State printer,

how appointed.

Sec. 2986. The governor, lieutenant-governor and speaker of the house of representatives, or a majority of them, shall be and are hereby authorized and directed to contract with such person as they may deem proper, in the interest of the State, to do and perform all the printing and publishing of whatever nature shall be necessary for the use of both houses of the general assembly, for the executive departments of the State, and for the supreme court. Such person contracting to do and perform such printing as provided in this act shall, for purposes of reference herein, be termed the State printer, and the terms, provisions and conditions of the contract with him executed shall be as hereinafter provided. The newspaper in which he shall publish the journals of the two houses of the general assembly, the laws of the State, and other official matter as herein provided, shall be known and designated as the official journal of the State.

Act 1868, p. 8.

Sec. 2987. Said contract shall be entered on and concluded Duration of for the term of the existence of the present general assembly, and until a further contract shall be consummated, as provided in this act or otherwise.

contract.

documents.

Sec. 2988. The State printer shall print each bill, report or other document that may be delivered to him by order of either Legislative house of the general assembly, in the order in which it shall be numbered and delivered to him; and shall return them in like manner, so that no subsequent number shall be printed and returned until all previous numbers shall have been first returned, unless otherwise specially ordered.

Sec. 2989. All bills, reports or other documents which may

be ordered for printing, shall be printed and returned to the house Time allowed. which may have ordered them within three days after the delivery of the copy of the same to the State printer, unless, on motion a longer delay be granted.

lic officers.

Sec. 2990. All officers of the several departments of the State who, by existing or future laws, may be required to make reports Report of pubto the general assembly, shall cause the same to be printed by the State printer for the use of the legislature, and shall present the same within the first week of each session.

nals to be

ty days after

distribution.

Sec. 2991. The State printer shall furnish and have ready for delivery the acts of the general assembly and the journals of both Laws and jourhouses of the legislature within sixty days from the time when printed in sixcopies of the same shall have been delivered by the secretary of delivery of State, under pain of forfeiting and paying the sum of ten dollars copy; mode of for each and every day he shall be in default after expiration of the time. It shall be the duty of the secretary of State to deliver to the State printer within thirty days next after the adjournment sine die of both houses of the legislature duly certified copies of all the acts passed during the session, under penalty of twentyfive dollars for each and every day he shall be in default after the expiration of the time. The secretary of State shall forward to each member of the legislature one copy of the journals and one copy of the acts of the legislature.

D. Sec. 8530.

Sec. 2992. The State printer shall publish the journals of each day of both houses in the official journal, within two days Daily journals. after the same shall have been read and approved.

official journal.

Sec. 2993. The State printer shall deliver to the secretary of State copies of his official journal containing any of the laws shall furnish or resolutions of the general assembly of this State which of State with the secretary shall have been hereafter enacted or agreed to, immediately copies of his after the same shall have been published therein; and as soon as practicable thereafter the said secretary of State shall cause the said official journal to be sent to the judges and clerks of courts, and it shall be their duty to preserve all copies of the official journal so received carefully in their respective courts, for the use thereof, until they shall have received the copies of the laws in pamphlet form.

D. Sec. 3531.

Sec. 2994. The State printer shall receive sixteen dollars for compensation every three hundred papers delivered to the secretary of State, for newspaas directed by the preceding section.

pers.

D. Sec. 3532.

Sec. 2995. All printing for the State, or for any department Compensation of the State government, or for the supreme court, or for the corfor printing. poration of New Orleans, shall be performed by the State printer, who shall execute the same according to the specifications, and at the prices set down in the following items:

The laws.

The journals.

Bills and resolutions.

Item 1.-The laws shall be published in the English language only, with a list of the acts, the date of their promulgation, and an index thereto attached; they shall be printed upon good, strong book printing paper, in long primer type, solid, each page twentyfour ems pica in width and forty-seven in length, including the running title, and white line under it, and foot line, with marginal notes in nonpareil, five ems pica in width, to be added thereto. The same to be stitched and covered with colored paper, and delivered to the secretary of State within the time fixed by law, for which there shall be allowed six dollars per page for five hundred copies, and fifty cents per page for each hundred copies ordered in excess of five hundred.

Item 2.-The journals of each house shall be printed in the English language only, in book form, in minion type, and made up from the journal matter as published in the official newspaper, the pages to be forty-five ems pica in length, including head and foot lines; the book to be covered and stitched in the same manner as the laws, and delivered to the secretary of State within the time fixed by law, for which there shall be allowed three dollars per page for two hundred and fifty copies, and for each additional hundred copies ordered, fifty cents per page.

Item 3.-Bills and resolutions shall be printed on foolscap paper, in pica type, leaded with pica slugs or reglets, to be sixteen ems pica in width and sixty-five in length, and printed broadside; the lines and sections to be numbered. Two hundred copies shall be printed, one hundred and fifty to be furnished the house, and fifty to the senate. For the two hundred copies, five dollars per page shall be paid, and two dollars per page for each additional one hundred copies.

Item 4.--For all reports, documents, or other matter in book or Reports and pamphlet form, in long primer type, twenty-four ems pica in width and forty-three in length, including head and foot lines, three dollars per page for one hundred copies, and fifty cents per page for each additional one hundred copies or fraction thereof.

other documents in octavo form.

ure work.

Item 5.-For all rule and figure work contained in any descripRule and fig- tion of work performed by the State printer, one dollar and fifty cents per thousand ems shall be allowed in addition to the other charges specified herein; and the State printer shall embrace such charges in separate items in his accounts rendered to the proper auditing officer.

Blanks,

Item 6.-For all printed blanks, folio post size, whole sheet, twenty-eight dollars per ream; each additional half ream twelve dollars; if only a half ream or less be ordered, seventeen dollars and fifty cents shall be paid for it. For all blanks, cap size, twenty-two dollars per ream; for every additional half ream, ten

dollars; if only a half ream or less is ordered, fifteen dollars shall be paid for it. For all blanks, letter size, fifteen dollars per ream, and eight dollars for each additional half ream; if a half ream or less is ordered, ten dollars shall be paid for it.

for advertise

Item 7.-For all matter published in the official journal in obedience to the provisions of this act, the State printer shall be Compensation allowed one dollar per square for each insertion. A square shall ments. consist of the space of ten lines solid agate.

Item 8.-For all binding, octavo size, in calf, two dollars and

fifty cents per volume; in sheep, one dollar and fifty cents; in Binding. muslin, seventy-five cents.

Sec. 2996. In addition to the other duties herein imposed upon

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the State printer, he shall be required to publish in his official Parochial and journal all judicial advertisements required by law to be pub-vertisements. lished in the parish of Orleans, including sheriffs' and constables' sales, notices of elections, succession notices, and all proceedings and orders of any court that may be ordered published in said parish, whether in the English or French language, or both. Also, all municipal advertisements of every description whatsoever of the corporation of the city of New Orleans, whether the same may be authorized by a law of the State, an ordinance of the common council, or by any officer or department of the city government. And any such publication or advertisement, whether parochial or municipal, shall be utterly null and void, unless so published in the official journal; Provided, That advertisements Proviso. of the city of New Orleans may be published in one or more additional papers, whenever, in the opinion of the common council, the public interest may demand such additional publication. And the sheriff of the parish of Orleans is hereby authorized to insert notices of election in one or more papers in addition to the official journal.

D. Sec. 25.

rendering ac

Sec. 2997. The State printer shall render once in each month, to the auditor of public accounts, a detailed statement of all the Manner of printing and advertising done for the State, for either house of counts. the general assembly, or any officer or department of the State government, and the said auditor shall examine the same, and, if he find it to be correct, shall audit the said account, and draw his warrant on the State treasurer for the payment of the same. It shall be the duty of the State printer, upon the payment of the printer's fee, to file in the clerk's office of the court having jurisdiction, his affidavit with a copy of any judicial advertisement ordered by said court to be published appended, together with his receipt for the payment of the printer's fees, paid by the party at whose instance or for whose benefit such advertisements shall have been made, to be collected as other costs, which affidavit shall give the dates of the paper in which the advertisement appeared, and be filed and recorded by the clerk as the legal evidence of the publication of the same, to be read, or a certified copy thereof, in all courts of law or equity; and no other evi

Municipal printing.

for the country

parishes.

dence of such publication shall be required or allowed. The State printer shall render once in each month to the controller of New Orleans, a detailed statement of all advertising done for the corporation of New Orleans, or any department or officer thereof; and it shall be the duty of the said controller to examine the same, and, if found correct, he shall immediately give his warrant on the city treasurer in payment, and it shall not be necessary for any other officer or department of the city government to examine or approve said account.

D. Sec. 26.

Sec. 2998. It shall be the duty of the State printer to perform all printing of every description, for which the city of New Orleans may be chargeable at the rates fixed by section two thous and nine hundred and ninety five of this act, and he shall be paid therefor in the manner prescribed in the preceding section for the payment for municipal advertisements.

D. Sec. 27.

Sec. 2999. The governor, lieutenant-governor and speaker of Official papers the house of representatives, or a majority of them, shall also select and contract with such other papers in the parish of Orleans as they may deem proper and necessary to publish either the laws of the State or the journals of the general assembly, or both, at such rates as are provided by this act.

Duties imposed under the law.

Printing of acts, etc., of

general assem

Sec. 3000. In any of the parishes of this State other than the parish of Orleans, the governor, lieutenant -governor and speaker, etc., or a majority of them, shall also select and contract with journals published in such parishes to publish either the laws of the State or the journals of the general assembly, or both, as may be deemed necessary and proper, and also be and hereby are empowered to designate certain journals to perform and publish the parochial and judicial printing and advertising of the parishes respectively in which such journals may be published. In case no paper is published in any parish in this State, such publication may be authorized to be made in a paper published near thereto. Such selection and contract shall be for the same period prescribed by section two thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven of this act. Each paper, so contracted with, shall be the official journal of the parish wherein it shall be published, and all parochial and judicial printing and advertising for or in said parish shall be done by and published in said journal, and after such selection and contract, and notice thereof to the police jury, clerk of court, and sheriff of said parish, every publication and advertisement in any other paper than the one so selected shall, during the term of such selection and contract, be null and void for any legal purpose. C. C. 3556 (3522), No. 4. D. Sec. 20, 3435, 3718.

Sec. 3001. Hereafter the State printer shall be required to print in pamphlet form one thousand copies of the acts of the genof heads of de- eral assembly, two hundred and fifty copies of the journal of each house, and five hundred copies of each report of the several heads

partments.