E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER
36.
AN ACT to provide for the Printing and Distribution of
the Laws, Journals and Documents of this State.
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Passed March
22, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Senate and House of Delegates
shall provide for the printing of the journal of
proceedings, bills, reports and other documents of their
respective houses, subject to the provisions of this act.
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To provide
for printing.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That each house in
contracting for the printing thereof, shall require that a
sufficient number of copies of the journal of proceedings
of each day, be furnished on the next succeeding day,
to the secretary and chief clerks of the houses respectively,
to supply each member and officer thereof with
one copy, and that a like number of all bills and reports
ordered to be printed, be furnished and distributed
to said members and officers, and that the offices of the
Executive, the Comptroller, the Treasurer, and the
Commissioner of the Land Office, and the State Library,
be severally regularly supplied with one copy of the
said journals and reports, and the Library with six additional
copies of the bills, but the requirements herein
contained shall not prevent either house from having
printed extra copies of any report or other document
for distribution among the people.
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Proceedings
to be furnished
daily.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That each house shall
provide for the printing, in addition to the copies required
by the preceding section, five hundred copies of
their journal of proceedings, and alike number of
copies of the various reports and other documents which
may be ordered to be printed in compact form, which
said copies shall be delivered in sheets to the State
Librarian within thirty days after the adjournment of
the General Assembly.
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Number of
copies.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted,
That the two houses
shall jointly contract for the printing of one thousand
copies of the acts and resolutions of the General Assembly,
with marginal notes and indexes, the work of
printing said acts and resolutions to be prosecuted during
the session, and to be completed within fifty days after
the close thereof, and delivered in sheets to the State
Librarian.
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Printing
of
acts and resolutions.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted,
That each and every
person who may be employed as printer to either house,
or printer of the acts and resolutions, shall enter into
bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, to be approved
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Printer to
give bond.
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