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CHAPTER 113.

AN ACT relating to the printing and binding of the State Reports containing the decisions of the Court of Appeals.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That the judges of the court of appeals shall commissioners to let be ex officio commissioners to let contracts for the printing and binding of the State Reports containing the decisions of the court of appeals. The chief justice shall be chairman of the board of commissioners; he or any three of the commissioners may, at any time call a meeting thereof, and four of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum. The commissioners shall transact all business at stated or special meetings and shall cause to be kept a record of their proceedings.

Commissioners of public printing.

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§ 2. All provisions of existing laws referring to the commissioners of public printing shall be regarded as referring to the commissioners named herein so far as those provisions relate to or affect the printing and binding of the State Reports containing decisions of the court of appeals, except provisions relating to the furnishing of paper, stationery and supplies for such printing and binding.

$ 3. The tommissioner named herein shall between the first day of August next preceding the termination of the existing contract for the printing and binding of the first class and the first day of November next thereafter, and biennially thereafter between the first day of August and the first day of November, give notice, for a period of at least thirty days, in at least one newspaper in each of the cities of Frankfort, Louisville, Lexington, Covington, Paducah, Kentucky, and Cincinnati,

Ohio, that sealed proposals will be received at the office of the clerk of the court of appeals for the executing of the printing and binding of the State reports containing the decisions of the court of appeals, for the term of two years from and after the first Monday in January next ensuing, at a certain rate per centum not to exceed the rates specified in the existing law relating to the public printing and binding.

§ 4. Within two days after the expiration of the To whom let. time for receiving proposals as aforesaid, the commissioners, or any four of them, shall open all such proposals, and shall proceed publicly to allot the printing and binding provided for herein to the person who proposes to execute the same at the lowest rate per centum not to exceed the rates prescribed by law.

§ 5. The proposals authorized to be received by Bids. this law shall be sealed up, addressed and delivered to the clerk of the court of appeals, and be endorsed "proposals for the printing and binding of the State Reports," and the clerk shall carefully keep them until they are opened by the commissioners according to law.

§ 6. The contractor for the printing and binding Contractor. provided for herein shall file and preserve one copy of each volume of the State Reports printed by him, which he shall deliver to the chief justice, with his account for same, in which account shall be specifically stated the number of copies of each volume printed and bound by him, the number of ems composition in each, the number of tokens or quires of press work in each, with the, kind and quantity of paper used. He shall also be required to execute bond to the Commonwealth in a sum to be fixed by the commissioners for the faithful performance of his contract, which sum shall be stated in the advertisement for bids. If at any time in the opinion of the commissioners the contractor should fail

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to promptly and satisfactorily perform his contract, then they shall cancel his contract and re-let the contract for the unexpired term after giving a similar notice in newspapers to that required by section three hereof; and any person who enters into a contract under the provisions of this act shall be deemed to accept the contract subject to all the provisions herein contained.

$ 7. In order that there may be no delay in the prompt publication of said reports, the judges of the court of appeals shall see that the reporter of said court shall diligently furnish said printer the decisions of the court, marked for publication, properly digested, and upon his failure to do so the court may remove him from his office as reporter; and whenever at any time in the opinion of the judges of said court it shall appear to them to be necessary, they may allow the reporter a reasonable sum for clerk hire, not to exceed five hundred dollars per annum, which shall be paid monthly out of the State Treasury upon the order of said court, for such time as it may be allowed.

3 S. So much of sections 956 and 957 of chapter 35, article 1 subdivision 2 title, courts of justice, and of chapter 105, title printing, binding and stationery of the Kentucky Statutes as may be in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

§ 9. By reason of the accumulation of the work in the hands of the reporter, an emergency is declared, and this act so far as it applies to the reporter shall take effect from its passage.

Approved March 25, 1904.

CHAPTER 114.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact an act, entitled "An Act relating to courts of justice," approved June 10, 1893, being paragraph 25, of section 965, Kentucky Statutes.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That section seventeen of article two, of chapter two hundred and twenty-one, of acts 1891, 1892, 1893, being paragraph twenty-five, of section nine hundred and sixty-five, Kentucky Statutes, be amended by striking out the following paragraph:

Madison county, at Richmond, on the third Monday in January, eighteen juridical days; on the first Monday in April, twenty-four juridical days; on the first Monday in September, eighteen juridical days; on the first Monday in December, twelve juridical days.

Clark county, at Winchester, on second Monday in February, eighteen juridical days; on the first Monday in May, twenty-four juridical days; on the fourth Monday in September, twenty-four juridical days.

Jessamine county, at Nicholasville, on the first Monday in March, twelve juridical days; on the first Monday in June, twelve juridical days; on the fourth Monday in October, twelve juridical days.

Powell county, at Stanton, on the third Monday in March, twelve juridical days; on the third Monday in June, twelve juridical days; on the second Monday in November, eighteen juridical days;" and inserting in lieu thereof, the following:

"Madison county, at Richmond, on the first Monday in February, twenty-four juridical days; on the first Monday in May, twenty-four jurical days; on the first Monday in October, twenty-four juridical days.

Terms of court.

Jessamine county, at Nicholasville, on the first Mon. day in March, twelve juridical days; on the first Monday in June, twelve juridical days; on the first Monday in November, twelve juridical days.

Powell county, at Stanton, on the third Monday in March, twelve juridical days; on the third Monday in June, twelve juridical days; on the third Monday in November, twelve juridical days.

Clark county, at Winchester, on the first Monday in April, twenty-four juridical days; on the first Monday in September, eighteen juridical days; on the first Monday in December, eighteen juridical days.

So that said paragraph of said section of the chapter aforesaid, shall read as follows, viz.:

Madison county, at Richmond, on the first Monday in February, twenty-four juridical days; on the first Monday in May, twenty-four juridical days; on the first Monday in October twenty-four juridical days.

Jessamine county, at Nicholasville, on the first Monday in March, twelve juridical days; on the first Monday in June, twelve juridical days; on the first Monday in November, twelve juridical days.

Powell county, at Stanton, on the third Monday in March, twelve juridical days; on the third Monday in June, twelve juridical days; on the third Monday in November, twelve juridical days.

Clark county, at Winchester, on the first Monday in April, twenty-four juridical days; on the second Monday in September, eighteen juridical days; on the first Monday in December, eighteen juridical days.

Approved March 25, 1904.