Chap. 0005 An Act making appropriations for printing and binding public documents, purchase of paper, publishing laws, and preparing tables and indexes relating to the statutes.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, from the ordinary revenue, for the purposes specified, to meet expenses for the year ending on the thirty-first day
of December in the rear eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to wit: -
For printing and binding the series of public documents, under the direction of the secretary of the Commonwealth, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars.
For printing the pamphlet edition of the acts and resolves of the present year, for distribution in the Commonwealth, a sum not exceeding twenty-five hundred dollars.
For printing and binding the "blue book" edition of the acts and resolves of the present year, with the governor's message, and other matters in the usual form, a sum not exceeding thirty-five hundred dollars.
For the newspaper publication of the general laws, and all information intended for the public, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.
For reports of decisions of the supreme judicial court, a sum not exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars.
For assessors' books and blanks furnished cities and towns by the secretary of the Commonwealth, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
For registration books and blanks, indexing returns, and editing the registration report, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars.
For the purchase of paper for the Commonwealth, used in the execution of the contract for the state printing, under the direction of the secretary of the Commonwealth, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars.
For preparation of tables and indexes relating to the statutes of the present year and previous years, under the direction of the governor, a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars.
For printing and binding ordered by the senate and house of representatives, or by concurrent order of the two branches, a sum not exceeding twenty-three thousand dollars.
Section 2.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved January 28, 1SSS.