. All open
work, such as letter heads, blank deeds and
the like, shall be estimated in the same man
uer; Provided, No job shall be counted at less
lhan one thousand ems. All work in other
than script'type, shall be estimated according to
the type actually used; Provided, That when diff
ferent kinds are used in single job, it may be
measured and estimated proportionately for
the different kinds used. In estimating press
work in the fifth class, quire shall be consid-
cred twenty-tour Impressions of q side or a
page, as the case may be, of twenty-four full
sheets of such paper as the proper officer may
furnish, with such matter as the printer shall
be directed to put upon it; Provided, further
That no job of press work shall be estimated
at less than one quire.


SEC. 10. In estimating the composition of
all pamphlets, laws, journals and volumes Of
public documents, every necessary fraction of
a page shall be counted as full page, but no
entire blank page shall be counted or charged
for: and if in any branch Of the printing, tab
ular statements occur which it shall be i'm
practicable to print on the ordinary sized pa
ges, the same shall be printed in tabular sheets
of tho necessary size, and the amount of COM
position on the same shall be ascertained by
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certaining the number of ems. All figure
work requiring additional justification in each
line, and all rule work requiring the fitting in
of rules, shall be allowed one price and half,
and for all rule and figure work double price
tor composition shall be allowed, the same to
be ascertained by strict measurement and
count. But one charge shall be made for the
composition of all documents ordered to be
printed by both branches Of the Legislature,
and no charge or allowance shall be made for
composition when extra or additional copies
are ordered to be printed; Provided, Such SUBJ
sequent order shall be made within ten days
after the previous one. In estimating the
press work of pamphlets, laws, journals and
volumes of public documents, the token shall
consist Of two hundred and fifty impressions
of form Of eight pages, or hundred and
twenty-five sheets of double medium octave
paper, printed on both sides, or two hundred
and fifty sheets Of the same printed on one
side only; Provided That if any document
makes less than eight pages, or if the last form
Of any document is not full form of eight
pages, the same shall be counted as full FORM


Sec IL. The Secretary of State shall give
prompt notice to each successful bidder that
his proposals are accepted. If from death or
any unforeseen cause there is failure on the
part OF any successful bidder to execute his
contract, the commissioners Of printing, or a
majority of them may enter into a contract
with the next lowest bidder. If any contrac-
tor, after commencing upon his contract, fails
to execute the work embraced therein with
reasonable expedition, and in a suitable man.
ner, the commissioners of printing may notify
him that for reasons which they shall specify,
his contract is cancelled; and they may then
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work at the lowest practicable rates..


SEC. IL. The journals, executive documents
and laws required by this chapter, to he printed
and put up in book form, shall be bound with
brochure covering, and each journal and it's
appropriate appendix shall be bound in the
same volume, unless in the opinion of the COM
missioners Of printing, the same will make a
volume too large for convenience, in which
case each journal shall be bound separately,
and the appendix shall be bound separately or
together, as the said commissioners shall d.