APPENDIX I
Resolution for State Printing, 1799[18]
In Senate: On the petition of Messrs. Young and Minns, praying to
be employed as Printers to the Commonwealth for the present year, upon
the same terms that they performed the same the last year:
Resolved, that the said Young & Minns be and hereby are
appointed Printers of this Commonwealth for the space of one year,
commencing on the first day of June instant, and that they furnish the paper
and do and perform the same in a Workmanlike manner, and on as good
paper as has been usually used for like purposes, and the Acts of the
ensuing year to be on as good paper as the Resolves of the General Court
were printed upon the last year, and to the acceptance of the Officers
respectively who shall direct the work to be done.
And be it further Resolved, there that there shall be allowed and paid
out of the Treasury of this Commonwealth to the said Young and Minns for
paper and printing aforesaid at the rate following, viz.
For eight hundred books, containing the Laws that may be passed by
the Legislature, during the year, and for the same number of books
containing the Resolutions passed within the period aforesaid, and covered
with blue paper as usual, one hundred and fifty Dollars, if the said Laws
and Resolves with an Index for the Resolves, make forty pages of folio
foolscap, if less or more than forty pages, the price aforesaid to be
increased or diminished in proportion as the number of pages shall be more
or less than forty; the said Books, with Indexes as aforesaid, to be ready to
be ready to be delivered, as soon after each session of the General Court
as they can be completed. And if the whole number are not delivered to the
Representatives and Senators, and to the Selectmen for the use of the
several Towns in the Commonwealth by the first day of June next, the
number then remaining on hand shall be delivered at the Secretary's
Office.
For Proclamations for Thanksgiving and for Fast, at the rate of
Twenty five Dollars for Nine hundred.
Blanks for Regimental Returns ruled full sheet, three cents each.
Ditto for Captains muster Rolls, Captains Returns, Infantry Returns,
Cavalry Returns, one cent & a half for each Blank. Ditto for
Governor's
Warrants on the Treasury, for Officers Commissions, civil and military, for
Sargeants Warrants, for Officers, Resignations, for General Orders, for
Treasurer's Executions, for Treasurer's receipts, one cent for each blank.
For one hundred and fifty Tax Acts, fifteen Dollars, and in that proportion
for the whole number the Treasurer may order. For Warrants to accompany
the Tax Acts, three cents each. Blanks for certifying leave of absence to the
Members of the General Court, one cent each. For Election Sermons, eight
cents and one half a cent each; Blanks for precepts to choose Federal
Representatives, two cents each, provided two hundred & fifty Blanks
shall
be ordered at one time; if a less number is ordered at one time, the price
to be proportionably higher; if a greater number, the price for each blank
to be diminished. They the said Young & Minns to do and perform all
other printing business that may be Ordered by the Legislature, or any
Officer of the Commonwealth not before enumerated, in the same
proportion to the prices aforesaid, as the work so ordered shall be to the
books & blanks before mentioned; the same to be determined by the
Committee on Accounts.
And it is further Resolved, that the said Young & Minns shall
not
be held to deliver the whole number of books containing the Laws and
Resolves as aforesaid, at the time in this resolve mentioned, unless the
Secretary shall furnish the said Young & Minns with copies of the
Acts
and Resolves that have or may be passed by the General Court within the
Year aforesaid, on or before the fifteenth day of April next; and shall also
furnish them with a form of the Index, in four days after the said Young
and Minns shall deliver to said Secretary a sheet or sheets containing the
Resolves aforesaid.
In the House of Representatives, Read & Concurred.
Approved by the Lieut. Governor.