Section 5. That all copy for said Legislative Journal is to be furnished to the Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding, daily, in typewritten form where practicable, by the journal clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives; said copy to be prepared under the direction of the chief clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives; and the proceedings of both Houses are to appear in the said Legislative Journal the day following the receipt of said copy, from the journal clerk of either or both Houses, by the Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding, whose duty it shall be to see that the same is printed as speedily as possible. Any failure of the contractor or contractors to print and deliver the said Legislative Journal to the Sergeant-at-Arms and the superintendent of the pasting and folding-rooms of the two Houses, before the opening of the Legislative session on the day following the receipt by him of the copy aforesaid, shall, unless otherwise ordered by the Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding, for reasonable cause, subject said contractor or contractors to a fine of five hundred dollars for each and every day such failure occurs; to be paid to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for the use of said Commonwealth, and to be collected as other fines are now collectible by law.
The Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding shall have all the copy of the Journal returned to the chief clerk of the House from which received, and the same shall be kept on file, in the office of said clerks, for a period of two years.