Chap. 125.—An ACT to Provide for a Reporter to the Supreme Court of
Appeals, and to Repeal Chapter 166 of Code of Virginia (edition of
1860).

Approved March 14, 1871.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That
the supreme court of appeals is hereby authorized to contract
with some suitable person to report such of the decisions of
said court as the judges thereof shall direct, at a rate of com-
pensation not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars a year, paya-
ble monthly.

2. The said reporter shall prepare, and, annually before the
tenth day of September, deliver to such printer as the super-
intendent of public printing may direct, manuscript reports of
such of the decisions made during the year ending the first
day of July by the supreme court of appeals as the judges of
said court shall direct, with an abstract of the points decided
in each case, and an index to the contents of the volume.
3. He shall examine and correct the proof sheets thereof as
they shall be furnished him by the printer.

4, The said court of appeals may, at any time, put an end to
the said contract, and contract with another person for per-
forming the service, upon the same terms.

5. In those cases which the reporter is directed to report,
copies of the reasons, stated in writing, under the section four
of the sixth article of the constitution, shall be delivered by
the clerks of the court to the reporter.

6. The volume of said reports for the present year, ending
the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, shall
include cases decided by the court since the first of July,
eighteen hundred and seventy, to which time the nineteenth
volume of Grattan’s Reports comes down; and the court may
make an allowance to the reporter who has or shall report the
cases decided before a contract is made under this act, and
which has been, or shall be, directed to be reported: provided,
such allowance shall not be greater, pro rata, than is authorized
by this act to be given to the reporter.

7. Chapter one hundred and sixty-six of the Code (edition
of eighteen hundred and sixty), is hereby repealed.

8. This act shall be in force from its passage.