Show PRINTERS ESCAPE PENALTY Skelton Company Wont Vont Suffer for Failure to Deliver New Code on Time The state boar board boar of oC examiners has hai de decided decided decided not to enforce the penalty clause In the contract with the Skelton Publish Publishing PublishIng PublishIng ing company for printing the new code ode authorized by bJ the last legislature The contract entered Into with the com company company company pany by the state provides a penalty of ofa 2 a a R day for delay in fn completing the work after the expiration of the time within which the work was to be com completed completed completed Jan I 1 for the first fifteen days thereafter Since Jan 15 1 the penalty Is la 50 a day da daThe The code commission Itself delayed deh the work perhaps fifteen days and ut at the most not more than a month The state board of examiners however has determined not to enforce this pen penalty city alty as it would eat up practically the entire amount which Skelton is 15 to receive for printing the book bookIn b bock bockIn k kIn In the meantime the tha code commission is fretting because the index is not turned out more rapidly and the attorneys are Becoming insistent that the new book be put in their hands Many Ian complaints have hac been received b by the commission but as has already been stated that body bod is blameless according to the th general understanding and the th de delay delay e elay lay has been caused by the printers alone I |