executed in a style consistent with good workmanship, 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 pica, 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 manner: provided, no job shall be counted at less than one thousand ems. All work in other than script type shall be estimated according to the type actually used: provided, that when different kinds are used in a single job, it may be measured and estimated proportionately for the different kinds used. (1874, c. 7, § 9, as amended 1875, c. 138. § 7.)

*§ 10. Rule for estimating composition. In estimating the composition of all pamphlets, laws, journals and volumes of public documents, every necessary fraction of a page will be counted as a full page, but no entire blank page shall be counted or charged for; and if, in any branch of the printed [printing], tabular statements occur, which it shall be impracticable to print on the ordinary sized pages, the same shall be printed on tabular sheets of the necessary size, and the amount of composition on the same shall be ascertained by measuring the printed surface, and thereby ascertaining the number of ems. In any class, 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 a half, and for all rule and figure work, double price for 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 subsequent order shall be made before the type contained therein shall be distributed. (Id. § 10, as amended 1875, c. 138, § 8.)

*§ 11. Notice of acceptance of proposals-cancelling contract. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to give prompt notice to each successful bidder that his proposals are accepted. If from death, or any unforeseen cause, there be a 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 contractor, after commencing upon his contract, fails to execute the work embraced therein with reasonable expedition and in a suitable manner, the commissioners of printing may notify him that, [for] reasons they shall specify, his contract is cancelled, and they may then contract with some other person to do the work at the lowest practicable rate. (Id.§ 11.) *§ 12. Binding of laws, journals and documents. The laws and journals required by this chapter to be printed and put up in book form, shall be bound with brochure covering, and each journal and appropriate appendix shall be bound in the same volume, unless, in the opinion of the commissioners 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 direct. The volumes of executive documents shall be bound in quarter binding. (Id. § 12. as amended 1875, c. 138, § 9.)

*§ 13. Work included in binding. In accounting under this act, when a charge is made and allowed for binding, no charge shall be made or allowed for folding, collating. stabbing, stitching, drying or pressing sheets, or for lettering volumes. (Id. § 13, as amended 1875, c. 138, § 10,)

* 14. Work to be executed without delay. All contractors under the provisions of this chapter shall promptly and without any unnecessary delay execute all orders to them issued by the legislature, or either branch thereof, or by the secretary of state [as] superintendent of public printing, on behalf of the executive officers of the state; and the laws and volumes of public documents shall be delivered to the secretary of state within seventy days, and the journals of the two houses of the legislature within thirty days, after the manuscript copy

shall have been received by the contractor for printing and binding the same: provided, however, that the commissioners of printing may, on good cause shown by any such contractor, extend the time, not exceeding twenty days, for the execution of his contract. (1874, c. 7. § 14.)

*$ 15. Secretary to inspect printing and binding, and keep record. The secretary of state shall examine the work executed under the provisions of this chapter, and see that the printing and binding is executed correctly and in a suitable and workmanlike manner, and in accordance with law; and he shall keep an accurate account of all paper delivered to the contractors for printing, and that it is used properly and without unnecessary waste. All work to be executed for the executive departments shall be ordered through the secretary of state, and he shall see that the full number of copies of each job is received from the printer and delivered to the proper department. He shall audit all accounts for printing and binding executed under the provisions of this act, and shall keep a record of the cost of printing and binding, the amount of paper used, and the entire expense of each document or item; and a copy of each document shall be duly filed and preserved by him, with the cost endorsed upon it. (Id. § 15.)

*S 16. Specimen copies and itemized accounts. Every contractor for any class of the public printing shall file and preserve one copy of each document or other matter by him printed for the state, which he shall deliver to the secretary of state, with his account for the same, in which account shall be specifically stated the various jobs performed, the number of copies of each job, the number of ems of composition in each, the extra charge, if any, for rule or figure, or rule and figure work, the number of impressions of press work in each, the cost of folding and binding of each job, designating whether ordered by the senate, the house of representatives, or jointly by both, or by the other officers or agents of the state, together with the kind and quantity of paper used for each job. (Id. § 16, as amended 1875, c. 138, § 11.)

All accounts filed under the

* 17. Auditing of accounts-warrants-certificates. preceding section shall be carefully examined by the secretary of state, aided by a disinterested practical printer, if necessary, employed for that purpose at the expense of the state, and compared with the vouchers therefor, and the orders for the same. If any errors be found in such account by said secretary of state, he shall immediately correct the same, and return it to the contractor who rendered it; and when the account is finally corrected and adjusted, he shall certify the same to the state auditor, who, on the receipt therefor, shall give his warrant upon the treasurer of the state for the amount thereof, payable out of any moneys appropriated for that purpose: provided, that in the current execution of such contract, the secretary of state is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to deliver to said contractor a certificate for an amount not exceeding seventy-five per cent. of completed work, for which amount the state auditor shall give his warrant upon the treasurer of the state to said contractor: provided further, that if, when any portion of the said work is completed by the contractor, there should be no funds in the treasury appropriated for the payment of said work, the said contractor shall be entitled to interest on his account from the date of completion of said work to the date of payment for same, at the rate of ten per centum per annum. (Id. § 17 as amended, 1875, c. 138, § 12.)

*$ 18. Work to be delivered in good order. The contractor for any class of state printing shall deliver over to the secretary of state or to the proper department, in good order, all copies of work ordered to be printed by him, the legislature or either branch thereof, or other, officers or agents of the state. (1874, c. 7, § 18.)

*$ 19. Paper to be provided by state. The paper for the state printing aforesaid shall be provided by the state, and the secretary of state shall from time to time, as the same may be needed, deliver over to each contractor suitable paper for the printing which he is required by his contract to do; he shall take and preserve

from each contractor a receipt for all paper so delivered, and, at the annual settlement on or before the first day of November, each contractor shall deliver to the secretary of state all paper which has not been used in the state printing; or if any such paper has been wasted or converted to any other use, the contractor to whom the same has been delivered shall be charged with the value thereof, together with a penalty of fifty per cent., and the amount shall be deducted from his account: provided, the contractor shall be allowed ten per cent. for waste on all jobs of fen quires or less, and five per cent. on all jobs of more than ten quires. (1874, c. 7, § 19.)

*$ 20. Copy of laws and journals, how furnished. The secretary of state shall furnish a true and accurate copy of the laws as they may be demanded by the printer thereof, and the clerks of the respective branches of the legislature shall each furnish to the printer who is bound by his contract to print the same, copies of the journals, bills, reports and other papers and documents, without unnecessary delay; and no contractor shall be accountable for any delay occasioned by the want of such copy. (Id. § 20.)

*§ 21. Indexes to journals. In printing the journals of the senate and house of representatives, as specified in the sixth session of this chapter, the secretary of the senate and clerk of the house of representatives of the respective sessions of the legislature, shall make out indexes to the printed and recorded journals of said senate and house of representatives, and attend to reading proof sheets of the same, whenever required to do so by the commissioners of printing. (Id. § 21.) *$22. Laws to be published with one general certificate. All laws printed or published by authority of this state shall be printed or published without any certificates or additions to the same, except the word "approved," and the date of said approval; and in each volume of the session laws hereafter published, there shall be a general certificate, made by the secretary of state, to the effect that ali laws, memorials. and resolutions contained therein, have been compared by him with the original thereof in his office, and that they are correct copies thereof. (Id. § 22.)

*$23. Journals, how kept and printed. The secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of representatives shall keep a journal of the proceedings of their respective houses, and deliver a copy, immediately upon each daily adjournment, to the contractor for printing the same, who shall print two hundred copies of each, and deliver the same at the commencement of the next day's session, for the use of the members of the legislature. After being read in the house to which the journals respectively belong, and examined and compared with the minutes of the record clerk, or the clerk having charge of the record of bills, memorials and joint resolutions, and in the presence and with the sanction of the house corrected, or found and declared to be correct, the proceedings of each day shall be attested by said secretary and chief clerk, and immediately thereafter delivered to the printer of the journals, who shall make the anthorized correction, if any, and print the sheets for the bound volumes of the journals. Each journal shall be recorded in books to be furnished by the secretary of state for that purpose. After the journals are recorded, said books shall be deposited with the secretary of state, who shall carefully preserve the same, and said records shall be considered the true and authentic journal. (Id. $23.)

*$24 What shall be omitted from journals. No executive message, address or communication of any state officer or board of officers. no report of the superintendent or other officers of any institution or building, no petition or memorial, no argumentative or voluminous report of any standing or select committee of either house, or joint committee of both houses, no special report of any officer or board of officers, made in reply to any joint resolution of both houses, nor any other long or voluminous document, except amendments to the constitution and to bills and resolutions, and the protests of members of either house against any act or resolution thereof, shall be entered at length

upon the journals, or recorded in the record provided for in the foregoing section. (1874, c. 7, § 24.)

* § 25 Appendix to journals. The journals of each house shall be printed as kept and recorded, and each journal shall have an appendix, in which shall be printed all such petitions and memorials, reports of committees, special reports and communications of all officers or boards of officers, as are laid before either or both houses, and all such other papers and documents as are laid before either or both houses in writing, unless the printing thereof is otherwise provided for herein: provided, that no paper or document shall be printed in either appendix unless the house before which such paper or document is laid expressly order the same to be printed in the appendix of the journal of such house; and if any paper or document be laid before both houses, and ordered to be printed by both houses, the same shall be printed only in the appendix to the senate journal. The abstracts of votes when canvassed by the legislature in joint convention shall be printed in the appendix to the house journal. (Id. $ 25.)

*§ 26. Number of copies of reports in pamphlet form. There shall be printed in pamphlet form, and covered in brochure covers, the following number of each of the following documents, to-wit: Of the report of the state auditor, two thousand copies; of the report of the state treasurer, seven hundred and fifty copies; of the report of the secretary of state, seven hundred and fifty copies; of the report of the attorney general, five hundred copies; of the report of the adjutant general, five hundred copies; of the report of the librarian, five hundred copies; of the report of the warden of the state prison, six hundred copies, of which two hundred shall be delivered to the warden; of the report of regents of the state university, one thousand copies, of which five hundred shall be delivered to the president of the university; of the report of the trustees of the state normal board, one thousand copies, of which five hundred shall be at the disposal of the president of the board; of the report of the directors for the institution for the deaf and dumb and the blind, one thousand copies, of which six hundred shall be at the disposal of the directors; of the report of the historical society, one thousand copies; of the report of the trustees of the Minnesota reform school, seven hundred and fifty copies, of which two hundred shall be at the disposal of the trustees; of the report of the trustees of the hospital for the insane, twelve hundred and fifty copies, of which seven hundred shall be at the disposal of said trustees; of the report of the insurance commissioner, seven hundred and fifty copies; of the report of the state board of health, seven hundred and fifty copies, three hundred of which shall be at the disposal of the president of the board; of the report of the superintendent of public instruction, four thousand copies; of the report of the railroad commissioner, one thousand copies; of the report of the commissioner of statistics, three thousand copies.* (Id. $26 as amended 1877, c. 52, § 1. c. 59. § 1; 1878, c. 30. § 1.)

*§ 27. Report of geological survey. One thousand copies of that portion of the annual report of the board of regents of the university of Minnesota which embraces the report of the state geologist on the progress of the geological and natural history survey of the state, shall hereafter be paged and bound separately, and shall be subject to the disposition of the said board of regents. (1876, c.99, § 1.) *$ 28. Whenever, in the progress of said survey, a full and final report shall be made on the geology of any of the counties of the state, five hundred extra copies of each county report so made by the board of regents, shall be printed for the use of the counties so reported on; said copies being subject to the order of the county commissioners of said county. (Id. § 2.)

*§ 29. Governor's message, number of copies. All regular messages of the governor, and allinaugural messages of the governor elect, shall be printed in pamphlet form; See Laws 1873 c. 36, §§ 2, 3, providing for the printing and distribution, annually, of two thousand copies of the report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, at an expense not exceeding five hundred dollars in any one year.

and there shall be printed in such form, for the governor's use, five hundred copies thereof, and for the use of the legislature two thousand copies, without any order by either or both houses for the printing thereof. (1874, c. 7, § 27.) *$30. Executive documents, number of copies. At the same time that the documents mentioned in the two preceding sections* are printed in pamphlet form, there shall be printed on the same type four hundred copies of each document named in said two preceding sections, which shall be bound together in volumes of convenient size, and styled "executive documents." The paging of said documents shall be consecutive. The secretary of state shall make out an index of said volumes of executive documents, which he shall deliver to the printer, who shall print the same at the close of the said volumes. There shall be no charge for composition for printing the number of copies of said executive documents necessary for the volumes herein provided for, and none of them shall be printed otherwise than is provided in this and the two preceding sections of this chapter. (Id. § 28.)

§ 31. Laws, number of copies. There shall be four hundred (400) copies of each journal and an appendix printed; there shall be eight thousand (8,000) copies of the general laws and joint resolutions printed in one (1) volume, and two thousand (2,000) copies of the special laws in another volume. (Id. § 29, as amended 1877, c. 52, § 2.)

*$32. Distribution of laws, journals, etc. Every member and officer of the legislature, for himself, and every clerk of a court of record, and every county auditor, for the use of their offices respectively, is entitled to one copy of each journal and appendix, and the volumes of executive documents. Every university, college, academy, or other literary institution, is entitled to one copy of the laws passed at each session of the legislature, and also to one copy of each journal and appendix, and the volumes of executive documents. (Id. § 30.)

*$33. Distribution of laws to officers; to be delivered over to their successors. Every member and officer of the legislature, for himself, shall have a copy of the laws; every judge and clerk of court of record, every justice of the peace, constable, chairman of the board of township supervisors, township clerk, every mayor, auditor, treasurer, clerk, recorder, alderman or trustee of any ward in any city or incorporated village, every county auditor, treasurer, sheriff, register of deeds, court commissioner, county attorney, surveyor, coroner and county commissioner, is entitled to receive one copy of the general laws passed at each session of the legislature for their use while filling such offices; but every such officer, except members and officers of the legislature, shall deliver the same to his successor in office, for his use while filling such office; and if any person refuse, on demand being made, to make such delivery, he shall forfeit and not less than five nor more than fifteen dollars, to be recovered in any action brought by the successor in office of such person, in the name of the state of Minnesota for the use of the county where such action is brought, before any justice of the peace in such county. (Id. § 31.)

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§ 34. Distribution of laws, etc., continued. The secretary of state shall deliver to the governor, for his own use, two copies of the laws and one copy of the journals and documents; to the auditor and treasurer of state, each, three copies of the laws and one of the journals and documents; to the attorney general, the adjutant general, the railroad commissioner, the commissioner of insurance, the commissioner of statistics, the clerk of the supreme court, the superintendent of public instruction, the superintendent of every state benevolent institution, the warden of the state prison, to the United States circuit judge, to the United States district judge, to the clerk of each of the United States courts, and to the United States marshal, one copy of the same. He shall furnish the governor with such number of copies of each as will be necessary to supply each state, and each of the departments and territories of the United

That is, § 26 and § 29, in this edition