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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 327.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Article 80.

of the Code of Public General Laws of the State of Mary-

land, title "Reporter State;" and to re-enact the same with

amendments under the title "State Reporter and Codifier,"

and to provide for the publication of the reports of the

Court of Appeals of Maryland, and the compilation and

publication of a Code of Public General Laws and Public

Local Laws of the State of Maryland.

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Article 80 of the Code of Public General Laws

of Maryland be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted

with amendments so as to read as follows :

State Re-

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the State Reporter and Codi-

porter and
Codifier.

fier shall be appointed by the Judges of the Court of Appeals

and shall hold his office for the term of four years unless sooner

removed by said judges, and shall be styled "The State Re-

porter and Codifier," and shall be re-eligible from time to time.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, The State Reporter and Codifier

Salary.

shall receive from the Treasurer of the State a salary of three

thousand dollars per year, in monthly instalments.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, The said Reporter shall, on or

about the third Wednesday of April in the year of 1904, ad-

vertise in three newspapers published in this State, once a

Sealed pro-

week, for four successive weeks, that sealed proposals will

posals.

be received at his office in the City of Annapolis, on the first

Wednesday in June in the year 1904, for the publication of

reports of the decisions of the Court of Appeals of Maryland

for the term of five years beginning on said named date ac-

cording to the terms of the contract hereinafter set forth,

and every five years thereafter he shall advertise in like man-

Contract to be

ner for similar proposals. The contract shall be awarded to

awarded.

such person or persons or corporation as shall agree to print

and publish all said reports on terms most advantageous to

the public; and the contract shall embody the following pro-

visions : The said reports shall be printed on first-class book

paper, not inferior in printing or paper to Volume 96 of

the Maryland Reports, and shall contain not less than seven

hundred piges, exclusive of the index and tables of cases

and statutes, and shall be uniform in size, style and form

with said Yolume 96, Maryland Reports ; nor less than twelve