appointed. How removed.

Sec. 3221. The decisions of the supreme court shall be published by a reporter to be appointed by the governor, on the Reporter to be recommendations of the supreme court, for the term of four years. The reporter shall be removable by the governor, on the complaint of a majority of judges of the court, for any neglect or misconduct.

No person shall be appointed reporter who shall not, at the

time of his appointment, be a citizen of the United States and of Decisions to be this State, and have been for three years duly licensed to practice reported. law in this State. The term of office of the reporter shall expire

on the thirty-first of December, 1870, and every four years thereafter.

D. Sec. 1677. Act 1855, p. 300.

Sec. 3222. All cases in which any judgment shall be pronounced, shall be reported, except such as present only questions of fact, or in which damages may be allowed, as for a frivolous appeal, but the reporter shall, at his discretion, report the several cases more or less at large, according to their relative importance, so as not to increase unnecessarily the size of the volume.

each report.

The report of each case shall contain: 1st. The title of the case. 2d. The name of the judge and court from which the Contents of appeal was taken, and if tried by a jury, the fact shall be stated. 3d. The names of counsel. 4th. Concise notes, at the head or in the margin of each case, of the points decided. 5th. A statement of the facts of each case, taken from the record, when necessary to explain the decision of the court. Mention shall also be made of application for a rehearing, when important to a proper understanding of the decision.

ports.

Each volume shall contain a list of all the cases reported, arranged alphabetically in the names of the plaintiffs and defendants, and a list of all cases determined within the period embraced by the volume but not reported, together with a copious index.

Sec. 3223. The reports to be printed in bourgeois type, Printing of re-leaded, each page to contain as nearly as may be 2450 ems, exclusive of a margin, in which the title of the case shall be entered; the paper shall be well sized, and equal in quality to that of the second volume of Robinson's Reports.

Sec. 3224. The cases reported for each year shall form one Volumes, how volume, which shall be designated by the year which it embraces, and the whole series shall be known as the Louisiana annual reports.

designated.

Number of

Sec. 3225. The reporter shall cause an edition of one thousand copies of re- copies of the reports, to be published, four hundred of which shall be delivered to the secretary of State, well bound in calf, and the remaining six hundred copies in sheets folded.

ports.

Sec. 3226. It shall be the duty of the reporter, on the comThe contractor pletion of every volume, to deliver to the treasurer a detailed bill of cost of printing one thousand copies, and of binding four hundred copies thereof.

for printing,

how paid.

sold in pam

phlet.

Sec. 3227. Any person who shall desire to obtain the reports Reports to be before the completion of the annual volume, may, by depositing with the treasurer the amount which the latter may deem sufficient to cover the probable cost of the volume, to be calculated from such information as he may receive from the reporter, obtain an order directing the reporter to furnish him with the volume for the current year in pamphlets of about one hundred pages as soon as the same shall be issued from the press. Any volume so furnished shall be considered as forming part of the six hundred copies in sheets; and the person advancing any sum for the purpose aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive from the treasurer, as soon as the cost of the volume shall be ascertained, the difference between the amount so advanced and the price at which the volume may be sold.

The price at which the re

by the treasurer.

Sec. 3228. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to add to the sum so paid for printing and binding of four hundred copies of ports shall be any volume the cost of binding the remaining six hundred copies, sold to be fixed calculated at the rate at which the first four hundred were paid for, and the further sum of two thousand five hundred dollars for the compensation of the reporter, which shall be considered as the whole cost of the edition; and each volume shall be sold at such a price, to be fixed by the treasurer, as will insure to the State the reimbursement of the whole cost thereof.

porter, how

Sec. 3229. The reporter shall receive an annual salary of Salary of re- twenty-five hundred dollars, payable quarterly, as the salaries of. other officers of the State, to be calculated from the date of the decisions with which the volume shall begin; and it shall be the duty of the reporter, unless removed from office or in case of res

paid.

ignation, to complete any volume which may have been commenced by him.

ion and rec

livered to the

Sec. 3230. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the supreme court to deliver to the reporter, or to his order, the original opin- Original opinions of the judges as soon as they shall have been recorded as ords to be derequired by law, together with the original record of each case. reporter. They shall in all cases be returned to the clerks as soon as they shall have been used, for the purpose of preparing the reports. Sec. 3231. It shall be the duty of the reporter to cause the printing of each volume to be commenced so soon as there are Mode of printone hundred decisions delivered by the court unpublished, and continue until all the decisions rendered by the court are printed, or until the volume is completed.

ing reports.