Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly: That the Secretary of State shall deliver to the public printer, within ten days after the adjournment of each session of the General assembly copies of all laws and joint Resolutions passed by such General Assembly, and which may be required to be printed. The Secretary of state shall hereafter superintend the printing of the Journals.

Sec 2. The Journal of each House of the General Assembly shall hereafter be kept [in] well bound books. The secretary of the senate and clerks of the House of Representatives, shall furnish to the public printer, every moring during [each] session of the General assembly a copy of the [jour]nal kept by them respectively, of the [day preceding]ing the last day[’]s Journal, and the said secretary and clerk shall within ten days after the adjournment of each session of the General Assembly deposite the original journal kept by them as aforesaid with the secretary of state.

Sec 3. Hereafter the binding of the laws shall be completed, within Sixty days from the time the copies are delivered to the public printer by the Secretary of state.

Sec 4. If the public printer shall fail to print the laws and Journals within the time limited by law, or if he shall fail to have the laws bound within the time limited, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of state, to state in the ^x^ certificate which he is required to give to such

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printer, the time at which such laws and Journals should have been printed; and the time at which the binding should have been completed; and the time at which the said printing was completed; and the Auditor shall thereupon deduct from the price of such printing, if the failure be in the printing or if the failure be in the binding, deduct from the price of such binding, six percent per week on the price of the printing or binding as the case may be, and issue his warrant on the Treasurer for the sum due such printer after making the deductions aforesaid.