REPORT.

EPITOME OF ROUTINE WORK.

The tables elsewhere in this report will show, in detail, a variety of business that may be classed generally as miscellaneous. As a matter of convenience, however, for those into whose hands copies of this report may come after it is printed, and who may not care to wade through the long, and it must be admitted, dull monotony of the tables, I have prepared the following summary:

During the official year that ended October 31, 1880, there have been issued from the executive department commissions to state, judicial and county officers five hundred and eighteen; to justices of the peace, one thousand four hundred and ninety-three; to notaries public, eight hundred and forty, and twenty-four to commissioners of deeds.

There have also been issued two proclamations, eighty-one pardons, forty remissions, three commutations, four respites, seventeen swamp land patents, twelve university patents, sixty requisitions, and forty-four warrants.

All of the above acts of the executive and commissioners have been duly attested and registered in this office.

CORPORATIONS.

Of the articles of incorporation filed in this office, thirty-six are of railroads, one hundred and twelve of manufacturing and

mining. Some of these are amendments to papers previously filed, and some are consolidations of two or more companies.

PUBLIC PRINTING.

At the special session of the General Assembly of 1875, an act to provide for the Public Printing and Binding, approved March 13, was passed, organizing a Bureau of Public Printing and Stationery, making the Governor, Auditor of State, and Secretary of State, ex-officio, Commissioners of the Public Printing and Binding, and defining their duties in regard to the same.

On the fifth day of May the Commissioners appointed the clerk of the board, and, in accordance with the law, advertised for sealed proposals for doing the work for two years from the first day of July, 1875. This contract was awarded to the Indianapolis Sentinel Company, and expired on the thirtieth day of June, 1877. The Indianapolis Journal Company was awarded the contract for two years from the first day of July, 1877, for the first and third parts, and William B. Burford for the second part. These contracts expired on the thiertieth day of June, 1879. John Carlon was awarded the contract for two years from the first day of July, 1879, which will expire on the thirtieth day of June, 1881.

There has been paid, on requisitions issued through the Board of Commissioners of Printing and Stationery, from the first day of July, 1875, to the thirty-first day of December, 1880, five years and six months, for printing, binding and stationery, the sum of $98,958.49, as follows:

From July 1, 1875, to June 30, 1877, two years.

$44,091 03

From July 1, 1877, to June 30, 1879, two years

34,662 19

From July 1, 1879, to December 31, 1880, one year

and six months.

20,205 27

Total cost for five years and six months ..

$98,958 49

It will be seen from the above statement that the cost per year, for five years and six months, has been at the average rate of $17,992.44.

For the eleven years previous to the establishment of the Bureau, there was expended for this branch of the public service $590,629.75, as follows:

Average cost per year for eleven years, $53,420.88. This shows there has been a saving in the cost to the State of $35,428.44 per year, under the present system of contracting the work.