398 , LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 418
CHAPTER 418.
(Senate Bill 433)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
3, 4 and 6 of Article 80 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1939 Edition), title "Reporter and Codifier—
State, " said sections relating to the printing, publishing
and sale of the Maryland Reports by the Court Reporter.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted l)y the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 3, 4 and 6 of Article 80 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), relating to the printing,
publishing and sale of the Maryland Reports by the Court
Reporter, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

3; The said reporter shall, on or about the third
Wednesday of April in the year of (1904) 1949, adver-
tise 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 (1904) 1949, 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 embody the following provisions: The
said reports shall be printed on first-class book paper, not
inferior in printing or paper to volume (96) 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 (96) 181 Maryland reports; nor less
than twelve hundred copies of said volumes shall be printed.
The publisher shall deliver to the state library three hun-
dred copies of each volume. bound in first-class (law sheep)
buckram; and the State shall pay therefor to the pub-
lisher 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 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