Expenditure.
581
ESTIMATE
III.
Printing 350 copies
$7980.00
Cost of paper
459.35.
Binding 20 copies in calf Z
Do. 60 do. in skiver
195.00
Z
Do. 220 do.
in cloth 2-
450.00
1315.00
10.299.35
Receipts.
Sale of 270 copies at $25 per copy
Z
6.750.00
Net cost $ 3,549,35.
NOTE.
Something may be saved from the
expenditure under each Estimate by having the copies all bound in cloth and by using paper such as the Ordinances
are now printed on. But it would seem desirable to have a few copies well bound for the Colonial Office, the Governor, the members of the Executive and Legislative Councils, &C., and it also seams desirable that the copies for the use of public departments and officers should be bound in some
more durable material than cloth. It may be mentioned that
skiver is a kind of inferior calf. As to the paper I would
strongly recommend that a good quality be used. I have not
sufficient knowledge of the matter to be able to say whe-
ther the allowance asked for on this head by the Govern-
ment Printers is reasonable.
I understand that the estimate as to
the cost of printing is based on the rates fixed in the contract with the Government Printers, and, especially with
the reductions proposed, it seems reasonable. I have not pressed the printers on the point of possible further
reductions.