Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general assembly, That hereafter, until the Legislature shall otherwise direct, all laws, journals, bills, messages, advertisements, blanks, certificates, circulars, or advertisements of any description which shall be ordered to be printed by the Legislature of the State of Illinois, or by either branch thereof or by the governor or by either of the heads of departments, or by any officer of the State government, in pursuance of Law, and the discharge of their official duties, shall be given to the public printer or printers, hereafter to be elected by the joint ballot of the two Houses of the Legislature of this state; and said public printer or printers shall receive for their services the following prices, viz; for all Laws, Journals bills, messages, reports and documents, or other printing for the Legislature Sixty-two and a half cents per thousand ems for composition, and Sixty two and a half cents per token for presswork[;?] for the first quire of blanks of any form one dollar and fifty cents, and for every subsequent quire of the same form ordered to be printed at the same time, one dollar except where said blanks contain so much rule and figure work as that Journeyman would make an extra charge, agreeably to the rules of printers, in which case the public printer may make an advance of fifty per cent on the charge of the Journeyman in composition and presswork provided that the public printer

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or printers furnished paper for printing said blanks certificates or circulars. and provided further That if said blanks, certificates or circulars be badly or inaccurately printed, or be printed on paper of an inferior quality, the officer ordering the same may refuse to receive the same; for advertising, the public printer or printers shall receive for every one hundred words fifty cents for the first insertion and twenty five cents for every subsequent insertion that may be ordered by the officer of government that directs the same to be published; and all other editors of papers who may publish such advertisements by direction of the proper officer, shall receive for their services the same as the public printer or printers, for the same services.

Sec 3^rd That it shall be the duty of the public printer or printers, with the advice and concurrence of the Secratary of State, to procure before the meeting of every Legislature, on the best terms possible paper of as good quality as is generally used in publishing Statute books, for the printing of the

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Laws, and suitable paper for all the other printing which will be wanting for the use of the Legislature, and he or they shall be allowed by the State the full amount of the cost and carriage of the same together with such reasonable allowance for his or their trouble in providing the same, and such, interest on the money expended, as may appear reasonable to the auditor, treasurer and Secratary of State, subject to the supervision of the subsequent Legislature: It shall be the duty of the public printer or printers to publish the Laws and Journals on long primer or small pica type and to make the pages as large as the paper will admit of and leave a sufficient margin.

Sec 4^th That the public printer or printers shall be required to give bond with sufficient securities, to be approved of by the governor, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars for the faithful performance of all printing, and other services required to be done by him or them for the State or any of its officers, under the provisions of this act.

Sec 5^th That the printing of the Laws and Journals of the present session of the Legislature shall be completed within three months after the public printer or printers shall have been furnished with a copy of the same; and at every succeding session printed copies of the Journals shall be furnished within twelve days after the adjournment of the Legislature, provided, that the clerks of the two houses shall have furnished the public printer or printers every morning with the proceedings of the preceding day; and the Laws passed at each subsequent

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session of the Legislature shall be printed within forty days after the adjournment of the Legislature, and a failure on the part of the public printer or printers shall subject him or them to a forfeiture of six per cent per week on the whole amount of their contract.

Sec. 6^th That the public printer or printers shall procure the folding, stitching and binding of all such laws and journals as may be ordered to be folded, stitched, and bound, and shall receive such compensation, as shall be agreed upon by the auditor, treasurer, and Secratory of State, who shall be governed by the usages of binders, west of Cincinnati, who carry on the book binding business.

Sec 7^th That it shall be the duty of the Secratary of State to examine the printing of all laws and see that they be correctly done, and in a workmanlike manner, and it shall be the duty of the auditor, treasurer, and Secratary of State to examine all accounts received by the public printer or printers for work performed, or materials furnished for the State, which officers shall call to their aid practical printers whenever they shall not be satisfied that the charges have not been correctly made

Sec 8^th That on the fulfilmint of any Order for printing, folding, stitching or binding, or for paper furnished by the public printer or printers and used in printing Laws or Journals or other [work?] in which the state furnishes the paper, the Secratary of State shall certify the fact to the auditor, who shall Issue his warrant on the treasurer for the sum due such printer or printers: which shall be paid out of any money not otherwise appro-

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priated. This act to take effect and be in force from its passage.