14 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 3

plain or tabulated at the price of one dollar and fifty
cents per page, octavo, per thousand long primer type,
and two dollars and fifty cents per page bill folio for the
first thousand copies printed of either, and at the rate of
thirty-three per cent. less for each additional tl-iousand
copies, but no printing not hereinbefore enumerated shall
be paid for unless upon an order stating the cost of the
same, and passed by a yea and nay vote of either the
Senate or the House.

The Governor's Message, the Report of the Comptrol-
ler of the Treasury, the State Treasurer's Report, the
Report of the Adjutant General, the State School Re-
port, the Report of the Insurance Commissioner, the
-Report of the State Board of Health and the Report of
the State Fish Commissioners shall be printed on good
white paper, twenty-four by thirty inches, fifty pounds
to the ream; the thze of the pages to be regular octavo,
and the type used shall be long primer for the body of
all the various reports and brevier for the tabular state-
ments.

So much of said printing as shall be necessary for the
General Assembly during its session, shall be delivered
to the presiding officers of both Houses, and the residue
shall be delivered to the State Librarian, to be by him
distributed as provided by law.

And the said bids shall be transmitted to said Clerk on
or before the said 26th day of September, 1899, together
with a bond to the State of Maryland, in the penalty of
thirty thousand dollars, to be executed by the. bidder,
with two or more sureties, conditioned for the due,
prompt and faithful compliance with the contract to be
entered into when his bid shall be accepted. Said bids
shall be - opened at 12 o'clock M., on said 26th day of
September, 1899, and not before, in the Clerk's office of
the Court of Appeals of Maryland, in the city of Annap-
olis, in the presence of such bidders and other persons -as
may choose to attend, when the contract for said print-.
lug will be awarded fo the lowest responsible bidder,
who sha'l have filed with his bid a satisfactory bond.
No bid will be considered unless accompanied by such
bond.