the securities in the custody of the clerk, who shall be paid by the comptroller, for that service, a reasonable sum, certified by the chief-judge. L. 1863, ch. 200, 5. 208. Court may make rules concerning money.The court may also, from time to time, make such regulations, concerning the money and securities specified in this article, making deposits, keeping accounts, and drawing money, as it deems proper; but each regulation, so made, must be entered in the minutes. Id.. 16. ARTICLE THIRD. THE STATE REPORTER; PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE REPORTS. Sec. 209. State reporter is the reporter of the court of appeals. 210. His duty. 211. Not to be interested in publication; contracts for publication. 212. Copyright of reports. 213. Secretary of State to distribute reports. 214. Unreported decisions, etc., to be delivered by reporter to suc cessor. 215. Opinions, etc., not to be delivered, except, etc. 216. Certain opinions to be deposited with clerk. § 209. State reporter is the reporter of the court of appeals. The reporter appointed by the court of appeals is styled the State reporter; and each provision of a statute, wherein the State reporter is mentioned, applies to the officer thus appointed. New. § 210. His duty. - The State reporter must report every cause, determined in the court of appeals, which the court directs him, or which the public interest, in his judgment, requires him to report. To enable him to perform that duty, the judges of the court must deliver to him the written opinions, rendered in each cause so determined. Each decision of the court, which is reported, must be so reported as soon as practicable after it is made; and if the reporter neglects faithfully to perform that duty, it is the duty of the court to remove him from office. L. 1848, ch. 224, § 1, am'd. $211. Not to be interested in publication; contracts for publication.—The State reporter shall not have any pecuniary interest in the reports: but a contract for the publication thereof, under his supervision, must, from time to time, be made, in behalf of the people, by the State reporter, secretary of State, and comptroller, with the person or persons who agree to furnish to the secretary of State, so many copies of each volume, as may be needed to enable him to comply with the next section but one; and also to publish and sell the reports, on terms the most advantageous to the public, regard being had to the proper execution of the work, and at a price not exceeding three dollars for a volume of not less than five hundred pages. (1) Each contract, so entered into, must provide for the publication of the reports, for three years from the expiration of the time, specified for that purpose in the last contract. If the State reporter, secretary of State, and comptroller unite in determining, that a contract has not been faithfully kept by the person or persons agreeing so to publish the reports, they may, by an instrument in writing under their hands, filed in the office of the secretary of State, annul the same from a time specified in the instrument; and thereupon they may enter into a new contract, for the publication of the reports, for three years from the time so specified.(2) Before entering into a contract, the State reporter, secretary of State, and comptroller must advertise for, receive, and consider proposals for the publication of the reports. (1) L. 1848, ch. 224, 2. (2) New. 212. [Amended, 1877.] Copyright of reports. Neither the State reporter nor any other person shall obtain a copyright for the opinions contained in the reports; and the same may be published by any perBut the copyright of the statements of facts, of the head notes, and of all other notes or references, prepared by the State reporter, must be taken by, and shall be vested in the secretary of State, for the benefit of the people of the State. son. L. 1850, ch. 245, § 1, amending L. 1848, ch. 224, 3; and Id., § 2 (4 Edm. 592, 598). § 213. Secretary of State to distribute reports. — Of the copies of each volume of the reports, furnished to the secretary of State, he must deliver one to the clerk of each county, for the use of the county, and deposit one in the office of the attorney-general, one with the clerk of the court of appeals, for the use of that court, and three in the State library. L 1847, ch. 280, 74. 214. Unreported decisions, etc., to be delivered by reporter to successor.- A State reporter must, on the appointment of his successor, deliver to him all papers in his hands, pertaining to a cause which he has not reported, or which are not necessary to be retained by him, to complete the publication of a volume, which is then partly printed. L. 1865, ch. 555, 2. § 215. Opinions, etc., not to be delivered, except, etc.-A State reporter, after the expiration of his term of office, shall not deliver a paper specified in the last section, or a copy thereof, to any person other than his successor in office, or the publisher of a partly printed volume; except that a copy of such a paper may be. furnished by him, during a vacancy in the office, to a judge of the court, or to the attorney for a party to the cause to which it relates. Id., 3. 216. Certain opinions to be deposited with clerk. -The State reporter must deposit with the clerk of the court, all opinions delivered to him, which are not to be reported, immediately after the publication of the reports of the other cases, decided at the same time. They must be properly filed and preserved, by the clerk. See Id., 14. TITLE II. The supreme court, including the circuit courts. ARTICLE 1. Jurisdiction and powers: designations of terms; distribution of business among the terms and Judges; attendants upon the sittings; miscellaneous provisions. 2. The supreme court reporter. 3. Stenographers. ARTICLE FIRST. JURISDICTION AND POWERS; DESIGNATIONS OF TERMS; DISTRIBUTION OF BUSINESS AMONG THE TERMS AND JUDGES; ATTENDANTS UPON THE SITTINGS; MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. SEC. 217. General jurisdiction of supreme court. 218. Supreme court may change place of trial of actions pending in other courts. 219. Judicial departments; general terms. 220. Presiding and associate justices; how long to act. 221. Vacancies; how filled. 222. Assignment of duties to justice whose designation is revoked. 223. Designation, etc., to be filed with secretary of State. 224. Presiding and associate Justices may act out of their depart ments. 225. Times and places of holding general terms; how appointed. 226. Appointment to be published. 227. Appointment may be made or filed after the prescribed time. 230. General term, held by two justices. Re-argument, etc. 232. Appointments of special terms, circuit courts, and courts of 233. Publication of appointments. 234. Governor may appoint extraordinary terms; justices to hold them. 235. General powers and duties of justices. 236. Governor may appoint in New-York city, Judge of other court to hold terms. 237. Governor to designate Justices to hold courts in certain cases. 239. Special terms adjourned to chambers; trials thereat. -- § 217. General jurisdiction of supreme court. The general jurisdiction in law and equity, which the supreme court of the State possesses, under the provisions of the constitution, includes all the jurisdiction, which was possessed and exercised by the supreme court of the colony of New York, at any time, and by the court of chancery in England, on the 4th day of July, 1776; with the exceptions, additions, and limitations, created and imposed by the constitution and laws of the State. Subject to those exceptions and limitations, the supreme court of the State has all the powers and authority of each of those courts, and exercises the same in like manner. 2 R. S. 173, 36; id., 196, 21; and L. 1847, ch. 280, § 16. $218. Supreme court may change place of trial of actions pending in other courts. The supreme court, upon the application of either party, may, and, in a proper case, must make an order, directing that an issue of fact, joined in an action or special proceeding, pending in any other court of record, except a superior city court, the marine court of the city of New-York, or a county court, be tried at a circuit court in another county, on such terms, and under such regulations as it deems just; and thereupon the issue must be tried accordingly. After the trial, the clerk of the county, in which it has taken place, must certify the minutes thereof; which must be filed with the clerk of the court, in which the action or special proceeding is pending. The subsequent proceedings in the last mentioned court must be the same, as if the issue had been tried therein. L. 1847, ch. 280, 49. - - The § 219. Judicial departments; general terms. departments, into which the State is divided, for the purposes of organizing and holding general terms of the supreme court, are styled, in this act, judicial departments. There is a general term of the supreme court in each judicial department, composed of a presiding justice and two associate justices, designated from the whole bench of justices of the supreme court, as prescribed in the next two sections. The justices so designated are styled in this act, general term justices, 220. Presiding and associate justices; how long A presiding justice shall act as such, during his official term as a justice of the supreme court, and an associate justice for five years from the thirty-first day of December, next after his designation; or until the earlier close of his official term. But the governor may, at any time, upon the written request of a general term justice, revoke his designation. to act. L. 1870, ch. 408, part of ? 3, as am'd by L. 1875, ch. 616. § 221. Vacancies; how filled.-Within three months before a vacancy is to occur by lapse of time, or as soon after its occurrence as practicable, the governor must designate, from the whole bench of justices of the supreme court, another presiding or associate justice, as the case requires. The person so designated shall act as presiding or associate justice, for the period speci |