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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:

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.