12 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 4,

with the concurrence of your Honorable Body, to elect a
printer for the two Houses of this General Assembly, with
whom the Joint Committee on Printing are hereby re-
quired to enter into a contract to do all the printing required
to be done for this Session, together with fifteen hundred
copies of the acts and resolutions upon such terms that the
cost of the whole shall not exceed the sum of thirty-eight
thousand dollars, the amount paid for the printing at the
last General Assembly; and farther propose that the two
Houses shall meet in Joint Convention in the Hall of the
House of Delegates, at 2 o'clock this P. M., for the purpose
of electing said State Printer by ballot.

By order,

MILTON Y. KIDD,

Chief Clerk.
Which was read.

Mr. McLane submitted the following message:

BY THE SENATE,

January 4th, 1878.
Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

We have received your message proposing to elect a State
Printer by the two Houses of the General Assembly at two
o'clock, this P. M., in a Joint Convention to be held in the
Hall of the House of Delegates, and to instruct the Joint
Committee on Printing to contract with the person so selected
to do all the printing of the two Houses, including all Bills,
Resolutions, and fifteen hundred copies of the Acts and
Resolutions, together with all other Documents that may be
ordered, for a sum not to exceed the cost of the printing at
the last General Assembly, (thirty-eight thousand dollars, )
and we respectfully concur therein.

By order,

AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,

Secretary.
On the question being put,

It was determined in the affirmative by yeas and nays, as
follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. President, Hepbron,

Bannon, Lee,

Combs, of St. Mary's, McLane,

Cooper, Peter,