Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That the supreme court is authorised and required to appoint one of its own members or some other Qualified person to transcribe and prepare for publication, the decisions and opinions of said court made and delivered, since those contained in Breese^s Reports and including those which may be made and delivered during the term of the court which began in December one Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty Eight

Sec 2 In preparing the said decisions and opinions for publication a Brief statement of the facts and points made in each case, shall procede the opinion of the Court, so as to show clearly the points and principles decided unless those facts and points are sufficiently stated in [the?] opinion of the Court

Sec. 3 The said decisions and opinions shall be published in one volume and the Reporter shall make an index ^to^ the same and also marginal notes to each case stating concisely the points and principles decided in such cases.

Sec 4 The Reporter appointed as aforesaid shall superintend the publication and correct the proof sheets of the printer so that there should be no errors in the printing thereof

Sec 5 Said Reporter shall have access to the Records and files of the Supreme Court free of charge, and shall also have the use of the manuscript decisions and opinions delivered by the Judges; but the court shall have the power to fix the time and place when, and where, the files and decisions aforesaid, may be used,

Sec 6 The said Reporter shall cause One Thousand copies of said Reports to be printed and bound in Common Law binding and deliver Five Hundred copies thereof to the Secretary of State and five hundred copies to the State Treasurer, to be disposed of by the Secretary and Treasurer

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as follows, of those delivered to the Secretary of State one copy shall be delivered to each of the Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the State, one to the Attorney General and each states attorney and Justice of Probate; one to the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer, ten copies shall be transmitted to the Library of Congress. Five copies to the Library of the Supreme Court of the United States, and one copy to each of the States, and Territories of the United States, and the remainder thereof to remain in the Secretary’s office for the use of the State, The copies delivered to the Treasurer shall be sold by the Treasurer at a price to be fixed by the Judges of the supreme court, and the proceeds of such sale accounted for as other public money received by the treasurer

Sec 7 The supreme court is authorized to make an order authorizing the Reporter to receive from the Treasury of the State a sum sufficient to purchase the paper required to be used in publishing the Reports aforesaid and when the printing of said One Thousand copies shall have been completed the said Court shall also make an order, upon the Treasury for the cost thereof, provided the cost of printing, shall not exceed the rate of compensation allowed the public printer by Law and when the said Reports shall be bound the Court shall in like manner make an order for the cost of binding which cost shall not exceed ^13^th ^ the cost of binding allowed the public printing for the same Quality of binding, the orders of court made as aforesaid, shall be delivered to the Auditor of public accounts who shall issue Warrants upon the Treasurer for several amounts payable out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Sec 8 The Supreme Court shall make an order allowing the Reporter a reasonable compensation for his services under the provisions of this act which shall be audited and paid as the orders for paper, printing and binding.