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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 reports in whole-
sale 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, 1924, sec. 4. 1912, 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 see. 3—see notes thereto. Curlander v. King,
112 Md. 526.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 5. 1912, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 6.

5. Said reporter and codifier shall prepare for publication reports of
all the cases argued and determined in the court of appeals of this State
designated by said cqurt 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 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