CHAPTER 211.

STATE REPORTER-OFFICE ABOLISHED.

AN ACT relating to the State Reporter, and the publication of the Supreme Court Reports.

Be It Enacted By The People Of The State Of Oklahoma:

Chief Justice and Presiding Judge to Act.

Section 1. Section 8166 of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 8166. The Chief Justice shall publish the opinions of the Supreme Court, and the Presiding Judge of the Criminal Court of Appeals shall publish the opinions of the Criminal Court of Appeals, as provided in this act." Court Reports-How Published.

Section 2. Section 8163, of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 8163. All contract periods for the publication of the Supreme Court reports and the reports of the Criminal Courts of Appeals shall be eight (8) years each, commencing on the first day of September in the year 1915, and in each eighth year thereafter. Every such contract shall contain the following covenant on the part of the publisher; That he will print, bind, and issue every volume of said reports for which the manuscript shall be furnished to him by the Chief Justice or the presiding Judge during said period; that he will publish, deliver and place on sale each of said volumes within sixty days after delivery to him, at the Capitol in Oklahoma City, of the manuscript of a sufficient number of decisions for such volume, not counting as any part of said sixty days the time elapsing between the delivery by the publisher to the Chief Justice or the Presiding Judge of the last page proofs of such decisions and that he will furnish promptly to the Chief Justice or presiding judge, at the Capitol in Oklahoma City, galley proofs, triplicate page proofs, and triplicate plate proofs of the matter contained in each volume,

and revised copies of such proofs if called for by the Chief Justice or Presiding Judge, and will make all changes as required by said Chief Justice or Presiding Judge and marked by him on the various proofs and will furnish duplicate proofs from the corrected plates in case the Chief Justice or Presiding Judge determines that changes in stereotype plates are essential;; that he will remain fully obligated to eliminate all typographical errors from the work, notwithstanding the correction of proofs by said Chief Justice or Presiding Judge; that he will keep said volume at all times on sale in the State of Oklahoma, to residents thereof at contract price, in suitable quantities, and at such places as may be designated therefor by the Board of Public Affairs; that he will deliver to the State Librarian at Oklahoma City, immediately after the publication, and subject to approval and acceptance by the Chief Justice in case of Supreme Court reports, and by the Presiding Judge in case of reports of the Criminal Court of Appeals, three hundred fifty (350) copies of each volume, at a price not to exceed the sum of one dollar per volume, and will thereafter sell to the State at the contract price such additional copies as it may require, making delivery at the same place; that he will procure stereotype plates of each volume and substitute new plates whenever the original ones shall become defaced or destroyed; that he will not take out or procure to be taken out any copyright whatever upon any such volume, except in the name and for the benefit of the State of Oklahoma, and that upon any breach of this covenant as to copyright he will pay to the State Treasurer one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) as liquidated damages; that the Board of Public Affairs may declare the contract forfeited, whenever it shall be determined in any action upon the bond of such publisher that he has failed in any respect to comply with the provisions of this chapter or of his contract; that upon any forfeiture, so declared, he will upon demand transfer to the Secretary of State, for the use of the state, all stereotype plates of all volumes published under such con

tracts, or will pay to the Treasurer of the State One Thousand Dollars ($1000.00) for each such volume as liquidated damages for the failure to make such transfer, and that such failure shall be deemed a breach of the conditions of his bond, and such liquidated damages may be recovered by action thereupon; and that he will comply with all the provisions of this chapter on his part to be performed, and will make no charge or claim against the state for full performance of said contract, except for the contract price of the volumes sold and delivered in addition to the aforesaid three hundred and fifty volumes. But said publisher, his representatives and assigns, may continue to publish and sell any such volume originally published by him, so long as he and they comply with all the requirements of this chapter and of his contract in respect to the character, sale and price thereof, notwithstanding a copyright vested in the state."

Advertising for Bids.

Section 3. Commencing in the first week in July next preceding each contract period, the Board of Public Affairs shall advertise for six successive weeks in newspapers, each of which is published in a different city of the state, that sealed proposals for printing, publishing and delivering the Supreme Court Reports and the reports of the Criminal Court of Appeals, as required by this chapter, will be received by said board at its office, and there publicly opened and read at a specified time, and that upon application said board will furnish to bidders all necessary information and blanks.

Requirements of Bidders.

Section 4. Each bidder shall deposit with the State Treasurer, before filing his proposal, the sum of one thousand dollars ($1000.00) to be forfeited to the state in case he shall not make a contract according with the terms of his proposal, if accepted, and according with the requirements of this chapter, and shall take a receipt therefor, from said Treasurer, stating the aforesaid conditions of the deposit,

and deliver the same to the Board of Public Affairs with his proposal. Each proposal shall specify the price per volume at which the volumes to be published during the contract period will be sold to residents of this state, which price shall not exceed two dollars.

Acceptance of Bids.

All proposals shall be opened and read publicly at the time and place appointed therefor, or on such adjourned day as may be named by the Board of Public Affairs. Thereupon that proposal shall be accepted which proposes to sell said reports to residents of the state at the lowest price per volume. Each accepted proposal shall have endorsed thereon over the signature of the members of the Board of Public Affairs, the word "accepted," with the date of such acceptance, which endorsement shall constitute immediate notice to the bidder of the fact of acceptance.

Contract-Bond.

Section 6. Within thirty days after the acceptance of any proposal or such further time as the Board of Public Affairs may allow therefor, the successful bidder shall make a contract according with the terms of his proposal and according with the terms of this chapter, and shall execute to the state and deposit with the State Treasurer a bond in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) conditioned to fulfill such contract in all particulars, 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 obligation of the persons executing it; but such bidder may, in lieu of sureties to such bond, deposit therewith bonds of the United States, payable to the bearer, amounting to not less than ten thousand dollars, which shall be deemed and held to be forfeited to the State of Oklahoma, in case of the failure of such bidder to fulfill any of the conditions of his said bond by him to be performed. If the successful bidder fail to complete his contract or forfeit the same for any cause, the Board of

Public Affairs shall relet the contract as soon thereafter as practicable, for the remainder of the contract period. in the manner herein provided for letting the original contract.

Repeal.

Section 7. Sections 8161, 8162, 8164, 8165, 8168, 8169, 8170, and 8171 of the Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, are hereby repealed.

Approved April 1, 1915.

CHAPTER 212.

OKLAHOMA NATIONAL GUARD MILITARY PROPERTY.

AN ACT to amend sections 65 and 86, of chapter 164 of the Session Laws of Oklahoma, 1913, relating to the Oklahoma National Guard.

Be It Enacted By The People Of The State Of Oklahoma: Misappropriation of Military Property.

Section 1. Section 65 of chapter 164 of the Session Laws of Oklahoma, 1913, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 65. (Officers must report illegal disposition of property). All civil peace officers, all commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the National Guard, and commissioned officers of the regular army are enjoined to seize immediately all military property found in the possession of any person who has not had said military property regularly issued to him by the legal authority, or from any person who shall secrete, sell, dispose of, offer for sale, purchase, or retain said military property after demand