price for additional copies must, in no case, include any additional charge for composition.

Each page of documents or journals must be set in long primer type, the pages to be of same size and to contain the same number of lines as the senate journal of 1875, and not to be leaded; but should it be necessary to set up any part thereof in smaller type, the same must not be leaded, and the size of the page must be the same, and no additional price per page will be paid for the same.

The proposals shall also state the price per page for rule work, or rule and figure work, for eight hundred copies when it is necessary to set up any matter in tabular form. The price per page, for one hundred copies, for additional copies of documents or journals, when ordered, to be the same as for extra documents in plain composition.

The paper to be used for the legislative documents and journals must be of the same size and weight, and the quality must be equal to the best used in printing the senate documents of 1875.

The proposals shall also state the price per copy, for printing and putting on covers, upon all extra documents, when ordered by the legislature; also the price per copy, for binding in cloth, or full cloth gilt, or half binding, irrespective of size, including lettering, in either case, all extra or additional documents ordered to be bound by the legislature; also the price per page, per one hundred copies, for extra supersized and calendered or tinted paper, 24x38 inches, weighing not less than sixty pounds to the ream, when such paper is directed to be used by the legislature upon legislative documents.

For engraving on stone, steel or wood, and printing maps, plans and illustrations for the legislative documents, the price to be paid, including cutting, folding and pasting the same, shall in no case exceed the lowest rates current in Albany and New York city, at the time said work may be done.

For the senate and assembly bills, the proposals shall state the price per page, for composition, press-work and paper, including pressing, folding, trimming, and stitching for six hundred and thirty-nine copies, ordered by either house of the legislature, and also the price per page, for press-work and for paper for each one hundred additional copies that may be required, at any time during the sessions of the legislature, including pressing, folding, etc., as aforesaid; which price for additional copies must, in no case, include any additional charge for composition.

The paper therefor to be of same weight and size, and of quality equal to that used for the senate and assembly bills of 1875, and the work in all respects, as to type and otherwise, to be executed in the same manner as in the year 1875, the lines in each section of the bills to be numbered, and with sufficient space between the same for interlining words.

The price "per page" for all work herein embraced, shall in every case be understood to cover composition of every kind, press-work and paper, including folding, gathering, collating, stitching and trimming-whether the same be upon the journals, documents or bills of the legislature, to be printed in pursuance hereof.

It being also understood, that no extra pay will be claimed or allowed for any corrections or alterations in proof-sheets, nor will any

additional pay be allowed, in any case, for composition, when extra copies are ordered in addition to what is known as the "usual number" of copies.

It is hereby expressly understood, that all printing necessary to be done during the session of the legislature shall be promptly executed, and should the legislature, at any time, require any part of the work to be performed in extra haste, the work thus required to be done shall be without extra charge therefor; also that all extra documents of the legislature, for members, officers and reporters of the legislature, or State officers, not delivered during the session of the legislature, shall be printed and delivered to the secretary of State, properly bound (when directed to be bound by the legislature); and the journals, bills and documents required to be bound by the State binder, to be delivered to such binder, within a period not exceeding eight months from the adjournment of the legislature, except as to reports printed pursuant to chapter 437, Laws of 1859. The proposals for all work to include cartage, delivery, and hoisting of books, at the State bindery or at the office of the secretary of State, or at such other place or places in the city of Albany, as the secretary of State or the legislature may direct. In case the undersigned shall be of the opinion, that the proposals made in pursuance hereof are, in consequence of any combination or other cause, excessive or disadvatageous to the State, they may decline any or all of the said proposals, and advertise anew for the work embraced therein.

No contract made in pursuance hereof, or any interest in the same, shall be assignable to any person or persons, without the written consent of the secretary of State and comptroller.

To every proposal or bid for the performance of the work hereinabove specified (and but one proposal or bid will be received, directly or indirectly, from any one person, firm or party in interest, for the performance of the same work), there must be annexed a guarantee, subscribed by a guarantor of sufficient ability, that the person or persons making such bid will, if the same be accepted, enter into a contract according to the terms thereof, and give the security required by law in such case, within forty-eight hours from the time he or they shall receive notice of the acceptance of his or their bid; and to every such guarantee, there must be annexed a certificate of the secretary of State, comptroller, attorney-general, treasurer, State engineer and surveyor, or of the judge of the county where the guarantor resides, that the guarantor is a man of property and able to make good his guarantee.

And the right to abrogate or annul any contract made in pursuance hereof, for failure or non-performance (as to manner or time of execution and of delivery), is hereby expressly reserved to the secretary of State and comptroller.

Each proposition must be sealed up with the guarantee, and directed on the outside" Proposals for Legislative Printing," and when thus sealed up and directed, the proposition should be inclosed in a separate envelope, and directed to the undersigned or either of them.

ALBANY, N. Y., January 3, 1876.

JOHN BIGELOW, Secretary of State.
LUCIUS ROBINSON, Comptroller.

CONTRACT.

This agreement, made this eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, between the People of the State of New York, by John Bigelow, secretary of State, and Lucius Robinson, comptroller of said State, acting under and by virtue of an act of the legislature of said State, entitled "An act to provide for the public printing," passed March 5th, 1846, and "An act concerning the laws, journals and documents of the legislature," passed May 12th, 1847, of the first part, and Jerome B. Parmenter, of the city of Troy, New York, of the second part, witnesseth:

That the said secretary of State and comptroller having, in accordance with the provisions of the acts above referred to, given and caused to be duly published, a notice, that they, the said secretary of State and comptroller, would receive proposals for the printing provided for and specified in said acts, and also in chapter 437 of the Laws of 1859, and the said party of the second part having, in accordance with the provisions of said first above-mentioned act and the terms of said. notice, made and delivered to said secretary of State and comptroller bids and proposals in writing to do and perform certain portions of the public printing specified in said acts and known as "Legislative printing," one of which said bids or proposals is in the words and figures following: "And I further propose to do all the work required for the senate and assembly in the annexed printed advertisement (meaning thereby the printed advertisement for proposals signed by the parties of the first part, and dated January 3, 1876) herein before mentioned and described, for the sum of forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars ($47,500) for each session of the legislature." And which notice of said secretary of State and comptroller, dated January 3, 1876, and said bids and proposals in writing of said party of the second part are hereto annexed and made a part of this agreement, so far as the same are consistent with the terms, and pertinent to the subject-matter thereof; and the said printing for the term of two years from the date of this contract therefor, having been duly awarded by said secretary of State and comptroller to the said party of the second part in accordance with the provisions of the said acts and the terms and specifications of said notice, bid and proposals annexed hereto, under the limitations aforesaid, the party of the second part does hereby covenant, promise and agree with the said party of the first part (The People of the State of New York) that he, the said party of the second part, will at some suitable and convenient place in the city of Albany, execute and perform with accuracy and dispatch all the printing, lettering, illustrating and binding of any kind and description, provided for or intended to be provided for in the annexed proposals and embraced within the term "Legislative printing," and any and all extra printing required by and for the legislature of the State of New York, by act, joint rule or concurrent resolution, for and during the entire period of two years from the date of this contract; said party of the second part furnishing all necessary paper and materials of the best quality and suitable therefor, and delivering the said work at such place or places in the city of Albany as the secretary of State or the legislature may direct, and all to be done with accuracy and dispatch, at

and for the sum of forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars for each annual session.

It is hereby distinctly understood that all engraving on stone, steel or wood, and the engraving and printing of all maps, plans and illustrations for the legislative documents, including the cutting, folding and pasting the same, are embraced within the scope of this contract, and are to be regarded as part and parcel of the "Legislative printing."

And it is agreed that each page of documents or journal shall be set in long primer type, and that the pages shall be of the same size and contain the same number of lines as the senate documents and journal of 1875, and shall not be leaded; but should it be necessary to set up any part thereof in smaller type, the same shall not be leaded, and the size of the page shall be the same, and no additional price shall be paid therefor. And it is further understood and agreed that the paper to be used for the legislative documents and journals shall be of the same size and weight and equal in quality to the best used in printing the senate documents of 1875.

It is understood and agreed that the paper for the senate and assembly bills shall be of the same weight and size and of quality equal to that used for the senate and assembly bills of 1875, and that the work in all respects, as to type or otherwise, shall be executed in the same manner as in that year, the lines in each section of the bills to be numbered, and with sufficient space between them for interlineation.

And it is further understood and agreed that the price for all work herein embraced shall in every case be understood to cover every thing to be done or furnished in and about the same, whether such work shall be upon the journals, documents, or bills of the legislature.

And it is further understood and agreed that no extra pay shall be claimed or allowed for any corrections or alterations in proof-sheets, nor shall any additional pay be allowed in any case, for composition, when extra copies shall be ordered in addition to what is known as the usual number of copies.

It is hereby further expressly agreed that all printing necessary to be done during the sessions of the legislature shall be promptly executed, and should the legislature at any time require any part of the work to be performed in extra haste, the work thus required shall be so done, without extra charge therefor; and that the usual number of copies of documents for the senate and assembly, and all extra documents of the legislature, for members, officers and reporters of the legislature, or State officers, not delivered during the session of the legislature, shall be printed and delivered to the secretary of State, properly bound, when directed by the legislature to be bound; and in laying out the journals and documents for binding they shall be so arranged that each volume shall contain not less than one thousand pages, unless with the written assent of the secretary of State; and the journals, bills and documents required to be bound by the State binder, shall be delivered to such binder within a period not exceeding eight months from the adjournment of the legislature, except as to reports printed pursuant to chapter 437, Laws of 1859.

It is also understood and agreed that the unexpired portion of the present session of the legislature, and so much of the session of 1878

as shall expire within two years from the date hereof, shall be regarded as one session, so that the parties hereto of the second part shall perform the services and furnish the materials and receive the compensation herein mentioned for two full sessions.

It is further understood and agreed that in the event of an extra session of the legislature, the said work shall be done and materials furnished for the prices stated-in detail in the alternative bid annexed, and the same prices shall also be paid for any work and materials ordered, not for the use of the legislature.

For the printing, services and materials above specified to be executed, rendered and furnished by the said party of the second part, it is hereby agreed that the said party of the second part shall be paid out of the treasury of the State of New York, on the warrant of the comptroller, the sum hereinbefore set forth and stipulated, to wit: forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Payments of the said $47,500, per session, shall be made to the said party of the second part in equal monthly installments during each year, reserving always fifteen per cent upon the amount due until the completion of all the work to be done under this contract.

This agreement is to continue and remain in force for and during the period of two years from its date, the said party of the second part hereby agreeing to execute and deliver, according to the provisions of this contract, all work that may have been delivered to him to do, up to the day of its expiration. It is hereby further stipulated and agreed, by the said party of the second part, that this agreement shall not, nor shall any interest therein, be assigned to any person or persons without the written consent of the secretary of State and comptroller.

It is further expressly understood and agreed that the secretary of State and comptroller shall be at liberty and that they shall have the right at any time to revoke, abrogate and annul this contract for failure to comply with any of its terms, conditions or provisions, on the part of the party of the second part.

In witness whereof, said parties of the first part have caused these presents to be executed by their secretary of State and comptroller, and the said party of the second part has signed these presents in his own proper person the day and year first above written.

In the presence of Jos. S. MICHAEL.

Know all men by these presents that we, Jerome B. Parmenter, as principal, and Thomas B. Carroll, as surety, both of the city of Troy, New York, are held and firmly bound unto the people of the State of New York in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, lawful money of the United States of America, to be paid to the said people of the State of New York, their attorneys or assigns; for which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, administrators and assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.

[Assem. Doc., No. 45.]

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