160 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 67

3. The said reporter shall, on or about the third Wednes-
day of April in the year of 1949, advertise in three
newspapers published 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 1949, for the publication of re-
ports 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 man-
ner 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 advantage-
ous to the public; and the contract shall embody the follow-
ing provisions: The said reports shall be printed on first-
class book paper, not inferior in printing or paper to volume
181 of the Maryland 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 1S1 Maryland 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
buckram; and the State shall pay therefor to the publisher
the contract price per volume for each of said three hundred
volumes. 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 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
proposals for volumes bound in first class buckram 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 unrea-
sonable 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 de-
termine 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 copy-
right thereon remains in force; provided the publisher or his
assigns shall supply the demand therefor at the price stipu-
lated in the contract.