1766 PUBLIC PRINTER. [ART. 78

resolutions shall also be printed on rag stock paper, with mar-
ginal notes, and the governor's message, the report of the
comptroller of the treasury, the State treasurer's report, the
report of the adjutant-general, the State school report, the
report of the insurance commissioner, the report of the State
board of health and the report of the State fish commissioner
shall also be printed on rag stock paper, twenty-four inches by
thirty-eight inches, fifty pounds to the ream, sized and calen-
dared, the size 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 statements; the acts and
resolutions shall be printed in small pica type; and the bills for
each house shall be printed and returned within thirty-six
hours after the receipt of the same by said printer; and the
journals for each house, for each day, printed by said printer,
shall also be delivered within twenty-four hours from the
receipt of the same by the printer. Said bids shall also include
all other matters not hereinbefore specified at the prices herein-
after enumerated which may be ordered to be printed by the
general assembly, or either house thereof, at said ensuing
session; and which bids shall stipulate for doing the work so
bid for in a good and workmanlike manner; and all printing
not enumerated shall be in usual octavo or bill folio pages, as
the general assembly or either house thereof may expressly
order, and shall be paid for, whether plain or tabulated, at the
price of one dollar and fifty cents per page, octavo, per thou-
sand, 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
thousand 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
house; and each of the bids so made shall be transmitted to
the board of public works on or before the time specified
therefor in said advertisement, together with a bond to the
State of Maryland in the penalty of thirty thousand dollars,
with two or more sureties, conditioned for the due, prompt and
faithful compliance with the contract to be entered into, if such
bid shall be accepted; and said board of public works shall,
on that day, at or near 12 o'clock M. of said day, and not
before, open such bids in the presence of such bidders and
other persons as may choose to attend, and award the contract
for such entire printing as aforesaid to the lowest responsible
bidder who shall have filed with his bid a bond satisfactory to