ART. 80]

REPORTER AND CODIFIER——STATE.

1783

ARTICLE LXXX.

REPORTER AND CODIFIER—STATE

1. How appointed; tenure of office. 2. Salary; how paid. 3. To advertise for sealed proposals for publication of reports; award of contract; copyright; proviso. 4. Bond of publisher. 5. Shall publish decisions of court of appeals; clerk; salary; typewrit- ten copies of decisions to be de- livered, how paid for. 6. Volume 97 of Maryland reports, how paid for.

7. To prepare code of public general laws after session of 1910; to provide for publication of public local laws. S. Code to be submitted to commis- sion appointed by court of ap- peals. 9. Code to be in possession of and sold by state librarian. 10. Criminal code. 11. Criminal laws to be omitted from new civil code.

1904, art. 80, sec. 1. 1888, art. 80, sec. 1. 1860, art 80, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 53,

sees. 1, 2. 1866, ch. 120, sec. 1. 1867, ch. 410, sec. 1,

1904, ch. 327, sec. 2.

1. The state reporter and codifier 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
Reporter and Codifier," and shall be re-eligible from time to time.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 3.

2. The state reporter and codifier shall receive from the treasurer
of the State a salary of three thousand dollars per year, in monthly
installments.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 4.

3. The said reporter shall, on or about the third Wednesday of
April in the year of 1904, advertise in three newspapers published in this
State, once a week, for four successive weeks, that sealed proposals will
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 according to the terms of the contract hereinafter
set forth, and every five years thereafter he shall advertise in like man-
ner for similar proposals. The contract shall be awarded to 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 provisions: 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
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