54 FEDERAL REPORTER.
Sec. 159. The copies received by the secretary of state shall be disposed of
by him as follows: Two copies of each volume to the library of congress and
the library of the supreme court of the United States; one copy to the library
of each state and territory in the United States, to each judge of the supreme,
district, and circuit courts, to the clerk of the supreme court, and attorney
general; fifty copies to the state library, to be and remain therein as a part
` thereof; and one copy to each county in the state; and twenty copies to the
law department of the state university; and twenty copies to the state histori-
cal society for exchange in such manner as the proper ofhcers thereof think
advisable; and the remaining copies, together with all Reports now in the
otlice of governor, secretary, auditor, treasurer of state, and register of the
land-oilice, and superintendent of public instruction, shall be used by the
trustees of the state library in exchange for such books on law or equity, or
Reports of other states, as they may select. All books received by such ex-
change shall be deposited in and become a part of the state library.
Sec. 160. The reporter shall furnish reports to any person desiring the same,
at a rate not exceeding tive dollars for each volume. For a violation of this `
section, and upon conviction thereof, he shall be lined two hundred dollars.
(Act of 1880.)
CHAPTER 60. _
SUPREME COURT REPORTS.
An act to provide for the stereotyping, publishing, and sale of the Supreme
Court Reports, and to repeal sections 155, 156, 157, and 160, c. 4, tit. 3, of
the Code, and to Hx the salary of the supreme court reporter.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:
Section 1. That within 60 days after sutilcient opinions are announced to
make a volume, as herein provided, the supreme court reporter shall furnish
and deliver, at his otllce in Des Moines, Iowa, to the person, persons, or cor-
poration having the contract with the state for publishing the same, copies
of such opinions; and with each opinion a syllabus, a brief statement of the
facts involved, and the legal propositions made by counsel in the argument,
with the authorities cited. But the argument shall not be reported at length;
and within 20 days after the proof-sheets for a volume are furnished to him
by the publishers, at his otlice in Des Moines, Iowa, he shall furnish to said
publishers an index and table of cases to such volume. The publishers shall
furnish to the reporter, without delay, as soon as they shall be issued, two
copies of the revised proof-sheets of the opinions, head-notes, indexes, and
table of cases of each volume, for correction and approval by the judges of
the supreme court, and shall cause such corrections to be made as shall be
indicated thereon by said judges. Each of said volumes shall contain not
less than 750 nor more than 800 pages, exclusive of table of cases and index,
and the workmanship and quality of material shall in every particular be
equal to the first issue of volume 40 of the Iowa Supreme Court Reports, and
shall be approved and accepted by a majority of the judges of the supreme
court.
Sec. 2. The copyrights of all the supreme court reports hereafter published
shall vest in the secretary of state for the benefit of the people of this state;
but this shall not be construed to prevent, the contractor by whom any vol·
unne is published, his representatives, or assigns, from continuing the exclu-
sive publication and sale of such volume so long as he or they shall, in all re-
spects, comply with the requirements of this act in respect to the character,
sale, and price of such volume.
Sec. 3. The supreme court reporter shall have no pecuniary interest in
such reports, but the same shall be published under the contract to be entered
into by the executive council with the person, persons, or corporation who