faithful performance of the work, of those who may undertake the same. They shall be arranged in the publication in alphabetical order, according to their heads or titles, with marginal references as reported by the commissioners of revisal, and also with references to the decision of the supreme court upon their subject What shall be contained in the first volume. matter, and with a full index. In the same volume shall be published the constitution of the United States, and the constitution and bill of rights of this State, and the Mecklenburg declaration of independence, with a short narrative thereof; there shall also be published in the same volume the acts of a public nature passed at this session, excluding all acts granting corporate privileges.
What in a second volume. 10. There shall be published in a second volume the second charter of Charles the Second to the lords proprietors, the grant from George the Second to Earl Granville, and the following acts, to wit:—All the acts relating to the boundary of the State and its several counties, all acts ceding the lands of this State to the general government, all acts incorporating banks, and rail road, turnpike and navigation companies, which are now in force and use, all acts relative to the incorporation of the corporate powers of the trustees of the university, and such other acts now in force and not repealed by this act, as the superintendents may in their discretion think proper to place in the said second volume.
Number of copies to be published. 11. There shall be published of the first volume of the said revised statutes five thousand copies, and of the second volume one thousand copies, C y right to be secured to the State. the copy right whereof shall be secured to this State by the said superintendents, and the expense of preparing, printing, publishing, binding and distributing said copies shall be paid by the public treasurer on the warrant of the governor, founded on requisitions made from time to time by the said superintendents.
How the copies shall be distributed and disposed of. 12. The said copies, when completed, shall be distributed under the direction of the governor, as follows, to wit:—To the library of the congress of the United States ten copies; to the several states and territories three copies each; to the library of the university of North Carolina three copies; to the governor, treasurer, secretary of state, and comptroller, two copies each for the use of their respective offices; to the state library five copies; to the clerks of both houses of the General Assembly, five copies each for the use of their respective houses; to the clerk of the supreme court, and the clerks of the several superior and county courts, one copy each for the use of their respective courts; to the judges of the supreme and superior courts one copy each; to the members of the present General Assembly, who shall not be justices of the peace on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyeight, one copy each; and to the justices of the peace of the several counties one copy each of the first volume only. All the remaining copies shall be sold for the benefit of the state by such person, in such manner and upon such terms as the governor shall direct and appoint.
