Public print ing regu er, how elect Civ. '02, § 39. Section 40. The Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the lated; Print-House of Representatives (or in case of death or disability ed, term of of either, the survivor of them) shall immediately upon the office, etc. approval of this Act, and thereafter on the first day of every alternate regular session of the General Assembly, commencing with the regular session of the year 1900, cause to be published for the period of ten days, in one daily paper in each of the cities of Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, a call for sealed proposals to do the public printing for the General Assembly and for the several State officers, as follows: 200 copies per day Senate Calendar, at a price not to exceed 90 cents per page; 200 copies per day House Calendar, at a price not to exceed 90 cents per page; 200 copies per day Senate Journal, at a price not to exceed 90 cents per page; 200 copies per day House Journal, at a price not to exceed 90 cents per page; 50 copies per day Senate Resolutions, at a price not to exceed 72 cents per page; 150 copies per day House Resolutions, at a price not to exceed 72 cents per page; 50 copies per day Senate Bills, at a price not to exceed $1.10 per page; 150 copies per day House Bills, at a price not to exceed $1.18 per page; 1,500 copies of Governor's Message, at a price not to exceed 68 cents per page; 600 copies Report of Comptroller General at a price not to exceed 90 cents per page; 300 copies reports of other State officials, at a price not to exceed 84 cents per page; 2,500 copies Acts and Joint Resolutions, at a price not to exceed $3.50 per page; 500 copies Senate Journal, at a price not to exceed 92 cents per page; 500 copies House Journal, at a price not to exceed 92 cents per page; 500 copies Reports and Resolutions, at a price not to exceed 74 cents per page; rule and figure work a price and two-fifths; and all other works not embraced in the above schedule to be done at figures corresponding to those which shall be accepted under the contract awarded. The proposals shall state at what price per page the bidder will execute the several classes of work, respectively, and what additional charge per page he will make for rule and figure work. The clerks of the two houses shall furnish bidders with specifications of the different classes of printing to be done. Proposals for the public printing, enclosed in an envelope, sealed with wax. and endorsed "Proposal for the public printing," shall be filed with the Secretary of State within the ten days of the advertisement for proposals; and said proposals shall be opened by the Chairman of the Committee on Printing of each House, in the presence of said committees jointly; and the contract shall be awarded by said Committee on Printing, on the last day of the session, to the lowest responsible bidder. Said award subject to the approval of the Senate and House of Representatives. A. D. 1912. Bond of Pub Sec. 41. The party to whom the contract for the public lic Printer. printing shall be awarded shall on or before the first day of civ. ‘02. § 40. July next after such award give bond, with sufficient sureties, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of the work; said bond to be approved by the Governor, the Attorney General and the State Treasurer. how filled. Civ. '02. § 41. Sec. 42. If by reason of death or any other cause the Vacancy, party to whom the contract for public printing shall have been awarded shall fail to undertake the work thereunder or shall fail to give bond in due time, it shall be the duty of the Governor, the Comptroller General, the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, acting as Commis sioners of Public Printing, to call for proposals for said printing, and to award the contract therefor to the lowest responsible bidder, subject to all the conditions and regulations hereinbefore set forth. How laws, Sec. 43. The laws, journals and all other printing in etc., are to be printed. book form, shall be set in long primer type, in pages to conCiv. 02, § 42. tain at least one thousand seven hundred ems each. manner re printed. All rule and figure work accompanying the Acts, Journals and Reports and Resolutions, to be in the same type as the body of the work; the side and foot notes to be in minion or nonpareil type, and the indexes to be in brevier or long primer type. In what Sec. 44. Heads of departments and other officials having ports shall be reports to make to the General Assembly shall not hereafter -have the right or authority to designate to the Public Civ. '02 $ 43. Printer the particular type in which each part of their report is to be printed or the manner in which it is to be set up, but the said Printer shall be required to set up and print all such reports in as cheap a manner as is consistent with the public welfare, and the compensation therefor shall be on the basis of the long primer page of not less than one thousand seven hundred ems. Standard of measurement. Sec. 45. When any part of the said report is set in other than the long primer type, the compensation therefor shall Civ. '02, § 44. be determined by the relation which the types bear to each other, the work being counted for as many pages as one thousand seven hundred is contained in the number of ems of the type used. Reports. Contents of Sec. 46. Heads of the various departments and boards in making their reports shall only give statistical matter and Civ. 02, § 45. their recommendations in as brief form as possible, and the Railroad Commissioners shall not print the general correspondence of their office, railroad schedules, classification of freight, freight or passenger rates, but shall make their report in as concise and brief manner as may be compatible with the public welfare. Bills and tions; how Sec. 47. Bills and Joint Resolutions of the two Houses Joint Resolu-shall be printed in pica type, each line slugged or regletted printed. to the space of one line pica type, printed in pages of thirtyCiv. '02, § 46. six ems of pica type in width and fifty-eight ems of pica type in length, including the folio and foot line, the lines to be numbered according to Sections. A. D. 1912. tions; how Sec. 48. Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Acts and Assembly of this State shall be published without other Joint Resoluhead lines than the title of the Act or Joint Resolution, and printed. nothing shall be appended after the last section thereof Civ. '02, § 47. except the date of the Governor's approval. Not more than one inch of space shall be allowed between the ending of one Act or Joint Resolution and the beginning of the next Act or Joint Resolution (except where an Act or Joint Resolution ends within two inches of the bottom of the page); and there shall be no charge by, or payment to, the State Printer No pay for for any unnecessary fat in the publication of said Acts and Joint Resolutions. fat. Printing of official Re Bts regu In the publication of the Reports of the various officers required by law, there shall be no additional title pages nor any blank pages after the title page, unless such blank fated. pages shall be necessary, from the insertion of a tabular statement which cannot be published upon the regular pages of Report and is folded within such Report. All matter included in such Reports, whether reading or figures or tabulated, shall be compactly published, with no more intervening space than is necessary for the character of the work published. directed to be done, and no page shall be taken up by a mere statement of the Report which is to follow. No unnecessary fat shall be allowed in publishing these Reports. Compactly er to set work Sec. 49. The Public Printer shall, in publishing or print- Public Printing any other kinds of State work, of whatsoever character, compactly. set the same as compactly and within as little space as the civ. '02, § 48. character of the work will permit. er to verify Sec. 50. The Public Printer shall, with each bill rendered Public Printby him for public printing, upon oath certify that the pro- bills. visions of this Act have been complied with in such work; Civ. '02, § 49. and no such bill shall be paid until the work has been done, and a copy thereof filed with and examined by the Comptroller General, and his approval of the work and of the amount of the account endorsed on such bill, except bills for the current printing of the two Houses, which shall be A. D. 1912. likewise examined and approved by the respective Clerks eror of the two houses, upon sworn accounts filed with them, al to approve. before such bills shall be paid. troller-Gener not to be em er. Civ. '02, § 50. One Report Sec. 51. No State officer shall embrace in his Report the braced in oth- Report of another State officer which is required to be published by law, but he may make such reference thereto as may be necessary, to embrace a brief recapitulation thereof, when necessary to the proper understanding of such Report. Sec. 52. In preparing the manuscript for the Public Printer, the State officers and Superintendents of public institutions shall use sheets of paper eight by ten inches in size, or legal cap, arranging it in such shape as will have due regard to the contents of the printed page. Size of paper for Reports. Civ. '02, § 51. State Board Printing for Sec. 53. All printing done on Reports published by the of Health. State Board of Health shall be paid for out of funds approCiv. '02, § 52. priated to or belonging to that Department, and not other port. Civ. '03, § 53. wise. Annual Re- Sec. 54. Each Department of the State Government, or person required by law to have printing done at the public expense, shall report annually to the Comptroller General the cost of such printing so done by such Department or To be tabu- persons, and such amounts consolidated into one table shall troller-Gener be included in the Annual Report of the Comptroller Gen lated by Comp al. to printing House. Civ. '02, § 54. eral. Certificate as Sec. 55. The faithful performance of the printing for for each each House shall be certified by their respective presiding officers and clerks: Provided, That in the absence of said officers from the seat of government, the Secretary of State, to whom the work may be delivered, shall certify to its proper execution: Provided, further, That a specimen copy of each class of work, with the accounts of the same verified by affidavit, be filed in the office of the Comptroller General. The Clerks of the two Houses shall furnish the Printer corrected journals daily for the permanent printing. Indexing and making mar Acts and Joint by whom done Sec. 56. The indexing and making marginal notes of ginal notes to Acts and Joint Resolutions shall be performed by the Code Resolutions, Commissioner. It shall be the duty of the editor or editors and allowance charged with the preparation of the Acts and Joint Resolueral and spe- tions for publication, in addition to indexing and making arranged for marginal notes thereof, to arrange the same for the Printer according to the subject matter thereof, so that all general therefor gen cial laws, how publication. Civ. '02, § 55. |