2550 ARTICLE 80.

ARTICLE 80.

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 ap- peals; clerk; salary; typewritten copies of decisions delivered, how paid for. 6. Volume 97 of Md. reports, how paid for.

7. To prepare code of public general laws after session of 1910; to provide for publication of public local laws. 8. Code to be submitted to commission appointed by court of appeals. 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.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 53, secs. 1, 2. 1865, 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.
See art. 4, sec. 16, of Md. Constitution.

An. Code, see. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 3. 1924, ch. 253.

2. The State Reporter and Codifier shall receive from the .Treasurer
of the State a salary of three thousand, six hundred dollars per year, in
monthly installments.

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, 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 manner 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 follow-
ing 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,