Sec. 2. (a) The official reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court and Appellate Courts shall be published and distributed under a contract to be entered into by th.
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Sec. 2.
(a)The official reports of the decisions of the Supreme Court and Appellate Courts shall be published and distributed under a contract to be entered into by the reporter of decisions, subject to the prior approval of the Supreme Court.
(b)Said contract shall be let to the person, partnership, or corporation who will publish and sell said official reports together with the advance sheets thereof on terms deemed most advantageous to the public and state. Said contractor shall have designated in his bid and contract, by name, a natural individual satisfactory to the court, who is a management employee of the contractor and a resident of the State of Illinois.
(c)Said contract shall require the contractor to publish such official reports and advance sheets as early as practicable after the decisions of said courts shall be handed down, and shall fix the prices at which said publications shall be delivered within the State of Illinois.
(d)Said contract, at the option of the Supreme Court, may provide that the contractor shall prepare and publish a full syllabus of the points decided in said decisions, and shall also prepare and publish in each volume a table of cases therein reported as well as a topical index of the points of law covered by the decisions reported.