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 and the act organizing the terrritoryterritory [sic] of Dakota, and that he will perform the duties of his said office with correctness, impartiality, and fidelity, and that the volumes of reports printed under his charge shall, in every respect, comply with the provisions of this act.

§ 411. It shall be lawful for the reporter to receive, at the close of each term of the supreme court, the records of all causes decided at such term, with the opinions therein, and retain the same for such reasonable time as he may require to prepare the report thereof, when they shall be returned to and remain in the office of the clerk.

§ 412. As often as the material shall be sufficient to constitute a volume of five hundred and fifty pages, it shall be the duty of the reporter to cause the same to be printed and published in a manner, form and style, and as neat and substantial as the first volume of Dakota reports, provided that not more than one volume annually shall be published. And the reporter shall be entitled to obtain and hold the copyright of his reports. The territory shall in no event be pecuniarily responsible for any cost incurred in the preparation and publication of such reports, nor shall the reporter be entitled fo any fee or remuneration to be paid from the territorial treasury.

§ 413. The librarian of the territory is hereby instructed to deliver one copy of each volume of the Dakota supreme court reports, published by authority of the reporter of the supreme court, to the following officers and organizations, to wit: Each judge of the supreme court, the United States attorney for Dakota, the attorney general of the territory, the library of the congress of the United States, the library of the supreme court of the United States, the attorney general of the United States, the governor of the territory, the public library of each state and organized territory that has exchanged or will exchange reports with this territory, and five copies to the clerk of the supreme court of this territory for the use of the court when in session, and to deposit ten copies in the library of the territory, to be retained therein; provided, that any of the above named officers or bodies which have been once supplied with any of the above named volumes need not be supplied with additional copies; and it is made the duty of each territorial officer above specified to deliver the volumes in his possession to his successor in office, upon the expiration of his term of office.

§ 414. The secretary of the territory is hereby instructed to furnish to the register of deeds of each county in this territory now or hereafter organized, three copies of each volume of the supreme court reports of this territory. It is hereby made the duty of the said register of deeds, upon receipt of the volumes above specified, to conspicuously mark upon the outside of the cover thereof with ink, the words, "property of county of (inserting the name of the county of which he is an officer in the space occupied by the blank); and when so marked to deliver one copy of each volume into the custody of the clerk of the district court, the judge of the probate court, and the district attorney of the county; and it is made the duty of such officer receiving such volumes, to deliver the same over to his successor in office at the expiration of his term of office.

§ 415. Should the full compliance with the requirements of sections 413 and 414 exhaust the supply of the volumes herein