77-134. General index; contract authority. The revisor of statutes of and for the state of Kansas is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with the West Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, a Minnesota corporation, for the writing of a full, detailed and combined general index to the text of said statutes, the Kansas and United States constitutions and rules of the supreme court of Kansas and an index for each volume of said statutes which indexes shall be of such scope as the revisor of statutes shall deem practicable. The contract shall be in substantially the following form:

CONTRACT INDEX TO KANSAS STATUTES ANNOTATED

Whereas, The revisor of statutes of and for the state of Kansas is authorized by law to enter into a contract for the writing of a full, detailed and combined general index to the text of the statutory sections of the Kansas statutes, the Kansas and United States constitutions and rules of the supreme court of Kansas as the same are prepared, edited and arranged by said revisor of statutes and indexes for each volume of said statutes: Now, therefore,

This contract is made between West Publishing Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, first party, and the state of Kansas, acting through its revisor of statutes, second party, in consideration of mutual covenants and conditions set forth herein, for the writing of a full, detailed and combined index to the text of the statutory sections of the Kansas statutes, the Kansas and United States constitutions and the rules of the Kansas supreme court as included in said statutes and an index for each volume of said statutes which indexes shall be of such scope as the revisor of statutes shall deem practicable according to the following specifications:

(A) The first party agrees to:

(1) Write, edit and prepare in manuscript form all necessary index references based on a section by section examination of the text of all the sections of said statutes, the constitutional provisions and the rules of the Kansas supreme court.

(2) Do all editorial and manuscript work, including checking of the galley proof after the index has been set into type by the state of Kansas and given the usual proofreading by the state of Kansas for conformity to the manuscript copy submitted.

(3) Send all index reference cards to the second party in edited form for printing direct from said cards.

(B) The second party agrees to:

(1) Furnish first party copy of the text of said statutory sections, constitutional provisions and rules of the Kansas supreme court.

(2) Furnish galley proof to first party after said index is set in type by the state printer.

(C) The second party further agrees:

(1) That the state of Kansas, acting through its revisor of statutes, will pay to the first party the sum of one hundred twenty-four thousand six hundred seventy-five dollars ($124,675) as follows:

(a) Twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500) upon execution of this contract.

(b) Thirty-one thousand dollars ($31,000) six (6) months after the date of the execution of this contract.

(c) The balance of eighty-one thousand one hundred seventy-five dollars ($81,175) upon final completion of the delivery of all printer's proofs of such general index to the revisor of statutes at Topeka, Kansas.

The second party reserves the right to copyright in its name said index.

This contract is executed by the duly authorized parties hereto this ________ day of ____________, 1963.

West Publishing Company, Inc.,    State of Kansas

______________    ______________

President.    Revisor of Statutes.______________Secretary.

(seal)    (seal)

Attest:    Attest:

______________    ______________

Secretary.    Secretary of State.

History: L. 1963, ch. 454, § 4; April 27.