EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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hundred copies of said volumes shall be printed. The pub-

lisher shall deliver to the State Library three hundred copies

of each volume bound in first-class law sheep; and the State

shall pay therefor to the publisher the sum of six hundred

dollars, being at the rate of two dollars per volume. And

the publisher shall keep on hand in the City of Baltimore

Publisher.

for sale during the period of this contract and for five years

thereafter a sufficient number of the volumes which shall be

so published to supply the public demand therefor, and sell

the same to the public at a price designated in his proposal

for volumes bound in first-class law sheep and at the price

designated for volumes in sheets unbound. The reports shall

be published promptly from manuscript to be supplied by

the Reporter and under his supervision. If there be any un-

reasonable delay in the printing or publication of said reports,

it shall be his duty to employ others to complete the work

at the cost of the contracting party. The said contract shall be

Awarded to re-
sponsible bid-

awarded by the Reporter to the person whom he shall determine

der.

to be the most responsible bidder, who will agree to publish

the said reports in the manner aforesaid and sell the same on

terms most advantageous to the public, and at the lowest

price; and the said publisher shall also agree to sell the ad-

vance sheets of said volume at a price fifty cents less per

volume than he shall be entitled to receive for the bound

volumes thereof. No other publication of the said reports shall

be authorized by the State so long as its copyright thereon

Copyright

remains in force; provided the publisher or his assigns shall

supply the demand therefor at the price stipulated in the

contract.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the performance of the

said contract by the publisher shall be secured by a bond

Publisher to
furnish bond.

in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, with two or more

sureties satisfactory to the Treasurer of the State, and the

form of the contract and the bond shall be approved by the

Attorney General. If at any time in the opinion of the Court

of Appeals the publisher shall fail to publish the reports

promptly, or otherwise fail satisfactorily to fulfill the terms

of the contract, and that such failure shall, in their opinion,

continue for a period of three months after a written notifica-

tion thereof given by them to said publisher, then at any time

after the expiration of said period the Court of Appeals may

by any instrument or paper, in writing, terminate the con-

tract in such manner as to take effect at such date as they

shall deem just and proper.