Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1889 — THE NEW LAWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW LAWS.

State Printer Burford has completed the printing and binding of the acts of the legislature for 1889, and the work is suid to have been very artistically done. Two hundred and fifty-two bills and resolutions are printed. Ten thousand of the acts are required by law to be published and distributed by the secretary t>f state, who shall receive for his “arduous labor” not to exceed $250. So soon as they are printed, it is his dnty to employ some person or persons to deliver the volumes to the clerks of the various counties. These delivery clerks are required to give bond with freehold surety. Bach judge, prosecuting attorney, township trustee, justice of the peace, and comity officer, tled to one copy. When the messengers distribute the acts they are required to take receipts from the county clerks, and when the last, of the receipts is in possession of the secretary of state, the lattor is required to certify the fact to the governor, who thereupon Issues his proclamation, announcing the date of the last filing, and the acts are then the law of the laud.—Ex. The above from a neighboring exchange may be correct in some particulars, but os to the manner

of the delivery of the books it does not appear to be in accordance with the facts, as the supply of the printed copiesof the law has just been received by the clerk, through the agency of the express* company. It is a book of 560 pages and as well printed as such work usually is.