1780 REPORTER AND CODIFIER—STATE. [ART. 80

1904, ch. 327, sec. 4.

3. The said reporter shall, on or about the third Wednesday
of April in the year of 1904, advertise in three newspapers pub-
lished in this State, once a week, for four successive weeks, that
sealed proposals will be received at his office in the city of
Annapolis, on the first Wednesday in June in the year 1904,
for the publication of reports of the decisions of the court of
appeals of Maryland for the term of five years beginning on said
named date according to the terms of the contract hereinafter
set forth, and every five years thereafter he shall advertise in
like manner for similar proposals. The contract shall be
awarded to such person or persons or corporation as shall agree
to print and publish all said reports on terms most advantageous
to the public; and the contract shall embo,dy the following pro-
visions : The said reports shall be printed on first-class book
paper, not inferior in printing or paper to volume 96 of the Mary-
land reports, 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 Mary-
land 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 con-
tract and for five years thereafter a sufficient number of the
volumes which shall be so published" to supply the public de-
mand therefor, and sell the same to the public at a price desig-
nated 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 contracting 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 the said reports shall