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Date: 1864-03-15
By: Province of Canada (Legislative Assembly)
Citation: Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly, Journals of the Legislative Assembly, Vol. XXIII, 1864 at Appendix (No. 1).
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REPORT

COMMITTEE ROOM,
15^th March, 1864.

The Joint Committee of both Houses on the Legislative Printing, beg to leave to make the following as their

FIRST REPORT

As the several contracts for the Printing, Printing Paper, and Binding, expire with the work of the present Session, it is necessary that provision should be made for the future performance of those services; the Committee therefore recommend that tenders should be asked for the Printing, Printing Paper, and Binding, required for the Honorable the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly, for the period of five years, commencing on 1st January, 1865.

MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE

COMMITTEE ROOM,
15^th March, 1864.

PRESENT:

Mr. Mackenzie, Chairman.

Hon. Messieurs

Alexander
Armstrong
Christie
Masson
Sanborn
Seymour
Simpson
Brown
Bell (Lanark North)
Brousseau
Chapais
Dorion (Drummond & Arthabaska)
Simpson
Stirton

Jean-Baptiste-Éric Dorion [Drummond & Arthabaska] moved, seconded by George Brown [Oxford South],

That advertisements be issued calling for tenders for the Legislative Printing for a period of five years from the 1st day of January, 1865.

In amendment, John Simpson [Niagara] moved, seconded by Robert Bell [Lanark North],

That in consequence of the original tender for the Printing of Parliament by the contractors having been for the period of ten years, although the period was subsequently reduced to five years without addition to the rates, and as the prices are very low, and the work has been very satisfactorily performed, it is resolved that the present contract be extended with Hunter, Rose & Lemieux, for five years from its termination, at the present rates, and that the Chairman be authorized to carry this Resolution into effect, as soon as the securities are approved by this Committee.

The Committee divided on the amendment.

YEAS

Hon. Messrs.

Sanborn
Seymour
Simpson
Bell (Lanark North)
Simpson, and
Stirton—6.

NAYS

Hon. Messrs.

Armand
Armstrong
Christie
Brown
Brousseau
Chapais, and
Dorion (Drummond & Arthabaska).

Lost by a majority of 1.

The original motion being then put, the Committee divided:

YEAS

Hon. Messrs.

Armand
Armstrong
Christie
Brown
Brousseau
Chapais, and
Dorion (Drummond & Arthabaska)

NAYS

Sanborn
Seymour
Simpson
Stirton
Bell (Lanark North), and
Simpson—6.

Carried by a majority of 1.

Ordered,

That the above proceedings be reported to both Houses.

The Committee also recommend that their quorum be reduced to nine Members.

All which is respectfully submitted.

A. Mackenzie,

Chairman.