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in first class (law sheep) buckram and at the price desig-
nated 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 pub-
lisher 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 copyright thereon remains in force;
provided the publisher or his assigns shall supply the
demand therefor at the price stipulated in the contract.

4. The performance of the said contract by the pub-
lisher 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 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 satisfactory to fulfill the terms of the con-
tract, 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, that at any time
after the expiration of said period the court of appeals
may by any instrument or paper in writing, terminate the
contract in such manner as to take effect at such date as
they shall deem just and proper.

6. Volume (97) 182 of the Maryland reports, now in
course of publication, shall be paid for by the comptroller
and treasurer in the manner now provided by law; and
that this Article shall be applicable to the publication of
the reports subsequent to said volume (97) 182.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1945.

Approved March 29, 1945.