Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the printing of the laws and journals of the present Session of the Legislature and of every succeeding session until otherwise directed by law, shall be completed within three months after the public printer shall have been furnished with a copy of the same.

Sec 2 That for all printing executed in pursuance of law by the public printer, he shall receive the following prices, viz; For all laws, Journals, bills, messages, reports, and documents, or other printing for the Legislature, seventy five cents per thousand ems, for composition, and seventy five cents per token for press work, 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 when said printing contains so much rule and figure work as that Journeymen would make an extra charge; in which case the public printer may make an advance in the same ratio; the Journeyman in the charge for composition and press work, agreeably to the rules of printing.

Sec 3 That so much of the act entitled an “act defining the duties of public printers and fixing the time and manner of performing the same,” as is inconsistant with the provisions of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.2