In printing messages, reports, and other documents ordered to be printed by the General Assembly or by any officer, in pursuance of law or resolution of either house of the General Assembly, the contractor may attach covers and prefix a title page to each message or report of a state officer or superintendent of a state institution, but the contractor shall dispense with full title pages in reports of committees and other short documents and affix only a half-title at the top of the first page of every document.