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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That said Reporter and Codifier

Court of Ap-
peals cases to

shall prepare for publication reports of all the cases argued

be published.

and determined in the Court of Appeals of this State desig-

nated by said Court to be reported within six months from

the time when the same shall have been determined. The

reports in all cases shall be limited to a statement of the

material facts, the principal points and authorities cited by

the respective counsel, the opinions of the Court, and an ab-

stract or headnote of the points decided; and each volume of

said reports shall also contain a list of cases therein reported,

a list of cases decided in the period embraced in the volume

designated by the Court not to be reported, and a copious

index. The Reporter and Codifier shall, in the usual manner

of authors, superintend the publication, correction and proof-

reading of such reports, and shall secure the copyright for

the State of Maryland and as its property; and in addition

to his aforesaid salary shall receive the sum of five hundred

dollars per annum for clerical assistance, which sums shall

be in full compensation for all his services. The cost of ad-

vertising for proposals for the publication of said reports

shall be paid by the Comptroller upon the presentation of

Clerk of Court

properly authenticated vouchers. The Clerk of the Court

of Appeals.

of Appeals shall promptly deliver to the State Reporter and

Codifier accurate typewritten copies of all the opinions of

the Court of Appeals, to be paid for by the said Clerk out

of the fees of his office.

Volume 97.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That Volume 97, of the Mary-

land Reports, now in course of publication, shall be paid for

by the Comptroller and Treasurer in the manner now pro-

vided by law; and that this Act shall be applicable to the

publication of the reports subsequent to said Volume 97.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the State Reporter and Codi-

fier shall forthwith, after the Session of the General Assembly

To prepare
Code of the

in the year 1910, and decennially thereafter, prepare a Code of

Public Gen-

the Public General Laws of the State of Maryland. The

eral Laws.

said Code when prepared shall be submitted to a commission

of three men learned in the law, who shall be appointed by

the Court of Appeals, and if they, or a majority of them,

shall approve the same in writing, then the Reporter and

Codifier shall cause advertisements to be published in at least

two daily papers of the State for one month asking for bids

for the publication of such Code within six months thereafter;

the number of volumes to be prescribed by the Court of

Appeals. And the lowest bidder therefor, upon giving bond