CHAPTER 68.-PRINTING.

3957 SECTION 1. [State board.] The auditor of public accounts, state treasurer, and secretary of state shall constitute a state printing board, and shall have general supervision over the matter of state printing, in the manner provided by this act. [1883, chap. LXI.]

3958 SEC. 2. [Contracts let.] The printing of all bills for the legislature, with such matters as may be ordered by either house thereof, to be printed in bill form, shall be let in one contract. The printing and binding of the senate and house journals shall be let in another contract. The printing and binding of reports of state officers authorized by law to be printed, and all other reports and documents ordered by the legislature, except such as enter into and form a part of the journals, shall be let in another contract. The printing and binding of the laws, joint resolutions, and memorials enacted by the legislature shall be let in another contract. And the printing and binding of all blanks, blank books, and circulars required to be furnished by the officers of the executive department of the state shall be let in another contract.

3959 SEC. 3. [Same.] The contracts for printing of bills and reports of state officers shall be let on the second Tuesday in December for a period of two years following. The contract for the publication of laws and journals of each regu lar and special session shall be let within twenty days after the final adjournment of such session. The contract for the furnishing of blanks, blank books, and circulars shall be let within thirty days after the adjournment of each regular session of the legislature, for the period of two years following.

3960 SEC. 4. [Same-Advertisements.] Immediately after the adjournment of any regular or special session of the legislature, the board shall advertise in five newspapers of general circulation printed in the state, for proposals for printing of laws and journals of such session, and twenty days prior to the time fixed in the preceding section for the letting of other contracts shall similarly advertise for proposals for the letting of such other contracts. The advertisements shall briefly refer to said letting, stating the number of copies of the different kinds of work, the style and size thereof, the quality of paper and binding required, and samples of the same, and that copy of work to be done may be seen at the office of the secretary of state. The advertisement shall also state that the board reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

3961 SEC. 5. [Duty of board.] It shall be the duty of the board to decide on the kind, style, and form, the amount of printed matter on a page, the kind and quality of paper, the size of type, the quality and style of binding, and all materials necessary for the publication of the laws, journals, reports of state officers, and bills, and also place samples and copy of work to be done of the same on exhibition in the office of the secretary of state, and all bids and contracts shall strictly conform thereto. Each bid shall state what the bidder is willing to do the work complete [for], including composition, paper, press work, stitching, binding, lettering, and all material entering into the work required.

3962 SEC. 6. [Contracts for books and blanks.] Within twenty days after adjournment of each regular session of the legislature, the officers in any department of the government, whose expenditures in any one year exceed the sum of one hundred dollars ($100), for blanks, blank books, or circulars, including rev

CHAP. 68. "An act to establish a printing law for the state of Nebraska, and to repeal an act entitled 'An act to provide for state printing, approved June 18, 1867." Took effect Dec. 1, 1884. Laws, 1883, chap. LXI.

enue books and blanks, shall file with the se retary of state samples of the kinds and styles of work, with the number of copies of blank books, and number of quires of blanks required of each sample and within ten days thereafter the furnishing of the same shall be let by contract under the direction of the board in the same manner as the other contracts herein provided for are let.

3963 SEC. 7. [Proposals-Bond.] The proposal or bid for any of the contracts aforesaid shall not be considered unless the same shall be accompanied by a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5000), with two or more sureties, that in case the party proposing for any such contract shall be awarded the same such party will, within five days after the award to him of such contract enter into bonds for the faithful performance thereof.

3964 SEC. 8. [Bonds by contractor.] It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to give immediate notice to the successful bidder that his proposal has been accepted, and each successful bidder shall in five days thereafter enter into bonds to the state in the sum of not less than twice the amount of the contract price for each and every contract so awarded to him, with at least two good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by said board, conditioned for the faithful performance, pursuant to this act, of that contract for which he has been adjudged the successful bidder; and if he fail to so give bond within the time allowed, then the contract shall be given to the next lowest bidder who will give bond as aforesaid, or the board may in their discretion advertise anew and relet the contract in the manner hereinbefore provided.

3965 SEC. 9. [Proof sheets.] Each contractor under the provisions of this act, shall furnish the proper officer with proof sheets in page form of any work required to be done under his contract, and immediately upon the completion thereof shall deliver the same without expense to the secretary of state, who shall deliver the work to the officer entitled thereto.

3966 SEC. 10. [Duty of attorney general.] It shall be the duty of the attorney general to draw all contracts let under the provisions of this act, and each contract shall be signed by the members of the said board and the party to whom such contract has been awarded; and said contract and the bonds as herein before provided for shall be filed in the office of secretary of state. In case of the non-performance of any contract by the contractor, whereby the state is damaged, and in case any successful bidder shall fail to enter into bond as heretofore provided, it shall be the duty of the attorney general, when so directed by the board, to bring suit upon the proper bond and contract for the recovery of any damage that the state may have sustained by reason thereof.

3967 SEC. 11. [Payment of accounts.] Upon the completion of each contract or any particular job of work required under any of the provisions of this act, payment therefor shall be made to the proper contractor at the contract price upon vouchers certified to as "correct" by the printing board, in the same manner that other accounts against the state are paid, out of any funds appropriated for that purpose by the legislature.

3968 SEC. 12. [Contract for printing bills.] The contractor for the printing of bills or any matter printed in bill form shall promptly and without unnecessary delay execute all orders of the legislature, or either house thereof, for such printing, and for each failure to complete said printing within three days after receiving the order for the same the contractor shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be deducted from his account on settlement; and all contractors, under the provisions of this act, shall without unnecessary delay execute all orders issued to them by the printing board, and the contractor for printing and

binding the laws shall deliver the same to the secretary of state within sixty days. after the adjournment of each session of the legislature; and the contractor for printing and binding of the journals shall delivor the same to the secretary of state within ninety days after receiving the copy thereof.

3969 SEC. 13. [Copy of laws and journals.] The secretary of state shall furnish a true and accurate copy of the laws and journals as they may be demanded by the printer thereof, and the clerks of the respective branches of the legislature shall each furnish to the printer, who is bound by his contract to print the same, copies of the journals, 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.

3970 SEC. 14. [Session laws.] It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to classify and arrange for publication the laws, joint resolutions, and memorials passed at each session, and to make out a full index and marginal notes to the laws as fast as shall be necessary. The signatures of the speaker of the house, president of the senate, and governor shall not be printed at the end of each law and chapter, but only at the end of the volume. The date of approval by the governor shall be affixed to each law, and there shall be prefixed to each volume of laws published the name and residence of the several state officers, the senators and members of the house of representatives, and the presiding officers and clerks of both branches of the legislature at the time of passing such laws.

3971 SEC. 15. [Legislative printing.] The foregoing provisions of this act shall not apply to the printing of work required during the session of the legislature other than bills, but any such printing shall be done under the supervision of the committee on printing of either house, in such manner and on such terms as they may deem best. The account therefor to be paid out of any money appropriated for the incidental expenses of the legislature.

3972 SEC. 16. [Legal newspaper defined.] That no newspaper shall be considered a legal newspaper for the publication of legal and other official notices unless the same shall have a bona-fide circulation of at least 200 copies weekly, and shall have been published within the county for 52 successive weeks prior to the publication of such notices, and be printed either in whole or in part in an office maintained at the place of publication. [Laws, 1895, chap. 49, § 1.]

3973 SEC. 17. [Legal notices-Where published-Affidavit.] That all legal and other official notices shall be published in a legal newspaper as defined in Section 1 of this act, and that the affidavit of publication shall state that said newspaper is a legal newspaper, which affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of that fact. [Id., § 2.]

3974 SEC. 18. [Same-Application of act.] The provisions of this act shall not apply in counties wherein but one newspaper is published, or in counties where no newspaper has been published for a period of one year prior to the publication of such legal or other official notices, or in counties where no newspaper is published having the circulation required in Section 1 of this act. [Id., § 3.]

SEC. 19. [Repealed all acts in conflict.]

SECS. 16-19. "An act defining a Legal Newspaper for the publication of legal and other official notices in the state of Nebraska." Took effect April 5, 1895. Laws, 1895, chap. 49.

CHAPTER 69.-PUBLIC LANDS.

ARTICLE I.-RECORD TITLE.

3975 SECTION 1. [Records.] That it shall be and is hereby made the duty of the governor, immediately after the passage of this act, to cause true copies of all communications from the secretary of the interior department of the United States, now on file in any department of this state, in or by which any lands or selections thereof have been confirmed or certified to this state, under or by virtue of any grant or act of congress, to be prepared and certified under the state seal, and recorded in each of the counties of this state in which any of the lands in such copy described are situated. [1872, 7. G. S., 868.]

3976 SEC. 2. [Same-Future communications.] That whenever any communication shall hereafter be received by the governor, or at any of the departments of the state government from the secretary of the interior, when or whereby any lands or selection thereof shall be confirmed or certified to this state, under or by virtue of any grant or act of congress, it shall be the duty of the governor to cause a copy thereof to be prepared, certified, and recorded in the manner specified in the first section of this act.

3977 SEC. 3. [Record-Fees.] That it shall be the duty of the several county clerks to whom any such copy shall be presented, to record the same in the book or books in which land patents are or may be recorded, and in the order in which such copy may be received; and such clerks shall be entitled to the same fees for recording such copies as are allowed by law for recording deeds, which fees shall be paid them out of the general fund, upon the warrant of the auditor therefor.

3978 SEC. 4. [Same-Copies-Evidence.] That each such copy, in this act provided for the record thereof, on a transcript of such record certified under the hand and seal of the county clerk in whose office the same shall be recorded and shall be received in all courts and places whatever as evidence of each and every fact and thing there in stated, as well as of the absolute title of the United States in and to the lands therein described, at the date of such communication.

3979 SEC. 5. [Entry on state lands by mistake.] That whenever any person has been allowed a homestead or pre-emption filing on land in any United States land office in the state of Nebraska, supposing the land to belong to the United States, or supposing the same to be open to homestead or pre-emption settlement because of being settled upon and improved before the survey thereof, and having made valuable improvements thereon, or any person having purchased the filing of any such lands, and afterwards ascertaining that the said lands belong to the state of Nebraska, the person entitled to said lands, shall be required to make a showing to the board of educational lands and funds, under oath, that his filing was made in good faith and not for the purpose of speculation, and that he supposed the land belonged to the United States at the time he made the homestead and pre-emption filing or purchased the said filing. [1881, chap. 58, § 1.]

3980 SEC. 6. [Duties of board of educational lands-Deed.] That upon receiving such a showing the said board shall examine into said showing, and if it is satisfied that said claim is a just and proper claim, and made in good faith,

ART. I. "An act to provide for recording the state's title to certain lands." Laws, 1872, 7. G. S., 868. Took ef fect Jan. 19, 1872. Provisions of the several acts relating to land grants, entry and selection of public lands, swamp lands, etc, collated in chap. 59, G. S., 858, omitted from this volume. See chap. 80 and art. VII, chap. 83. SECS. 5, 6. "An act to provide for the relinquishment of the title to lands filed upon, supposed to be land be longing to the United States, and public lands settled upon and improved before the survey thereof." Passed and took effect March 3, 1881.

and that the United States will deed to the state of Nebraska, land in place of that upon which the appliant has filed or purchased a filing, the said board shall order a deed executed by the governor of the state of Nebraska to the United States, for said lands, to allow said party to complete his title under the United States laws, and thereupon the governor shall execute a deed of relinquishment to the United States for the said lands. [Id., § 2.]

ARTICLE II.-SALINE LANDS.

3981 SECTION 1. [Appraisement.] That the board of public lands and buildings of the state of Nebraska are hereby directed to adopt such measures within sixty days after this act has become a law as will authorize and require the commissioner of public lands and buildings to make careful appraisement of all the saline lands owned by the state on the 1st day of March, 1885, and separately appraise any and all improvements thereon except that portion of section 21 now owned by the state, and all of section twenty-two, and the south half of section 15, all in township number ten, north of range six, east of the sixth principal meridian; and also except each and all of the salt springs owned by the state, and forty acres of land with each spring upon which the same is situated. The expense of said appraisement shall be audited by the board of public lands and buildings, and paid out of the saline fund, created as hereinafter stated, and as nearly as may be as provided in in section 8 of this act. [1885, chap. 91.]

3982 SEC. 2. [Advertisement-Sale.] That said commissioner of public lands and buildings, when the said lands have been appraised, shall make a report of the same with the appraised value thereof to the board, and also the appraised value of the improvements on said land and keep a record thereof in his office, and the said board, upon receiving such report, shall at once direct the said commissioner to advertise the lands appraised as aforesaid for sale in at least three newspapers in the state for thirty days before the day of such sale, and on the day mentioned in such advertisement the said lands shall be offered for sale at public auction, and sold to the highest bidder therefor; Provided, Said lands shall be offered in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres at one time, and shall not be sold at less than the appraised value thereof, exclusive of the appraised value of the improvements on said land, and for the purpose of making such sale the commissioner aforesaid is hereby authorized to employ a competent crier or auctioneer, who shall be paid from proceeds of sales at a rate not to exceed three dollars per day. The said lands, remaining unsold, after having been offered at public sale as aforesaid, shall be kept in the market for private sale at the office of said commissioner for such time as the board may deem proper, not to exceed one year subsequent to such sale, when the residue, if any, shall be advertised in like manner and again offered at public sale. And in case any of said lands shall remain unsold after having been offered at public sale the second time, such remaining lands shall be re-appraised and again offered for sale at public auction, upon notice of such sale being given as above provided, and the lands remaining unsold after having been offered at public sale under the appraisement shall be kept in the market at private sale, at the office of the commissioner for such time as the board may deem proper, but in no case shall any of said lands be sold for less than the appraised value thereof in addition to the appraised value of the improvements thereon, and all the proceeds realized from such sales shall be deposited by the commissioner of public lands and buildings in the state treasury, (except the amount realized for the improvements upon said lands, which amount shall be immediately paid to the owner or owners of said improvements,)

ART. II. "An act to provide for the sale and leasing of the saline lands and the development of the saline interests of the state of Nebraska." Took effect June 5, 1885. Laws, 1885, chap. 91.