Chap. 532.—An ACT to amend and combine chapter 19 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, as to section 277 of said chapter, by act approved January 15, 1890,
and by act approved January 16, 1892, and further amended by act approved
May 13, 1903, and chapter 377 of the acts of assembly, extra session 1887, en-
titled “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 1879-’80,”
approved May 23, 1887, as amended, as to section 10 of said act by act ap-
proved March 5, 1888, and by act approved February 5, 1892, and as amended,
as to section 11 of said act, by act approved February 24, 1890, and by act ap-
proved February 9, 1894; and to consolidatesand re-enact the same into chapter
19 of the Code of Virginia; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict
therewith.

Approved December 31, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
nineteen of the Code of Virginia, as amended, as to section two hundred
and seventy-seven of said chapter, by act approved January fifteenth, cigh-
teen hundred and ninety, and by act approved January sixteenth, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-two, and further amended by act approved May
thirteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and chapter three hundred and
seventy-seven of the acts of assembly, extra session eighteen hundred and
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eighty-seven, 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 hun-
dred and eighty-five of the acts of assembly eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-nine and eighteen hundred and eighty, approved May twenty-third,
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended, as to section ten of said
act by act approved March five, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and
by act approved February five, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and a:
amended, as to section eleven of said act, by act approved February
twenty-four, eighten hundred and ninety, and by act approved February
nine, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be, and the same are hereby,
amended, combined, consolidated, and re-enacted into chapter nineteen
of the Code of Virginia so as to read as follows:

CHarter XIX.
Superintendent of Public Printing, and Joint Committee on Printing.

§ 270. Superintendent to supervise public printing and binding.

§ 271. His oath.

§ 272. What books he shall keep.

§ 273. How contracts for printing awarded ; appeal from award.

§ 274. How contract for paper awarded ; appeal from award.

§ 275. To supply officers with stationery, and so forth, and publish
proclamations, advertisements, and so forth.

§ 276. Printing and binding done for senate and house.

§ 277. Printing of journals for senate and house.

§ 278. How bills, joint resolutions, and so forth, printed.

§ 279. Acts of assembly; printing and distribution.

§ 280. Printing of annual reports; their distribution; superin-
tendent’s responsibility for mechanical execution of State printing.

§ 281. Reports of the court of appeals.

§ 282. If printing not done satisfactorily, superintendent to employ
another.

§ 283. Report of superintendent.

§ 284. Committee on printing.

§ 285. Clerk of superintendent.

§ 270. Superintendent to supervise public printing and binding.—The
public printing and binding for the Commonwealth shall be under the
supervision and control of the superintendent of public printing, whose
a shall be as herein presgribed, or as may be hereafter prescribed
by law.

§ 271. His oath.—Before entering upon the discharge of his duties he
shall, in addition to the oaths required to be taken by other officers of the
Commonwealth, take an oath that he is a practical printer, and is skilled
in and acquainted with the details of the printing business; that he will
not in any manner, directly or indirectly, be interested in the contracts
for the printing, binding, ruling, advertising, lithographing, and engrav-
ing let out by him, nor in any contract for paper or stationery purch
for the use of the State, and that he will not participate in the profit:
arising from the same. If he in any mamner, directly or indirectly,
violate the provisions of this section, by being interested in any such
contract, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be prose-
cuted therefor; 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 months nor more than twelve months.

§ 272. What books he shall keep.—He shall keep the following books:
A letter book, in which he shall keep his official correspondence; a record
book, in which he shall enter in brief all accounts allowed by him for
paper, printing, binding, ruling, lithographing, engraving, advertising,
postage, drayage, and expressage, and in which he shall record all his
official transactions ; an order book, in which he shall enter each order for
printing, binding, ruling, lithographing, and engraving received by him
from any department or officer of the State, with a brief description
of the work, the date at which it was received, when and to which con-
tractor delivered, and the kind and quantity of paper furnished therefor ;
a contract book, in which he shall record all contracts and bonds; receipt
books, in which he shall enter all paper delivered to contractors, and take
their receipt therefor; and a schedule book, exhibiting in detail the cost
of all printing, binding, ruling, advertising, postage, drayage, express-
age, lithographing, and engraving executed for each department or of-
ficer, and the quantity, cost per ream, and value of all paper used; which
books shall at all times be open to the inspection of the governor, auditor
of public accounts, secretary of the Commonwealth, or of any member of
the general assembly. ;

§ 273. How contracts for printing awarded; appeal from award.—He
shall, prior to the beginning of each fiscal year, let out to the lowest re-
sponsible bidder, experience and facilities possessed at the time of bid-
ding considered, all the printing, binding, ruling, lithographing, and
engraving required by any department of the State and authorized by
law to be done, or required in the execution of any law, and shall give
notice of the time and place of letting the said work, by advertisements
published every other day for two weeks, in one newspaper of general cir-
culation published in the city of Richmond, and in not less than two other
newspapers of general circulation published in other cities of the State, and
shall furnish all bidders, on application, with printed schedules on which
to bid, specifying in detail the items required in the execution of the
said work; which bids shall be opened at the time and place named in
the advertisement in the presence of such bidders as see fit to attend.
He may let out the work to different persons, and in such lots or portions
as he may deem proper. In every case he shall require the party under-
taking to do the work, or any part of it, to enter into a written contract
stating distinctly the terms of the same, embracing the prices to be paid
for composition, press work, folding, stitching, ruling, binding, and all
other items in detail; always providing in contracts for printing that
the printing is to be executed in a close and compact form, without un-
necessary title pages or useless blank pages; and shal] require the per-
son or persons making such contract to enter into a bond with security
in a penalty of at least double the amount contracted to be paid for the
work, and conditioned for the faithful performance and execution of
such contract; the security shall be approved by the secretary of the Com-
monwealth, and the form of the bond by the attorney-general. All such
contracts and bonds shall be recorded in the contract book kept by the
superintendent of public printing for that purpose, and the original bond
shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth. Any
bidder feeling himself aggrieved by an award made by the superin-
tendent of public printing may, during the session of the general as-
sembly, appeal to the joint committee on printing; or, in vacation, to a
board composed of the governor, auditor of public accounts, and secre-
tary of the Commonwealth, whicl shall hear and determine the matters
in said appeal, but notice of such appeal must be given the superin-
tendent of public printing within ten days from the date of the award
appealed from.

§ 274. How contracts for paper awarded; appeal from award—He
shall purchase from the lowest responsible bidder, after like advertise-
ment as that prescribed in section two hundred and seventy-three, the
paper required for the printing and binding let out by him, and may
purchase the same at such times and in such quantities as he may deem
proper, and furnish the same to the contractors for printing, binding,
and ruling as it may be needed. The accounts for the purchase of paper,
certified by him to be correct, shall be presented to the secretary of the
Commonwealth, who shall certify the same to the auditor of public ac
counts, who shall grant a warrant therefor on the treasury. All con-
tracts in relation to said paper shall be subject to and regulated by the
provisions of the preceding section in relation to the contracts for public
printing, and all appeals from decisions of the superintendent of public
printing shall be heard and determined as are appeals in relation to the
public printing and binding.

§ 275. To supply officers with stationery, and so forth, and publish
proclamations, advertisements, and so forth.—He shall supply the execu-
tive, the auditor of public accounts, the second auditor, treasurer, secre-
tary of the Commonwealth, attorney-general, register of the land office,
and the corporation commission with letter-heads, note-heads, envelopes,
blank books, and such other printing and binding as may be required
by them in their several departments, and the clerks of the senate and
house of delegates with blanks, and shall cause to be published in such
newspapers as may be ordered proclamations and advertisements for the
executive, treasurer, either auditor, register of the land office, attorney-
general, corporation commission, and the clerk of either house of the
general assembly. No printing or binding for the general or law libra-
ries shall be paid out of the funds appropriated for public printing, ex-
cept such as is specially provided for by law. All orders for printing,
binding, ruling, lithographing, and engraving required by any depart-
ment or officer shall be sent to the superintendent of public printing,
who shall enter the same in the order book required to be kept by section
two hundred and seventy-two of this act.

§ 276. Payment of bills for printing, binding, and so forth —For all
printing and binding done for or by the order of the senate or house of
delegates, accounts certified by the superintendent of public printing to
be correct and according to contract, shall, during the sessions of the
general assembly, be presented to the president of the senate or the
speaker of the house of delegates, as the case may be, who shall, if the
accounts are found to be correct, certify them to the auditor of public
accounts, to be paid by him by warrant on the treasury; and if the gen-
eral assembly be not in session, then such account so certified by the
superintendent of public printing to be correct and according to contract
shall be presented to the secretary of the Commonwealth, who shall, if
the accounts are found correct, certify the same to the auditor of public
accounts, to be paid by him by warrant on the treasury.

For all printing, binding, ruling, lithographing, advertising, engrav-
ing, wrapping, mailing, freight, postage, expressage, or stationery, or
other material, done, expended for, or furnished to any department of the
government, accounts certified by the superintendent of public printing
to be correct and according to contract, shall be presented to the officer
for whose department such work is done, expenditure made, or material
furnished, who shall, if the accounts are found to be correct, certify the
same to the auditor of public accounts, to be paid by him by warrant on
the public treasury.

For all other printing, binding, ruling, lithographing, advertising,
engraving, wrapping, mailing, freight, postage, expressage, or stationery,
or other material, for the payment of which no provision is otherwise
made, accounts certified by the superintendent of public printing to be
correct and according to contract, shall be presented to the auditor of
public accounts, and, if found to be correct, paid by him by warrant on
the treasury.

§ 277. Printing of journals for senate and house; their distribution.—
The superintendent of public printing shall superintend the execution
of all printing done by order of the senate or house of delegates, or their
respective clerks, and shell cause to be printed in octavo form five hun-
dred copies each of the journals of the senate and house of delegates, and
a like number of each document ordered by either house of the general
assembly, two hundred copies of which shall be distributed, from time to
time as they are printed, to the members of the general assembly, and to
the heads of departments, one to each, and ten to the clerk of each house.
The remaining three hundred: copies of the journals and documents, with
an index thereto, shall be bound in ordinary half binding and distributed
by the superintendent of public printing as follows: One copy to each
member of the general assembly and to each head of department, five
copies to the clerk of each house, and the remainder shall be delivered to
the secretary of the Commonwealth, of which fifteen copies shall be kept
in the library, sixty shall be disposed: of as the executive may direct, and
the remainder shall be a part of the library fund.

§ 278. How bills, joint resolutions, and so forth, printed.—He shall
cause to be printed in octavo form two hundred and fifty copies of every
bill, joint resolution, or other matter ordered to be printed for the use
of the senate or house of delegates and intended for temporary use, and
in all fugitive work, such as resolutions, joint resolutions, house or senate
bills making more than one page, there shall not be allowed on the first
page thereof, between: the folio line and the first line of the enacting
clause, a space in excess of two and a half inches, which shall include the
heading “a bill,” or “resolution,” or “joint resolution,” the title to the
same, the name of the patron, the report of the committee or committal

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thereto, unless the title thereto be in excess of three lines, in which case
the space in excess of two and a half inches shall be no more than is
necessary to contain the additional lines contained in the title; and in all
book or pamphlet printing except bills there shall not be allowed thicker
leads or spaces than five to pica. In bills and resolutions the space be
tween lines shall not be greater than small pica slugs.

§ 279. Acts of assembly; printing and distribution.—He shall cause
to be printed in octavo form, as soon as approved by the governor, five
thousand five hundred copies of the acts and joint resolutions of the gen-
eral assembly, and shall distribute them as follows: Two copies to each
member of the general assembly and five copies to the clerk of each
house; one copy to each head of department, judge of this State, and the
Commonwealth’s attorney ; one to each clerk of the corporation courts in
this State, and one to the clerk of the circuit court of each county and
corporation, and five copies to the corporation commission, from time to
time as they are printed; the remainder he shall have bound in ordinary
half binding, with the index and tables required by law to be printed
with the acts and joint resolutions of the general assembly, and: as soon
as practicable after the end of each session he shall deliver one copy to
each head of department, and forward, by mail or express, or otherwise,
five copies to each member of the general assembly; to every judge two
copies, corporation commission five copies, and one copy to each mayor,
clerk of any court, attorney for the Commonwealth, sheriff, sergeant,
treasurer, commissioner of the revenue, justice of the peace, supervisor,
and division superintendent of schools; one copy to every judge and
clerk of any court held in this State under the laws of the United States,
and to each attorney and marshal in this State holding office under the
United States; five copies to the general library, and: five copies to the
law library; one copy to the university and to each college in the State;
one to the board of directors of each State hospital; one to the school
for the deaf and blind; one to the Virginia Military Institute; ten copies
to the clerk of the senate for the use of the senate, and fifteen copies to
the clerk of the house of delegates for the use of the house. The copies
remaining after the distribution above provided for he shall deliver to
the secretary of the Commonwealth to constitute a part of the library
fund.

§ 280. Printing of annual reports; their distribution; superintend-
ent’s responsibility for mechanical execution of State printing.—It shall
be the duty of the department chiefs and heads of institutions of the
Commonwealth to furnish their annual reports to the officer to whom
they are required to be made on or before the twentieth day of October
of each year, who shall forthwith deliver them to the superintendent of
public printing, whose duty it shall be to have them printed in accord-
ance with section four of this chapter, and ready for distribution on the
first Wednesday in December.

He shall have printed in octavo form and bound in one volume five
hundred copies of each report, and distribute the same as follows: One
copy to each member of the general assembly, two copies to each institu-
tion and head of department, one copy to the clerk of each court of the
State, twelve copies to the library, ten copies to the clerk of the senate
for the use of the senate, and ten copies to the clerk of the house of dele-
gates for the use of the house, one copy to the clerk of each circuit and
corporation court, sixty copies shall be disposed of as the executive may
direct, and the remainder shall constitute a part of the library fund; a
like number of the reports of the corporation commission, including the
reports of railroad companies made to them, and report of the superin-
temdent of public instruction shall be printed in the same manner, but
bound in separate volumes, and! distributed as the other reports: pro-
vided, that the report of the secretary of the Commonwealth shall be
printed and bound as provided by law and delivered to said secretary.
In the printing of the reports provided for in this section, as in all classes
of the State work, the officer preparing the report or other documents
shall in all cases be responsible for the matter therein.

The department chiefs and heads of institutions shall carefully edit
all copy for such reports or documents, and eliminate all unn
matter and matter that contains no information ; and it shall be the duty
of the superintendent of public printing, in making his contracts for the
printing of the reports referred to in this section, to provide that the
contractor shall print such additional copies of the said reports as may
be desired by the institutions or officers making the reports, at such
prices as may be agreed upon between the superintendent and contractor ;
the account for the same, when approved by the superintendent, shall be
paid by the department or institution ordering said extra printing.

The superintendent of public printing shall be held responsible for the
proper mechanical execution of the State printing.

§ 281. Reports of the court of appeals—When the superintendent
of public printing contracts for the printing and binding of current and
future volumes of Virginia reports of the supreme court of appeals, he
shall contract for the printing of so many copies of said volume or
volumes as the secretary of the Commonwealth shall designate, not ex-
ceeding two thousand of each volume, and shall contract for the binding
of such number of such volume as the secretary of the Commonwealth
shall designate, and for the delivery of the residue of said unbound
copies of said reports in sheets, boxed, and labeled as the said secretary
of the Commonwealth may direct; and, from time to time, he shall con-
tract for the binding of such unbound volumes by the direction of the
secretary of the Commonwealth.

In contracting for the printing and binding of said reports: he shall
conform to the provisions of section two hundred and seventy-three in
relation to other printing and binding, except that it shall be expressly
stipulated in said contract that no payment for composition or press
work shall be made until the whole has been completed and accepted, and
that a like condition be made in regard to the binding.

§ 282. If printing not done satisfactorily, superintendent to employ
another.—If any officer or department report to the superintendent any
failure in the prompt and satisfactory execution of the printing, bind-
ing, ruling, or lithographing required by said officer or department, and
in any case in which the superintendent is satisfied that the contractor
has failed to comply with the stipulations of his contract, it shall be the
duty of the superintendent to employ some other person to do the work,
and he shall bring an action upon the bond of the defaulting contractor
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for any loss which may be sustained by the State in consequence of such
default as soon as the same can be ascertained.

§ 283. Report of superintendent—The superintendent of public
printing shall make an annual report to the governor, showing the cost
of all printing, binding, ruling, lithographing, engraving, advertising,
postage, drayage, and expressage done for each department of the gov-
ernment, and the cost of all paper and stationery used; also, the cost of
all paper and stationery purchased during the fiscal year, and the cost
of that remaining on hand at the close of the said fiscal year, and of the
aggregate amount expended during the fiscal year on account of the
public printing.

§ 284. Committee on printing—The joint standing committee on
printing of the two houses of the general assembly shall have authority
to supervise and give directions in all that relates to the public printing
and binding, and all other subjects embraced in this act, and it shall be
the duty of the said committee to examine the books of the office and in-
vestigate the transactions of the superintendent of public printing, and
make a report to the general assembly at each regular session, and at
such other times as the committee deems proper.

§ 285. Clerk of superintendent.—The superintendent of public print-
ing shall have the authority to employ a clerk at such a salary as may
be provided by law. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized
to issue his warrant monthly on the treasurer, upon the certificate of
the superintendent of public printing, for the payment of said clerk.

a All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.