JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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Section 45 A. All printed notices and newspaper advertise-
ments, and all printed blank forms, and other printed matter
required by law to be given, published or used by, or such as
is needed for the proper conduct of the office of the officers
of registration and the supervisors of elections, for the supply
of which, and the payment for which the County Commis-
sioners are by law responsible, shall be made known to the
County Commissioners by requisition upon them ; and the
County Commissioners shall thereupon, by advertisement
inserted, annually, once a week, for three successive weeks, in
two newspapers published in said county, one of which, if
possible, shall be of opposite political faith from them, or a
majority of them, invite sealed proposals from the various
printing and newspaper offices of said county for the print-
ing and publishing of the same ; said advertisements shall
specify, as far as it is practicable, the character of material and
work for which proposals are so invited, and in such advertise-
ments, proposals for the newspaper advertising shall be
invited separately and distinct from the other printed notices,
blank forms, and other such printed matter. The proposals
shall be opened and read aloud in public by the County Com-
missioners, and shall remain on tile in their office, open to the
inspection of the public. The contract for supplying during
ensuing year the printed notices and newspaper advertise-
ments, the blank forms, and other such printed matter shall
thereupon be awarded by them to the lowest responsible
bidder for the same, who shall be required to do the work
connected therewith and to deliver the same when and as
required by the County Commissioners or the officers afore-
said. But no bid of any one paper shall exceed the sum of
two hundred and fifty dollars for any one year. And if bids
are received from papers of the opposite political faith, the
award shall be to the lowest responsible bidder, and the paper
of the opposite political faith shall do the work- for the same
sum.

CHAP.627.

Advertise
for printing
of notices,
etc.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts
inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 11, 1902.

Repeal.