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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to
accurately prepare and publish annually, on December thirty-
first of each year, a Manual of the State of Maryland.

Manual of the
State of
Maryland.
Number to be
printed.
Contents.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said Manual shall consist of
not less than fifteen hundred copies in each year, five hundred
of which shall be bound in cloth and shall contain a copy of
the Charter and Constitution of the State, a complete list of
members of the Legislature, with their postoffice addresses,
the names and addresses of all State and county officers elected
by the people, as well as those appointed by the Governor
and the Board of Public Works ; a brief summary of the duties
of the several State officers; the official returns of the State
election of each year; a list of State, educational, charitable,
reformatory and benevolent institutions, with the amounts
appropriated to each by the State; the amounts paid by coun-
ties to the public schools of the State on account of the public
school tax; the gross and net debt of the State at the close of
each fiscal year; the area, population, assessable basis and tax
rates in the several counties of the State and the City of Bal-
timore; the construction of the judicial system of this State;
the official payroll of the State, and such other information as
his judgment may deem right and proper.

Manner of
distribution.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Manual shall be
distributed as follows: Twenty-five copies bound in cloth to
the Maryland State Library, ten copies, two of which shall be
bound in cloth, to each of the members of the Legislature;
one copy to each of the Clerks of the Circuit Courts of the
State and the several courts in Baltimore City; one copy to
each of the Boards of County Commissioners of this State,
and the remaining1 number to the Executive Department, to
be distributed by the Secretary of State to each of the several
States of the Union, to the public libraries in this and other
States, and to officials and citizens of this State.

Annual
appropriation.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of
carrying out the provisions of this Act — compiling, printing
and distributing said Manual — the sum of fifteen hundred
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
annually appropriated; and the Comptroller of the Treasury
is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon
the State Treasurer, who is hereby directed to pay the same,
in favor of the Secretary of State upon the presentation of
proper vouchers by him that the work above mentioned has
been fully done, which vouchers shall be filed in the office of
the State Comptroller.
Approved April 5, 1900.