Chap. 280.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 280 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended and re-enacted. {H B 178]

Approved March 16, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section two hundred and eighty of the Code of Virginia, as here-
tofore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 280. Printing of annual reports; their distribution.—
It shall be the duty of the department chiefs and heads of institu-
tions of the Commonwealth to furnish their annual reports to the
officer to whom they are required to be made on or before the twen-
tieth 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 accordance with section two hundred and
seventy-three of this chapter and ready for distribution on the first
Wednesday in January following.

He shall have printed in octavo form five hundred copies of
each report, except the report of the auditor of public accounts, of
which report there shall be printed not more than one thousand
copies, three hundred copies of which shall be bound in one volume,
In ordinary half-binding, and distributed as follows: One copy to
each member of the general assembly, one copy to each institution
and head of department, 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 delegates for the use of the house, sixty copies
shall be disposed of as the executive may direct, and the remainder
shall be delivered to the secretary of the Commonwealth, and con-
stitute a part of the library fund; the remaining two hundred copies
of said reports and additional copies of the auditor’s report shall
be bound separately, in ordinary pamphlet binding with paper cov-
ers, and delivered to the various departments making such reports.
A like number of the reports of the corporation commission, includ-
ing the reports of railroad companies made to them, and the report
of the superintendent of public instruction, shall be printed in the
same manner, but bound in separate volumes, in ordinary half-bind-
ing, three hundred copies of which shall be distributed as the other
reports, and the remaining two hundred delivered to the depart-
ment making the report; provided, that the report of the secretary
of the Commonwealth shall be printed and bound in a separate
volume in ordinary half-binding, or as the secretary may direct,
and delivered to said secretary. In the printing of the reports pro-
vided 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 contained therein.

The department chiefs and heads of institutions shall carefully
edit all copy for such reports or documents and eliminate all un-
necessary matter and matter that contains no information; pro-
vided, however, that should any department include in its report any
matter which in the opinion of the superintendent of public print-
ing should not be included in an annual report, he shall bring the
matter to the attention of the governor who shall have authority to
eliminate such matter should he agree with the opinion of the super-
intendent of public printing; and it shall be the duty of the superin-
tendent of public printing in making his contracts for the printing
of the reports referred to in this section, to provide that the con-
tractor 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 between the superintendent and contractor;
the accounts for the same, when approved by the superintendent,
shall be paid by the department or institution ordering said extra
printing.