REPORTER AND CODIFIER—STATE 3015

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 vouch-
ers. 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, 1924, sec. 6. 1912, 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, 1924, sec. 7. 1912, 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, ac-
cording to need, for the codification and publication of a code of public
local laws of the State, but may have the same printed collectively or
separately for the several counties in such paper binding as he may deem
for the best interest and advantage of the people of the State.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 8. 1912, sec. 8. 1904, sec. 8. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 9.

8. Immediately upon the completion of the code of public general laws
in the year 1910, and decennially thereafter, the same shall be submitted
by the state reporter and codifier to a commission to be appointed by the
court of appeals of Maryland, and after examination, if a majority thereof
shall so determine, shall certify the said code to be authentic, and upon
said certification the same shall be received in all the courts of this State
and in any other State as evidence of the law of the State of Maryland.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 9. 1912, sec. 9. 1904, sec. 9. 1904, ch. 327, sec. 10.

9. After the publication of such code or codes the same shall be placed
in the possession of the state librarian, and shall be sold by said librarian