2552 ARTICLE 80.

An. Code, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 6.

5. Said reporter and codifier shall prepare for publication reports of.
alt the cases argued and determined in the court of appeals of this State
designated 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
he 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 abstract 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 publications, 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
advertising for proposals for the publication of said reports shall be paid
by the comptroller upon the presentation of properly authenticated vouchers.
The clerk of the court 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.

An. Code, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 7.

6. Volume 97 of the Maryland 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 Article shall be applicable to the publication of
the reports subsequent to said volume 97.

An. Code, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 7. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 8.

7. The state reporter and codifier shall forthwith, after the session of
the general assembly in the year 1910, and decennially thereafter, prepare
a code of the public general laws of the State of 'Maryland. The 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
to the State of Maryland in the sum of ten thousand dollars, shall receive
the contract for the publication of such code of public general laws, and
if the said code of public general laws when published by said publisher
shall be approved by the commission hereinbefore provided for, the said
publisher shall be paid for the same by the State of Maryland, on the
order of the comptroller to the treasurer of the State, out of such funds
of the State as have not been otherwise appropriated. The said state
reporter and codifier shall provide in like manner, from time to time, accord-