Texas Civil Statutes (Titles 112 to Final Title) - CIV STAT FINAL TITLE § 23i Sec. 23i. Printing Contract

Sec. 23i--The Board of Control shall immediately after the passage of this Act advertise for thirty days in three daily newspapers in this State for sealed proposals for printing, binding and electrotyping the laws as aforesaid, and shall on the day fixed in the advertisement, in the presence of such persons as desire to be present proceed to open the proposals and award the contract to the best and lowest bidder, which proposal shall state the price per volume at which the bidder proposes to electrotype, print, bind and furnish under the superintendence and direction of the said board the laws and electrotype plates, as herein provided, and no bid or proposal shall be considered that is not accompanied by a guarantee of two or more sufficient sureties that if the contract should be awarded to the bidder he will execute the necessary bond for the performance of the work in the manner and style provided in this Act; and the person or persons to whom such contract is awarded shall within ten days after receiving notice thereof, execute a bond to the State of Texas in the sum of such amount as may be fixed by the Board of Control, with two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board, conditioned for the faithful performance of the work in the manner and style therein prescribed and according to the provisions of this Act, and for the delivery of said volumes and plates to the Secretary of State on or before the first day of September, 1925; said volumes may be received, for an earlier distribution, in numbers of a thousand at a time, as the work progresses; and the right shall be reserved by the board to reject any and all bids and proposals if in their judgment the terms proposed are not favorable to the State. Upon the delivery by the contractor of the volumes and plates aforesaid to the Secretary of State, executed according to the terms of the contract and accepted by the board, the amount due therefor shall be audited, allowed, and paid as provided by law in cases of other public printing, and the statutes in force in relation to public printing shall be applicable to the contract under this Act in all matters not herein otherwise provided.