Chap. 30.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the provisions of the Code ot
1860, and the acts subsequent theretu, in regard to the Public Printer
and the Public Printing.

Passed March 1, 1806.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the four-
teenth, sixteenth and eighteenth sections of chapter fifteen of
the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty; the fifteenth section
of the same chapter, as amended twenty-fifth of July cigh-
teen hundred and sixty-one; the first, fifth and sixth sections
of chapter eighteen of the Code of cighteen hundred and
sixty; the first, second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth,
ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth sections (the act
of fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, amend-
ing the eighth section, ‘and the thirteenth section, as amended
fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one) of chapter
‘twenty of the Code of cightcen hundred and sixty, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as tollows:

“)I4. In addition to such duties as may be prescribed by
the rules of the house, the clerk of the house of delegates
shall, at the end of each session of the assembly, pr epare an
index to the Journal of the House and the Documents
printed during the session by order of the house, and deliver
the same to the superintendent of public printing. The
bound copies of the Journal and Documents aforesaid, when
delivered to him by the snperintendent of public printing,
shall he distributed by the clerk as follows: One copy to each
member of the general assembly, and such persons as either
house may direct, and the rest to the secretary of the com-
monwealth; of w hich twelve ¢ opies shall be bound and kept
in the library; fitty shall be disposed of as the executive may
direct, and the rest shall be a part of the library fund. The
said clerk shall, at the commencement of each session, make
out and report to the legislature a condensed abstract from
the reports made ‘ him by the clerks of courts.

“Vio. The clerk of the house of delegates shall be the
keeper of the rolls. As such, he shall eause all the acts and
joint resolutions of the assembly to be recorded ina book. Ie
shall have the custody of the acts and joint resolutions of the
general assembly, and the records and papers of the house
of de Jegates, and when required, shall make a copy of any of
them; which copy. being certified by him, shall be evidence
for any purpose for which the original would be reecived, and
with as much effect. He shall, as svon as practicable after
the adjournment of the assembly, prepare the acts and joint
resolutions of the previous session for publication, with an
Index and titles, as prescribed by the sixteenth chapter, and
furnish to the superintendent of public printing the mann-
script of such acts, resolutions, tables and index, arranged
properly dor being printed; and he shall superintend the pub-
heation thereof. in connection with the superintendent of
pute printing.

Ԥ 16. The superintendent of public printing shall super-
intend the execution of all printing done by order of the
house, and the clerk of the house of delegates shall duly re-
port every fiilure in the proper and prompt execution of the
same to the speaker, who shall not certify the accounts of
the printer, unless the same has been well executed, and in
such time as the business of the hoase may require. And if
the said printing is not executed immediately, and if all jour-
nals, bills and calendars, and other matter ordered by the
house to be printed, are not returned printed within a rea-
sonable time atter they have been received by the superin-
tendent of public printing. and by him placed in the hands of
the printer (the magnitude, character, and time that is re-
quired to do such printing to be decided by the speaker of
the house of delegates), the superintendent of public printing
shall forthwith engage such other person or persons to print
the same, or any portion thereof, during the residue of the
session, as he may think fit: provided he shall not pay him
or them more than the usual rates of compensation for such
printing.”

Ҥ18. The clerk of the senate shall, at the end of each
session, prepare an index to the Journal of the Senate and the
Documents printed by its order, and deliver the same to the
superintendent of public printing; and when printed, the
said clerk shall distribute the same, as directed in regard to
the Journal of the House of Delegates, by the fourteenth
section.”

“$1. There shall be elected every two years, by the joint
vote of the two houses of the general asserably, the follow-
ing officers: A secretary of the commonwealth, a treasurer,
an auditor of public accounts, a second auditor, a register of
the land office, a superintendent of the penitentiary, a general
agent and storekeeper of the penitentiary, and a superinten-
dent of public printing.”

“$o. The powers and duties of the treasurer, second au-
ditor, register of the land office, superintendent of the peni-
tentiary, general agent and storekeeper, and superintendent
of public printing, shall be such as are now or may be here-
after prescribed by law for those officers respectively.”

“$6. Each of said officers shall give bond, to be approved
by the governor, the penalty of which shall be as follows:
Of the secretary of the commonwealth and librarian, ten
thousand dollars; of the auditor of public accounts, thirty
thousand dollars; of the second auditor, twenty thousand
dollars; of the treasurer, one hundred thousand dollars; of
the register of the land office, ten thousand dollars; of the
superintendent of the penitentiary, thirty thousand dollars;
of the general agent and storekeeper of the penitentiary,
fifty thousand dollars; and of the superintendent of public
printing, five thousand dollars; conditioned for the faithful
discharge of the duties of their offices respectively.”

“$1. The superintendent of public printing shall cause to
be printed, in octavo form, two hundred and forty copies of
the Journal of the House of Delegates, as it is furnished by
the clerk; of which, so soon as the same may be printed, one
hundred copies shall be delivered to the sergeant-at-arms of
the house, and forty copies to the sergeant-at-arms of the
senate, to be distributed by them amongst the members of
the respective houses, and to such others as either house may
authorize by its rules.”

“$2. At the end of each session of the assembly, he shall
cause to be printed two hundred and forty copies of the
index prepared by the clerk of the house of delegates, to the
said Journal and the Documents printed during the session,
and have the same bound up with the copies of the Journal
and Documents rezpectively, then remaining in his possession.
The Journal, and index thereto, in different volumes from
the Documents, and index thereto. The copies so bound
shajl be delivered by him to the clerk of the house.”
“$3. Ife shall, as soon as practicable after the close of
each session, cause to be printed one hundred and fifty copies
of the general acts, and deliver the same to the secretary of
the commonwealth.”

4, Within forty days after the termination of the ses-
sion, he shall cause to be printed and bound, in the manner
prescribed by the sixteenth chapter, four thousand copies of
the acts and resolutions passed during such session, with the
tables and index: all of which copies shall, so soon as bound,
be delivered to the said secretary.”

Ҥ 6. Ile shall cause to be printed, in octavo form, on
good paper, and have bound in boards, two hundred and
forty copies of such reports as the governor may deliver to
him to be printed. The copies of the report of the board of
public works shall be deposited by the superintendent of
public printing in the office of said board before the meeting
of the general assembly, and distributed to the members
thereof, and such others as the board may direct. The
copies of other reports shall be delivered by the superinten-
dent of public printing, on the first day of the meeting of
the assembly, to the clerk of the house of delegates, who
shall distribute the same as the bound copies of the Journal
of the House are distributed, under the fourteenth section of
the fifteenth chapter.”

Ҥ 7. He shall cause to be printed two hundred and forty
copies of each public document, which may be directed to
be printed by the general assembly, or the house of delegates,
or the senate, other than bills, and so many copies of any bill
which the senate or the house may order to be printed, as it
may direct.”

Ҥ 8. He shall let out to the lowest bidder all the printing
and binding required by the state or its officers, by the senate
or house of delegates, and authorized by law to be done, and
he shall supervise the execution of the same. He may let
out the printing and binding to different persons, and at such
times and in such lots or portions as he may deem proper.
In every case he shall require the party undertaking to do
the work, or any part of it, to enter into a written contract,
stating distinctly the terms of the same, and embracing the
price to be paid for composition, press-work, folding, stitch-
ing, binding, and all other items, in detail, and always pro-
viding in such contract for printing, that the printing 1s all
to be executed in a close and compact form, without any
unnecessary title pages or useless blank pages. One copy of
every such contract he shall retain in his own possession, and
another copy thereof he shall file with the secretary of the
commonwealth. He shall also take from the person or per-
sons making any such contract, bond with security, to be
approved by the secretary of the commonwealth, in the pen-
alty of at least double the amount contracted to be paid for
the work, and conditioned for the faithful performance and
execution of such contract; which bond shall also be filed
with the secretary of the commonwealth.”

“$9. For all printing and binding, or either, done for or
by the order of the senate or house of delegates, an account
(certified by the superintendent of public printing to be cor-
rect and according to contract) shall be presented to the
president of the senate or speaker of the house, as the case
may be, who shall certify the same to the auditor of public
accounts, and the auditor shall grant a warrant therefor on
the treasury.”

Ҥ10. For all other printing and binding or mailing, or
either, done for the general assembly, or the state, or its
officers, an account (certified by the superintendent of public
printing to be correct and according to contract) shall be
presented to the governor, who shall certify the same to the
auditor of public accounts, and the auditor shall grant a
warrant therefor on the treasury.”

“$11. As soon as all annual reports of companies, boards
or institutions shall be received, they shall be delivered by
the officer or board, to whom they are required to be made,
to the superintendent of public printing, whose duty it shall
be to have the same printed without delay. And if the said
superintendent of public printing shall fail to deliver the
same to the proper officer of the general assembly, within
the first month of the session, the said officer shall report the
fact to the auditor of public accounts, who shall deduct from
his next quarter’s salary the amount of two hundred and
fifty dollars as a forfeiture for his said neglect: provided the
said documents shall have been delivered to the said super-
intendent of public printing within five days after the fifteenth
day of October.”

Ҥ 13. That the bills, journals, calendars, and all other
matter ordered by the senate to be printed, shall be delivered
by the clerk of the senate to the superintendent of public

rinting, who shall cause the same to be printed as directed
in regard to the printing for the house of delegates, provided
for by the sixteenth chapter—the president of the senate act-
ing instead of the speaker of the house, where the printing
is ordered by the senate: provided, that nothing in this law
contained shall interfere with the contract made with the
senate printer, by virtue of his recent election: and provided
also, that under the supervision of the superintendent of
public printing, the senate printer shall be allowed so much
additional compensation as will make his salary conform to
the rates paid for other public printing.”

Ҥ14. That the superintendent of public printing, before
entering upon the duties of his office, shall, in addition to the
other oaths required to be taken by other officers of the com-
monwealth, take an oath ‘that he is skilled in and acquainted
with the practical details of the business of printing; that he
will not be in any manner, directly or indirectly, interested
in the contracts for the printing or binding to be let out by
him, or in the contract for the paper which he shall purchase
under the seventeenth section, and that he will not partici-
pate in the profits arising from the same.’”

“$15. If he be in any manner, directly or indirectly, inte-
rested in any contract for the purchase of paper, or for the
printing or binding to be let out by him, or participate in the
profits arising from the same, he shall be deemed to be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall be prosecuted for such offence,
and if convicted, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor
more than one thousand dollars, and shall be confined in jail
not less than six nor more than twelve months.”

Ҥ 16. He shall reside in the city of Richmond, and be at
hand whenever his services may be required. He shall con-
tract for and superintend all the printing and binding au-
thorized by law to be done for the state, or any of its
officers. Ie shall receive for his services, annually, the sum
of one thousand dollars; to be paid monthly, as the salaries
of other officers of the state are paid.”

Ҥ 17. He shall purchase all the paper needed for the
printing let out by him, and furnish the same to the printer
as it may be needed; the accounts for the purchase of which
(certified by him to be correct), shall be presented by him to
the governor, who shall certify the same to the auditor of
public accounts ; and the auditor shall grant a warrant there-
for on the treasury.”

Ҥ 18. The superintendent of public printing shall keep a
record (in a book to be procured by himself for the purpose),
of all his official correspondence and transactions, in which
book he shall copy all contracts, accounts for paper, printing,
binding, &c.; which book shall always show the cost of the
public printing and binding; and which book shall at all times
be open to the inspection of the governor, auditor, secretary
of the commonwealth, and any member of the general as-
sembly.”

“$19. There shall be a joint standing committee of the
general assembly (two to be appointed ‘by the senate and
three by the house), whose duty it shall be to make investi-
cations into the transactions of the superintendent of public
printing, and make report thereof to the general assembly.”

“$20. That all provisions in the Code of eighteen hun-
dred and sixty, and in the acts of assembly subsequent
thereto, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and
the same are hereby repealed.”

“§ 21. This act shall be in force from its passage.”

Chap. 30.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the provisions of the Code ot
1860, and the acts subsequent theretu, in regard to the Public Printer
and the Public Printing.

Passed March 1, 1806.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the four-
teenth, sixteenth and eighteenth sections of chapter fifteen of
the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty; the fifteenth section
of the same chapter, as amended twenty-fifth of July cigh-
teen hundred and sixty-one; the first, fifth and sixth sections
of chapter eighteen of the Code of cighteen hundred and
sixty; the first, second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth,
ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth sections (the act
of fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, amend-
ing the eighth section, ‘and the thirteenth section, as amended
fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one) of chapter
‘twenty of the Code of cightcen hundred and sixty, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as tollows:

“)I4. In addition to such duties as may be prescribed by
the rules of the house, the clerk of the house of delegates
shall, at the end of each session of the assembly, pr epare an
index to the Journal of the House and the Documents
printed during the session by order of the house, and deliver
the same to the superintendent of public printing. The
bound copies of the Journal and Documents aforesaid, when
delivered to him by the snperintendent of public printing,
shall he distributed by the clerk as follows: One copy to each
member of the general assembly, and such persons as either
house may direct, and the rest to the secretary of the com-
monwealth; of w hich twelve ¢ opies shall be bound and kept
in the library; fitty shall be disposed of as the executive may
direct, and the rest shall be a part of the library fund. The
said clerk shall, at the commencement of each session, make
out and report to the legislature a condensed abstract from
the reports made ‘ him by the clerks of courts.

“Vio. The clerk of the house of delegates shall be the
keeper of the rolls. As such, he shall eause all the acts and
joint resolutions of the assembly to be recorded ina book. Ie
shall have the custody of the acts and joint resolutions of the
general assembly, and the records and papers of the house
of de Jegates, and when required, shall make a copy of any of
them; which copy. being certified by him, shall be evidence
for any purpose for which the original would be reecived, and
with as much effect. He shall, as svon as practicable after
the adjournment of the assembly, prepare the acts and joint
resolutions of the previous session for publication, with an
Index and titles, as prescribed by the sixteenth chapter, and
furnish to the superintendent of public printing the mann-
script of such acts, resolutions, tables and index, arranged
properly dor being printed; and he shall superintend the pub-
heation thereof. in connection with the superintendent of
pute printing.

Ԥ 16. The superintendent of public printing shall super-
intend the execution of all printing done by order of the
house, and the clerk of the house of delegates shall duly re-
port every fiilure in the proper and prompt execution of the
same to the speaker, who shall not certify the accounts of
the printer, unless the same has been well executed, and in
such time as the business of the hoase may require. And if
the said printing is not executed immediately, and if all jour-
nals, bills and calendars, and other matter ordered by the
house to be printed, are not returned printed within a rea-
sonable time atter they have been received by the superin-
tendent of public printing. and by him placed in the hands of
the printer (the magnitude, character, and time that is re-
quired to do such printing to be decided by the speaker of
the house of delegates), the superintendent of public printing
shall forthwith engage such other person or persons to print
the same, or any portion thereof, during the residue of the
session, as he may think fit: provided he shall not pay him
or them more than the usual rates of compensation for such
printing.”

Ҥ18. The clerk of the senate shall, at the end of each
session, prepare an index to the Journal of the Senate and the
Documents printed by its order, and deliver the same to the
superintendent of public printing; and when printed, the
said clerk shall distribute the same, as directed in regard to
the Journal of the House of Delegates, by the fourteenth
section.”

“$1. There shall be elected every two years, by the joint
vote of the two houses of the general asserably, the follow-
ing officers: A secretary of the commonwealth, a treasurer,
an auditor of public accounts, a second auditor, a register of
the land office, a superintendent of the penitentiary, a general
agent and storekeeper of the penitentiary, and a superinten-
dent of public printing.”

“$o. The powers and duties of the treasurer, second au-
ditor, register of the land office, superintendent of the peni-
tentiary, general agent and storekeeper, and superintendent
of public printing, shall be such as are now or may be here-
after prescribed by law for those officers respectively.”

“$6. Each of said officers shall give bond, to be approved
by the governor, the penalty of which shall be as follows:
Of the secretary of the commonwealth and librarian, ten
thousand dollars; of the auditor of public accounts, thirty
thousand dollars; of the second auditor, twenty thousand
dollars; of the treasurer, one hundred thousand dollars; of
the register of the land office, ten thousand dollars; of the
superintendent of the penitentiary, thirty thousand dollars;
of the general agent and storekeeper of the penitentiary,
fifty thousand dollars; and of the superintendent of public
printing, five thousand dollars; conditioned for the faithful
discharge of the duties of their offices respectively.”

“$1. The superintendent of public printing shall cause to
be printed, in octavo form, two hundred and forty copies of
the Journal of the House of Delegates, as it is furnished by
the clerk; of which, so soon as the same may be printed, one
hundred copies shall be delivered to the sergeant-at-arms of
the house, and forty copies to the sergeant-at-arms of the
senate, to be distributed by them amongst the members of
the respective houses, and to such others as either house may
authorize by its rules.”

“$2. At the end of each session of the assembly, he shall
cause to be printed two hundred and forty copies of the
index prepared by the clerk of the house of delegates, to the
said Journal and the Documents printed during the session,
and have the same bound up with the copies of the Journal
and Documents rezpectively, then remaining in his possession.
The Journal, and index thereto, in different volumes from
the Documents, and index thereto. The copies so bound
shajl be delivered by him to the clerk of the house.”
“$3. Ife shall, as soon as practicable after the close of
each session, cause to be printed one hundred and fifty copies
of the general acts, and deliver the same to the secretary of
the commonwealth.”

4, Within forty days after the termination of the ses-
sion, he shall cause to be printed and bound, in the manner
prescribed by the sixteenth chapter, four thousand copies of
the acts and resolutions passed during such session, with the
tables and index: all of which copies shall, so soon as bound,
be delivered to the said secretary.”

Ҥ 6. Ile shall cause to be printed, in octavo form, on
good paper, and have bound in boards, two hundred and
forty copies of such reports as the governor may deliver to
him to be printed. The copies of the report of the board of
public works shall be deposited by the superintendent of
public printing in the office of said board before the meeting
of the general assembly, and distributed to the members
thereof, and such others as the board may direct. The
copies of other reports shall be delivered by the superinten-
dent of public printing, on the first day of the meeting of
the assembly, to the clerk of the house of delegates, who
shall distribute the same as the bound copies of the Journal
of the House are distributed, under the fourteenth section of
the fifteenth chapter.”

Ҥ 7. He shall cause to be printed two hundred and forty
copies of each public document, which may be directed to
be printed by the general assembly, or the house of delegates,
or the senate, other than bills, and so many copies of any bill
which the senate or the house may order to be printed, as it
may direct.”

Ҥ 8. He shall let out to the lowest bidder all the printing
and binding required by the state or its officers, by the senate
or house of delegates, and authorized by law to be done, and
he shall supervise the execution of the same. He may let
out the printing and binding to different persons, and at such
times and in such lots or portions as he may deem proper.
In every case he shall require the party undertaking to do
the work, or any part of it, to enter into a written contract,
stating distinctly the terms of the same, and embracing the
price to be paid for composition, press-work, folding, stitch-
ing, binding, and all other items, in detail, and always pro-
viding in such contract for printing, that the printing 1s all
to be executed in a close and compact form, without any
unnecessary title pages or useless blank pages. One copy of
every such contract he shall retain in his own possession, and
another copy thereof he shall file with the secretary of the
commonwealth. He shall also take from the person or per-
sons making any such contract, bond with security, to be
approved by the secretary of the commonwealth, in the pen-
alty of at least double the amount contracted to be paid for
the work, and conditioned for the faithful performance and
execution of such contract; which bond shall also be filed
with the secretary of the commonwealth.”

“$9. For all printing and binding, or either, done for or
by the order of the senate or house of delegates, an account
(certified by the superintendent of public printing to be cor-
rect and according to contract) shall be presented to the
president of the senate or speaker of the house, as the case
may be, who shall certify the same to the auditor of public
accounts, and the auditor shall grant a warrant therefor on
the treasury.”

Ҥ10. For all other printing and binding or mailing, or
either, done for the general assembly, or the state, or its
officers, an account (certified by the superintendent of public
printing to be correct and according to contract) shall be
presented to the governor, who shall certify the same to the
auditor of public accounts, and the auditor shall grant a
warrant therefor on the treasury.”

“$11. As soon as all annual reports of companies, boards
or institutions shall be received, they shall be delivered by
the officer or board, to whom they are required to be made,
to the superintendent of public printing, whose duty it shall
be to have the same printed without delay. And if the said
superintendent of public printing shall fail to deliver the
same to the proper officer of the general assembly, within
the first month of the session, the said officer shall report the
fact to the auditor of public accounts, who shall deduct from
his next quarter’s salary the amount of two hundred and
fifty dollars as a forfeiture for his said neglect: provided the
said documents shall have been delivered to the said super-
intendent of public printing within five days after the fifteenth
day of October.”

Ҥ 13. That the bills, journals, calendars, and all other
matter ordered by the senate to be printed, shall be delivered
by the clerk of the senate to the superintendent of public

rinting, who shall cause the same to be printed as directed
in regard to the printing for the house of delegates, provided
for by the sixteenth chapter—the president of the senate act-
ing instead of the speaker of the house, where the printing
is ordered by the senate: provided, that nothing in this law
contained shall interfere with the contract made with the
senate printer, by virtue of his recent election: and provided
also, that under the supervision of the superintendent of
public printing, the senate printer shall be allowed so much
additional compensation as will make his salary conform to
the rates paid for other public printing.”

Ҥ14. That the superintendent of public printing, before
entering upon the duties of his office, shall, in addition to the
other oaths required to be taken by other officers of the com-
monwealth, take an oath ‘that he is skilled in and acquainted
with the practical details of the business of printing; that he
will not be in any manner, directly or indirectly, interested
in the contracts for the printing or binding to be let out by
him, or in the contract for the paper which he shall purchase
under the seventeenth section, and that he will not partici-
pate in the profits arising from the same.’”

“$15. If he be in any manner, directly or indirectly, inte-
rested in any contract for the purchase of paper, or for the
printing or binding to be let out by him, or participate in the
profits arising from the same, he shall be deemed to be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall be prosecuted for such offence,
and if convicted, shall be fined not less than five hundred nor
more than one thousand dollars, and shall be confined in jail
not less than six nor more than twelve months.”

Ҥ 16. He shall reside in the city of Richmond, and be at
hand whenever his services may be required. He shall con-
tract for and superintend all the printing and binding au-
thorized by law to be done for the state, or any of its
officers. Ie shall receive for his services, annually, the sum
of one thousand dollars; to be paid monthly, as the salaries
of other officers of the state are paid.”

Ҥ 17. He shall purchase all the paper needed for the
printing let out by him, and furnish the same to the printer
as it may be needed; the accounts for the purchase of which
(certified by him to be correct), shall be presented by him to
the governor, who shall certify the same to the auditor of
public accounts ; and the auditor shall grant a warrant there-
for on the treasury.”

Ҥ 18. The superintendent of public printing shall keep a
record (in a book to be procured by himself for the purpose),
of all his official correspondence and transactions, in which
book he shall copy all contracts, accounts for paper, printing,
binding, &c.; which book shall always show the cost of the
public printing and binding; and which book shall at all times
be open to the inspection of the governor, auditor, secretary
of the commonwealth, and any member of the general as-
sembly.”

“$19. There shall be a joint standing committee of the
general assembly (two to be appointed ‘by the senate and
three by the house), whose duty it shall be to make investi-
cations into the transactions of the superintendent of public
printing, and make report thereof to the general assembly.”

“$20. That all provisions in the Code of eighteen hun-
dred and sixty, and in the acts of assembly subsequent
thereto, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and
the same are hereby repealed.”

“§ 21. This act shall be in force from its passage.”