JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 328.
AN ACT to add certain new sections to Article 40, of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "General Assembly,"
under the new sub-title "Employment of Legislative Counsel
and Agents, and Returns of Legislative Expenses," to follow
Section three, to be known as Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13 and 14.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That certain new sections be and they are hereby added
to Article 40, of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"General Assembly," under the new sub-title "Employment
of Legislative Counsel and Returns of Legislative Expenses,"
to follow Section 3, to be numbered Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, and to read as follows:

Employment
of legislative
counsel and
returns of
legislative
expenses.

4. Every person who employs or agrees to employ another
to act as counsel or agent to promote or oppose, in any manner,
directly or indirectly, the passage, by the General Assembly
of any legislation, or to act, in any manner, as a legislative
counsel or agent in connection with any legislation, shall
within one week of the date of such employment or agreement
therefor, cause the name of the person so employed or agreed
to be employed, to be entered upon a legislative docket as
herein provided; and it shall also be the duty of the person so
employed, or agreed to be employed, to cause his name to be
so entered, or see that the same has been so entered upon
such docket. Upon the termination of such employment, such
fact may be entered opposite the name of any person so em-
ployed, either by the employer or by the person so employed.

Names of
agent or coun-
sel to be
entered upon a
legislative
docket.

5. The Secretary of State shall prepare and keep two legis-
lative dockets in conformity with the provisions of this sub-
title. One of such dockets shall be known as that of "legislative
counsel," and the other as that of "legislative agents." In
that of legislative counsel shall be entered the names of coun-
sel employed to appear at any hearing before the General
Assembly, or either branch thereof or any committee thereof
for the purpose of making an argument or examining witnesses,
and also the names of any regular counsel of corporations or
associations who act or advise in relation to legislation, and

Legislative
dockets.
How kept.