REPORTER. A person employed in making out and publishing the history of 
cases decided by the court. 
     2. The act of congress of August 26, 1842, sect., 2, enacts, that in 
the supreme court of the United States, one reporter shall be appointed by 
the court with the salary of twelve hundred and fifty dollars; provided that 
he deliver to the secretary of state for distribution, one hundred and fifty 
copies of each volume of reports that he shall hereafter prepare and 
publish, immediately after the publication thereof, which publication shall 
be made annually within four months after the adjournment of the court at 
which the decisions are made. 
     3. In some of the states the reporters are appointed by authority of 
law; in others, they are volunteers.