HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                 639

Approved May 1, 1979.

CHAPTER 107

(Senate Bill 292)

AN ACT concerning

Hall of Records Commission - Consolidated Publications

Account

FOR the purpose of establishing a consolidated publications
account to be used for producing, distributing, and
promoting publications of the Hall of Records
Commission; excepting the Maryland Manual from this
account; and making a certain technical change.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 54 - Hall of Records

Section 3

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1978 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 54 - Hall of Records

3.

(A)   It shall be the duty of the Commission to have
collected old court records, official documents, records,
reports, old newspapers, church records, private papers and
other historical data pertaining to the history of the
Province and State of Maryland from the earliest times, and
to have said documents, records and material properly
repaired, filed, indexed, preserved and, when deemed
desirable, copied and/or edited and published; to encourage
historical investigation and research in the history of the
State. All papers, records, relics and other memorials
connected with the [early] history of Maryland not required
for the necessary operations of any other office, shall be
under the supervision of and belong to said Commission.

(B)   THE COMMISSION MAY ESTABLISH A CONSOLIDATED'
PUBLICATIONS ACCOUNT. ANY EXCESS REVENUES REMAINING AT THE
END OF A FISCAL YEAR, DERIVED FROM PUBLICATIONS AND SERVICES
OF THE COMMISSION, MAY BE PLACED IN THIS ACCOUNT.
EXPENDITURES FROM THE ACCOUNT SHALL BE RESTRICTED TO THE
COST OF PRODUCING, DISTRIBUTING, AND PROMOTING ALL
PUBLICATIONS OF THE COMMISSION, INCLUDING THE COST OF FREE
PUBLICATIONS, EXCEPT THE MARYLAND MANUAL WHICH SHALL