Chap. 358.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 273 of chapter 19 of the
Code of Virginia, as amended and re-enacted by an act entitled: An act to
to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and combine chapter
19 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, as to section 277 of said chapter, by
an act approved January 15, 1890, and by an 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, entitled an ‘act to
amend and consolidate into one act the laws relating to the publie printing
and binding, and defining the duties of the super intendent of public printing,
and to repeal chapter 185 of the acts of assembly, 1879-1880, approved May
23, 1887, as amended, as to section 10 of said act by act approved 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 approved
February 9, 1894, and to consolidate and 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, as amended
by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 273 of the Code of
Virginia, in relation to the duties of the superintendent of public printing,
approved March 15, 1904, approved March 14, 1906.

Approved March 14, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
two hundred and seventy-three of chapter nineteen of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended, as to section two hundred and seventy-seven of ‘said
chapter, by an act approved January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and
ninety, and by act approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred ‘dnd
ninety-two, and further amended by act approved May thirteenth, nine-
teen hundred and three, that chapter three hundred and seventy-seven
of the acts of assembly, extra session, eighteen hundred and 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 hundred
and eighty-five of the acts of assembly eighteen hundred and seventy-
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 fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight, by act approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,
and as amended as to section eleven of said act, by act approved Febru-
ary twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and by act
approved Febr uary nine, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as amended
by act approved December thirty-one, nineteen hundred and _ three,
and as further amerided by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact
‘section two hundred and seventy-three of the Code of Virginia, in
relation to the duties of the superintendent of public printing,” approved
March fifteen, nineteen hundred and four, and as further amended by
act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§273. How contracts for printing awarded ; appeal from award.—He
shall, prior to the beginning of each fiscal year, let out to the lowest
responsible bidder, experience and facilities possessed at the time of
bidding considered, all the printing, binding, ruling, lithograph-
ing and engraving required by any department of the State, and author-
ized by law to be done, or required in the execution of any law, and shall
give notice of the time and place of letting said work by advertisements
published every other day for two weeks in one newspaper of general
circulation published in the city of Richmond, and in not less than two
other newspapers of general circulation published in other cities of the
Commonwealth, reserving in said advertisements the right to reject any
or all bids, 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 advertisements 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.

He shall also fix the time for the delivery of such work as to him may
seem reasonable. 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, embracing the prices to be paid for com-
position, 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; he shall provide in such
contracts that, in case the work so contracted for be not completed within
the time specified therein, he shall deduct and retain from such contract
price such per centum thereof for each day or week that such work is
delayed, as he may deem proper, and shall rcquire the person or persons
making such contract to enter into a bond with security in a penalty
equal to the full amount contracted to be paid for the work where the
bond is given through a bonding or surety company, but when the bond
is given with personal security the penalty shall be in double the amount
contracted to be paid for the work, and conditioned for the faithful
performance and execution of such contracts; the security shall be ap-
proved by the secretary of the Commonwealth, and the form of bond
by the attorney-general. AJl 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 secre-
tary of the Commonwealth. Any bidder feeling himself aggrieved by an
award made by the superintendent of public printing may, during the
session of the general assembly, appeal to the joint committee on print-
ing, or, in vacation, to a board composed of the governor, auditor of
public accounts, and secretary of the Commonwealth, which shall hear
and determine the matters in said appeal, but notice of such appeal
must be given the superintendent of public printing, in writing, within
ten days from the date of the award appealed from. Any person or per-
sons, contractor or contractors, who shall enter into a contract for work
for the State where a bond is required, shall furnish said bond with
surety or surities, who are not either directly or indirectly interested in
any contract with the State.