REPORTE

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.