EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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having received the recommendation of the Treasury officials

as follows: For the years 1898, 1899 and 1901, respectively.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 319.

AN ACT to repeal Article 78 of the Code of Public General

Laws, entitled "Public Printer," and to re-enact the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Public Printer.

land, That Article 78 of the Code of Public General Laws, en-

titled "Public Printer," be and the same is hereby repealed and

re-enacted so as to read as follows :

1. That on or before the first day of September, prior to

the convening of each session of the General Assembly of this

Duty of the
Board of Pub-

State, it shall be the duty of the Board of Public Works to

lic Works.

insert for ten successive days in three daily newspapers pub-

lished in the City of Baltimore, and having as nearly as said

Board may be able to ascertain the largest circulation, the fol-

lowing advertisement : "The Board of Public Works will re-

ceive sealed proposals or bids based upon specifications to be

furnished to all who may apply for the same, for the State

printing for the General Assembly of Maryland at their next

ensuing session, and that on the ———— day of —————— (said

date being fixed by the said Board of Public Works) at or near

12 o'clock M., said sealed proposals or bids, based upon the

Sealed pro-
posals or

specifications aforesaid, will be opened in the presence of the

bids.

bidders." Said proposals or bids shall each include four thou-

sand copies of the Governor's message in English, five hundred

copies of the Governor's message in German, three thousand

copies of the reports of the Comptroller of the Treasury, one

thousand copies of the reports of the State Treasurer, one thou-

sand copies of the reports of the Adjutant-General, two thou-

sand copies of the reports of the Adjutant-General, two thousand

copies of the school reports, one thousand copies of the reports of

the Insurance Commissioner, one thousand copies of the reports

Reports to be

of the Commissioner of the Land Office, two thousand copies of

printed.

the reports of the State Board of Health, two thousand copies

of the reports of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics

and Information, one thousand of which shall be distributed

by the printer to the labor organizations of the State ; one thou-

sand copies of the report of the State Fish Commissioners;

and all the aforesaid shall be printed and bound in paper; and