States, the land scrip to which the State of Louisiana is or may be entitled under the act of Congress aforesaid, and to sell and dispose of the same, and upon said sale being made by said Commissioners, they are authorized to appoint one person to assign said land scrip in accordance with the rules of the Department of the Interior. 73. [SEC. 2984.] The officers of the State Land Office are directed to suspend the sale of such public lands as have already been entered 1866-50. by any parties since the outbreak of the late civil war; and in all Sale of public cases where a second entry has been made before the promulgation of pended. this act, to suspend the issuance of the patent in the name of the State for said second entry. lands sus ART. 36. Each House of the General Assembly shall keep and publish weekly a journal of its proceedings; and the yeas and nays Journal of proceedings-Yeas of the members on any question, at the desire of any two of them, and nays. shall be entered on the journal. 1868-8. State Printer, 1. [SEC. 2986.] The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House of Representatives, or a majority of them, shall be how appointed. 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. Duration of contract. Legislative documents. 2. [SEC. 2987.] Said contract shall be entered on and concluded 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. 3. [SEC. 2988.] The State Printer shall print each bill, report or other document that may be delivered to him by order of either House of the General Assembly, in the order in which it shall be numbered and delivered to him; and shall return it 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. 4. [SEC. 2989.] All bills, reports, or other documents, which may Time allowed. be ordered for printing, shall be printed and returned to the House 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. 5. [SEC. 2990.] All officers of the several departments of the Reports of pub. State, who, by existing or future laws, may be required to make lic officers. 1856-86. Certain reports to accompany the Governor's annual message. reports to 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. 6. [SEC. 1557.] The Governor of the State shall hereafter be required to furnish the General Assembly, accompanying his annual message, the following reports, viz: Report of the Secretary of State, report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, report of the State Treasurer, report of the State Engineer, report of the Superintendent of Public Education, report of the State Register of the Land Office, report of the State Librarian, report of the [Board of Reports to be furnished to the Governor, at what time. 7. [SEC. 2611.] The several heads of departments hereinbefore enumerated, and the Directors and Lessees of the Louisiana Penitentiary, the Directors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, of the Insane Asylum, of the Charity Hospital, of the Board of Health and of the Joint Stock Companies in which the State may be interested, shall be required to furnish the Governor with their respective reports, annually, at least ten days previous to the meeting of the General Assembly, and they shall cause said reports to be printed in pamphlet form at the expense of the State by the State Printer. The following number of copies of such reports, respectively, shall Number of copies to be be printed for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives, printed. viz: Report of the Secretary of State, five hundred copies; report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, fifteen hundred copies; report of the Superintendent of Public Education, one thousand copies; report of the Register of the Land Office, five hundred copies; report of the State Librarian, five hundred copies; report of the Board of Public Works, eight hundred copies; report of the Warden or Lessees or Directors of the Louisiana Penitentiary, five hundred copies; report of the Adjutant and Inspector General, five hundred copies; report of the Attorney General, five hundred copies; report of the Directors of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, two hundred and fifty copies; report of the Directors of the Insane Asylum, five hundred copies; report of the Directors of the Board of Health, five hundred copies; report of the Directors of the Joint Stock Companies in which the State is interested, five hundred copies. 8. [SEC. 1559.] The aforementioned reports and all other reports, ordered by the Senate or House of Representatives, to be Reports not to printed in pamphlet form, shall not be published in the State the State paper. paper. be printed in 9. [SEC. 2613.] All Executive messages communicated, and the reports of the various State Departments and of all standing Messages and and special committees of either branch of the General Assembly, printed. reports, how 1868-8. Laws and jour and the documents accompanying the same, shall be printed and bound in a separate volume, in the manner and form prescribed for the printing and publishing of the journals, and shall be designated "Documents of the Legislature, 18-," and there shall be two thousand volumes of the same delivered with the journals. - 10. [SEC. 2991.] The State Printer shall furnish and have ready for delivery the acts of the General Assembly, and the nals to be print- journals of both Houses of the Legislature within sixty days from ed in sixty days after delivery the time when copies of the same shall have been delivered by the of copy-Mode of distribution. Secretary of State, under pain of forfeiting and paying the sum of ten dollars 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 twenty-five 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. 11. [SEC. 2992.] The State Printer shall publish the journals Daily journals. Of each day of both Houses in the official journal within two days after the same shall have been read and approved. Shall furnish the Secretary of State with copies of his 12. [SEC. 2993.] The State Printer shall deliver to the Secretary of State copies of his Official Journal, containing any of the laws or resolutions of the General Assembly of this State which shall have official journal. been hereafter enacted or agreed to, immediately 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. 13. [SEC. 2994.] The State Printer shall receive sixteen dollars Compensation for every three hundred papers delivered to the Secretary of State, as directed by the preceding section. for newspapers. for printing. 14. [SEC. 2995.] All printing for the State, or for any departCompensation ment of the State government, or for the Supreme Court, or for the corporation 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. 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 twenty-four 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 The journals. 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. lutions. 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 Bills and reso 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. other docu Item 4-For all reports, documents, or other matter in book or pamphlet form, in long primer type, twenty-four ems pica in width Reports and and forty-three in length, including head and foot lines, three dollars ments in ocper page for one hundred copies, and fifty cents per page for each additional one hundred copies or fraction thereof. tavo form. work. Item 5-For all rule and figure work, contained in any description of work performed by the State Printer, one dollar and fifty cents Rule and figure 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. Item 6--For all printed blanks, folio post size, whole sheet, twenty-eight dollars per ream; each additional half ream, twelve Blanks. 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 |