An act providing for the election of a Public Binder and defining his duties.
Sec.[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That there shall be elected by the joint ball vote of the two Houses of the General Assembly at the present session and at every regular session thereafter a public binder or binders whose duty it shall be to bind all laws, journals or other publications that may be ordered to be bound by theLegislature, or either branch thereof, or by the Governor, or by either of the heads of Departments in pursuance of law; and to fold, stitch, cover with blue paper and cut the edges of all Journals that may be published; and said public Binder or binders shall receive for their services the following prices, viz: for binding ^laws or journals^ laws leather backs and paper sides, when the number of pages does not exceed One hundred and fifty at the rate of twenty cents for every hundred pages each volume may contain; for every additional number of pages each volume contains over one hundred and fifty and not exceeding three hundred at the rate of twelve cents per hundred pages; for every additional number of pages over three hundred and not exceeding five hundred at the rate of eight cents per hundred pages; and for every additional number of pages each volume contains over five hundred. . .

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Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 78, HB 121, GA Session 12-2, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,