REPORTER AND CODIFIEE—STATE. 2551

and shall contain not less than seven hundred pages, exclusive of the index
and tables of cases and statutes, and shall be uniform in size, style and form
with said volume 96 Maryland reports; nor less than twelve hundred copies
of said volumes shall be printed. The publisher 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 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
unreasonable 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 con-
tracting party. The said contract shall be awarded by the reporter to the
person whom he shall determine 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 advance 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 said reports
shall be authorized by the State so long as its copyright thereon remains
in force; provided the publisher or his assigns shall supply the demand
therefor at the price stipulated in the contract.

A publisher to whom the contract for printing the Maryland reports has been
awarded under this section, cannot be compelled by mandamus to supply said re-
ports in wholesale quantities to other dealers to serve their independent trade.
Object of act of 1904, ch. 327, and obligation of publisher thereunder. Curlander v.
King, 112 Md. 519.

An. Code, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 5.

4. The performance of the said contract by the publisher shall be
secured by a 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 notification 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 contract in such manner as to take effect at such date as they shall deem
just and proper.

This section referred to in construing sec. 3—see notes thereto. Curlander v.
King, 112 Md. 526.