THE SECRETARY OF STATE
shows the executive business issuing through page: 19[View Page 19] his office during the year to include 518 commissions to State, Judicial and County officers, 1,493 to Justices of the Peace, 840 to Notaries Public and twenty-four to Commissioners of Deeds, with requisitions for sixty and warrants for forty-four fugitives from justice, and adds much other matter, constituting a valuable official register and compendium of rules of executive practice. The summary of our public printing shows a gross expenditure of of $590,629.75 during eleven years-from 1865 to 1875-an average of $53,420.88, while during the existence of the Bureau of Public Printing and Stationery from July 1, 1875, to December 31, 1880,a period of five and one-half years-the expenditure was but $98,958.49 for printing, binding and stationery, being an average of $17,992.44, and an average annual saving of $35,428.44.
