ART. 80] PUBLICATION OF REPORTS. 1781

be authorized by the State so long as its copyright thereon re-
mains in force; provided the publisher or his assigns shall
supply the demand therefor at the price stipulated in the
contract.

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
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
fulfil 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, termi-
nate the contract in such manner as to take effect at such date
as they shall deem just and proper.

Ibid. 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 court 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 author-
ities 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 publication, correction and proof read-
ing of such reports, and shall secure the copyright for the State
of Maryland and as its property; and in addition to his afore-
said salary shall receive the sum of five hundred dollars per
annum for clerical assistance, which sums shall be in full com-
pensation 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