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which may be passed by the Senate and House of Delegates
at the said ensuing session, to be bound in law sheep. All the
reports hereinbefore enumerated and the rules and orders here-
inbefore referred to shall be printed on rag stock paper, and
the copies of the Acts and Resolutions shall also be printed on
rag stock paper, with marginal notes; and the Governor's Mes-
sage, the reports 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 Commissioners shall also be printed on rag stock
paper, twenty-four inches by thirty-eight inches, fifty pounds
to the ream, sized and calendered, the size of the pages to be
regular octavo, and the type used shall be long primer for the
body of all various reports and brevier for the tabular state-
ments; 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 hereinafter 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 tabu-
lated, at the price of one dollar and fifty cents per page, octavo,
per thousand long primer type, and two dollars and fifty cents
per page, bill folio, for the first thousand copies printed of
either, and 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 en-
tered 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