Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-19

or others, except as herein mentioned.
Sec. IA. The board of commissioners shall,
on or before December 31st. 1883, make to the
Governor of the State full report of all their
proceedings under this act, with detailed
statement of the expenditures made by them,
and such report shall be published within the
executive documents of that year, and submit
ted to the Legislature at its next session.
Sec. 49, This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 8, 1881.
AN ACT to provide for the reporting, pub
fishing and selling Of the Minnesota Re-
ports.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State
Of Minnesota:
Section /. The supreme court reporter
shall as soon as practicable after the decisions
of the supreme court are filed, and within
ninety days after the fling Insufficient number
OF decisions to constitute volume as herein
after provided, furnish and deliver to the con-
tractors with the state for the printing, ste
reotyping, publishing and selling of the fu.
ture volumes of the Minnesota reports as
hereinafter provided, copies of such decl-
Bions with the syllabi as written by the court,
and brief abstracts of the cases, and briefs Of
in such case, and an index, to be published in
suitable volumes. Each volume of said re-
ports shall contain not less than six hundred
pages, to be stereotyped, printed and bound
in good substantial manner and form, OF
good material for law books, the width of
printed page shall be four and one quarter
az inches or twenty-siX ems plea, and in all
other respects the same style and quality as
volume twenty-five (25) of the Minnesota Re-
ports, to be approved by the supreme court
judges, or a majority of them.
Sec. 2. The supreme court reporter shall
have no pecuniary interest in such reports,
but the same shall be published under the su-
pervision of supreme court reporter, by con-
tract to be entered into by the West Publish
ing Company, present publishers OF the su-
preme court reports with the State, and said
publishers shall agree to publish and sell the
same at the place of publication within this
State, and at all times keep the same on sale at
such place of publication in quantities of one
or more not exceeding twenty-five (25) copies
at aEy one time, and upon reasonable notice
of not less than ten days, for the uniform
price of two dollars per volume, and if any
such volume shall in any way, or from any
cause, contain more than six hundred pages,
no increased or additional price shall be
charged therefor, and also publish and de-
liver to the Secretary of State, at the State
Capitol, at the earliest practicable time, and
within sixty days after the return of all
proofs of any one volume of said reports
from the reporter to the publishers, two hun
dred (2J0) copies of such volumes to be paid
for by the State at the contract price, and
shall agree to stereotype the same, and at all
times keep the same on sale in the State of
Minnesota at the contract price, and furnish
the State any number of additional copies
that may be thereafter required at the con-
tract price. The copyrights of allthe reports
hereafter published, shall vest in the Secre-
rotary of State for the benefit of the people
of this State, but this shall not be construed
to prevent the contractors by whom any such
volume is published, their representatives OF
assigns, from continuing the publication and
sale of such volume, so long as they shall
comply in all respects with the requirements
of this act in respect to the character, sale
and price of such volume.
Sec. 3. Within thirty days after the pas
sage of this act, the said publishers shall en-
ter into contract with the Secretary of State
for the benefit of this State, in accordance
with the terms and provisions of this act,
and shall file with the treasurer bond in the
penal sum of five thousand dollars (S5,00O),
conditioned to fulfill such contract in all par
ticulars, with at least two sufficient sureties,
residents of this State, to be approved by the
Secretary of State, such bond shall by its
terms be the Joint and several obligations of
the persons eXecutingit.
Sec. 4. The contract of the publishers, as
Required by section three of this act, shall
contain among others the following coy-
euants on their part:
FiIst-That they will print, stereotype, pub
lsh and sell, as hereinbefore provided, and in
accordance with all the provisions Of this act,
the MINES ota Reports, commencing with vol
nme twenty-eight (28), for the term of eight
years from the passage of this act
Second-That they win take out copy
right upon each volume published under said
contract, in the name of the Secretary of this
State flor the benefit of the people of this
State
Third-In case it shall be determined in an
action on the bond that said contractors have
failed IN any respect to comply with the pro-
visions of their contract, the Secretary of
State may declare the contract void, and re-
cover such damages to the amount of the
bond as the courts may award.
Sec. 5. Volume twenty-seven of the Min
nesota Reports being now in the hands of the
printer may be completed and published under
existing laws.
Sec. 6. ! Upon delivery of two hundred (2oo)
copies Of any one volume of reports pub
act, to the Secretary of State, he shall give his
receipt for the same, and upon surrender of
such receipt to the State Auditor, he shah
draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for
four hundred dollars $4,000 in favor of the
contractors OF their representatives, or as
signs, which said warrant shall be paid upon
to the treasurer of this State.
Sec. Z. In case the West Publishing Com
pany should fail to enter into contract
within the time limited by this act, or should
forfeit such contract by failure at any time to
comply with the provisions of the same, as
in this act provided, the Secretary of State
shall upon such forfeiture and as soon there
after as may be practicable, advertise in four
different newspapers in four different local
tiles in this State for four consecutive weeks,
that sealed proposals will be received for the
printing, stereotyping, binding and selling of
the said reports for the unexpired term of this
contract at a certain rate per volume, to be
stated in such proposals, not exceeding the
price fixed by this act, and according to the
provisions of this act
Sec. 6. All act and parts of acts inconsist-
ent with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. Q. That the reporter of the supreme
court in lieu of the copyright heretofore