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The Legistative Assembly. business in the state not less than one year, and all work shall be executed in a style consistent with good workmanship and with due reference to economy.

§ 51. Duty of commissioners in case of failure on contract. If from death or any unforseen cause there shall be a failure on the part of any successful bidder to execute his contract, the commissioners, or a majority of them, may enter into a contract with the next lowest bidder. If any contractor after commencing upon his contract fails to execute the work embraced therein with reasonable expedition, and in a suitable manner, the commissioners may notify him for reasons they may specify that his contract is canceled, and they may then contract with some other person to do the work at the lowest practicable rate; provided, that the commissioners may give written notice to any contractor who is delaying the execution of the work in a manner they may deem unreasonable, that the same must be completed within a specifed time, and for failure to complete the same within the time specified, that for every twenty-four hours delay thereafter the contractor shall suffer a penalty of one-quarter per cent to be deducted from the net amount of the printing so delayed.

§ 52. Number of volumes to be printed and style of binding. Five hundred volumes of the laws required by this article to be printed shall be bound in full law sheep, and one thousand copies shall be half-bound. The volumes of executive documents provided for in section 47 of this article shall be bound in half binding. Two hundred copies of the biennial reports of the state auditor, state treasurer, commissioner of insurance and superintendent of public instruction shall be bound in cloth, the remainder authorized by law, to be bound in pamphlet form, unless otherwise ordered by the commissioners of printing.

§ 63. Unnecessary delay, how extension granted. All contractors under the provisions of this article shall promptly and without unnecessary delay cute all orders issued to them by the legislative assembly, or either branch thereof, or by the commissioners of printing on behalf of the executive officers of the state; and the laws and volumes of public documents shall be delivered to the secretary of state within seventy days, and the journals of the two houses of the legislative Assembly within sixty days after the index shall have been made out and delivered to the contractor; provided, that the commissioners may on good cause shown extend the time, not exceeding twenty days, for the execution of his contract.

§ 64. Commissioners may reject inferior printing and work. The commissioners may reject any and all printing that is not done in a workmanlike manner, or with good material and with ordinary promptness; and may require contractors to present specimen pages of the type they propose to use, and may reject the same, in their discretion, and require new material, and their ruling and determination shall be final and conclusive on the contractor. Only good, clean and satisfactory work shall be accepted, and it must be done within a reasonable time. To accomplish this end the commissioners may withdraw the work from any contractor for unreasonable delay, or for neglect or refusal to use new material, if so required, or for neglect or refusal to furnish good, clean, or satisfactory work, and may, by their agent or otherwise, go into the open market and contract for and have the same done; and if by reason thereof the cost of having any such work done is greater than the original contract