DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

PUBLICATION OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.

Pursuant to the provisions of an act approved March 1 1866, notices were published for three weeks consecutively, commencing the 14th of the same month, inviting sealed proposals for the copyright and the printing and binding, of the General Statutes of Minnesota.

The result and action of the commissioners will be shown by the following schedule and award, viz:

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
ST. PAUL, April 6, 1866.

The copyright of the General Statutes of Minnesota, is hereby awarded to John X. Davidson & H. P. Hall, as the persons offering to furnish said statutes at the lowest price per copy, according to law.

H. C. ROGERS, Secretary of State.
CHAS. MCILRATH, Auditor of State.

CHAS. SCHEFFER, Treasurer of State.

Each of the proposals, as above set forth, was accompanied by a bond as required by law; and the successful bidders fulfilled the contract in a prompt, workmanlike, and satisfactory manner.

PUBLIC PRINTING.

Under the provisions of "an act to provide for the execution and supervision of the state printing and binding," approved Feb. 26, 1866, notices were duly published inviting sealed proposals for the execution of the several classes of the state printing as specified in the said act.