Chap. 293.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 14th section of an act entitled
an act to amend and consolidate into one act the laws relating to the public
printing, and binding and defining the duties of the superintendent of public
printing, and to repeal chapter 185 of the acts of assembly of 1879-’80, ap-
proved May 23, 1887.:

Approved February 12, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fourteen of an act entitled an act to amend and consolidate
into one act the laws relating to the public printing and binding,
and defining the duties of the superintendent of public printing,
and to repeal chapter one hundred and eighty-five of the acts of
assembly of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine and eighty, approved
May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be, and the
same is hereby, amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 14. All persons presenting petitions to the general assembly,
asking the passage of private bills,and all joint stock companies
making application for charters of incorporation shall, before the
same are considered in either house, cause the same to be printed
under the supervision of the superintendent of public printing,
whose duty it shall be to obtain the best terms possible for printing,
but at the expense of the person presenting such petition or bill, or
of the company making such application, two hundred and fifty
copies of such petition or bill.

2.-This act shall be in force from its passage.