The City Council may make any contract for the codifying and indexing of all the ordinances of the City, and such ordinances shall include all in force and effect up to the last day possible. Before such work is accepted by Council, it shall be completed in every respect and the Council shall then cause it to be properly printed and securely bound in a permanent book. The Council may by ordinance adopt the code to be prepared as a whole and when said ordinance adopting said code shall have been passed by the Council the said code shall be and become the law and ordinances of said City up to such time, according to the tenor and effect thereof, and when printed in a book, the same shall be received as evidence as the ordinances of said City, unless errors or omissions be affirmatively shown therein, and no other publication thereof shall be made or required under the Charter, and the Council shall cause all the ordinances of said City, by printing a supplement thereof, or otherwise, to be brought up to date within a reasonable time after the printing of such ordinances, and in any event such supplement shall be printed, or, if necessary, a new copy of the ordinances shall be printed, at least once every four years; and the Council shall cause such number of said books of the ordinances to be printed and sell such number thereof at such prices as may be reasonable, and the number of books printed shall be fixed by the Council.