ART. 80.] REPORTER—STATE. 1201

have been determined ; the reports in all cases shall be limited to
a statement of the material facts, the principal points and author-
ites relied on by the respective counsel, the opinion of the court,
and an abstract or head-note of the points decided; and each vol-
ume of said reports shall also contain a list of the cases therein
reported, a list of the cases decided during the period embraced in
the volume designated by the court as not to be reported, and a
copious index.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 80, sec. 4. 1852, ch. 55, sec. 3. 1865, ch. 120, sec. 4.
1867, ch. 410, sec. 4.

4. Each volume of the reports shall contain at least six hun-
dred pages, and shall be printed on good paper, to be selected and
purchased by the reporter at the cost of the State, with clear type,
and in size, form, quality of materials and quantity of matter per
page shall correspond as nearly as possible with the eighteenth
volume of Maryland reports, and shall be sold at a price of five
dollars a volume in fine law binding, or four dollars and a-half
when not bound; and shall be printed, published and bound at
the expense of the reporter, who shall be entitled to the copyright
of the volumes.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1852, ch. 55, sec. 3. 1865, ch. 120, sec. 5. 1867, ch. 410, sec. 5.

5. The State shall take two hundred copies of each volume of
said reports, at the price of six dollars per volume, delivered at
the State library, being at the rate of two dollars per page, of a
single volume of six hundred pages, and at the same rate when
the volume may exceed six hundred pages.

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