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§§ 46-50 Double the contract price will be allowed upon the journals when printed daily for the use of the members, but nothing shall be charged for composition or correction, or re-imposition of the same matter for the bound journal, nor shall extra charge for composition be made when extra or additional copies are ordered printed.

§ 47. Executive documents, how printed. The pamphlets and volumes of executive or public documents and reports shall be printed on first-class sized and calendered paper of not less than forty pounds to the ream, size 25x38, from long primer type, set solid; provided, that extracts and tabular work may be set in brevier or smaller type, the printed pages to be twenty-five ems pica in width and forty-three ems pica in length. The reports of the officers of the various departments, required to be made out for the use of the legislative assembly and for the information of the public, shall be printed and bound as elsewhere in this article provided, and the various reports, communications and other documents shall be reimposed and form the volumes of executive and public documents. There shall be no charge for the composition of matter used in the volumes of executive documents, or as separate pamphlets, or as parts of reports that are to be used, or had been previously used and paid for in the pamphlet form; provided, that the order for the same is given before the forms of type are distributed; but the maximum rate of one dollar for reimposition of each form of eight pages may be allowed. The volumes of the executive documents shall be paged consecutively, and the reports therein made up in as close and compact order as is consistent with good workmanship, without intervention of unnecessary blanks or separate title or half title pages, and at the conclusion of each volume there shall be an index referring to the particular page at which each separate document commences. The commissioners shall determine what reports and documents shall be printed in pamphlet form, and the number of copies of each report or document, when not specified by law. There shall be printed and bound three hundred copies of each volume of the executive documents.

§ 48. Laws, how printed. The laws specified in the fourth class shall be printed in substantially the same form as to type, paper and form, as is prescribed for the printing of public documents in the preceding section.

§ 49. Expert, duties and compensation of. The commissioners of public printing may employ an expert, familiar with all classes of printing, the material used therein, measuring the work done and computing the price to be paid therefor, for such period of time each year as may be necessary for the performance of the duties devolving upon him, whose duty it shall be to confer and advise with such commissioners relative to advertising and letting contracts, to examine all work and supplies for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same conforms to the contract, to examine all accounts for public printing for the purpose of determining whether the charges contained in such accounts are correct, and to report the result of his examination to the commissioners and to perform such other duties as may be required of him by the commissioners. He shall receive the sum of six dollars per day for each day in which he is engaged in such employment, to be audited by the auditor upon the certificate of the commissioners and paid out of the state treasury as in other cases.

§ 50. Printing, how done. All printing shall be done by established printing houses in this state, which shall have been doing