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 RELATING TO 
 
 
 
 
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 PUBLIC PRINTING 
 
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 Legal Advertising 
 
 STATE OF COLORADO 
 
 
 PUBLISHED BY 
 
 G. E. HOSMER 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC PRINTING 
 
 NOVEMBER, 1912 
 
 DENVER, COLORADO 
 
 THE SMITH-BROOKS PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS 
 1912 
 
In the following pages will be found the act establishing the office 
 of Commissioner of Public Printing, and under which this department 
 Is constituted and organized. Following that comes the law in regard 
 to biennial reports of the various officers and institutions. 
 
 In the second part of the pamphlet appear the laws governing legal 
 advertising and publishing. 
 
 All printing for every department of the state government, whether 
 paid from the general incidental fund or from fees collected by the de- 
 partment, should be done through the office of Commissioner of Public 
 Printing, with the exception of the reports of the Supreme Court and 
 Court of Appeals, and the small printing of the state institutions. The 
 reports of the state institutions are printed by this department. 
 
 G. E. HOSMER, 
 
 Commissioner of Public Printing. 
 
PUBLIC PRINTING— COMMISSIONER— REGULATIONS 
 
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 Section 1. Commissioner of Public Printing. — There is hereby cre- 
 ated the office of Commissioner of Public Printing, who, except as other- 
 wise provided by law, shall have full direction and supervision of all 
 the public printing of the State of Colorado, and particularly as here- 
 inafter specified. 
 
 Sec. 2. Governor appoint. — Term. — Vacancy. — Office room — equip- 
 ment. — The Governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the 
 Senate, appoint a Commissioner of Public Printing, whose term of office 
 shall be two (2) years, or until his successor shall be chosen and shall 
 qualify, commencing with the first day of February, A. D. 1905, except 
 that a Commissioner of Public Printing shall be so appointed by the Gov- 
 ernor, to take office when this act shall go into effect, and to hold his 
 office to and until the first day of February, A. D. 1905, or until his suc- 
 cessor shall be chosen and shall qualify. In case of a vacancy in the 
 office of Commissioner of Public Printing from any cause, such vacancy for 
 such unexpired term shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. The 
 Commissioner of Public Printing shall be provided, at the expense of 
 the state, with office-rooms in the State Capitol, and with furniture, books, 
 and such other articles as may be necessary for the proper performance 
 of the duties of his office. 
 
 Sec. 3. Qualifications of Commissioner. — No person shall be ap- 
 pointed Commissioner of Public Printing except a citizen of the United 
 States and of the State of Colorado, who is a practical printer, with a 
 thorough knowledge of the details of all kinds of book- and job-work, 
 and who has had at least five (5) years’ experience therein, which period 
 of experience shall not be further removed from the date of his appoint- 
 ment than one year. 
 
 Sec. 4. To engage in no other occupation. — Compensation. — During 
 his term of office the Commissioner of Public Printing shall not engage 
 in any occupation or employment other than that herein provided; he 
 shall devote all his time to the duties of his office, and he shall receive 
 as compensation for his services the sum of two thousand five hundred 
 dollars ($2,500) per annum, to be paid monthly by the State Treasurer 
 on warrants drawn by the State Auditor. 
 
 Sec. 5. Bond — conditions. — Before entering upon the discharge of 
 the duties of his office, the Commissioner of Public Printing shall enter 
 into bond to the State of Colorado in the sum of twenty thousand dol- 
 lars ($20,000), with sureties to be approved by the Governor, conditioned 
 upon the faithful performance of all his duties as such Commissioner, in 
 accordance with the provisions of this act. Such bond shall be deposited 
 with and remain in the custody of the Secretary of State. 
 
 Sec. 6. Public printing and binding — classes. — All public printing 
 and binding for the State of Colorado shall be divided into seven (7) 
 classes. Contracts for each of said classes shall be let separately, as here- 
 inafter provided, and the following shall be such seven classes: 
 
 (1) First class — legislative printing. — The legislative printing, in- 
 cluding bills, memorials, resolutions, calendars, ready reference calen- 
 dars, and other printing required by the General Assembly while in 
 session, shall constitute the first class, and shall be let in one contract. 
 
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(2) Second class — department reports. — The printing and binding 
 of the reports of the oflOlcers and departments of th© state required by law 
 to be printed, and all other books and pamphlets, except as herein speci- 
 fied, shall constitute the second class, and shall be let in one contract. 
 
 (3) Third class — department records. — The record books, and all 
 other forms of blank-books wherein permanent records are to be kept 
 by any of the departments of the state government, shall constitute the 
 third class, and shall be let in one contract. 
 
 (4) Fourth class — Senate and House journals. — The journals of the 
 Senate and House of Representatives shall constitute the fourth class, 
 and shall be let in one contract with Class One. 
 
 (5) Fifth class — session laws. — The laws passed by the General As- 
 sembly at each session thereof, known as the session laws, shall consti- 
 tute the fifth class, and shall be let in one contract. 
 
 (6) Sixth class — commercial printing. — The ordinary commercial 
 printing, consisting of letter-heads, bill-heads, note-heads, envelopes, cir- 
 culars, and blanks of all sizes and for all purposes, for the use of all 
 the different departments of the state government, shall constitute the 
 sixth class, and shall be let in one contract. 
 
 (7) Seventh class — miscellaneous. — All printing, and printing and 
 binding, not herein otherwise provided for, shall constitute the seventh 
 class, and shall b© let in separate contracts whenever required. 
 
 Sec. 7. Public printing and binding — done by contract. — Commis- 
 sioner advertise for bids. — Class one. — Class four. — Class three. — Class 
 six. — Class five. — Class two. — Class seven. — All public printing and bind- 
 ing for the State of Colorado shall be done by contract and not otherwise, 
 and the Commissioner of Public Printing is hereby authorized and di- 
 rected to advertise for ten (10) days before the first day of December of 
 each biennial period, beginning with December, A. D. 1904, in two (2) 
 daily newspapers published in the city of Denver, inviting sealed pro- 
 posals for doing all printing included in Class One, hereinbefore desig- 
 nated asi legislative printing; and he shall, at the same time and in the 
 same manner, separately advertise for bids for the printing, binding, 
 and furnishing of the journals of each of the two houses of the General 
 Assembly, being Class Four, hereinabove specified. On or before the 15th 
 day of February of each year, commencing with the year 1905, the Com- 
 missioner of Public Printing shall advertise for ten (10) days in one (1) 
 daily newspaper published in each city of over twenty thousand (20,000) 
 inpiabitants in the State of Colorado, inviting sealed proposals for doing 
 all printing and furnishing everything hereinabove specified in Class 
 Three, and at the same time and in the same manner he shall advertise 
 separately for proposals for printing and furnishing all things herein- 
 above specified as Class Six. On or before the 15th day of February, A. 
 D. 1905, and every two (2) years thereafter the Commissioner of Public 
 Printing shall advertise for ten (10) days in one (1) daily newspaper 
 published in each city of over twenty thousand (20,000) inhabitants in 
 the State of Colorado, inviting sealed proposals for printing, binding, and 
 furnishing the session laws hereinabove specified as Class Five. On or 
 before the first day of October, A. D. 1904, and every two (2) years 
 thereafter, the Commissioner of Public Printing shall advertise for ten 
 
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<ilO) days in one (1) daily newspaper published in each city of over 
 twenty thousand (20,000) inhabitants in the State of Colorado, inviting 
 sealed proposals for doing all printing and furnishing everything herein- 
 above specified as Class Two. Whenever, in the judgment of the Commis- 
 sioner of Public Printing and the Governor, it shall be necessary for any 
 printing or binding to be done or articles furnished under Class Seven, 
 hereinabove specified, the Commissioner of Public Printing, with the ap- 
 proval of the Governor, shall advertise separately for ten (10) days in 
 one (1)’ daily newspaper published in the City of Denver, inviting sealed 
 proposals for doing all printing and furnishing everything that may be 
 so required under the same rules for bids and contracts, as hereinafter 
 provided. 
 
 Sec. 8. Journals — quality and size of paper. — Session Laws — quality 
 and size of paper. — The journals of the two branches of the legislature 
 shall be printed on a good quality of fifty-pound 25x38 book paper, in 
 solid long-primer type. The printed pages shall be at least twenty-five 
 (25) picas wide by forty-five (45) picas long, including running-title and 
 foot-slug. The session laws shall be printed on a good quality of fifty- 
 pound 25x38 book paper, in solid long-primer type. The printed pages of 
 subject-matter shall be at least twenty-two (22) picas wide by forty-five 
 (45) picas long, including running-title and foot-slug, with side-notes, 
 in addition, in nonpareil type. 
 
 Officers’ reports — quality and size of paper. — The reports of the ex- 
 ecutive officers, pamphlets, and all other books and reports, shall be 
 printed on a good quality of book paper, the body of the book to be in 
 solid long-primer type. Tabular work shall be set in nonpareil. The 
 printed pages shall be at least twenty-five (25) picas wide by forty-five 
 (45) picas long, including running-title and foot-slug. 
 
 Legislative bills — how printed. — Size and quality of paper. — The legis- 
 lative bills, memorials, resolutions, etc., shall be made up as follows: The 
 first line shall be within one and one-half inches (!%") from the top of 
 the page. The line “A Bill,” “Resolution,” or “Memorial,” etc., shall be 
 within one inch (1”) of the first line. The space between the following 
 lines, iixcluding the space between the sections, shall not be greater 
 than one 18-point slug, and each page of the printed bill, resolution, or 
 memorial shall contain at least thirty (30) lines of thirty- two (32), picas’ 
 measure, and shall be printed on a good quality of fourteen-pound fiat- 
 cap paper, the type used to be long-primer. 
 
 House and Senate calendars — size and quality of paper. — How 
 printed. — The calendar of each house of the General Assembly shall be 
 printed on the same size page and same quality of paper as that herein 
 required for legislative bills, but the line “House Calendar” or “Senate 
 Calendar” shall be set not more than two inches (2”) from the top of 
 the page; and all remaining matter of such calendar shall be printed 
 solid in long-primer type, with spaces between paragraphs not exceed- 
 ing one 18-point slug, the printed line to be thirty (30) picas’ measure, 
 the printed pages to be sixty-six (66) picas long. 
 
 Sec. 9. Daily journals — how printed — quality and size of paper. — In- 
 dexes — type. — Size of page. — Composition charge. — The daily journal of 
 each house of the General Assembly shall be printed solid in long-primer 
 type, the lines to be twenty-five (25) picas long, on the same size page 
 
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and same quality of paper and in the same general form as that herein- 
 above required for the calendars of the General Assembly. The index 
 for the session laws, the House and Senate journals, and such other 
 books, reports, or documents as may require an index, shall be set in 
 nonpareil type, the printed page to be at least twenty-five (25) picas 
 wide by forty-five (45) picas long, running-title and foot-slug included; 
 and in no case shall the index for any such report be so composed as to 
 involve a charge for composition at a greater rate than one and one-half 
 prices. 
 
 Sec. 10. Maximum prices. — From and after the passage of this act 
 the maximum prices to be paid by the State of Colorado for printing and 
 binding shall be as follows: 
 
 (1) Legislative bills — p^:ice per page. — For legislative bills, me- 
 morials, and resolutions, in lots of 250 copies, $1.40 per page, press-work, 
 paper, and stitching included. 
 
 Additional copies. — For each additional hundred copies, 25c per page. 
 
 (2) Composition on book-work. — For straight composition on book- 
 work, English, 45c per thousand ems; Spanish, 60c per thousand ems. 
 
 (3) Rule- and figure-work. — For rule- and figure-work, embracing 
 three columns of figures or words, 65c per thousand ems. For the same 
 class of work, embracing more than three columns of figures or words, 
 85c per thousand ems. 
 
 (4) Book paper. — For book paper. No. 2, 6%c per pound. 
 
 (5) Press-work. — For press-work on book-work, in forms of 16 
 pages, 75c per token of 250 impressions. 
 
 (6) Book-work. — For folding and stitching or sewing book-work, 
 in sections of 16 pages or fractions thereof, 3 mills per section. 
 
 (7) Pamphlets. — For folding and binding in pamphlet form, cov- 
 ers included, 2 mills per section of 16 pages. 
 
 (8) Binding — paper. — For binding book-work in pasteboard, covered 
 with paper, leather backs, lettered on back with ink, 20c per volume. 
 
 (9) Binding — cloth. — For binding book-work in cloth, gilt lettering 
 on back or side, as directed by the Commissioner of Public Printing, 25c 
 per volume. 
 
 (10) Blank-books — plain record. — For furnishing blank-books, on 
 best quality linen ledger paper, medium or i^oyal in size, Russia ends 
 and bands, spring backs, plain record, $1.50 per quire. 
 
 (11) Blank-books — sprinted headings. — For furnishing blank-books 
 best quality linen ledger paper, medium or royal in size, Russia ends 
 and bands, spring back, printed headings, $1.80 per quire. 
 
 (12) Letter-heads. — For printed letter-heads on 12-pound white or 
 10-pound first-quality linen paper, $4.50 per thousand, in tablets. For 
 lithographed letter-heads, 12-pound white or 10-pound first-quality linen 
 paper, $5 per thousand, in tablets. 
 
 (13) Envelopes. — For printed envelopes, 6 to 6%: Manila, $2 per 
 thousand; XXX white No. 1 rag, $3.25 per thousand; linen, first quality, 
 $4 per thousand. Printed envelopes — Nos. 9, 10, 11, or 12: Manila, $4 
 per thousand; XXX white No. 1 rag, $5 per thousand; linen, first quality, 
 $6.50 per thousand. Lithographed envelopes — Nos. 6 to 6%: XXX 
 white No. 1 rag, $5 per thousand; linen, first quality, $5 per thousand. 
 
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Lithographed envelopes — Nos. 9, 10, 11, or 12: XXX white No. 1 rag, 
 $6 per thousand; linen, first quality, $7 per thousand. 
 
 (14) Note-heads. — For printed note-heads, packet size, on 7-pound 
 white or linen first-quality paper, in tablets, $3 per thousand. Litho- 
 graphed note-heads, packet size, on 7-pound paper, white or linen, first 
 quality, in tablets, $4 per thousand.. 
 
 (15) Blanks — charge. — For blanks, ruled and printed, one-fourth cap 
 size, for the first hundred, 75c; for each additional hundred, 25c. One-half 
 cap size, for the first hundred, $1.75; for each additional hundred, 40c. 
 Whole-sheet cap size, for the first hundred, $3; for each additional 
 hundred, $1. Any blanks required to be printed and not provided for 
 in this section shall not be charged for at a greater rate than the next 
 larger blank in size as prescribed in this section, and no work shall be 
 paid for by the state where the charge is greater in proportion than the 
 maximum prices for similar work, as hereinbefore prescribed. 
 
 Sec. 11. Bids — Classes Two, Four, and Five — contents. — Such adver- 
 tisements for Classes Two, Four, and Five, hereinabove specified, shall re- 
 quire the bids to contain specifications for the price of composition per 
 thousand ems; the price of press-work in forms of 16 pages for each 
 token of two hundred and fifty (250) copies, and for each one hundred 
 (100) copies in addition; the price per section of 16 pages for folding, 
 stitching, and binding; the price per pound for paper, and the price for 
 each cover or case. 
 
 Bids — Class One — contents. — Such advertisements for Class One, here- 
 inabove specified, shall require the bids to contain specifications for the 
 price per page, per token of two hundred and fifty (250) copies complete, 
 and the price per page for each additional one hundred (100) copies. 
 
 Bids — Class Three — contents. — Such advertisements for Class Three, 
 hereinabove specified, shall require bids to contain specifications for the 
 price per quire complete. 
 
 Bids — Class Six — contents. — Such advertisements for Class Six here- 
 inabove specified, shall require bids to contain specifications for the 
 quality and size of paper, and the price for each hundred, five hundred, 
 or thousand, as the case may be. 
 
 Proviso — other specifications. — Provided, That in all cases the Com- 
 missioner of Public Printing may require such other specifications as he 
 may deem to be for the best interests of the state. 
 
 Sec. 12. Bids and proposals — where delivered. — All bids and pro- 
 posals shall be delivered at the office of the Commissioner of Public 
 Printing, in the State Capitol, endorsed: “Proposals for State Printing; 
 
 Class ,” and shall be and remain sealed up until the hour specified 
 
 in the advertisement for the opening of such bids and proposals, and no 
 bid shall be received by the Commissioner of Public Printing after such 
 hour. 
 
 Sec. 13. Bond to accompany bid. — Conditions. — The Commissioner 
 of Public Printing shall consider no bid which is not accompanied by a 
 bond satisfactory to the Commissioner of Public Printing, in the sum of 
 at least one thousand dollars ($1,000), conditioned that the person mak- 
 ing the bid will, if the contract shall be awarded to him thereunder, and 
 within ten (10) days after notification that his bid has been accepted, 
 enter into such contract, in accordance with his said bid or proposal,. 
 
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and, in accordance with the provisions of this act, furnish the required 
 bond for the fulfillment of his contract in accordance with such bid or 
 proposal. 
 
 Sec. 14. Opening of bids. — Determination of lowest responsible bid- 
 der. — Successful bidder — bond. — Failure of bidder to execute bond or en- 
 ter into contract. — Costs. — How recovered. — Next lowest responsible bid- 
 der. — Proviso — rejecting all bids. — At the hour specified for the opening 
 of bids, the Commissioner of Public Printing shall, in the presence of 
 the Governor and the State Treasurer, and of such bidders as may choose 
 to attend, open such bids, and, with the Governor and State Treasurer, 
 proceed to determine who is the lowest responsible bidder for each class, 
 having full regard for the probable aggregate cost of all things to be fur- 
 nished and work to be done under such contract in accordance with such 
 bid; and, after the determination of same, said Commissioner shall, with 
 the approval of the Governor and State Treasurer, immediately notify 
 such lowest responsible bidder of his appointment to execute the work, 
 and such bidder shall thereupon, within ten (10) days after receiving 
 such notice, execute a bond to the State of Colorado, in such sum as the 
 Governor and State Treasurer and Commissioner of Public Printing shall 
 determine, conditioned for the faithful performance of his contract in 
 all respects, with sureties to be approved by the Governor and State 
 Treasurer, and such bond shall be deposited with and remain in the 
 custody of the Secretary of State. In case such lowest bidder shall fail 
 to execute such bond, or shall fail to enter into contract in accordance 
 with the terms of his bid, he and his sureties on his bond aforesaid ten- 
 dered with his bid shall be liable for all costs which may accrue to the 
 state by reason of such failure, to be recovered of himself and his sure- 
 ties on the bond furnished, as hereinabove provided, with his bid, and 
 any such failure shall be conclusive evidence of damages in at least the 
 sum of $100; and, in case of such failure, the said Commissioner of Pub- 
 lic Printing, with the approval of the Governor and State Treasurer, shall 
 immediately award the contract to the responsible bidder next lowest in 
 bid, and the same steps shall be taken, successively, until a proper con- 
 tract shall have been executed; Provided, that the Commissioner of 
 Public Printing may, with the approval of the Governor and State Treas- 
 urer, if he shall deem it for the best interests of the state, reject any or 
 all bids, or parts of bids, and in such case, as well as on the failure of 
 any successful bidder to enter into contract in accordance with his bid 
 or proposal, then the said Commissioner of Public Printing may, with the 
 approval of the Governor and State Treasurer, readvertise for such bids 
 or parts of bids. 
 
 Contracts — periods of existence. — All contracts shall be in effect im- 
 mediately on their execution and approval, and shall be and remain in 
 effect for the period of two (2) years for Classes One (1), Two (2), Four 
 (4), and Five (5), hereinabove specified, and for the period of one (1) 
 year for Classes Three (3) and Six (6), hereinabove specified. 
 
 Sec. 15. Subject to existing laws. — Each and every provision of law 
 in force at the time of the execution of any contract for state printing 
 or binding shall be taken to be and shall constitute a part of every such 
 contract. 
 
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Sec. 16. Right to print, publish, and sell state laws. — When not by 
 authority. — Forfeiture. — Copyright. — Nothing in this act shall authorize 
 any person, by virtue of a contract for printing the laws of this state, 
 either directly or indirectly, to print, publish, sell, or give away, for his 
 own use or benefit, any such laws; but the right to print, publish, and sell 
 such laws shall always remain in the state, and in case any such laws 
 shall be printed, published, sold, or given away by any person, except by 
 authority of the state, such books so printed, published, sold, or given 
 away may be seized by the state as its property, and the person so print- 
 ing, publishing, selling, or giving away the same shall forfeit to the state 
 the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each and every book, volume, 
 or pamphlet so printed, to be recovered by an action in the nature of an 
 action in the name of the state, and the Commissioner of Public Printing 
 shall take necessary steps to secure, and shall secure to the state, copy- 
 right for the printing and publishing of all statute laws of the state. 
 
 Sec. 17. Session Laws. — Binding. — Custody. — The laws of each ses- 
 sion of the General Assembly shall be bound in pasteboard, covered with 
 paper, with leather backs, properly lettered on back with ink, and when 
 printed shall be delivered by the Commissioner of Public Printing to the 
 Secretary of State. 
 
 Uniformity of size. — All laws, messages of the Governor to the Gen- 
 eral Assembly or to either house thereof, and all reports required to be 
 printed, shall be of uniform size; provided, that in cases where a proper 
 arrangement of tabular work requires it, a larger page may be used. 
 
 Sec. 18. Blanks and stationery — quality. — No additional charge. — 
 The quality of paper to be used for blanks, stationery, and blank-books 
 shall be first-class white fiat writing, first-class white linen bond, and 
 first-class ledger, which shall be furnished by the contractor as the 
 nature of the job may require, without additional charge to the state. 
 
 Sec. 19. Commissioner of Public Printing — measure work. — Keep 
 record. — Preserve copy. — Keep specimens. — The Commissioner of Public 
 Printing shall carefully scrutinize and measure all work and material 
 furnished under any and all contracts within the purview of all laws 
 affecting printing and binding for the state, and shall also keep a per- 
 manent record of the same in his office in a blank-book kept for such 
 purpose, plainly showing the amount of composition, the kind of type 
 used in such work, the number of ems of each kind of type used, and the 
 character and quality of the material used for printing and binding; 
 and he shall file and preserve in his office one copy of each and every 
 document or other matter printed for the state. The Commissioner of 
 Public Printing shall keep in his office for inspection a specimen of each 
 kind, style, and quality of work required to be done, and the materials 
 to be used in the several cases. 
 
 Sec. 20. Bills in duplicate. — Examination of bills. — State Auditor 
 issue warrant. — Restrictions on Auditor. — All bills for work done or ma- 
 terials furnished under this act shall be made out in duplicate, and so 
 marked, with each item plainly specified and the amount charged for the 
 same, which bills shall be filed in the office of the Commissioner of Public 
 Printing, and the Commissioner shall carefully examine all such bills 
 and carefully compare the same with the prices specified in the contract 
 
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therefor, and shall certify to the State Auditor the amount found due 
 thereon; and the State Auditor shall thereupon examine and audit the 
 same, and issue his warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount due. 
 He shall in no case certify to the correctness of any bill or account which 
 is not in strict accord with the requirements of the contract therefor, and 
 in no case shall any sum be paid out of the state treasury for any public 
 printing or binding in excess of the fair, wholesale, market price or spe- 
 cial contract price therefor. 
 
 Sec. 21. Requisitions — when necessary. — When this act not appli- 
 cable. — No public printing or binding of any sort or description whatever 
 shall be furnished to any department of the state goveihiment, or to any 
 officer or employe of the state, except on requisition of the head of such 
 department, addressed to the Commissioner of Public Printing; but the 
 provisions of this act shall not apply to the printing, publishing, or bind- 
 ing of the reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court and Court of 
 Appeals of the State of Colorado, nor any ordinary printing required for 
 any state institution, the printing, binding, and publishing of which may 
 be by law authorized to be done outside the provisions of this act. 
 
 Sec. 22. Estimates of department needs. — When to be furnished. — At 
 least fifteen (15) days prior to the publication by the Commissioner of 
 Public Printing of any advertisement for bids, as herein provided, the 
 head of each executive department of the state shall furnish to such Com- 
 missioner a detailed estimate of all things that may be required by such 
 department under such proposed contract, during the then next ensuing 
 period for the contract for furnishing the same. 
 
 Sec. 23. Printing, etc., for the state institutions. — The printing, pub- 
 lishing, and binding and material therefor for the separate public, edu- 
 cational, reformatory, and penal institutions of the state, shall be done 
 and performed by such institutions severally and paid for out of the 
 appropriations for such institutions respectively. 
 
 Sec. 24. Expenditure under this act — limit of. — No expenditure dur- 
 ing any period shall be made under this act exceeding in the aggregate 
 the amount of the appropriation of the General Assembly for printing 
 and binding for the period of such expenditure. 
 
 Sec. 25. Contract work — where to be delivered. — All work performed 
 under each and every contract for state printing or binding shall be de- 
 livered without charge to the Commissioner of Public Printing at his of- 
 fice at the State Capitol, who shall receipt for and distribute the same. 
 
 Sec. 26. Commissioner of Public Printing — report. — Estimates for 
 the next biennial period. — Within thirty (30) days before the expiration 
 of his term of office, the Commissioner of Public Printing shall make to 
 the Governor a report of his acts and doings as such Commissioner, to- 
 gether with his estimate of the necessary printing and binding for the 
 various departments of the state government for the then next ensuing 
 biennial period, together with such recommendations regarding the same 
 as he may see fit to make. 
 
 Sec. 27. Printing, publishing, and binding — supervision and author- 
 ity to contract for. — All printing, publishing, and binding for the state 
 and state institutions shall be done under the supervision of the Com- 
 missioner of Public Printing, but in the case of separate public, educa- 
 tional, reformatory, and penal institutions of the state, the work of print- 
 
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ing, publishing, and binding shall be ordered by the management of such 
 state institution, subject to approval of the Commissioner of Public Print- 
 ing, and shall be paid for out of the appropriations for such institutions, 
 respectively. This provision is intended to apply even to those depart- 
 ments, such as the military and the insurance, which are by law au- 
 thorized to pay expenses out of their own funds. 
 
 Sec. 28. Bidding — fraudulent collusion. — Performance — unreasonable 
 delay. — Governor cause contract to be relet. — If the Governor shall have 
 reason to believe that at the letting of any contract for printing or bind- 
 ing the bidding therefor is or has been unfair, fraudulent, or exorbitant, 
 or by collusion between any two or more bidders, or between any bidder 
 and any other person whatever; or if there shall be any unreasonable de- 
 lay on the part of any contractor in performing the things required un- 
 der the terms of such contract, he (the Governor) may set aside such 
 bid and cause such contract to be relet in the manner provided in sec- 
 tion 14 of this act, if he shall deem it for the best interests of the state 
 so to do. 
 
 Sec. 29. Restrictions as to persons to whom contract can be let. — 
 Violation. — Forfeiture. — No contract shall be let under the provisions of 
 this act, nor for furnishing any work or material herein provided for to 
 any person holding any state office in this state or a seat in the General 
 Assembly, or to any person employed in either of the executive offices of 
 the state, or to the wife or child of any such officer, member of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly, or employe; nor shall any state officer, member of the 
 General Assembly, or wife or child aforesaid, become, directly or indi- 
 rectly, in any way whatever interested in any such contract; and a viola- 
 tion of any of the provisions of this section shall work a forfeiture of 
 such contract at the option of the Governor. 
 
 Penalty. — The person violating the provisions of this section shall be 
 guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be fined 
 in a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). 
 
 Sec. 30. Malfeasance by Commissioner — felony — penalty. — Person 
 bribing Commissioner — felony — penalty. — If the Commissioner of Pub- 
 lic Printing shall receive any percentage, fee, reward, or gratuity for or 
 on account of any favor shown in the discharge of his official duties, or 
 shall falsely or corruptly certify any bill or allowance on account of the 
 public printing or binding, he shall be guilty of a felony, and, on con- 
 viction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state peni- 
 tentiary for a term not exceeding three (3) years. Any person paying, 
 or causing to be paid, to the Commissioner of Public Printing any percen- 
 tage, fee, reward, or gratuity for or on account of any favor shown in 
 the discharge of his public duty, shall be guilty of a felony, and, on con- 
 viction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state peniten- 
 tiary for a term not exceeding three (3) years. 
 
 Sec. 31. Bidders — failure or refusal to enter into contract — failure 
 to furnish bond — failure to fulfill contract or unreasonable delay. — At- 
 torney General — bring suit on bond. — If any person making any bid or 
 proposal under this act shall fail or refuse to enter into a contract pur- 
 suant to the terms of his bid or proposal within the time mentioned in 
 his bond presented with such bid or proposal, or shall fail to furnish 
 bond as required, or if any contractor shall refuse or fail to fulfill his 
 
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contract, or if there shall be any unreasonable delay in performing the 
 things required under the terms of such contract, it shall be the duty of 
 the Commissioner of Public Printing to notify the Attorney General of 
 the state, who shall at once bring suit on the bond of such contractor 
 against such contractor and his sureties, and shall prosecute the same to 
 judgment and final execution. 
 
 Sec. 32. When Governor may annul contract. — Payment withheld. — 
 Damage adjudicated. — Commissioner readvertise. — Upon the failure or 
 non-performance in any particular of the terms of any of the contracts 
 provided for in this act on the part of contractors with the state, or for 
 any unreasonable delay in performing the things required under the 
 terms of such contract, the Governor may annul the contract in which 
 such default is made, and payment for all work theretofore done by the 
 contractor thereunder shall be withheld until the damage to the state 
 shall be ascertained by proper adjudication, and the Commissioner of 
 Public Printing may thereupon readvertise and enter into a contract 
 for the balance of the uncompleted term of any contract so annulled or 
 abrogated, in the manner prescribed for contracting by the terms of this 
 act. 
 
 Sec. 33. Giving consideration not to bid — misdemeanor — penalty. — 
 Accepting consideration not to bid — misdemeanor — penalty. — Any per- 
 son who shall offer to pay any money or other valuable thing to induce 
 another not to bid for a contract under the provisions of this act, or as 
 a recompense for not having bid for such contract or for abandoning a 
 bid made, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, upon conviction 
 thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term 
 of not more than three (3) years. Any person who shall accept any 
 money or other valuable thing for not bidding for a contract under the 
 provisions of this act, or for abandoning a bid by him made, or who shall 
 withhold a bid in consideration of a promise for the payment of money 
 or other valuable thing, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, on 
 conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not longer 
 than three (3) years. 
 
 Sec. 34. Stationery for use of officials of state or General Assembly. — 
 Style and size of paper. — Accounts — when not to be approved. — All sta- 
 tionery and blanks that may be printed for the use of the General As- 
 sembly, or the members thereof, or for any officer or person whatever to 
 whom such stationery or blanks shall be furnished at the expense of 
 the state, shall be printed on one of the styles and sizes of paper and in 
 the manner specified in the contract for printing and furnishing such 
 stationery and blanks, and the Commissioner of Public Printing shall not 
 approve any account, nor shall any money be paid from the state treas- 
 ury for any work or material that is not in accordance with the require- 
 ments of such contract, or for which a higher price is charged than that 
 specified in the contract for such stationery and blanks. 
 
 Sec. 35. Printing clerk — position abolished. — The position of print- 
 ing clerk, heretofore provided, to be appointed by the Secretary of State, 
 IS hereby abolished, and from and after the time this act shall go into 
 effect no such printing clerk shall be employed. From and after the pas- 
 sage of this act all duties heretofore devolving on the printing clerk shall 
 devolve on and be performed by the Commissioner of Public Printing. 
 
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Sec. 36. Blank pages. — In determining amounts to be paid for com- 
 position under the provisions of this act, nothing shall be allowed or paid 
 for composition for any page which is entirely blank. 
 
 Sec. 37. Secretary of State furnish copy of laws — index and mar- 
 ginal notes. — Signatures of president of Senate, speaker of House, and 
 Governor. — Number of copies. — It shall be the duty of the Secretary of 
 State to furnish to the Commissioner of Public Printing, as soon as practi- 
 cable after the adjournment of each session of the General Assembly, a 
 copy of all the laws passed at such session, properly arranged for publi- 
 cation, with a full index and marginal notes to the laws, as fast as the 
 said Commissioner shall require the same, and shall see that the printing 
 and binding of the laws are well executed. The signature of the presi- 
 dent of the Senate, speaker of the House, and Governor shall not be 
 
 printed at the end of each law, but only at the end of the volume, and 
 the date of the approval by the Governor shall be affixed to each law, 
 
 and the number of copies to be published shall be as follows, viz., five 
 
 thousand (5,000) copies in the English language. 
 
 Sec. 38. Copy apd specifications for contractors. — Unnecessary delay 
 by Commissioner. — Forfeiture. — The Commissioner of Public Printing 
 shall furnish to each contractor copy and specifications for all work to be 
 done by such contractor under the provisions of this act, and for each day 
 of unnecessary delay in furnishing to such contractor copy for work to be 
 by such contractor performed, the Commissioner of Public Printing shall 
 forfeit to the state the sum of twenty dollars ($20), to be recovered 
 in an action as to debt, to be brought against him in any court of com- 
 petent jurisdiction. 
 
 Sec. 39. Commissioner’s report to departments. — The Commissioner 
 of Public Printing shall make, on the first day of January, April, July, 
 and October of each year, a report to each department of the state gov- 
 ernment, showing in detail amounts, character, and cost of all work and 
 material furnished to such department during the three months then 
 next preceding. 
 
 Sec. 40. Distribution of printed laws to newspapers — 50,000 copies 
 — newspaper form. — As soon as practicable after the adjournment of 
 each session of the General Assembly, the Commissioner of Public Print- 
 ing shall distribute among the different newspapers of the state, which 
 may express a desire and willingness to circulate the same as supple- 
 ments to the issue of such newspaper, fifty thousand (50,000) copies of 
 the session laws passed at such session of the General Assembly, printed 
 in newspaper form, which shall be a subdivision of Class Seven herein- 
 above specified. 
 
 Sec. 41. Violation of this act. — Penalty. — Any person violating any 
 provision of this act, as well as any person consenting to such violation, 
 shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall 
 be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000, except as otherwise provided 
 in this act. 
 
 Sec. 42. Meaning of word “person” in this act. — The word “per- 
 son” wherever used in this act shall include and be taken to mean nat- 
 ural person, association of persons, company, or corporation, as the case 
 may be. 
 
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Sec. 43. Repeal. — All acts and parts of acts in conflict or inconsist- 
 ent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 
 
 (Approved April 11, 1903; and approved, as amended,' April 9, 1907.) 
 
 OFFICIAL REPORTS 
 
 All officers required by any law of the state to make report to the 
 legislature, or the Governor, shall deposit the same with the Governor on 
 or before the 15th day of November next preceding the session of the 
 General Assembly; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State 
 to place said reports, without delay, in the hands of the person au- 
 thorized to do the public printing for publication, and to superintend 
 the printing of the same, and to see that it is done in a proper man- 
 ner. Of each of the reports of all elective state officers there may be 
 printed and published 1,000 copies or less, and of all other reports 250 
 copies or less; provided, that there shall be 2,000 copies of each of the 
 reports of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Engi- 
 neer, and Labor Commissioner; provided, further, that no report shall ex- 
 ceed three hundred pages; provided, that if such reports as are re- 
 quired to be printed are not published and a copy of each delivered to 
 every member of the General Assembly on or before the 10th day of the 
 legislative session following the biennial period reported upon, each de- 
 linquent officer shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars ($100), and 
 the state printer shall forfeit 20 per cent of the contract price for the 
 publication of such reports not ready for delivery in accordance with the 
 provisions of this section; and such forfeiture shall inure to the benefit 
 of the general school fund. [R. S. 1908, p. 1136, sec. 4710.] 
 
 Section 654, page 322., Revised Statutes of 1908, provides for the pub- 
 lishing of two thousand copies of the report of the State Coal Mine 
 Inspector. 
 
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COMPILATION 
 
 LAWS OF COLORADO 
 
 IN REGARD TO 
 
 LEGAL ADVERTISING 
 
 AND 
 
 PUBLISHING 
 
 NEWSPAPERS IN WHICH LEGAL NOTICES MAY BE PUBLISHED 
 
 No legal notice, or advertisement, or publication of any kind re- 
 quired or provided by the laws of the State of Colorado to be published 
 in a newspaper shall be published or have any force or effect as such 
 unless the same be published in a newspaper printed in v/hole or in part 
 in the county in which said notice or advertisement is required to 
 be printed, having a general circulation therein, and which newspaper, 
 if published weekly, has been continuously and uninterruptedly published 
 in said county during a period of twenty-six consecutive weeks prior to 
 the first publication of said notice or advertisement, and, if published 
 daily, has been so published as a daily paper in said county during a 
 period of six consecutive months prior to the first publication of said 
 notice or advertisement; provided, that nothing in this act shall invali- 
 date the publication of such notice or advertisement in any news- 
 paper which has simply changed its name or changed the place of pub- 
 lication from one part of the county to another part thereof, without 
 breaking the continuity of its regular issues for the required length of 
 time; and provided, further, that this act shall not apply to counties 
 in which no newspaper has been published for the required length of 
 time; provided, also, that in towns and cities where no newspaper has 
 been published for the required length of time, the provisions of this 
 act shall apply only to the publication of proposed constitutional amend- 
 ments, and all notices and advertisements provided for by the election 
 laws of the state. 
 
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Every affidavit of the publisher of any such legal notice, advertise- 
 ment, or publication shall, in addition to the other matters required 
 to be set forth therein by law, state that the newspaper in which said 
 legal notice, advertisement, or publication shall have been made, has 
 been established for the length of time required and is a newspaper 
 within the meaning of this act. [R. S. 1908, p. 1004, sec. 3931.] 
 
 DEFINING A DAILY NEWSPAPER 
 
 Every newspaper published daily, or on any six days of every week, 
 inclusive or exclusive of Sunday, excepting legal holidays, shall be con- 
 sidered a daily newspaper, and as such will be entitled to publish legal 
 notices and any other matter required to be published in a daily news- 
 paper; Provided, such paper has been published for six consecutive 
 months. [Laws of 1909, p. 449.] 
 
 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS 
 
 That any notice required to be published in a newspaper by any law 
 of this state, the ordinances of any city or town, or the order of any court, 
 shall be held to be a legal advertisement within the meaning of section 
 1423, Chapter 38, of the General Statutes of the State of Colorado; pro- 
 vided, however, that any contract providing for payment for such no- 
 tice at a lesser sum than is provided in said act, 1423, shall be valid. 
 [R. S. 1908, p. 1004, sec. 3936.] 
 
 FEES 
 
 Publishers of newspapers in this state shall be entitled to receive 
 the following fees: For the publication of all legal advertising in news- 
 papers required to be done by law in this state, publishers shall be paid 
 at the rate of seven cents for each line of nonpareil, measure thirteen 
 ems (pica) wide, for the first insertion, and four cents for each sub- 
 sequent insertion. In ascertaining charges under the provisions of this 
 act, twelve lines shall be counted to the inch, and all emblems, display 
 headings, rule-work, and necessary blank space shall be paid for as if 
 solid type. And any public or municipal officer or board created by or 
 existing under the laws of this state that has now, or may hereafter 
 be authorized by law to enter into contracts for the publication of legal 
 advertisements, is hereby authorized, subject to other limitations on said 
 authority, now imposed by law, to agree to pay therefor prices not exceed- 
 ing said rates.* [R. S. 1908, p. 1004, sec. 3934.] 
 
 *NOTICE — Publishers should take notice that the law in regard to printing 
 of the commissioners’ proceedings and the law in regard to tax sales speaks of 
 the official paper, and that the intention of the law certainly is to have the 
 county commissioners choose an official paper in the same manner as a county 
 attorney is chosen, and that section 1205, page 441, R. S. 1908, only refers to 
 bids on stationery and job printing. 
 
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COUNTIES 
 
 commissioners’ proceedings 
 
 It shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the several 
 counties in this state to publish such of their proceedings as relate to 
 the allowance of bills, letting of contracts, and the granting of rebates 
 of taxes or assessments. Such proceedings shall be given with sufficient 
 detail as to inform the public as to the amount claimed, the amount al- 
 lowed, from what fund paid and what was furnished, and, in case of 
 rebate of taxes or assessments, the amount so rebated, and the reasons for 
 the same. 
 
 Such publication shall be made in the official newspaper of the 
 county. 
 
 Such publication shall be made within twenty days after the ad- 
 journment of each meeting of the board, where said meetings are held 
 quarterly, and at least once each month where said board meets more 
 frequently; and the county clerk shall furnish a copy of such proceed- 
 ings for said publication. 
 
 Any commissioner or clerk who shall fail or refuse to make such 
 publication as aforesaid shall be subject to a fine of not less than one 
 hundred dollars and the cost of suit. [R. S. 1908, p. 444-445, sec. 1221- 
 1224.] 
 
 TAX SALES 
 
 The treasurer shall cause the said notice to be published in four 
 consecutive weekly issues in the newspaper which has been awarded the 
 contract by the county commissioners, the first of which publications 
 shall be at least four weeks before the day of sale, and by a written 
 or printed notice in a conspicuous place on or near the outer door of the 
 office or building commonly used as the office of the treasurer, for not 
 less than four weeks before the sale; and if there be no newspaper pub- 
 lished in the county, the like notice shall be given by posting one writ- 
 ten or printed notice the above length of time in each election precinct 
 in whiph any land is to be sold, and one on or near the outer door of 
 the treasurer’s office, as above provided. 
 
 The county treasurer shall also make, or cause to be made, an af- 
 fidavit or affidavits showing the posting of such list and notice as above 
 required, all of which affidavits shall be deposited by him with the 
 county clerk to be by him filed and entered in the reception-book of said 
 office and there carefully preserved. 
 
 Every publisher or printer who shall publish such list and notice 
 shall, immediately after the last publication thereof, transmit to the 
 treasurer of the proper county an affidavit of such publication made by 
 such publisher, printer, or some other person to whom the fact of pub- 
 lication shall be known; and no printer shall be paid for such publica- 
 tion who shall fail to transmit such affidavit within fourteen days after 
 the last publication. Such affidavit may be substantially in the follow- 
 ing form, to-wit: 
 
 I, A B , publisher (or printer) 
 
 of the , a newspaper, 
 
 printed and published in the County of and State 
 
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of Colorado, do hereby certify that the -foregoing notice and list were 
 
 published in said newspapers, once in each week, for 
 
 successive weeks, the last of which publication was made prior to the 
 
 day of , A. D, 19....... and that 
 
 copies of each number of said paper in which said notice and list were 
 published were delivered by carriers or transmitted by mail to each of 
 the subscribers of said paper, according to the accustomed mode of busi- 
 ness in this office. 
 
 A B 
 
 Publisher or Printer of the 
 
 State of Colorado, County, ss: 
 
 The above certificate of publication was subscribed and sworn to 
 
 before me by the above-named A B 
 
 who is personally known to me to be the identical person described in 
 the above certificate, on the day of A. D. 19.... 
 
 C D 
 
 It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of each 
 county to se'lect a newspaper of general circulation published in said 
 county, in which the treasurer shall publish the delinquent tax list of 
 their respective counties, and for such service the commissioners shall 
 allow payment, not exceeding the rate as provided by law. [G. S. 1908, 
 p. 1345, sec. 5707-5710.] 
 
 WARRANT CALLS 
 
 Section 1325 of the Revised Statutes of 1908 provides that whenever 
 there is five hundred dollars to the credit of any fund in the county 
 treasury, and there are outstanding warrants unpaid, the county treas- 
 urer shall immediately give notice for thirty days in some newspaper of 
 general circulation published in the county. Said notice shall contain 
 the number, date, and amount of such warrants as are entitled to pay- 
 ment, and call upon the holders to present the same for payment within 
 thirty days from the date of first publication, and that interest will 
 cease from that date. 
 
 Section 1326 of the Revised Statutes of 1908 provides that the county 
 treasurer shall call school district warrants, whenever the funds to pay 
 the same are at hand. 
 
 STATIONERY AND SUPPLY BIDS 
 
 It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners in each 
 county in this state to cause an advertisement to be inserted in the 
 official paper of their respective counties, under the heading of “Sta- 
 tionery Proposals,” asking for bids for the supplying, for one year, 
 commencing with the first day of the month of January next following 
 the publication of such advertisement, of all books, stationery, records, 
 printing, lithographing, and such other supplies, specifically mentioning 
 and describing them, as are furnished to the several officers of their 
 
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county; such advertisement to be published not less than twenty days, 
 and to commence with the first issue of said paper in December of each 
 year. [R. S. 1908, p. 441, sec. 1205.] 
 
 SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENTS 
 
 It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of each 
 county to make out semi-annual statements at -the regular session in 
 January and July, at which time they shall have such statements pub- 
 lished in some weekly newspaper published in the county, if there be 
 such published; and such statements shall show the amount of debt 
 owing by their county; in what the debt consists; what payments, if 
 any, have been made upon the same, the rate of interest that such debts 
 are drawing; also a detailed account of the receipts and expenditures 
 of the county for the preceding months, in which shall be shown from 
 what office and on what account any money has been received, and 
 
 the amounts, and to what individuals and on what account any money 
 
 has been paid, and the amounts; and shall strike the balance showing 
 the amount of deficit, if any, and the balance in the treasury, if any; 
 and the statement thus made in addition to being published, shall be en- 
 tered of record by the clerk of the board of county commissioners in a 
 book to be by him kept for that purpose only, which book shall be 
 
 open to the inspection of the public at all times..^ [R. S. 1908, p. 467, 
 
 sec. 1363.] 
 
 REDEMPTION OF BONDS 
 
 When it shall appear to the board of county commissioners, upon 
 examination of the books and accounts of the county treasurer, that 
 there are sufficient funds in his hands to the credit of the redemption 
 fund to pay in full the principal and accrued interest of any bonds, 
 it shall be the duty of such board to call in and pay as many of such 
 bonds and accrued interest thereon as the funds on hand will liquidate. 
 When it is desired to redeem any of such bonds by said board, they 
 shall cause to be published for thirty days, in some newspaper at or 
 nearest the county seat of the county, a notice that certain county 
 bonds (specifying the number and amount) will be paid upon presen- 
 tation, and at the expiration of such thirty days said bonds shall cease 
 to bear interest. .[R. S. 1908, p, 468, sec. 1366.] 
 
 Section 1373 of the Revised Statutes of 1908 provides that when it 
 is desired to redeem any bonds, as provided for in same section, the 
 county treasurer shall cause to be published for thirty days, in some 
 newspaper in the county and in a newspaper published in the city of 
 Denver, a notice that certain county bonds by numbers and amounts will 
 be paid on presentation. 
 
 BIDS FOR ROADS AND BRIDGES 
 
 When any bridge or road is to be built or constructed, or any grad- 
 ing or repairing to be done upon any highway, the estimated cost of 
 
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which shall exceed three hundred dollars, the work shall be let out by 
 contract, and the board of county commissioners shall advertise for 
 sealed proposals for performing the work, in some newspaper published 
 in the county, for a period of not less than ten days. [R. S. 1908, p. 
 1377, sec. 5854.] 
 
 CITIES AND TOWNS 
 
 PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCE BEFORE ADOPTION CITIES 
 
 No ordinance shall be adopted or passed by any city council of any 
 city, in this state, unless the same has been previously introduced and 
 read at a preceding regular meeting of such city council, and published 
 in full in one or two papers of general circulation, published in such 
 city, at least ten days before its passage. [R. S. 1908, p. 1553, sec. 6674.] 
 
 FINAL PUBLICATION OF ORDINANCES CITIES AND TOWNS 
 
 All ordinances shall, as soon as may be after their passage, be re- 
 corded in a book kept for that purpose, and be authenticated by the 
 signature of the presiding oiRcer of the council or board of trustees and 
 the clerk; and all by-laws of a general or permanent nature, and those 
 imposing any fine, penalty, or forfeiture, shall be published in some 
 newspaper published within the limits of the corporation; or, if there 
 be none such, then in some newspaper of general circulation in ^he 
 municipal corporation; and it shall be deemed a sufficient defense to 
 any suit or prosecution for such fine, penalty, or forfeiture to show that 
 no such publication was made. [R. S. 1908, p. 1553, sec. 6673.] 
 
 FRANCHISES 
 
 Any person or persons, corporation or corporations desiring to se- 
 cure a franchise to erect, construct, operate, or maintain a street railway, 
 electric-light plant, telegraph or telephone system, shall cause a notice 
 of his, its, or their intention to apply for the passage of an ordinance 
 granting such franchise or license, to be published in a newspaper 
 of general circulation, published in such city or town, for a period of 
 not less than two weeks in cities of the first or second class, and of 
 not less than ten days in incorporated towns, immediately prior to the 
 meeting of the board of trustees or city council at which it is intended 
 to apply for the passage of the ordinance granting or giving such 
 franchise. Such publication to be daily, if there be a daily paper of 
 general circulation published in such city or town; otherwise to be 
 in a weekly paper of general circulation, if any, published in such city 
 or town. [R. S. 1908, p. 1554, sec. 6677.] 
 
 Section 6678 of the Revised Statutes of 1908 provides that, before 
 such franchise may be passed by the city council or board of trustees, 
 they shall order the same to be published daily in a newspaper of gen- 
 eral circulation for not less than two weeks. 
 
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FORMATION OF TOWN CORPORATION 
 
 When the inhabitants of any part of any county not embraced 
 within the limits of any city or town shall desire to be organized into 
 a city or incorporated town, they shall petition the County Court. 
 
 When such petition shall be presented, the court shall forthwith 
 appoint five commissioners, who shall at once call an election of all 
 the qualified electors residing in the territory embraced within said limits 
 as described and platted, to be held at some convenient place within 
 siaid limits, the notice of which shall be given by publication in some 
 newspaper published in said limits, if any there be, for three succes- 
 sive weeks, * ^ Such notice shall specify the place 
 
 and time of such election; it shall contain a description of the limits 
 of said proposed town or city, and state that a description and plat 
 thereof are on file in the office of the clerk of the County Court. [R. S. 
 .1908, p. 1510, sec. 6515.] 
 
 NOTICE OF RESULT ' OF ELECTION 
 
 If a majority of ballots cast at such election be in favor of such incor- 
 poration, the clerk of the County Court shall, immediately on the re- 
 turn of the commissioners being filed in his office, give notice of the 
 result by publication in a newspaper; and in such notice he shall desig- 
 nate to which of the classes of incorporation hereinafter prescribed 
 such city or town shall belong. [R. S. 1908, p. 1510, sec. 6516.] 
 
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 CHANGE OF CLASS 
 
 The Governor, Auditor of State, and Secretary of State, or any two 
 of them, within six months after the returns of any state or United 
 States census have been filed in the office of the Secretary of State, or 
 within thirty days after the returns of the enumeration of the inhabi- 
 tants of any city of the second class or incorporated town, taken under 
 authority of any city or town ordinance, or resolution adopted by the 
 city council of such city or board of trustees of such town, shall have 
 been filed in the office of the Secretary of State, shall ascertain what 
 cities of the second class are entitled to become cities of the first class, 
 and what incorporated towns are entitled to become cities of the sec- 
 ond class; and the Governor shall cause a statement thereof to be pre- 
 pared by the Secretary of State, which statement he shall cause to be 
 published in some newspaper published in the state capital, and also 
 in some newspaper, if there be such, printed in each of the cities and 
 incorporated towns entitled to such advancement in grade. [R. S. 1908, 
 p. 1522, sec. 6533.] 
 
 treasurer’s report — CITY OF FIRST CLASS 
 The city treasurer shall make an annual report on the transactions 
 of his office within the first ten days after the expiration of the fiscal 
 year, and from time to time such other reports as may be required by 
 
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the city council; which reports shall be published once in a daily news- 
 paper published in said city, said newspaper to'^be designated by the city 
 council, [R. S. 1908, p. 1525, sec. 6544,] 
 
 STATIONEKY AND SUPPLIES — CITY OF FIRST CLASS 
 
 Section 6645 provides that city treasurers in cities of the first class 
 shall advertise for bids for the furnishing of all books, furniture, sta- 
 tionery, tools, materials, and supplies. Said advertisement shall be for « 
 a period of ten consecutive days, in a daily newspaper published in said 
 city. ‘\ 
 
 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS 
 
 All work done by the city in the construction of works of public 
 improvement of every kind shall be done by contract to the lowest re- 
 sponsible bidder, after ample advertisement. [R. S. 1908, p. 1535, sec. 
 6579.] 
 
 VACATION OF STREETS 
 
 If the names or residence of the owner or owners of property pe- 
 titioned to be vacated for streets or alleys be unknown, or if the owners, 
 or any of them, do not reside within the state, notice of the time of 
 hearing of the petition, reciting the substance of the petition, and the 
 day set for the hearing thereof, shall be given for four weeks, consecu- 
 tively, prior to the hearing of the petition, in some newspaper pub- 
 lished in said city. [R. S. 1908, p. 1538, sec. 6590.] 
 
 treasurer’s report 
 
 In cities of the second class and incorporated towns the treasurer 
 shall annually, “between the first and tenth of April, make out and file 
 with the clerk a full and detailed account of all receipts and expendi- 
 tures, and of all his transactions as such treasurer during the preceding 
 fiscal year, and shall show in such account the state of the treasury at 
 the close of the fiscal year; which account the clerk shall immediately 
 cause to be published in a newspaper printed in such city, if there be 
 one.” [R. S. 1908, pp. 1546-1547, sec. 6640.] 
 
 REDEMPTION OF WARRANTS 
 
 Whenever the treasurer of any city or town has any city or town 
 funds on hand in cash, to the amount of five hundred dollars or over, 
 it shall be his duty to immediately apply all such funds to the redemp- 
 tion of an equal amount of such outstanding city or town warrants or 
 orders, and for this purpose he shall cause to be advertised for thirty 
 days, in some newspaper published in or nearest such city or town, a 
 notice that he will redeem such certain city or town orders and warrants, 
 with interest due thereon (stating their number and amounts), on pre- 
 
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sentation at the treasury of such city or town, and that at the expira- 
 tion of thirty days from the date of such notice such orders or warrants 
 shall cease to bear interest. [R. S. 1908, p. 1548, sec. 6647.] 
 
 PUBLICATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 
 
 Section 1. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees and city coun- 
 cils of all incorporated towns and cities, except cities of the first class, and 
 those operating under special charters, to publish such of their proceedings 
 as relate to the payment of bills, stating for what the same are allowed, 
 the name of the person to whom allowed, and to whom paid. They shall 
 also publish a statement concerning all contracts and rebates allowed. 
 
 Sec. 2. Such publication shall be made within twenty days after the 
 adjournment of each regular or special meeting, in a reliable news- 
 paper of general circulation published in the town or city where such 
 meeting is held. If there be no reliable newspaper published within 
 said town or city, then said publication shall be made in some reliable 
 newspaper of general circulation nearest to said town or city within the 
 county, and the town or city clerk shall furnish a copy of such proceed- 
 ings for publication. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any mayor, town trustee, alderman, councilman, or clerk 
 who shall fail or refuse to make such publication as aforesaid shall be 
 subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than three 
 hundred dollars and the costs of the suit for each offense. [Laws of 
 1911, p. 557.] 
 
 FUNDING BONDS 
 
 It shall be the duty of the city council or board of trustees of any 
 city or town having a floating indebtedness exceeding ten thousand dol- 
 lars ($10,000), upon petition of fifty of the electors of said city or town 
 who shall have paid taxes upon property assessed to them in said city 
 or town in the preceding year, to publish for the period of thirty days, 
 in a newspaper published within said city or town, a notice requesting 
 the holders of the warrants of such city or town to submit, in writing, 
 to the city council or board of trustees, within thirty days from the 
 first publication of such notice, a statement of the amount of warrants 
 of such city or town, with accrued interest thereon, which they will ex- 
 change at par for the bonds of such city or town, to be issued under the 
 provisions of this act, taking such bonds at par. It shall be the duty 
 of such city council or board of trustees at the next general election 
 occurring after the expiration of thirty days from the date of the first 
 publication of the notice aforesaid, upon the petition of fifty electors of 
 such city or town who shall have paid taxes upon property assessed to 
 them in the said city or town, in the preceding year, to submit to the 
 qualified electors of said city or town who shall have paid taxes upon 
 property assessed to them in the said city or town, in the year preceding, 
 the question whether the city council or board of trustees shall issue 
 bonds of such city or town, under the provisions of this act, in exchange 
 at par for warrants of such city or town, under the provisions of this 
 
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act, issued prior to the date of the first publication of the aforesaid 
 notice; or they may submit such question at a special election, which 
 they are empowered to call for that purpose, at any time after the ex- 
 piration of thirty days from the date of the first publication of the notice 
 aforementioned, on the petition of fifty qualified electors as aforesaid, 
 and they shall publish, for the period of at least thirty days immediately 
 preceding such general or special election, in some newspaper published 
 in such city or town, a notice that such question will be submitted to the 
 qualified electors, as aforementioned, at such election. [R. S, 1908, p. 1555, 
 sec. 6681.] 
 
 REFUNDING BONDS 
 
 When the city council or board of trustees of any town shall deem 
 it necessary to issue refunding bonds, they shall submit the question to a 
 vote of the duly qualified electors at a general city or town election, or at 
 a special election, which they are hereby empowered to call for that pur- 
 pose, and they shall cause to be posted a printed notice of such election 
 in some conspicuous place in each voting precinct in the city or town for 
 at least fifteen days preceding the election, and if there be a newspaper 
 printed in such city or town, they shall also publish, for the period of 
 at least ten days immediately preceding such election, in some newspaper 
 printed within such city or town, a notice that such question will be 
 submitted to the duly qualified voters. [R. S. 1908, ^p. 1557, sec. 6688.] 
 
 CALL FOR OUTSTANDING BONDS 
 
 It shall be the duty of the city or town treasurer, when there are 
 sufficient funds in his hands to the credit of the redemption fund to pay 
 in full the interest and principal of any such bonds, immediately to call 
 in and pay as many of such bonds, and accrued interest thereon, as the 
 fund on hand will liquidate, as hereinbefore provided, and the city or 
 town treasurer shall cause to .be published for ten days, in some news- 
 paper in the city or town, if such there be, and, if not, in the city of 
 Denver, a notice that certain city or town bonds, by numbers and amounts, 
 will be paid upon presentation, and at the expiration of thirty days from 
 the date of the first publication of said notice such bonds shall cease to 
 bear interest. [R. S. 1908, p. 1558, sec. 6691.] 
 
 CONSOLIDATION OF CONTIGUOUS TOWNS OR CITIES 
 
 When it is desired to consolidate two or more contiguous towns or 
 cities, after the passage and publication of the ordinance providing for 
 an election upon the question, the following publication is required: 
 
 The mayor — or, in case there is no mayor, the presiding officer of the 
 council or board of trustees — shall at once issue a proclamation, giving 
 notice of such election, and the terms upon which it is proposed that the 
 consolidation take place, and the time and place or places of holding such 
 election; which proclamation shall be published at least once a week for 
 two successive weeks in some newspaper published in such city or town. 
 [R. S. 1908, p. 1560, sec. 6696.] 
 
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ANNEXATION OF LAND ALREADY LAID OUT 
 
 When any incorporated city shall desire to annex any abutting ter- 
 ritory which has already been laid out in blocks of four acres or less, 
 such city shall petition the County Court that the territory be annexed. 
 Publication is provided as follows: 
 
 A notice of the filing of such petition shall be served by publication 
 in one daily or weekly newspaper published in such city or town, for the 
 period of four weeks. [R. S. 1908, p. 1564, sec. 5709.] 
 
 When the owners of any land, containing not less than forty acres, 
 abutting any incorporated town or city desire to annex the same to the 
 said city, they may petition the County Court for the annexation of said 
 tract. Publication is provided as follows: 
 
 Notice of the presentation of such petition shall be given by one or 
 more of the petitioners by advertisement for at least thirty days in some 
 daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation published in said county. 
 [R. S. 1908, pp. 1564-1565, secs. 6712-6713.] 
 
 The city council of any city of the first class may, by ordinance, de- 
 clare any body of land which has been laid out in blocks, streets, and 
 alleys, and which is not already a part of said city, to be embraced within 
 the corporate limits. Publication is provided as follows: 
 
 Such council shall, prior to the passage of such ordinance, publish 
 for thirty days, in some newspaper of general circulation published in 
 such city, a notice describing such territory, and notifying the owner or 
 owners thereof that a special session of the council will be held, at a time 
 and place specified in such notice, for the purpose of considering objec- 
 tions that may be made to such proposed annexation. [R. S. 1908, p. 1565, 
 sec. 6718.] 
 
 A town or city lying contiguous to any city existing under special 
 charter may be dissolved and be annexed to said city upon petition, and 
 a notice of the submission of said question of annexation shall be pub- 
 lished by the clerk of such city or town, in some newspaper of general 
 circulation in the same town, at least twenty days prior to the election. 
 [R. S. 1908, pp. 1566-1567, sec. 6722.] 
 
 DISCONTINUANCE OF CITY CORPORATION 
 
 Whenever one-fourth of the legal voters of any city or incorporated 
 town in this state shall petition the County Court for the discontinuance 
 of the same, the said court shall cause to be published, for at least thirty 
 days, a notice stating that the question of discontinuing such corporation 
 will be submitted to' the legal voters at the next annual city election. 
 [R. S. 1908, p. 1571, sec. 6738.] 
 
 Whenever the incorporation of any city or town shall have been dis- 
 continued (according to the preceding section), the clerk of the county 
 wherein such corporation was situated shall publish such fact for thirty 
 days in a county newspaper. [R. S. 1908, p. 1571, sec. 6743.] 
 
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REOKGANIZATION OF TOWNS AND CITIES 
 
 In any city, town, or village incorporated by special charter, upon 
 the petition of one-eighth of a number equal to the whole number of 
 votes cast in the last preceding annual election for city or town officers, 
 praying for the question of organizing under the general laws, the city 
 council or town trustees shall immediately direct a special election to be 
 held. The mayor or presiding officer of the council or board of trustees 
 shall at once issue a proclamation giving notice of such election, of the 
 question submitted to the electors, and of the time and place of holding 
 the election; which proclamation shall be published for four consecutive 
 weeks in some newspaper published in such city or town. [R. S. 1908, pp. 
 1572-1573, secs. 6748-6750.] 
 
 NOTICE OF HEARING AND PETITION TO CHANGE NAME 
 
 At any meeting of the corporate authorities of any city or incor- 
 porated town, after the presentation of a petition to change the name of 
 said city or town, such corporate authorities shall fix the time when such 
 petition shall be considered, and order notice of the presentation thereof 
 to be given by publishing such notice for three successive weeks in some 
 newspaper having a general circulation in such city or town. [R. S. 1908, 
 p. 1575, sec. 6762.] 
 
 If said change in name is made, or if any new town should be incor- 
 porated, the corporate authorities of any such city or town shall cause a 
 copy of the order making such change, or fixing the name of such new 
 cown, to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, who shall there- 
 upon make known the fact of such change by publication in some news- 
 paper of the county in which such city or town is situated. [R. S. 1908, 
 p. 1575, sec. 6764.] 
 
 wIaterworks district bonds 
 
 Section 6806 of the Revised Statutes of 1908, page 1586, provides for 
 the publication of an election notice for cities of ten thousand or more 
 desiring to buy or build waterworks. 
 
 PUBLIC WORKS 
 
 Section 5304 of the Revised Statutes of 1908, page 1248, provides for 
 thirty days’ notice in a newspaper of the completion of public improve- 
 ments and assessment of costs of the same. 
 
 Section 5333 of the Revised Statutes of 1908, page 1255, provides for 
 the publication for ten days in cities of the first class, in some newspaper 
 of general circulation, notifying the owners of property of the completion 
 of sanitary sewer and the apportionment of the expense of the construc- 
 tion of the same. Section 5379 makes the same provision for cities under 
 one hundred thousand population. 
 
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ELECTIONS 
 
 NOTICE OF ELECTION 
 
 The county clerk shall give notice in writing of each general or special 
 election, in which shall be stated the time when it will be held, and the of- 
 ficers then to be elected, by causing the same to be published in a news- 
 paper having general circulation in the county, and sending a copy of such 
 notice by mail to the judges of election in each precinct, to be posted at 
 the place of voting, at least fifteen days before such time. [R. S. 1908, p. 
 612, sec. 2144.] 
 
 CITY REGISTRATION NOTICE 
 
 The county clerk shall, by advertisement in a daily newspaper of 
 general circulation in such city, give notice daily for ten days prior to 
 the beginning of registration, to the effect that registration will be had 
 in such city, giving the times and place, and such other information as 
 is requisite to inform the electors of such registration. [Laws of 1911, 
 p. 362.] 
 
 NOTICE OF CANDIDATES FOR PRIMARY NOMINATIONS 
 
 Each county clerk shall, at least ten days before the September 
 direct primary election, publish once in two newspapers of general cir- 
 culation, representing the two political parties that cast the largest and 
 next largest vote at the last preceding election, under the proper party 
 designation and under the title of each office, the names and addresses 
 of all persons for whom nomination papers have been filed, in so far as 
 the same shall affect the electors of his city. The same publication is 
 ordered by city clerks in city elections. [Primary Election Law of 1910.] 
 
 LIST OF NOMINATIONS 
 
 For at least six successive days before an election to fill any pub- 
 lic office, the county clerk of each county, or the city or town clerk of 
 each town, shall give notice, in not less than two nor more than four 
 newspapers published within the county, of a list of all nominations 
 to offices certified to him under the provisions of this act. Such pub- 
 lication shall contain the name and residence, and, if in a city, the 
 street, number of residence, and place of business, if any, and the party 
 or other designation of each candidate, and shall be, as far as possible, 
 in the form in which such nominations shall appear upon the official 
 ballots. In the case of municipal elections such publication of the 
 names of candidates for municipal offices shall be made in- newspapers 
 which are published within the municipality where the election is to 
 be held. One of such publications shall be made in a newspaper which 
 advocates the principles of the political party that at the last pre- 
 ceding state election cast the largest number of votes, and another of 
 such publications shall be made in the newspaper which advocates the 
 principles of the political party which at the last preceding state elec- 
 tion cast the next largest number of votes. The county clerk, in select- 
 
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ing the respective papers for such publication, shall select those which, 
 according to the best information he can obtain, have the largest cir- 
 culation within the county. For the purpose of ascertaining which 
 paper published in said county has the largest circulation, the county 
 clerk may require a sworn certificate showing the number of bona fide 
 subscribers to each newspaper. In making additional publications, 
 county clerks shall keep in view the object of giving information as 
 far as possible to the largest number of voters of all political parties, 
 and in no event shall such additional publication be made in two news- 
 papers representing the same political party. The county clerk shall 
 make such publications daily in counties where daily newspapers are 
 published, but if there be no daily newspaper published within the 
 county, one publication in each newspaper shall be sufficient. Should 
 the county clerk find it impracticable to make the publication six days 
 before election day in counties where no daily paper is printed, he shall 
 make the same at the earliest possible day thereafter, and one of the 
 publications in any newspaper shall be in the last issue thereof before the 
 day of election. In counties where there are no daily papers the county 
 clerk shall make the publication at the earliest possible day after the 
 filing in his office of such certificates of nomination, and in counties 
 where it is impracticable to make such publication in newspapers advo- 
 cating opposite political principles such publication shall be made in 
 the newspaper having the largest circulation, and in counties where 
 there are no newspapers published the county clerk shall post double 
 the number of printed lists, and such additional lists shall be posted in 
 other conspicuous places in different portions of the county. [R. S. 1908, 
 p. 615, sec. 2159.] 
 
 Whenever a proposed constitutional amendment or other question 
 (except the incurring of a bonded indebtedness) is to be submitted to 
 the people of the state, for popular vote at any general election, the 
 Secretary of Stale shall duly, and not less than fifteen days before 
 election, certify the same to the clerk of each county of the state, and 
 the clerk of each county shall include the propositions or questions to 
 be submitted as they will appear in the ballot to be used on election day, 
 in the publication provided for by section eleven of this act, and in the 
 notice provided for by section twelve. [R. S. 1908, p. 612, sec. 2145.] 
 
 PUBLISHING CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS 
 
 Section 2, Article XIX, of the Constitution of the State of Colorado 
 provides that all constitutional amendments shall be published for four 
 weeks in one newspaper in each county of the state. The law providing 
 for initiative and referendum provides that all initiated and referred 
 laws shall be published as constitutional amendments are published. 
 
 SECRETARY OF STATE RECORD AND PUBLISH STATEMENT OF CANVASSERS 
 
 The Secretary of State shall record in his office, in a book to be 
 kept by him for that purpose, each certified statement and determina- 
 
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tion made by the Board of State Canvassers, and shall without delay 
 make out and transmit to each of the persons thereby declared to be 
 elected, a certificate of his election, certified by him under his seal of 
 office; and he shall also forthwith cause a copy of such certified state- 
 ment and determination to be published in a newspaper published at 
 the seat of government. [R. S. 1908, p. 663, sec. 2282.] 
 
 IRRIGATION DISTRICTS 
 
 PUBLICATION OF PETITION TO FORM DISTRICT 
 
 For the purpose of the establishment of an irrigation district, as 
 provided by this act, a petition shall be filed with the board of county 
 commissioners of the county which embraces the largest acreage of the 
 proposed district; said petition shall also contain a general descrip- 
 tion of the boundaries of such proposed district, the means proposed 
 to supply water for the irrigation of the lands embraced therein, the 
 name proposed for such district, and shall select a committee of three 
 of said petitioners: to present such petition to the board of county 
 commissioners, as provided by law, praying, that the said board define 
 and establish the boundaries of said proposed district, and submit the 
 question of the final organization of the same to a vote of the qualified 
 electors resident within said proposed district. Said petition shall be 
 signed by a majority of the resident freeholders within said proposed 
 district, and who shall also be the owners in the aggregate of a ma- 
 jority of the whole number of acres belonging to the resident freehold- 
 ers within said proposed district. The said petition shall also be ac- 
 companied by a good and sufficient bond, to be approved by said board 
 of county commissioners, in double the amount of the probable cost in- 
 curred in such proceedings, in case said organization shall not be ef- 
 fected; but in case such district is so effected, then said expenses in- 
 curred by the board of county commissioners shall be paid back to said 
 county by said district. Such petition shall be published for at least two 
 weeks before the time at which the same is to be presented, in some 
 newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the county 
 where said petition is to be presented, together with a notice signed by 
 the committee of said petitioners selected by the petition for that pur- 
 pose, giving the time and place of the presentation of the same to said 
 board of county commissioners. [R. S. 1908, p. 910, sec. 3441.] 
 
 NOTICJE OF ELECTION TO FORM DISTRICT ' , 
 
 Section 3442 of the Revised Statutes of 1908 provides for the presen- 
 tation of the petition to the commissioners, the allowance of the same, 
 and the calling of an election at which the freeholders shall decide 
 whether they desire the formation of the district. 
 
 The board of county commissioners shall thereupon cause a notice, 
 embodying said orders in substance, signed by the chairman of the 
 
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board of county commissioners and the clerk of said board, 'to be issued, 
 given, and published, giving public notice of said election, the time and 
 place thereof, the matter submitted to the vote of the electors. Said 
 notice and order shall be published once a week for at least three weeks 
 prior to such election, in a newspaper of general circulation in said 
 county, and if any portion of said district lies within any other 
 county or counties, such order and notice shall be published in a news- 
 paper of general circulation published in each of said counties. [R. S. 
 1908, p. 911, sec. 3443.] 
 
 BOND ELECTIONS 
 
 For the purpose of constructing or purchasing or acquiring neces- 
 sary reservoir sites, reservoirs, water rights, canals, ditches, and works, 
 and acquiring the necessary property and rights therefor, for the pur- 
 pose of paying the first year’s interest upon the bonds herein author- 
 ized, and otherwise carrying out the provisions of this act, the board of 
 directors of any such district shall, as soon after such district has been 
 organized as may be practicable, estimate and determine the amount of 
 money necessary to be raised for such purposes, and shall forthwith 
 call a special election, at which election shall be submitted to the elect- 
 ors of such district possessing the qualifications described by this act 
 the question of whether or not the bonds of said district shall be is- 
 sued in the amount so determined. A notice of such election must be 
 given by posting notices in three public places in each election precinct 
 in said district, for at least twenty days, and also by publication of such 
 notice in some newspaper published in the county where the office of 
 the board of directors of such district is required to be kept, once a week 
 for at least three successive weeks. Such notice shall specify the time 
 of holding the election, the amount of bonds proposed to be issued, and 
 the said election must be held and the results thereof determined in all 
 respects as nearly as possible in conformity with the provisions of this 
 act governing the election of officers. [R. S. 1908, p. 915, sec. 3454.] 
 
 NOTICE OF JUDICIAL EXAMINATIONS 
 
 Sections 3489 and 3490 of the Revised Statutes of 1908 provide for 
 the directors of the district instituting proceedings providing for the 
 authorization and issuing of bonds, and the examination by the court 
 of the proceedings leading thereto. 
 
 The court shall fix the time for the hearing of said petition, and 
 shall order the clerk of the court to give and publish a notice of the 
 filing of said petition. The notice shall be given and published, for 
 three successive weeks, in a newspaper published in the county where 
 the office of the district is situated. The notice shall state the time and 
 place fixed' for the hearing of the petition and the prayer of the peti- 
 tioners, and that any person interested in the organization of said dis- 
 trict, or in the proceedings for the issue or sale of said bonds, may, on 
 or before the day fixed for the hearing of said petition, demur to or an- 
 
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swer said petition. The petition may be referred to and described in 
 
 said notice as the petition of the board of directors of 
 
 irrigation district (giving its name), praying that the proceedings for the 
 issue and sale of said bonds of said district may be examined, ap- 
 proved, and confirmed by the court. [R. S. 1908, p. 924, sec. 3491.] 
 
 PETITION FOR INCLUSION OF LAND IN DISTRICT 
 
 The secretary of the board of directors shall cause notice of the filing 
 of such petition to be given and published once each week for three suc- 
 cessive weeks, in a newspaper published in the county where the office of 
 the said board is situate, which noticp shall state the filing of such petition 
 and the names of the petitioners, a description of the lands mentioned in 
 said petition, and the prayer of said petitioners; giving notice to all per- 
 sons interested to appear at the office of said board at a time named in said 
 notice, and show cause, in writing, if any they have, why the petition 
 should not be granted. The time specified in the notice at which it shall 
 be required to show cause shall be the regular meeting of the board next 
 after the expiration of the time for the publication of the notice. The 
 petitioner, or petitioners, shall advance to the secretary sufficient money 
 to pay the estimated cost of all proceedings under such petition, before 
 the secretary shall be required to give such notice. [R. S. 1908, p. 920, 
 sec. 3472.] 
 
 EXCLUSION OF LAND FROM DISTRICT 
 
 Whenever the owners of any land located within any irrigation dis- 
 trict desire to withdraw from the same, they may petition the directors 
 (sec. 3481, R. S. 1908), and notice must be given according to the follow- 
 ing section: 
 
 The secretary of the board of directors shall cause the filing of such 
 petition to be published for at least three weeks in some newspaper pub- 
 lished in the county where the office of the board of directors is situated, 
 and if any portion of said district lie within another county or counties, 
 then said notice shall be so published in a newspaper published within 
 each of said counties; or if no newspaper be published therein, then Dy 
 posting such notice for the same time in at least three public places in 
 said district; and, in case of the posting of said notice, one of said notices 
 must be so posted on the lands proposed to be excluded. The notice shall 
 state the filing of such petition, the names of the petitioners, description 
 of the lands mentioned in said petition, and the prayer of said petition- 
 ers; and it shall notify all persons interested to appear at' the office of 
 said board at a time named in said notice, and show cause in writing, if 
 any they have, why said petition should not be granted. The time to 
 be specified in the notice at which they shall be required to show cause 
 shall be the regular meeting of the board next after the expiration of the 
 time for the publication of the notice. The petitioner or petitioners shall 
 advance to the secretary sufficient money to pay the estimated cost or all 
 proceedings under such petition before the secretary shall give such 
 notice. [R. S. 1908, p. 922, sec. 3482.] 
 
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DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICT 
 
 Whenever a majority of the resident freeholders, representing a ma- 
 jority of the number of acres of the irrigable land, in any irrigation dis- 
 trict organized, or hereafter to be organized, under this act, shall petition 
 the board of directors to call a special election, for the purpose of sub- 
 mitting to the qualified electors of said irrigation district a proposition to 
 vote on the dissolution of said irrigation district, setting forth in said 
 petition that all bills and claims of every nature whatsoever have been 
 fully satisfied and paid, it shall be the duty of said directors, if they 
 shall be satisfied that all claims and bills have been fully satisfied, to call 
 an election, setting forth the object of said election, and to cause notice of 
 said election to be published in some newspaper in each of the counties or 
 county in which said district is located, for a period of thirty days prior 
 to said election, setting -the time and place for holding said election in 
 each of the three voting precincts in said district. [R. S. 1908, p. 923, 
 sec. 3487.] 
 
 ADJUDICATION OF WATER RIGHTS 
 
 Section 3386 of the Revised Statutes, as given below, provides for the 
 publication of an order of court for hearing on adjudication of water 
 right: 
 
 Notice shall be given by the clerk of said court, of the time so ap- 
 pointed, by publishing the same in one public newspaper in each county 
 into which such water district may extend; which notice shall be so 
 published in such paper once in each week until four successive weekly 
 publications shall have been made, the last of which shall be on a day 
 previous to the day appointed as aforesaid. Said notice shall contain a 
 copy of said order, and shall notify all persons, associations, and cor- 
 porations interested as owners in any ditch, canal, or reservoir in such 
 water district, to appear at said court at the time so appointed and file a 
 statement of claim under oath, in case no statement has been before filed 
 by him, her, or them, showing the ditch, canal, or reservoir, or two 
 or more of such, in which he, she, or they claim an interest, together with 
 the names of all the owners thereof, which statement may be made by 
 any one of the owners of such ditch, canal, or reservoir for and in behalf 
 of all; also that all persons interested as owners or consumers may then 
 and there present his, her, or their proofs for or against any priority ot 
 right of water by appropriation sought to be shown by any party by or 
 through any such ditch, canal, or reservoir (either as owner or consumer 
 of water drawn therefrom). Ten printed copies of said notice shall also 
 be posted in ten public places in such water district, not less than twenty 
 days before the day so appointed, which copies shall be so posted by the 
 party or parties moving the adjudication. [R. S. 1908, p. 885, sec. 3286.] 
 
 When it is necessary for a referee to take evidence in adjudication 
 proceedings, the following applies: 
 
 Said referee shall prepare and publish a notice containing a copy of 
 the order appointing him, in which he shall appoint a time or times, 
 and place or places, suitable and convenient for the claimants in such 
 water district, at which he will attend for the purpose of hearing and 
 
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 taking evidence touching the priority of right of the several ditches, 
 canals, and reservoirs in said district, and notifying all persons, associa- 
 tions, and corporations interested as owners or consumers of water to 
 attend by themselves, their agents or attorneys, at the times and places 
 appointed in said notice, and notifying such owners to then and there 
 file a statement of claim, in case such statement has not been already 
 filed under the provisions of section one hereof, such as mentioned in 
 section six hereof, and present their proofs touching any priority of right 
 claimed by them for any ditch, canal, or reservoir in said district, which 
 notice shall be published in the same manner as provided in section seven 
 of this act; and he shall also post ten or more copies of such notice in ten 
 or more public places in said district, which copies shall be so posted at 
 least twenty days before the time of commencing to take said evidence. 
 [R. S. 1908, p. 887, sec. 3292.] 
 
 EXTENSION OF TERM OF DITCH COMPANIES 
 
 Whenever the corporate life of any such ditch or reservoir company 
 has expired or is about to expire, as aforesaid, the stockholders of such 
 company may vote on the question of extending the life of such corpora- 
 tion for another twenty years, or less, by first giving notice of such in- 
 tention, by publication, for two successive weeks, in a newspaper printed 
 nearest the place where the principal operations of said company are car- 
 ried on. Said notice shall be signed by stockholders owning at least ten 
 per cent of the entire capital stock of said company, and shall state the 
 place where and the time when the question of renewal will be submitted. 
 [G. S., p. 399, sec. 997.] 
 
 DRAINAGE DISTRICTS 
 
 FORMATION OF DISTRICTS 
 
 v. In the formation of drainage districts, prior to the presentation of a 
 petition to the county commissioners for the formation of said district, 
 the petition shall be published in some newspaper of general circulation, 
 published in the county where said petition will be presented, for at least 
 two weeks, together with a notice signed by the committee selected by the 
 petitioners and named in said petition, giving the time and place of 
 presentation of the same to the county commissioners. [Laws of 1911, p. 
 313, sec. 6.] 
 
 When the petition calls for an election to decide as to whether there 
 shall be a drainage district established, the board of county commissioners 
 shall order an election to be held within the proposed drainage district 
 for the purpose of determining whether or not said district shall be or- 
 ganized, and shall cause to be published a notice of said election which 
 shall contain: 
 
 The name of the proposed district; 
 
 The boundaries thereof; 
 
 The polling place or polling places; 
 
 The names of the judges of election; 
 
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The names of three or more persons eligible for directors of said 
 district; 
 
 The date of said election. 
 
 Said notice shall require the electors to cast ballots which shall con- 
 tain the words: 
 
 “Drainage District — Yes;” or 
 
 “Drainage District — No.” 
 
 Said notice shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county 
 commissioners and attested by the county clerk under the seal of the 
 county. [Laws of 1911, p. 314, sec. 11.] 
 
 Said notice shall be published for at least two weeks preceding said 
 election, in some newspaper of general circulation printed and published 
 within said county; and a like notice shall be published in a like news- 
 paper in each county within which any portion of said district may lie. 
 [Laws of 1911, p. 315, sec. 15.] 
 
 After adopting a plan for a drainage system, and providing for the 
 payment of the same, or a designated part thereof, by assessment or 
 bonds, the board of directors shall give notice, by publication not les,s 
 than twenty days in a newspaper published in the county where the office 
 of the drainage district is kept, and in such other newspaper as may be 
 deemed advisable, calling for bids for the construction of said work, or 
 any part thereof. [Laws of 1911, p. 323, sec. 59.] 
 
 Before bonds for construction of drainage system may be issued, pub- 
 lication must be made of a notice calling an election to vote on said 
 bonds. This notice shall be published in some newspapei published in the 
 county where the offices of the district are kept, for three successive 
 weeks. [Laws, 1911, p. 324, sec. 62.] 
 
 The board of directors may sell bonds from time to time in such 
 quantities as may be necessary and most advantageous to raise the money 
 to carry out the objects and purposes of this act. Before making any sale 
 the board shall, by resolution, declare its intention to sell a specified 
 amount of the bonds, and the day and hour and place of such sale, and 
 shall cause such resolution to be entered in the minutes, and notice of the 
 sale to be given by publication thereof at least twenty days in a daily 
 newspaper published in the city of Denver, and in any other newspaper, 
 at discretion. [Laws of 1911, p. 326, sec. 67.] 
 
 DISSOLUTION OF DISTRICTS 
 
 Whenever a majority of the owners of land within a drainage dis- 
 trict, representing also a majority of the whole number of acres of land 
 within the district, sfiall petition the board of directors to call a special 
 election for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of said 
 drainage district a proposition to dissolve such district, it shall be the 
 duty of such board of directors, upon proof that all claims and bills of 
 
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the district of every kind or nature whatsoever have been fully paid and 
 satisfied, to call an election for the purpose of submitting the question of 
 the dissolution of such district to the qualified voters thereof, and to 
 cause a notice, setting forth the object of such election, to be posted in 
 the office of the district and in six public places within such district, and 
 to be published in some newspaper of general circulation and published 
 in each county in which any portion of said district may lie, for a period 
 of thirty days prior to said election, which said notice shall set forth the 
 time and place for holding said election in each precinct within said dis- 
 trict. [Laws of 1911, p. 330, sec. 79.] 
 
 ANNUAL ELECTION OF MINE DRAINAGE DISTRICTS 
 
 Election of Supervisors: The court, in the decree establishing a 
 drainage district, shall order an election to be held, under the supervision 
 of the board of county commissioners of the county wherein said district, 
 or the greater portion thereof, is situated, for the purpose of electing five 
 individuals to constitute the board of supervisors for said district, and 
 shall set the time and place of said election, and direct the clerk of said 
 board of county commissioners to cause notice of said election, and the 
 time and place thereof, to be published for four successive weeks prior to 
 the date of said election, in some newspaper published within the county. 
 [Laws of 1911, p. 511, sec. 13.] 
 
 Section 21 of the Mine Drainage Act provides that before making 
 any sale of bonds of the district a notice of the proposed sale shall be ad- 
 vertised for at least twenty days in some daily newspaper published in 
 Denver, and in any other paper at the discretion of the board of super- 
 visors of the district. 
 
 SCHOOL DISTRICTS 
 
 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 
 
 Section 1. It shall be the duty of the boards of directors of all school 
 districts in school districts of the first and second class in the several 
 counties of this state to publish semi-annually, within twenty days after 
 the close of business, June 30 and December 31 of each year, a complete 
 report of the financial conditions of said school district, showing all 
 receipts and disbursements from each and every fund, so itemized as to 
 give the general public definite information as to the financial condition 
 of said district. Such publication shall be made once in a newspaper of 
 general circulation printed and published within said district; provided, 
 that if there be no newspaper published within said district, then such 
 publication shall be made once in a newspaper having a general circula- 
 tion within said district. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the boards of directors of all school 
 districts other than aforesaid to publish a complete report annually of 
 the financial condition of their districts, within twenty days after the 
 Close of business, June 30 of each year, showing all receipts and disburse- 
 ments from each and every fund, so itemized as to give the general pub- 
 
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lie definite information as to the financial condition of said district. Such 
 publication shall be made once in a newspaper printed and published in 
 said district; provided that if there be no newspaper published in said 
 district, then such publication shall be made once in a newspaper having 
 a general circulation within said district. 
 
 Sec. 3. The members of any school board who shall fail or refuse to 
 make such publication as aforesaid shall be subject to a fine not to ex- 
 ceed one hundred dollars for each offense. [Laws of 1911, p. 582.] 
 
 SCHOOL ELECTIONS NOTICE OF CANDIDACY 
 
 In districts of the first (1st) and second (2nd) classes, any person 
 who may desire to be a candidate for the office of school director shall file 
 a written notice of such intention with the secretary of the school dis- 
 trict in which he resides, at least eight (8) days prior to the date for the 
 holding of the election of school directors; provided, that in districts of 
 the first (1st) class the said candidate or candidates, in addition to filing 
 such written notice, shall also file a certificate of nomination, signed by 
 not less than fifty qualified electors of said district, which certificate of 
 nomination shall contain the name of the office for which such person or 
 persons is nominated, the name, post-office address, and residence of each 
 of such persons, and, if in a city, the street number of residence and place 
 of business; and the secretary of said school district shall,, for five con- 
 secutive days preceding the day of said election, publish in some daily 
 newspaper published in said district, or when no daily newspaper is pub- 
 lished in such district, then by posting a printed or written notice in not 
 less than five public places in such district, and at each schoolhouse in 
 such district, the names of all candidates who have been nominated as 
 above provided. [Laws of 1911, p. 590.] 
 
 SCHOOL ELECTIONS FIRST CLASS 
 
 In districts of the first class said notice shall be published for the 
 four weeks next preceding such election, in some newspaper published in 
 the district, and if there is no paper published in such district, then in a 
 paper published in an adjoining district; provided, that in those districts 
 having a school population of more than three thousand (3,000) the said 
 notice shall be posted as aforesaid at least eight weeks previous to the 
 time of election, and published in a newspaper as aforesaid once each 
 week for a period of eight weeks next preceding such election. If the 
 secretary shall fail to give such notice, then any two (2) legal voters re- 
 siding in the district may give such notice over their names, and such 
 election may be held after the day fixed by this act for such election. 
 [Laws of 1911, p. 589.] 
 
 NOTICE OF TEACHERS’ EXAMINATION 
 
 On the third Thursday in August, December, and March of each year 
 the county superintendent shall meet all persons, of not less than eighteen 
 years of age (who have completed a four-years’ high-school course, or its 
 
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equivalent in training or experience, and) who are desirous of passing an 
 examination as teachers, in some room at the county seat, notice of which 
 will be given in some newspaper in the county. [Laws of 1911, p. 628. J 
 
 ADMINISTRATION OP ESTATES 
 administrator’s notice 
 
 It shall be the duty of each and every executor, administrator, and 
 conservator to fix on a certain day or days at a term of the County Court, 
 within six months of the time of granting his letters, for the settling and 
 adjusting of all claims against his decedent or ward, and give notice 
 thereof by publication for four successive weeks prior thereto, in some 
 daily or weekly newspaper printed within the county wherein such ad- 
 ministration is had, or, if there be no such newspaper, by posting such 
 notice in five public places in such county, requesting all persons having 
 claims against the estate to present the same to the court on the day or 
 days named in such notice for adjustment. [R. S. 1908, p. 1667. sec. 7208.] 
 
 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT 
 
 If any executor or administrator desires to make final settlement of 
 his administration, he, having first obtained an order of the court there- 
 for, shall give notice by publication for four weeks successively, in some 
 daily or weekly newspaper printed in the county wherein administration 
 is had, or if there be no such newspaper, then by posting such notice in 
 four of the most public places in such county, of the day on which he will 
 present his accounts for final settlement. [R. S. 1908, p. 1672, sec. 7240. J 
 
 DETERMINATION OF HEIRSHIP 
 
 Any heir of a person who died intestate, in this state, or who 
 had personal or- real property in this state at the time of his death, 
 may petition for the determination of heirship, and such notice shall 
 be published in some newspaper and shall be addressed “to all persons 
 interested in the estate of” (here insert the name of decedent) de- 
 ceased. [R. S. 1908, p. 1636, sec. 7054.] 
 
 , APPLICATION TO DETERMINE DESCENT OF PROPERTY 
 
 The court shall fix a day for hearing application, and shall cause 
 a notice thereof to be published, ’for at least four weeks, in some news- 
 paper published in said county. [R. S. 1908, p. 1637, sec. 7063.] 
 
 PUBLICATION NOTICE OF PROBATE 
 
 When any legatee of a will cannot be found, the County Court shall 
 advertise, for four successive weeks, in some daily or weekly newspaper 
 the fact of the presentation of the will, and requiring all legatees to 
 attend the probate of the will. [R. S. 1908, p. 1641, sec. 7083.] 
 
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REVOCATION OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION 
 
 If the County Court considers it necessary to revoke letters of ad- 
 ministration in any estate, and the administrator cannot be found, for 
 personal service, notice by publication shall be made, for four successive 
 weeks, in a weekly newspaper published in the county where such es- 
 tate is being administered. 
 
 notice of sale of chattels 
 
 In case of public sale of chattels of an estate, public notice of the 
 sale shall be published in some newspaper in the county where the es- 
 tate is being administered, for at least three weeks. [R. S. 1908, p. 1657, 
 sec. 7158.] 
 
 sale or mortgage of real estate 
 
 Whenever it shall appear that the personal property of an estate 
 is not sufficient to pay legacies, care for minor heirs, including their 
 education, then the administrator, conservator, or guardian may apply 
 for an order to mortgage or sell the real estate of the decedent’s estate. 
 This sale may be ordered to be made by private or public sale, and 
 public notice of the sale shall be made in some newspaper published 
 in the county where the estate is being administered, for at least four 
 weeks. [R. S. 1908, p. 1660, sec. 7172.] 
 
 EXECUTION SALE OF LAND 
 
 Section 3641 of the Revised Statutes of 1908 provides that no land 
 seized under execution may be sold until same has been advertised for 
 a period of twenty (20) days in some daily or weekly newspaper pub- 
 lished in the county where the land is situated. 
 
 TRUSTEE SALES 
 
 All deeds of trust shall prescribe a period of advertising notice of 
 sale, weekly, in some newspaper of general circulation, which publica- 
 tion shall not in any case be for less than four weeks.* [R. S. 1908, p. 
 1606, sec. 6865.] 
 
 *The legal rate for publication of trustee sales was changed by the laws of 
 1901 to 7 cents a line for first insertion and 4 cents for each subsequent insertion. 
 
 SUMMONS 
 
 Service by publication shall be allowed only after summons issued, 
 and return thereon made that the defendant, after diligent search, cannot 
 be found. After such return, not less than ten days after issue of sum- 
 
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mons, publication shall be made by order of the clerk of the proper 
 court, but shall be made only in case of attachment, foreclosure, claims, 
 and delivery, or other proceedings where specific property is to be 
 affected, or the procedure is such as is known as a proceeding in rem. 
 After return is made as aforesaid, the case being such as hereinbefore 
 mentioned, the plaintiff, or one of the plaintiffs, may file in the office of 
 the proper court an affidavit stating that the defendant resides out of 
 the state, or has departed from the state without the intention of re- 
 turning, or concealed himself to avoid the services of process, and 
 giving his post-office address, if known, or stating his post-office ad- 
 dress is not known to affiant; whereupon the order of publication shall 
 be made by the clerk. The order shall direct the publication to be made 
 in a public newspaper published in the county. Such publication shall 
 be made at least once a week for four successive weeks. When the 
 affidavit gives the post-office address ' of the defendant, the clerk shall 
 mail a copy of the summons, duly stamped, to the defendant at such 
 address forthwith. The service shall be complete at the expiration of 
 ten days from the date of the last publication. When no newspaper is 
 published within the county, the clerk shall designate a newspaper pub- 
 lished in some adjoining county. Provided, that if the plaintiff does 
 not reside in the state or is absent from the state, the affidavit for serv- 
 ice by publication may be made by the plaintiff’s attorney in the action. 
 [R. S. 1906, p. 82, sec. 45, Code of Civil Procedure.] 
 
 LAND TITLES 
 
 The summons shall be directed to the defendants, and require them 
 to appear and answer the application within twenty days after the service 
 of the summons, exclusive of the day for the service of said summons, ex- 
 clusive of the day of service; and said summons shall be served as is now 
 provided for the service of summons in cjvil actions in the District Court 
 in this state, except as herein otherwise provided. The summons shall 
 be served upon non-resident defendants, and upon “all such unknown per- 
 sons or parties” defendant, by publishing said summons in a newspaper 
 of general circulation, printed and published in the county where the ap- 
 plication is filed once in each week for three consecutive weeks, and such 
 service by publication shall be deemed complete at the end of the twenty- 
 first day from and including the first publication; provided, that if any 
 named defendant assents in writing to the registration as prayed for, 
 which assent shall be indorsed upon the application or filed therewith, 
 and be duly witnessed and acknowledged, then in all such cases no service 
 of summons upon said defendants shall be necessary. 
 
 The clerk of the court shall also, on or before twenty days after the 
 first publication, send a copy thereof by mail to such defendants who are 
 not residents of the state, whose place of address is known or stated in 
 the application, and whose appearance is not entered, and who are not in 
 person served with the summons. The certificate of the clerk that he 
 has sent such notice, in pursuance of this section, shall be conclusive 
 evidence thereof. Other or further notice of the application for the reg- 
 
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istration may be given in such manner and to such persons as the court 
 or any judge thereof may direct. The summons shall be served at the ex- 
 pense of the applicant, and proof of the service thereof shall be made as 
 proof of service is now made in other civil actions, [R, S. 1908, p. 339, 
 secs. 734-735.] 
 
 ESTABLISHING DISPUTED BOUNDARY 
 
 Whenever any monument is in dispute which is the joint boundary 
 between two or more tracts of land, the county surveyor shall determine 
 the proper location. He shall give notice as follows: 
 
 The county surveyor of the county in which said corner is located 
 shall immediately give notice in writing to all the parties interested in 
 the establishment of said monument, naming a day when he will be upon 
 the ground and make the necessary surveys to establish the said monu- 
 ment, and if such service of written notice cannot be made upon the 
 owners or agents by reason of non-residence, then in that case such no- 
 tice shall be published for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper pub- 
 lished in the county, or if there be no newspaper published therein, then 
 in some newspaper of general circulation published nearest such county 
 [R. S. 1908, p. 1496, sec. 6457.] 
 
 STATE LAND NOTICES 
 
 LEASING STATE LAND 
 
 All applications for leases shall be held and advertised four weeks in 
 a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the land is 
 located. For the purpose of defraying the expense of such advertisement, 
 the applicant shall pay a fee of $5, which shall accompany his applica- 
 tion. [Rules of State Land Board, pp. 5-6, Rule II.] 
 
 SALE OF SCHOOL LAND 
 
 Should a sale be ordered, the applicant will be required to deposit 
 the advertising fee, amounting to $17, and the application will be pub- 
 lished in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the 
 land is located. After due advertisement, the land will be sold at public 
 auction in the office of the State Board of Land Commissioners, unless 
 otherwise ordered. The terms of sale are always printed in the adver- 
 tisement. [Rules of State Land Board, p. 14, Rule XVIIL] 
 
 APPLICATION TO CUT TREES ON STATE LAND 
 
 The registrar of the State Board of Land Commissioners shall cause 
 the application of said person to cut trees to be published, for the full 
 period of thirty days, in one or more daily or weekly newspapers having 
 such circulation as will fully advise the water-users of the irrigation area 
 
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upon the watershed on which such trees are growing of the pendency of 
 such application, and that protests to the granting of the application must 
 be made within twenty days from the date of the last publication, which 
 date shall be given in such published notice. [R. S. 1908, p. 743, sec. 
 2629.] 
 
 CORPORATIONS 
 
 DISSOLUTION OF CORPORATIONS 
 
 Whenever the stockholders of any corporation, formed under the laws 
 of the State of Colorado, desire to dissolve the corporation, prior to the 
 time limited by law, or by the terms of its articles of incorporation, they 
 may do so upon a vote of two-thirds (%) of the entire stock of the cor- 
 poration, at a meeting of the stockholders of said corporation, which shall 
 have been called for the purpose of considering the propriety of dissolv- 
 ing such corporation; but such dissolution shall not take place until all 
 debts owing by the corporation shall have been fully paid. And notice 
 of such meeting is to be given, in the manner provided by law for the 
 calling of stockholders’ meetings for the purpose of amending articles of 
 incorporation. And when a dissolution shall have been so ordered, the 
 president and secretary of such corporation shall make and sign a notice 
 of dissolution, under the seal of such corporation, one copy of which shall 
 be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and one copy of which shall 
 be filed in every county in which the articles of incorporation of such 
 corporation were filed; and a copy of such notice shall be published in 
 some newspaper printed in each of said counties, for the period of six 
 (6) weeks; and, upon the filing and publication of such notice, as afore- 
 said, such corporation shall be deemed to have been dissolved forever. 
 [R. S. 1908, p. 374, sec. 895,] 
 
 ANNUAL MEETING — ELECTION OF DIRECTORS , 
 
 The corporate powers shall be exercised by a board of directors or 
 trustees of not less than three, or more than thirteen, who shall respect- 
 ively be stockholders in said company, and who shall (except the first 
 year) be annually elected by the stockholders, at such time and place as 
 shall be directed by the by-laws of the company; and public notice of the 
 time and place of holding such elections, and also of all general or special 
 meetings, shall be published not less than ten days previous thereto in a 
 newspaper published in or nearest to the place in which the principal 
 office of the company shall be kept. [R. S. 1908, p. 365, sec. 865.] 
 
 MINING CORPORATIONS — LEVY ASSESSMENT 
 
 At any regular or special meeting of the board of directors of any 
 such mining company or corporation, they may, by a majority vote of all 
 the directors, levy an assessment, not to exceed ten per cent, upon each 
 and every share of the capital stock of such company or corporation, pay- 
 able immediately, at the company’s office, to the officer legally entitled to 
 
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receive the same. And all shares of stock upon which such assessment 
 shall remain unpaid for thirty (30) days from the date of such assess- 
 ment shall be considered delinquent, and on next day thereafter the secre- 
 tary of such company or corporation shall make a list of all the shares 
 of stock on which the assessment has not been paid and which are delin- 
 quent, giving the number of the certificate, the number of shares, and the 
 assessment levied per share, and have the same advertised for thirty (30) 
 days in a daily newspaper published at the place where the chief oflace 
 of the company or corporation is located; and also in a daily newspaper, 
 for the same length of time, published where the mine or mines are lo- 
 cated; and if there be no daily paper at one or either of said places, then 
 said notice shall be published for five (5) weeks in a weekly newspaper. 
 [R. S. 1908, p. 395, sec. 980.] 
 
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 DEFUNCT COEPORATIONS 
 
 If any corporation has, or shall hereafter fail for a period of three 
 years to pay the annual state corporation license tax, and other fees re- 
 quired by law, or to make any report the statutes require, the Secretary 
 of State shall prepare a list of such corporations, and shall publish the 
 same in this state, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county 
 where the principal office of the company is located, for a period of three 
 successive issues. [Laws of 1911, p. 253, sec. 1.] 
 
 CONSOLIDATION OF CORPORATIONS 
 
 Such corporations shall, upon the filing of said certificate, cause to be 
 published in some newspaper, in or nearest the county in which their 
 principal office is located, a notice of such changes of organization, for 
 three successive weeks. [R. S. 1908, p. 371, sec. 888.] 
 
 CONSOLIDATION OP RAILROAD OR TELEGRAPH CORPORATIONS 
 
 Whenever a railroad or telegraph company shall desire to consolidate 
 with any other railroad or telegraph corporation, by virtue of the pro- 
 visions of this act, a notice, as provided by section one hundred and twen- 
 ty-three (123) of this act, shall be given at least thirty days before the 
 time fixed for such meeting, and a general notice, as provided in section 
 one hundred and twenty-three (123), shall be published for four suc- 
 cessive weeks; provided, that no railroad or telegraph company, or the 
 lessees or managers thereof, shall consolidate its stock, property, or fran- 
 chise with any other railroad or telegraph companies having under its 
 or their control a parallel or competing line of railroad or telegraph. [R. 
 S. 1908, p. 372, sec. 890.] 
 
 BANKS DECLARING DIVIDENDS NOTICE STATEMENT — ^PUBLICATION 
 
 The directors of each banking association shall semi-annually (or 
 oftener as they may elect), on the first Monday in January and July, de- 
 clare a dividend of so much of the net profits of the bank as they shall 
 
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deem expedient, and on each of such days the president or cashier shall 
 make a full, clear, and accurate statement to the State Treasurer of the 
 condition of the bank as it shall be on that day, after declaring the divi- 
 dend (if any be declared), which shall be verified by the oath of the pres- 
 ident or cashier, and shall contain a full abstract of the general accounts 
 of the bank, so as to show plainly its resources and liabilities, and the 
 amount of each kind thereof; and the same shall be published at least 
 once a week, for three successive weeks, in some newspaper of the county 
 where such bank is located, if any newspaper be published therein; if not, 
 then in some other newspaper of general circulation, published at the seat 
 of government. [R. S. 1908, p. 234, sec. 270.] 
 
 LIENS 
 
 In proceedings to foreclose and enforce mechanics’ liens, service by 
 publication may be obtained against any defendant, as provided in Civil 
 Code, section 45, page 82. 
 
 PAWNBROKERS— NOTICE OF SALE 
 
 Notice of such sale shall be published for at least ten days previous 
 thereto, in one daily newspaper printed in the city wherein the said 
 license may be granted, and such notice shall specify the time and place 
 at which the sale is to take place, the name of the auctioneer by whom 
 the same is to be conducted, and a description of the goods or articles to 
 be sold. In the event that no daily paper be published in the town where 
 such pawnbroker is doing business, then such pawnbroker shall publish 
 such notice as may be required of him by the council or board or trus- 
 tees of such city or town. [R. S. 1908, p. 1155, sec. 4814.] 
 
 CHANGE OF PERSON’S NAME 
 
 Persons desiring to change name may do so upon petition to the 
 County Court. The following publication is required: 
 
 Public notice of such change of name shall be given at least three 
 times in a newspaper published in the county where such person is resid- 
 ing, within twenty days after the order of court is made, and if no news- 
 paper is published in that county, such notice shall be published in such 
 county as the judge of said court shall direct. [R. S. 1908, p. 1086, sec. 
 4349.] 
 
 FALSE ADVERTISING 
 
 Chapter 160, Laws of 1911, provides, a fine not exceeding $2,000, or 
 imprisonment in the county jail for not over one year, for any person 
 
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who, when there is a strike in progress, in advertising for laborers, either 
 states that there is no labor dispute, or omits to state that there is. 
 
 PROCEEDINGS UNDER EMINENT DOMAIN 
 
 When it is necessary for a city, or city and county, to acquire prop- 
 erty for public use by condemnation, notice is required to be given in the 
 following manner: 
 
 In case any defendant does not reside in said city, or city and county, 
 or is a foreign corporation, or in case the attorney for said petitioner 
 shall file an affidavit that he has endeavored to find such person in such 
 city, or city and county, for the purpose of causing the said person to be 
 served as aforesaid, and that after reasonable effort he has been unable to 
 find said person in said city, or city and county, then said petitioner may 
 cause said summons to be published for three consecutive times, in any 
 daily or weekly newspaper published in said city, or city and county. 
 [Laws of 1911, pp. 275-276; also R. S. 1908, p. 690, sec. 2418.] 
 
 LIBEL LAW 
 
 That no law shall be passed impairing the freedom of speech; that 
 every person shall be free to speak, write, or publish whatever he will on 
 any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty; and that, in 
 all suits and prosecutions for libel, the truth thereof may be given in evi- 
 dence, and the jury, under the direction of the court, shall determine the 
 law and the fact. [Constitution, Art. II, sec. 10.] 
 
 A libel is a malicious defamation expressed either by printing or by 
 signs, or by pictures or the like, tending to blacken the memory of one 
 who is dead, or to impeach the honesty, integrity, virtue, or reputation, 
 or publish the natural defects, of one who is alive, and thereby to expose 
 him or her to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Every person, whether 
 writer or publisher, convicted of this offense, shall be fined in a sum not 
 exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisoned in the penitentiary not ex- 
 ceeding one year. In all prosecutions for a libel the truth thereof may 
 be given in evidence in justification, except libels tending to blacken the 
 memory of the dead, or expose the natural defects of the living. [R. S. 
 1908, p. 538, sec. 1761.] 
 
 All actions for libels shall be commenced within one year next after 
 the cause of action shall accrue and not afterwards. [R. S. 1908. p. 1029, 
 sec. 4062.] 
 
 LOTTERY ADVERTISEMENTS 
 
 Section 4114, page 1041, Revised Statutes of 1908, prohibits the publi- 
 cation of advertisements of any lottery. 
 
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EXECUTION OP DEATH SENTENCE 
 
 Section 2031, page 590, Revised Statutes of 1908, prohibits the publi- 
 cation of any detail of the execution of any criminal, more than the bare 
 fact that on the date specified he was executed according to law at the 
 penitentiary. 
 
 E STRAY NOTICE 
 
 If the secretary of the State Board of Stock Inspection Commissioners 
 shall be unable to determine from the records and description who is the 
 owner or probable owner of such estray or estrays, he shall at once cause 
 an advertisement to be published in the oflacial state live-stock paper for 
 two consecutive weeks, giving a description of said animal or animals, 
 shall state when and where the same were taken up, and shall give notice 
 that, unless said animal or animals are claimed by the legal owner within 
 ten days after the last publication of said notice, then the same shall be 
 sold by the State Board of Stock Inspection Commissioners for the bene- 
 fit of the owner when found; provided, that when such animals are un- 
 branded, or the brands are unrecorded or unknown to the State Board of 
 Stock Inspection Commissioners, said board, in addition to advertising in 
 the official state paper, shall cause a similar advertisement to be published 
 twice in some paper published in the county where said animals were 
 taken up. [R. S. 1908, pp. 1490-1491, sec. 6428.] 
 
 WAREHOUSEMEN 
 
 When a warehouseman prepares to sell any chattels br goods in his 
 possession for the storage charges, he is required, after giving the owner 
 written notice, to advertise the fact that the goods will be sold to satisfy 
 the storage charges. [See Laws of 1911, p. 662.] 
 
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INDEX 
 
 Pas:e 
 
 PUBLIC PRINTING— 
 
 Classes of 3 
 
 Done by Contract 4 
 
 Governor Annul Contract, when 12 
 
 Maximum Prices 6 
 
 Persons Who Cannot Make Contract 11 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC PRINTING 3 
 
 Advertise for Bids 4 
 
 Appointed by Governor 3 
 
 All State Printing and Binding to be Ordered through the Com- 
 missioner 10 
 
 Distribute Laws to Newspapers 13 
 
 Give Bond for $20,000 3 
 
 Malfeasance of Commissioner, Penalty 11 
 
 Measure and Inspect All Printing 9 
 
 Qualifications of 3 
 
 Quarterly Report to Departments 13 
 
 Publish Biennial Report 10 
 
 To Engage in no Other Occupation 3 
 
 OFFICIAL REPORTS 14 
 
 ADMINISTRATION OP ESTATES— 
 
 Administrator’s Notice 37 
 
 Application to Determine Descent of Property 37 
 
 Determination of Heirship 37 
 
 Notice of Final Settlement 37 
 
 Notice of Sale of Chattels 38 
 
 Publication of Notice of Probate 38 
 
 Revocation of Letters of Administration 38 
 
 Sale or Mortgage of Real Estate 38 
 
 CITIES AND TOWNS— 
 
 Annexation of Land 25 
 
 Call for Outstanding Bonds 24 
 
 Change of Class 21 
 
 Consolidation of Contiguous Towns or Cities 24 
 
 Discontinuance of City Corporation 25 
 
 Final Publication of Ordinances 20 
 
 Formation of Town Corporation. 21 
 
 Franchises 20 
 
 Funding Bonds 23 
 
 Notice of Hearing and Petition to Change Name 26 
 
 Notice of Result of Election 21 
 
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Page 
 
 Ordinances Published Before Adoption 20 
 
 Public Improvements 22 
 
 Publication of Financial Statements 23 
 
 Public Works 2o 
 
 Redemption of Warrants 22 
 
 Refunding Bonds 23 
 
 Reorganization of Towns and Cities 26 
 
 Stationery and Supplies, City of First Class 22 
 
 Treasurer’s Report, City of First Class 21 
 
 Treasurer’s Report 22 
 
 Vacation of Streets 22 
 
 Waterworks District Bonds 26 
 
 CHANGE OF PERSON’S NAME 43 
 
 COUNTIES— 
 
 Commissioners’ Proceedings 17 
 
 Redemption of Bonds 19 
 
 Roads and' Bridges, Bids for Contracts 19 
 
 Semi-Annual Statements 19 
 
 Stationery and Supplies 18 
 
 Tax Sales 17 
 
 Warrant Calls 18 
 
 CORPORATIONS— 
 
 Annual Meeting, Election of Directors 41 
 
 Consolidation of Corporations 42 
 
 Consolidation of Railroad and Telegraph Corporations 42 
 
 Dissolution of Corporations 41 
 
 Defunct Corporations 42 
 
 Mining Corporations^ — Levy Assessment 41 
 
 Statement of Condition of State Banks 42 
 
 DEFINING A DAILY NEWSPAPER 16 
 
 DRAINAGE DISTRICTS— 
 
 Annual Election in Mine Drainage Districts 35 
 
 Formation of Districts 33 
 
 Dissolution of Districts 34 
 
 May Sell Bonds 34 
 
 EMINENT DOMAIN 44 
 
 ELECTIONS— 
 
 City Registration Notice 27 
 
 Constitutional Amendments 28 
 
 List of Nominations 27 
 
 Notice of Election 27 
 
 Notice of Candidates for Primary Nomination 27 
 
 Secretary of State Publish Statement of State Canvassing 
 
 Board 28 
 
 ESTABLISHING DISPUTED BOUNDARY 40 
 
 ESTRAY NOTICE 45 
 
 EXECUTION OP DEATH SENTENCE 45 
 
 EXECUTION SALE OF LAND 38 
 
 FALSE ADVERTISING 43 
 
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 FEES FOR LEGAL ADVERTISING 16 
 
 IRRIGATION— 
 
 Adjudication of Water Rights 32 
 
 Extension of Term of Ditch Companies 33 
 
 IRRIGATION DISTRICTS— 
 
 Bond Election 30 
 
 Exclusion of Land from District 31 
 
 Dissolution of District 32 
 
 Notice of Election to Form District 29 
 
 Notice of Judicial Examination 30 
 
 Petition for Inclusion of Land in District 31 
 
 Publication of Petition to Form District 29 
 
 LAND TITLES 39 
 
 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS 16 
 
 LIBEL LAW 44 
 
 LIENS 43 
 
 LOTTERY ADVERTISEMENT 44 
 
 NEWSPAPERS IN WHICH LEGAL NOTICES MAY BE PUB- 
 LISHED 15 
 
 PAWNBROKERS— NOTICE OP SALE 43 
 
 SCHOOLS— 
 
 Notice of Teacher’s Examination 36 
 
 SCHOOL DISTRICTS- 
 
 Financial Statements 35 
 
 School Elections, Districts of the First Class 36 
 
 School Elections — Notice of Candidacy 36 
 
 STATE LAND BOARD NOTICES 40 
 
 SUMMONS 38 
 
 TRUSTEE SALES 38 
 
 WAREHOUSEMEN 45 
 
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