The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-19

with some surety company authorized to do business in Alabama, as surety. to be approved by the governor, if the bid should be accepted conditioned to faith fully perform -de contract which shal be drawn by the attorney general and approved by the governor. When the en- tire work is delivered to the bidders the
 governor may pay contractor such part of the agreed price as he may deem Just, not to exceed two-tnirds of the whole sum to be paid for the entire work. The commission shall furnish to the contrac- tor an accurate copy of the new Code l together with the appropriate annotation and correct citations and cross references, and this copy only. shall be sent to the
 printer and immediately thereafter the
 original manuscript shall be substan- tlally bound in books of convenient size.
 and deposited and kept in the office of the secretary of state.
 g. The commission for codifying the gen eral acts of the present legislature which have been approved and incorporated Into the manuscript by the joint committee. l and for performing all the duties required 1 of him in and about the publication of the code, shall receive five thousand dol lars, two thousand dollars 10 be paid | when his copy is delivered to the print CTS two thousand dollars when the work I Is delivered to the binders, and one thou sand dollars when the ten thousand sets are delivered to the secretary of state. 10. Upon the delivery of the ten thou sand sets of the Code to the secretary of state, the governor must thereupon make proclamation announcing that fact, and that the Code will go into effect and become operative on the thlrteth day aft CT the date of the proclamation.
 II. The secretary of state must retain, for the use of the state in Its courts, and for It's officers and public institutions and libraries the five thousand sets of the State Edition, no copy of which shall ever be sold, and every copy of which shall forever remain the property of the state of Alabama. Any person found in posses sion of any volume or copy of the State Edition of the Code. except in the court office, institution or library where they are properly deposited for public use, shall be guilty of mlsdemeanor.
  of state shall transmit to every depart ment of the United States government and to the congressional library, one copy; to the executive of every state and territory, two copies; to the librarian of the University, ten copies, Alabama Poly technc Institute and the Alabama Girls Industrial School, the Deaf. Dumb and Blind Institutes and the insane hospitals and every normal school and agrlcul- tural school and experiment station. two copies: and shall deliver to the librarian of the supreme court ten copies. for the use of the library; to the department of archives and history. two copies; to the head of every department In the state capitol. one copy; to every court of record l and every separate division of a court of record in the state two copies; the medi- cal college at Mobile. two copies; to every sheriff, solicitor, county superin- dent of education, board of revenue. tax assessor tax collector and country treas urer, justice of the peace every notary with the powers of justice of the peace every public library which is not named after any person and to every bar lib-
 
 copies shall forever remain In the state of Alabama and shall never become the per sonal property of any person or corpora ton however long they may have had possession thereof.
 l lS The secretary of state shall, from the sale Edition of the Code, distribute l to every judge of a court of record In 1 the state of Alabama, senator and rep resentative. secretary of the senate and 1 clerk of the house, set of the Sale Edition which shall be his personal prop erty.
 A. For the purpose of making a correct distribution of the Code to the county i officers entitled thereto. the secretary Of state shall deliver to every probate judge the number of copies as by the written requisitlon of the probate judge may be shown that his county is entitled to re- ceive. The acquisition must give the name and office of every officer for whom the requisition is made. and the probate jud ,e must be taken from every officer to whom a Code is delivered receipt specifying whether it Is of the State Edi- ton or the Sale Edition. which receipt he [ must He Tn me once or lHe secretary of state; and snail be responsible for all copies delivered to him and for which he has not filed the receipts of the officer entitled thereto in the office of the sec retary of state.
 10. That all copies of the State Edition left after the distribution above provid- ed for. the secretary of state shall pre- serve for official use and shall not sell any of them. All the rest of the Sale Edition he may sell at six dollars per copy of three volumes, but shall not sell to any one individual. corporation or firm more than five copies.
 16. That to secure speedy delivery of the Code and to have it printed and bound fully in accordance with specifications and requirements of this Act the secre- tary of state, the code commissioner and the chairman of the joint legislative com mttee. who read the Code, are hereby constituted commission, whose duty It shall be to open and examine all of the bids made for printing the Codes and certify them to the governor in the or der in which the bids are made, rating them according to the prIce of the bid and the character of the work usually retary of state shall receive any Code or the governor pay any part of the con tract price this commission shall care