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required and authorized to be printed, and the other to include the bills, messages, blanks, certificates, circulars, or advertisements, which now are or hereafter may be required by law to be printed by the general assembly, or by either branch thereof, or by the governor, or by either of the heads of departments, in pursuance of law, and in the discharge of their official duties; and the printing authorized to be done, under the provisions of this act, shall be let and awarded in two contracts separately, as above provided, to the lowest bidder or bidders: Provided, nothing herein Same party shall be construed to prevent both contracts being taken by contracts. the same person or persons, when he or they shall be the lowest bidder or bidders for each contract respectively: And provided further, that the trustees of the various ben- State institueficiary institutions of the state may have printed, under employ ether their order, by such printer or printers as they may em- printers. ploy, the reports of said institutions, when the same can be done at twenty per cent. less than the price paid for the printing of said reports made to this general assembly, to be paid for out of the appropriations for said institutions.

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5. Section five (sec. 5) of said act shall be amended to read Prices of work. as follows: The maximum price of public printing shall be as follows, to-wit: For plain work, seventy cents per thousand ems; for figure or rule work, one dollar and five cents per thousand ems; for figure and rule work, one dollar and forty cents per thousand ems, for composition; and seventy cents per token, of sixteen pages, for press work; for blanks of any description, one dollar and fifty cents for the first quire, and for each additional quire of the same kind, ordered at the same time, one dollar per quire, excepting when said blanks are larger than a sheet of flat cap paper, or contain so much composition as to require additional compensation; then the public printer shall be allowed to charge a reasonable advance upon the prices above specified for printing blanks, which said advance charges shall be passed upon by the officers authorized to settle the printer's accounts, as hereinafter provided. The paper for such blanks aforesaid, shall be furnished by the public printer at his own proper cost and charge, and shall not be charged to nor paid for by the state; and if any of said blanks aforesaid, shall, in the opinion of the officers ordering the same, be badly or inaccurately printed, or be printed on paper of an inferior quality, the officers ordering them may refuse to receive them, and no work so rejected shall be paid for by the state. "A quire of blanks," as used in this act, shall be construed to mean twenty-four blanks of the size of a full sheet of flat cap paper, or forty-eight blanks of any smaller size, or twenty-four blanks of any smaller size which are printed on both sides of the paper. For advertising, the public printer or printers shall receive for each line of nonpareil type, or each line of type of a smaller

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size, not more than ten cents for the first insertion, and not more than seven and one-half cents for each additional insertion that may be ordered by the officer of government who directs the same to be published.

6. That section fifteen (sec. 15) of said act be altered how adjusted and amended to read as follows: It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, auditor and treasurer, to examine all the accounts rendered by the public printer or printers, for work performed, or materials furnished for the state, which said officers shall call to their aid three or a less number of practical printers, who shall not be in the employ of the public printer, or in any manner interested in the contracts Compensation for printing or binding, to assist them in the examination

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of said accounts. The persons so employed shall be paid at the rate of five dollars per day for the time necessarily occupied in the examination of such accounts, to be paid out of the fund appropriated for the expenses of the office of secretary of state.

$ 7. That section sixteen (sec. 16) of said act, in its provision for allowance of wastage of paper in performing the printing provided for in this act, or in the act to which this is an amendment, be amended by changing the word five to three, and that the latter be the sum allowed the public printer or printers for wastage of paper.

§ 8. That section seventeen (sec. 17) of said act be so ting binding, amended as to require the secretary of state in advertising for proposals to do the folding, stitching and binding of the approaching general assembly, consisting of laws, journals, reports and other documents, to give thirty days' notice of such letting, to be published daily in two newspapers printed at the city of Springfield, and daily in the two newspapers printed at the city of Chicago having the largest daily circulation.

$9. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 9, 1867.

CONCURRENT

RESOLUTIONS.

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WHEREAS, there are reports in circulation in the public press and elsewhere, reflecting upon the management of the Hospital for the Insane, thereby tending to injure the reputation of the superintendent and to impair the usefulness of that important institution; therefore,

Resolved, the Senate concurring, That a joint committee of three from this house and two from the senate, be appointed to visit the Hospital for the Insane, after the adjournment of the legislature, at such times as they may deem necessary, with power to send for persons and papers, and to examine witnesses on oath. That said committee be instructed thoroughly to examine and inquire into the financial and sanitary management of said institution; to ascertain whether any of the inmates are improperly retained in the hospital, or unjustly placed there, and whether the inmates are humanely and kindly treated, and to confer with the trustees of said hospital in regard to the speedy correction of any abuses found to exist, and to report to the governor, from time to time, at their discretion.

And be it further resolved, That said committee be instructed to examine the financial and general management of the other state institutions.

Adopted by the House of Representatives.

F. CORWIN, Speaker.

Concurred in by the Senate.

WM. BROSS, Speaker.

The Speaker announced that he had appointed as such committee, on the part of the House, Messrs. Baldwin, Wakeman, Ricks.

F. CORWIN, Speaker.

The Speaker announced that he had appointed as such committee, on the part of the Senate, Messrs. Fuller, Hunter.

C. E. LIPPINCOTT, Secretary of Senate.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, That each senator and the several elective officers of the senate be furnished with newspapers equivalent to fifty (50) copies of a daily paper, and that each member of the House of Representatives and its several elective officers be furnished with newspapers equivalent to fifty (50) daily papers, to be paid for out of the contingent

fund.

F. CORWIN,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. BROSS,

Speaker of the Senate

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

WHEREAS, the naval department has expended over one hundred thousand dollars for a navy yard at Mound City, Illinois, and has left it incompleted; and whereas, the thirteen iron-clad monitors, now anchored at Mound City, together with the other interests of the western branch of our navy, require a western navy yard, which can be completed at Mound City for a small additional expenditure; therefore, Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein, That our senators in congress be instructed and our representatives earnestly requested, without delay, to use all honorable means to secure the passage of a bill through congress making such appropriations as may be found necessary to complete the navy yard at Mound City; and that the clerk of the house, immediately on the passage of this preamble and resolution, send a certified copy thereof to each of our senators and representatives in congress.

WHEREAS, the DesMoines rapids of the Mississippi seriously obstruct the navigation of said river, and it is proposed to overcome those obstructions by a canal, to be located and constructed by and under the authority of congress; therefore,

Resolved, That our senators in congress be instructed and our representatives be requested, by all proper and legitiLate means, to have such a survey made of both the Iowa and Illinois sides of said river, on the DesMoines rapids, before the location of such canal, as to demonstrate clearly on which side of said river a canal can be constructed to the best advantage, taking into consideration the length of the canal, ease and expense of construction, advantages as well as obstructions to the free navigation of the river; that they also endeavor to obtain the location of said canal on this side of the river, if the same can be done at the same expense and will be of equal advantage to navigation as if constructed on the Iowa side of the river.

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