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shall distribute the same as follows: to each person composing the executive and legislative branches of the government for the time being; to the secretary and treasurer; to each of the clerks of the senate and house; to the New Hampshire Historical Society; to the American Antiquarian Society; to each historical society in the United States; to each town in the State; to each unincorporated place in the State in which there are ten or more ratable polls; one copy each.

SEC. 8. The secretary shall cause twenty-five copies additional of all laws, resolves and public documents printed by order of the legislature, to be printed and bound, and the governor may transmit the same to the agents of foreign countries in the United States authorized to make exchanges for the same.

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SECTION 1. There shall be chosen annually, during the session of the legislature, by joint ballot of the senate and house of representatives, a public printer, who shall hold his office for the term of one year, and until some other person is elected in his stead. He shall give bond, with sufficient sureties, in the sum of two thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and shall execute all the public printing for the legislative, executive and military departments of the State.

SEC. 2. For the faithful performance of his duties he shall receive the following compensation: for furnishing the legislature, at the commencement of each session, whenever the same shall be ordered, with five hundred printed copies of the rules of both branches of the legislature, with such other matter as it has been usual to print therewith, fifty-five dollars; for all bills printed for either branch of the legislature, one dollar per page for four hundred copies; for all blanks, circulars, proclamations for the use of the governor, secretary, treasurer, common school commissioner and adjutant and quartermaster general, printed on paper to their acceptance, forty cents per quire; for furnishing eight hundred and twenty-five copies of the laws of each session of the legislature,

to correspond with the edition for the year 1849, one dollar and thirty cents for each page of one copy; for furnishing seven hundred and fifty copies of the journals of the senate and house of representatives, to correspond with the edition for the year 1849, eighty cents for each page of one copy, each page to contain eleven hundred and twenty-five ems; for furnishing six hundred copies of the report of the school commissioner, report of asylum for the insane, state prison, bank commissioners and railroad commissioners, messages of the governor, and all similar documents, to correspond with the edition of 1849, and to contain eleven hundred and seventy-five ems per page, one dollar and fifteen cents per page of one copy; for all extra copies of the above documents, over the number above specified, he shall be allowed the same prices as are usually paid by individuals in similar cases, and for all other work executed for the State he shall receive a reasonable compensation, not to exceed that usually paid by individuals for similar work, to be determined by the governor and council.

SEC. 3. The state printer shall deliver to the secretary of state eight hundred and twenty-five printed copies of the laws aforesaid, within forty days, and seven hundred and fifty printed copies of the journals aforesaid, within ninety days from the time the copy thereof shall be placed in his hands, and all other work shall be executed and delivered within a reasonable time after it is ordered.

SEC. 4. The governor, with advice of council, shall draw his warrant on the treasurer for such sums as shall, upon examination, be found due to the state printer as aforesaid.

SEC. 5. If any advertising, other than the laws of each session, shall be ordered by the State into any newspaper, the compensation therefor shall be the same as is usually paid by individuals for the same character and amount of matter in the same paper.

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CHAPTER 8.

CHAPTER 9.

Of the surplus revenue.

Of the asylum for the insane.

CHAPTER 10. Of the state tax.

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SECTION 1. A suitable person shall be appointed annually, by joint resolution of both branches of the legislature, to take charge of the state house and state house yard, to hold his office for the term of one year and until another shall be appointed.

SEC. 2. If at any time there is a necessity for immediate repairs to the public property, said keeper is authorized, with the consent of the governor, to make the same to a reasonable amount, and the governor, with advice of council, may draw his warrant therefor upon the treasury.

SEC. 3. If any person shall exhibit any fire works, or throw any fire ball or other combustible matter on fire, or set any combustible matter on fire, within the state house yard, or aid in or encourage the same, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten dollars, to be recovered by complaint before a justice to the use of the complainant.

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3. Who may take books from the library. 8. Documents and pamphlets may be

4. Regulations of the library. 5. Committee on the library.

bound.

9. Products of nature and art exchanged.

SECTION 1. The secretary of state shall, ex officio, be the librarian of the state library, who shall appoint a deputy librarian to assist in taking charge of the library during the session of the legislature, which deputy shall receive the same compensation as that of a member. (Laws of 1846, chap. 343, sec. 1; R. S., sec. 4, chap. 6.)

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the librarian at all times, either by himself or his deputy, to take charge of the state library; to loan books according to the law now in force; to cause a catalogue of all the books, pamphlets and maps to be made, and procure three hundred copies thereof to be printed, and shall, on the second Wednesday of June annually, make a report to the legis lature of the condition of the library, what books, maps and pamphlets have been added during the year, and what have been lost, if any. (Laws of 1846, chap. 343, sec. 2.)

SEC. 3. Books may be taken from the library by the members and clerks of the house and senate during each session, and at all times by the governor and council, the judges of the superior court and the secretary and treasurer of the State. Any person, (except during any session) may take books therefrom with the consent of the librarian, by depositing with him double the value thereof, from which any book injured or lost shall be replaced, and a compensation paid the librarian for his services, subject however to such rules as may be prescribed by the committee on the library. (R. S., sec. 5.)

SEC. 4. No book, map or papers shall be taken from the library by any person without the consent of the librarian, or without being entered as herein provided. During any session all books, maps and papers shall be returned to the librarian within one week, at other times within one month, and in all cases on or before the twentieth day of May annually. (R. S., sec. 6.)

SEC. 5. A joint committee consisting of two members of the house to be selected by the speaker, and one member of the senate to be selected by the president, shall be appointed annually, who with the governor shall select and purchase books for the library, and the sum of one hundred dollars is to be appropriated for said purpose annually, to be drawn by warrant from the governor with advice of the council. (R. S., sec. 7.)

SEC. 6. In selecting books for the library care shall be taken to procure full sets of the statutes and reports of the United States and of the several states, state papers, history, statistics, works on political economy, agriculture, geology, mineralogy and other arts and sciences, and other works having an important bearing upon the business and objects of legislation, to the exclusion of works of fiction. (R. S., sec. 8.)

SEC. 7. All books for the library shall be procured by the first day of January in each year, and placed under the care of the librarian to be by him duly entered, labeled and arranged in the library, and he shall cause a record of the same with their prices to be made and kept from year to year. (R. S., sec. 9.)

SEC. 8. The committee on the library, with the governor, may from time to time cause such pamphlets, documents, papers and manuscripts belonging to the State, as they may think proper, to be suitably arranged and bound for preservation at the expense of the State, and the governor with advice of the council may draw his warrant on the treasurer therefor. (R. S., sec. 10.)

SEC. 9. The sum of five hundred dollars is subject to the draft of the governor with advice of the council upon the treasurer, for the collection, preservation and exchange of original specimens of natural history and the productions of useful arts, to be expended under the direction of the governor. (R. S., sec. 11.)

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SECTION 1. The governor with the advice of the council may appoint some suitable person or persons, not exceeding two, as land commissioners, who shall be sworn to the faithful performance

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