(a) The reporter shall furnish to the publisher the manuscript of the decisions, rules, and forms, read the proof and correct the same, and furnish for each volume an index of the cases reported.

(b) If the reporter shall fail to publish the volumes of reports within six months of the time of the delivery to him of the last of the decisions to be included in a particular volume, he shall be subject to immediate dismissal unless good cause for such delay is shown to the satisfaction of a panel composed of three Justices of the Supreme Court appointed by the Chief Justice and two Judges of the Court of Appeals appointed by the Chief Judge.