...amendment: strike out all of said amendment after the word ' enacted,' and insert the following: 'That all purchases and contracts for supplies or services...departments of the government, except for personal services, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the article or articles, or performance...

...to your predecessor on the 8th of November, 1876 : Section 3709, Revised Statutes, requires that " all purchases and contracts for supplies or services...public exigency, the articles or service required may be procured by open purchase or contract, at the places and in the manner in which such articles...

...amendment: Strike out all of said amendment after the word >enacted,' and insert the following: 11 That all purchases and contracts for supplies or services,...departments of the government, except for personal services, when the public exigences do not require the immediate delivery of the artidt or articles, or performance...

...Superintendent of Puhlic Printing shall not he allowed more than three clerks in his office. Section 3. " All purchases and contracts for supplies or services...Departments of the government, except for personal services, when the puhlic exigencies do not require the immodiate delivery of the article or articles, or performance...

...Superintendent of Public Printing shall not be allowed more than three clerks in his office. Section 3. " All purchases and contracts for supplies or services...Departments of the government, except for personal services, when the public exigencies do nut require the immediate delivery of the article or articles, or performance...

...they aud the superintendent will make such statement. By act of March 2, 1861, it is provided "that all purchases and contracts for supplies or services...departments of the government, except for personal services, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the article or articles, or performance...

...they and the superintendent will make such statement. By act of March 2, 1861, it is provided "that all purchases and contracts for supplies or services...departments of the government, except for personal services, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the article or articles, or performance...

...both houses ; and no such contracts shall be made hereafter, except in cases of pressing exigency. 2. d, That "tamps'." r JW" anv proprietor or proprietors...proprietary articles, or articles subject to stamp duty und services,(6) when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the article or articles,...

...such time as the CommixsaryGeneral may direct." By an act of March 2, 1861,* it is provided, that " All purchases and contracts for supplies or services...departments of the government, except for personal services, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the article or articles, or performance...

...-TT—~7~—;—of the Departments of the Government, except for personal services, for proposais. 0 " "shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously...public exigency, the articles or service required may be procured by open purchase or contract, at the places and in the manner in which such articles...