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§§ 51-59
POLITICAL CODE.
The Legislative Assembly.

price, the excess shall be charged to and collected from the original contractor, or shall be made payable by and collected from the bondsmen of such original contractor; and the action of the commissioners in this matter shall be final and conclusive upon such contractor and his sureties.

§ 65. Legislative journals, who keep and furnish copy. The secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the house shall keep a journal of the proceedings of their respective houses, and furnish a copy immediately upon each daily adjournment to the contractor for printing the same, who shall print and deliver the same at the commencement of the next day's session for the use of the members of the legislative assembly-the number of copies of each daily journal to be determined by resolution of each branch of the legislative assembly. After being read in the house to which the journals respectively belong, and examined and compared with the minutes of the record or bill clerk the clerk having charge of the record of bills, memorials and joint resolutions, and in the presence and with the sanction of the house, corrected as found and declared to be correct the proceedings of each day shall be attested by the secretary and chief clerk, and immediately thereafter delivered to the printer of the journals, who shall make the authorized corrections, if any, and print the sheets for the bound volumes of the journal. Each journal shall be recorded in books to be furnished by the secretary of state for that purpose After the journals are recorded said books shall be deposited with the secretary of state, who shall carefully preserve the same, and such records shall be considered the true and authentic journal.

§ 56. Copies of laws and journals to be furnished printer, by whom. The secretary of state shall furnish a true and accurate copy of the laws as they may be demanded by the printer thereof, and the secretary of the sonate and the chief clerk of the house shall each furnish for the printer, who is bound by his contract to print the same, copies of the journal, bills, reports and other papers and documents without unnecessary delay and no contractor shall be accountable for any delay occasioned by the want of such copy.

§ 57. Authentication of laws, memorials and resolutions. All laws printed or published by authority of this state shall be printed or published without any certificates or additions to the same, except the word "approved" and the date of such approval, and in each volume of the session laws hereafter published there shall be a general certificate made by the secretary of state to the effect that all laws, memorials and resolutions contained therein have been compared by him with the originals thereof in his office, and that they are correct copies.

§ 58. Governor's messages, how printed and number. All regular messages from the governor and all inaugural messages of the governor-elect shall be printed in pamphlet form and there shall be printed in such form for the governor's use five hundred copies, and for the use of the legislative assembly two thousand copies without any order by either house for the printing thereof.

§ 59. Biennial and special reports, how printed. There shall be printed one thousand copies of the biennial reports of the state auditor, state treasurer and superintendent of public instruction and five hundred copies of the biennial reports of other state officers, and public boards required to make reports; and six hundred

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