Legal Printing

A bilí has bccn introducol into UM Ifgisluture whieh proposes, to cut down the priM of legal advertisiiif.' l'roin the piOWC ratos to 35 cents per folio. The present rates are 70 ccots per folio tor the first insertion, and 35 cents for each subsequent publication. These ratcs in all reasoD, are sufficiently low. Any lower ones would certainly be unjust to publishers. It is truc that the establishment of a large number of amateur printing offices throughout the country, and the cutting down of ly boys who huve little or no capital investcd, and who can give clieap ügures for a very cheap job, have injured the printin? business to a great extent. Also the false couipetition which some offices have adopted of cutting on legal rates, has given the peoplc an iiupression that the present equable and aat rates are exorbitant and oppressive, when in fact they are not. The reducing of the prosent ratcs by the leislature will be an injustice to every legitímate priattng SBUbfohment in the state, but will benelit what Osmun, of the Kvening News, terms "wild cats." The pubüshers of the state hould wmtdl this bill and its disposal.