§ 532. LETTING OF CONTRACTS FOR PAPER. In April, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and in April of every year thereafter, the superintendent of state printing shall submit to the state board of examiners samples of the various kinds, sizes, and qualities of paper that will probably be required in his office during the year commencing on the then next first Monday in July, an estimate of the probable quantity of each kind, size, and quality that will' be so required. [Advertisement for bids.] Upon being satisfied that the kinds, sizes, quantities, and qualities of paper so suggested will be required, they shall direct the superintendent of state printing to advertise for thirty days, in two daily newspapers, one of which shall be published in the city of San Francisco, and one in the city of Sacramento, for proposals to furnish such paper, or so much thereof as may be required during the year commencing as aforesaid, which bids shall be opened in his office, at twelve o'clock m. on the day appointed, in the presence of the said superintendent, and at least two of the state board of examiners; and the said superintendent of state printing, and the members of the state board of examiners then and there present, shall constitute a board to award the contract to the lowest and best responsible bidder. No bid shall be considered unless accompanied by a certified check, in the sum of two thousand dollars, gold coin, payable to the governor for the use of the people of the state of California, conditioned that if the bidder receives the award of the contract he will, within thirty days, enter into bonds in the sum of ten thousand dollars, with two or more sureties, to be approved by the governor of the state, that he will faithfully perform the conditions of his contract. All bids must be for the furnishing and delivery of the paper and materials at the state printing office, in the city of Sacramento, so that the state shall not be charged with any cost of transportation or delivery, which must be specified in the advertisement for bids. If all the bids opened shall be deemed too high by said board, they may decline them and advertise again. If the second set of bids are considered too high, the said board may again decline. them, and the superintendent of state printing may purchase such paper in the open market. The prices paid shall in no case be higher than the lowest price at which such paper was offered to be furnished by the bids so rejected. History: Enacted March 12, 1872; amended April 3, 1876, Code Amdts. 1875-6, pp. 19, 20; April 1, 1878, Code Amdts. 1877-8, pp. 11, 12; March 27, 1895, Stats. and Amdts. 1895, p. 234. § 533. RULING, FOLDING, STITCHING, AND BINDING; CONTRACTS FOR. All ruling, folding, and folding and stitching, and binding required to be executed for the state, shall be done under the supervision of said superintendent. He shall advertise for thirty days in one daily newspaper published in the city of San Francisco and one daily newspaper published in the city of Sacramento, specifying the character of the binding, folding, and stitching to be bid upon, for proposals to do all such folding, folding and stitching, ruling and binding, all of which work shall be done in the city of Sacramento, and on the day appointed he shall, in the presence of the board of examiners, open the bids that may be received, and said superintendent of state printing 534-537 (110) SALARY, ETC.-CONTINGENT-EXPENSE FUND. [Pt. III. and said board of examiners shall award said contract to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders therefor. History: Enacted March 12, 1872; amended April 3, 1876, Code Amdts. 1875-6, p. 20. § 534. SALARIES OF SUPERINTENDENT AND DEPUTY. The annual salary of the superintendent of state printing shall be three thousand dollars. He may appoint a deputy superintendent of state printing, who shall be a civil executive officer, and who shall receive a salary of two thousand four hundred dollars per annum. [Payment of salaries.] Sec. 2. Said salaries shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner as the salaries of other state officers are paid. History: Enacted March 12, 1872, founded upon § 12 Act May 1, 1854, As to power of legislature over salary, see ante § 526 and note. § 535. REPAIRING AND PURCHASING MACHINERY. Whenever any appropriation is made for the support of the state printing office, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars thereof shall be applied, when necessary, to and used for the purpose of repairing the present and purchasing new machinery of the state printing office, in each fiscal year for which the appropriation is made. History: Enacted March 12, 1872; amended April 3, 1876, Code Amdts. 1875-6, p. 20. § 536. CONTINGENT-EXPENSE FUND. Whenever any money is appropriated for the support of the state printing office, a sum not exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars thereof shall, in each fiscal year for which the appropriation is made, be applied to and used for the purpose of paying contingent expenses of state printing office. The superintendent of state printing shall keep an itemized account of all moneys expended out of the contingent fund hereby created, and shall furnish the governor with a copy of the same, under oath, at the end of each fiscal year. History: Enacted March 12, 1872, founded upon § 2 Act April 1, 1872, 1. Applied, cited, construed, referred to. 3. Editorial note-Springer vs. Green. 1. APPLIED, CITED, CONSTRUED, REFERRED, etc., in: Springer vs. Green, 46 Cal. 73, 77 (cited and construed as to the original 536, before the enactment of present amendments). TO AUDIT ACCOUNTS OF THE STATE PRINTER, and mandamus cannot compel him to draw his warrant for moneys due state printer for public printing.-Springer vs. Green, 46 Cal. 73, 77. 3. EDITOR'S NOTE. -The case of Springer vs. Green, 46 Cal. 73, 77, decided in 1873, was decisive of the original § 536, but that section has since been amended so that the case is not in point. § 537. TREASURER MAY ADVANCE MONEY FOR WAGES, WHEN. The state treasurer is hereby authorized, when the general fund is exhausted, to advance the money on the controller's warrants, drawn for wages and salaries of the employees in the state printing office, out of any public funds in the treasury, which warrants shall be his vouchers until there is money in the general fund to cancel them; provided, that this section shall not apply to any fund against which there are any warrants then due, or to become due, or so as to keep claimants out of their just demands. Any sum of money remaining unexpended of the appropriation heretofore made for the purchase of materials for the state printing office is hereby appropriated to the payment of claims due for the construction of the state printing office. History: Enacted March 12, 1872; amended April 3, 1876, Code Amdts. 1875-6, p. 21. § 538. MAPS, ETC., ENGRAVING AND LITHOGRAPHING, ETC. When any chart, map, diagram, or other engraving shall be required to illustrate any document ordered to be printed, such chart, map, diagram, or engraving shall be procured by the superintendent of state printing. No bills for engraving, or lithographing, or lithograph printing, other than the above, shall be allowed by the board of examiners. All state printing shall be done in the state printing office. History: Enacted April 3, 1876, Code Amdts. 1875-6, p. 21; amended As to superintendent of state printing office not to be interested in any contract connected with his office, see KERR'S CYC. PEN. CODE $99 and note. As to penalty for collusion of state printer with others to defraud state, see KERR'S CYC. PEN. CODE § 100 and note. § 539. PRINTING BILLS. All bills and other documents ordered engrossed by either house of the legislature shall be delivered by the secretary of the senate or chief clerk of the house, as the case may be, to the engrossing clerk of the house ordering the engrossment, who shall deliver such bills or other documents, without delay, in the order of their receipt, to the state printer, who shall receipt for the same, and without delay engross (print) the same in the order so received by him, and deliver such engrossed bill or other documents, with the original thereof, to the engrossing clerk from whom he receives the same, who shall carefully compare the engrossed copy with the original, and, if correctly engrossed, report the same back, with the original, to the engrossing committee of the house from which he received it. [Printed bills not amended considered engrossed.] All bills and other documents that have been printed shall be considered engrossed, if no amendments bave been made after being printed, but the original bill or document shall be delivered to the engrossing clerk of the respective houses where same originated, and he shall compare the original bill, or other document, with the printed bill or other document, and forthwith deliver them to the committee on engrossment for return to the house in the same manner as engrossed bills. Such bills, or other documents, shall have a separate order of comparison from the engrossed bills. [Printed bills regarded as enrolled.] And all bills and other documents required to be enrolled by order of either house, shall be delivered by the secretary of the senate or chief clerk of the house, as the case may be, to the enrolling clerk of the house ordering such enrolment, who shall deliver such bills or other documents, without delay, in the order of their receipt, to the state printer, who shall receipt for the same, and who shall, without delay, correctly enroll (print) the same, in the order so received by him, and when enrolled he shall deliver such enrolled bills or other documents, with the original thereof, to the enrolling clerk from whom he received the same. who § 540 (112) SUPERINTENDENT OF PRINTING-PRINTING FUND. [Pt. III. shall carefully compare such enrolled copy with the original, and if correctly enrolled he shall report the same back, with the original, to the enrolling committee of the house from which he received it. History: Enacted March 31, 1891, Stats. and Amdts. 1891, pp. 426, 427; amended March 24, 1895, Stats. and Amdts. 1895, p. 110. § 540. STATE PRINTING FUND. Subdivision 1. There is hereby created a fund to be known as the state printing fund of the state treasury. Subdivision 2. The state printing fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated by the legislature for the support of the state printing office, and all moneys received into the state treasury from any source whatever in payment of all printing, ruling, and binding done in the state printing office. From it all expenses for the support of the state printing office shall be paid. [All state printing to be done at state printing office.] Subd. 3. The reports of all state officers, boards of officers, commissions, trustees, regents, and directors, required or authorized by law to make reports, or to publish any circulars, bulletins, and to obtain any printed books, stationery, or printed matter of any kind, must be printed, ruled, and bound at the state printing office, at the expense of their respective funds or appropriations, after being first authorized in each instance by the state board of examiners. [Duties of superintendent of state printing, et al.] Subd. 4. The superintendent of state printing, subject to the approval of the board of examiners, shall determine the charge to be made for all printing, ruling, and binding, and shall fix a price from time to time that will cover all costs of material and doing the work, not taking into consideration the cost of the plant of the state printing office. He shall render bills for each item of printing, ruling, and binding, or other charge against the respective officer or institution ordering the same, which bills shall be audited by the state board of examiners and paid out of the appropriation or fund of the said officer or institution chargeable with the same, on warrants drawn by the state controller. [Duties of controller and treasurer.] Subd. 5. The controller and treasurer are hereby authorized and directed to transfer from the general fund to the state printing fund any and all moneys appropriated from time to time by the legislature for the support of the state printing office. [Monthly reports.] Subd. 6. The superintendent of state printing shall render monthly reports to the state controller of all moneys received under the provisions of this section, and shall pay same into the state treasury to the credit of the state printing fund. [Controller to transfer money.] Subd. 7. The board of examiners may at any time order the controller to transfer money from the sum allowed to any officer, board, or other body mentioned in subdivision three of this section, for printing and other work at the state printing office, to the credit of any other such officer, board, or other body that may need the same, and whose allowance for that purpose has been exhausted. [Repealing clause.] Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. History: Enacted March 6, 1899, Stats. and Amdts. 1899, pp. 68, 69. § 548. GENERAL DUTIES OF. It is the duty of the state geologist, with the aid of such assistants as he may appoint, to continue and with all reasonable diligence to complete the geological survey of this state. He must also prepare a report of the survey and superintend the publication thereof in the form of a geological, botanical, zoological, and physiographical history of the state, with full and scientific descriptions of its rocks, fossils, soils, minerals, mines, climates, and physical geography, together with suitable and accurate geological and topographical maps and diagrams of the same. History: Enacted March 12, 1872. As to appointment to office, see ante § 368 subd. 3. As to term of office, see ante § 369. § 549. REPORT TO GOVERNOR. He must, as near as may be at the beginning of each session of the legislature, present to the governor, who must lay the same before the legislature, a report of progress in which the operations of the geological survey during the interval since his last preceding report must be set forth and its most important results made public. History: Enacted March 12, 1872. § 550. SPECIMENS TO BE DELIVERED TO UNIVERSITY. The geological and other specimens collected by the state geological survey must, excepting such as may be required by the state geologist to aid in the preparation of his report, be delivered over to the regents of the state university, to be by them deposited in the cabinet of the same as the property of the university. History: Enacted March 12, 1872. § 551. SALARY OF GEOLOGIST. The annual salary of the state geologist is six thousand dollars, payable monthly out of any appropriations which may be made by the legislature for the continuation of the work of the survey. History: Enacted March 12, 1872. § 552. COMPENSATION OF ASSISTANTS. His assistants receive such compensation as he may determine, payable in the same manner, out of the same fund. History: Enacted March 12, 1872. § 553. BOARD OF EXAMINERS TO AUDIT ACCOUNTS. The accounts of the state geologist, including salaries and all other expenses of the survey, must be audited by the board of examiners, and, if found correct, must be paid out of the state treasury in such manner as may be provided by law. History: Enacted March 12, 1872. § 554. REPORTS AND MAPS TO BE SOLD, ETC. The volumes and maps of the report must be sold upon such terms as the governor deems to be most Pol. C.-8. |