Chap. 85. —An ACT providing for the Reprinting and Binding of certain
volumes of the Reports of the Coart af Appeals.

Passed January 21, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the super-
intendent of public printing shall, during the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, contract in writing with the lowest
bidder, for the printing and binding of five hundred copies
each, of the sixth and seventh volumes of ‘Leigh’s Reports,
in a style equal in every respect to the second editions of
previous volumes, and shall deposit said contract with the
secretary of the commonwealth. The books, when the print-
ing and binding is completed, shall be delivered to the secre-
tary of ghe commonwealth, and sball constitute a part of the
library fund. Upon the acceptance of the books by the
secretary of the commonwealth, as of the style contracted
for, the gsnperintendent of public printing shall certify the
completion of the work, and the price agreed upon, to the
auditor of public accounts, who shall thereupon issue his
warrant for the sum due, payable out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated. The superintendent of
public printing shall also, when requested by the secretary
of the commonwealth, contract in like manner for reprinting
and binding other volumes of the Reports of the Court of
Appeals, of which the stock belonging to'the library fund is
or shall be exhausted; and the auditor shall issue his war-
rants on the treasury in payment for the same, when certified
to him in the manner hereinbefore required as to the sixth
and seventh volumes of Leigh’s Reports; but not more than
two of the reprinted volumes shall. be paid for in any one
year; and if at any time it shall appear to them expedient,
the library committee may forbid the making any further
contracts for such reprints.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.
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