original form and including only the substantive enactments, and by classifying and arranging them in distinct sections and chapters and with such other subdivisions as may be deemed proper under the following general titles, namely: The political code, the civil code, the code of civil procedure, the probate code, the justices' code, the penal code and the code of criminal procedure, in which the sections shall be designated by a progressive series of numbers from one upward through all of said codes without regard to any former numbering thereof and the chapters shall be numbered in like manner through each code.
4. To prepare the same in proper form to be used by the printer for publication in one octavo volume, to be known as the Revised Codes of North Dakota, with proper titles, sub-titles, numbers and marginal notes, duly introduced, prefixed and arranged with reference to the subject matter; but no syllabic references shall be prefixed at the heads of chapters or subdivisions of chapters or annexed as marginal notes, but in lieu thereof there shall be prefixed to each section, immediately after its designating number, apt words briefly indicating the subject matter thereof and such number and "catch" words shall be printed in heavy faced type; and there shall be set opposite each section brief marginal notes referring to the corresponding section and amendments thereto, if any, or former enactment as found in the codes or statutes of Dakota territory, or statutes of North Dakota, and indicating also whether the section to which they are annexed is adopted without change, or as a modification of, or substitute for, the former enactment referred to.
§ 4. As soon as practicable after the adjournment of the fourth regular session of the legislative assembly, said revising commissioners shall complete their codification by incorporating therein the general laws passed at said session in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, and revising the numbering thereof if necessary, and prepare and add to the same an accurate and comprehensive index, and such other facilities for reference as they may deem proper, and secure the printing and binding of two thousand five hundred copies of said volume of the Revised Codes, in which there shall be also printed the constitution of the United States, the enabling act and the constitution of the state of North Dakota, and the whole shall be bound in law sheep on heavy paper covers. They shall also supervise the printing and binding thereof, by carefully correcting and revising the proof sheets as they issue from the press, and by final proof reading before binding, and by otherwise taking care that the work is well and faithfully executed.
§ 5. The contract for such printing and binding shall be made, subject to the approval of the governor, with the lowest and best bidder for the work, after advertisement for proposals in at least three newspapers of this state for one month prior to the letting thereof, and shall designate the size of the volume, the kind and quality of paper, the quality and style of binding and style and sizes of type to be used in the work, and the commissioners shall require such security as they shall deem sufficient for its faithful execution, and shall have power to reject any or all proposals and readvertise and secure further bids.
§ 6. Said commissioners shall certify to the governor the amounts payable on their contract for printing and binding as they become due, and upon the governor's approval thereof the auditor shall issue his warrants upon the treasurer for the sums so certified.
§ 7. The printed copies shall be delivered when completed to the secretary of state, and the governor shall issue his proclamation announcing the delivery and his acceptance of such copies, and thirty days after the date of his proclamation said revised codes shall take effect and thereafter be in force and be received as evidence of the laws of this state in all courts thereof.
§ 8. The secretary of state shall make distribution of said printed copies pursuant to the law for distribution of the session laws, and shall hold for sale and
