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the state of Iowa have hereunto set our hands this eighth day of July, A. D.
1880. BANKS & Bnormcns.
Signed and witnessed, as to Banks & Bros., June 24, 1880.
, J 0sEPH G. J ENNINGS.
J 0HN H. GEAR, Governor.
‘ J. A. HULL, Secretary of State.
B. R. SHERMAN, Auditor of State. ‘
Giro. W. BEM1S, Treasurer of State.
(Title III., Iowa Code 1873, page 26.) _
CHAPTER 2.
or THE CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT.
Sec. 146. The office of the clerk of the supreme court shall be kept at the
seat of government, and he shall keep a complete record of all proceedings
of the court. `
Sec. 147. He must not allow any written opinion of the court to be re-
moved from his otlice except by the reporter, but shall permit any one to ex-
amine or copy the same, and shall, when required, make a copy and certify
to the same.
Sec. 148. He shall promptly announce by letter any decision rendered to
one of the attorneys of each side when such attorneys are not in attendance
at the place of cou1·t.
Sec. 149. He shall record every opinion rendered by the court as soon as
filed, and shall perform all the duties pertaining to his oiiice.
CHAPTER 4. *
OF THE SUPREME COURT REPORTER.
Sec. 154. When the opinions tiled at any term of the supreme court are re-
corded by the clerk, the reporter may take and retain the same for a period
not exceeding four months, to prepare a report therefrom, but within such
time they shall be returned to and remain in the olhce of such clerk.
Sec. 155, He shall, as soon as practicable after a case is decided, prepare
forpublication a syllabus of the opinion, a brief abstract of the facts involved,
and a statement of the legal propositions made by counsel in the argument;
but the argument shall not be reported at length.
Sec. 156. As often as there shall be sufficient matter to constitute avolume
of 600 pages, exclusive of the index and table of cases, the reporter shall ar-
range the same, with a table of cases and an index, and publish the same in
a manner and style as neat and substantial as that of the thirteenth volume
of Iowa Reports; but the supreme court may increase the size of the volumes
when necessary. Two volumes only shall be published in a year.
Sec. 157. The secretary of state shall take for the use of the state 500 cop-
ies of each volume of such Reports as soon as published, upon presentation
of a certificate signed by a majo1·ity of the judges of the supreme court, show-
ing that such volume is prepared and published as provided in this chapter;
and shall execute a receipt therefor; upon presentation of which the auditor
of state shall draw a warrant on the state treasury in payment for the same
at the rate of five dollars per volume. None of said volumes shall be sold
or disposed of before the same have been approved by the judges aforesaid.
Sec. 158. The copyright of all Reports prepared or published after the first
day of January, A. D. 1875, shall be the property of the state. But the re-
porter shall own the copyright of all Reports published before that time, and
the supreme court may order the publication of a new edition of any volume
of which the copyright is owned by the reporter when the public interest re-
quires it, and may require compliance therewith within six months by an or-
der entered of record; and if the reporter neglects or refuses to comply with
such order, then such copyright shall be forfeited to the state.