Free Press Ass'n v. Nichols
Supreme Court of Vermont
Petition for mandamus. The petition alleged that on the first week in June, 1872, George Nichols, secretary of state, advertised in one weekly newspaper in each county where one was published, for sealed proposals for printing certain state documents, and set out said advertisement in hoec verba, which, after stating that sealed proposals were thereby invited for printing certain state documents, naming them, and the form and style of the same, and when the same were to bo…
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Petition for mandamus. The petition alleged that on the first week in June, 1872, George Nichols, secretary of state, advertised in one weekly newspaper in each county where one was published, for sealed proposals for printing certain state documents, and set out said advertisement in hoec verba, which, after stating that sealed proposals were thereby invited for printing certain state documents, naming them, and the form and style of the same, and when the same were to bo completed, but not stating the time when said proposals must be deposited in the office of the secretary of state, read…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Royce, J.
The petition of the relator is for a writ of mandamus to issue against the defendants, commanding them to examine the' sealed proposals for the state printing which were deposited in the office of the secretary of state on or before the 10th day of July, 1872, and none others, and therefrom to accept the one most advantgeous to the state,’and at once thereafter notify the party making such proposal, and close the contract for said printing in accordance with such proposal so accepted, and that such further .order may be had in the premises as…
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