| Show NEW STATE TAI CODE STill TILL HANGS FIRE Grant H Smith Blames the theS S Skelton Company for Continued Delay INDEX IS NEW OBSTACLE CONTRACT CALLS FOR COMPLE COMPLETION COMPLETION COMPLETION TION OF WORK WO K JAN 1 1907 According to the contract entered Into inO with the Skelton Publishing company for forthe forthe forthe the publishing of or the new new state code cOd 3 copies have been bound and de tie delivered livered by Jan Tan 1 last and Md another copies by Feb F b 1 I INot Not one copy of the code has been is issued ISsued sued su d as yet and Grant H Smith code commission says ays a s that it will not be earlier than April 15 when w en the job is completed The commission has had hall the copy pre prepared prepared prepared pared for the entire code since about the middle of last December but for some sonic somer reason r ason the publishing company has hils fail failed failed failed ed to live up to its contract Two months ago The Herald called at attention attention attention to the tho situation and quoted Mr Smith who laid the blame on the Skei Skelton Skelton ton company At that time Mr Smith said that fiat he ho thought that the code should be completed by b March 15 When hen seen last evening Mr Smith said The statement I made two months ago agoto agoto agoto to The Herald still stilt holds true The printing company has failed to do Its Us work according to the strict ta Uon tion of the contract and It alone has caused the delay In the Issuance of or the th code 1 I do not think it will wilt be earlier than April 15 before the code is issued The trouble now Is in setting up the in index dex A month ago we were told that the company could furnish us fifteen pages a day da The averne has not been more than five fhe pages Aside from this we re ye recently discovered that a form ferni had been spoiled and would have bave to tobe tobe tobe be printed over again This is a part of the body of the code and nd this discovery discover has been very ye discouraging to us Bills for Extras Will VIII there be any an more bills for ex cx extras extras tras Mr Smith was asked There will wilt be some extras because of lf the change chan e in style but not to amount to anything The SKelton company has already been paid about WI 1100 for extras on this work which should have haste been completed Jan 1 Up to date about page of the page Index are In and the work on the remaining is going on at a t distress distressingly distressIngly In ly slow rate according to Mr Smith The 1907 legislature appropriated 1200 for the publishing of the new code and 1000 for the payment of salaries It was thought that the code would be bc ready by Jan 1 and thus give the attorneys s of the state for at least a year a book which would contain all the laws of the state It now appears that the attorneys will have to wait walt another month at least and probably longer and when they secure the new books it will wIlt be only six months before the legislature meets again and passes a number of new laws which can only olly be found In the session laws |
