ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES

PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF A

STATE MANUAL,

PASSED APRIL 4, 1898.

On motion of MR. WALBACH, it was

Ordered, that the State Printers, King Brothers, are hereby authorized
and directed to furnish twelve hundred copies of the Maryland Manual
lor 1898, and twelve hundred copies for 1899, prepared under the control

and direction of the Secretary of State, the first publication commencing
July 1, 1898, and the second, December 31, 1890.

The twelve hundred copies of said work shall be printed and
distributed as follows. Two hundred copies, fifty bound in cloth, to the
Executive Department, to be distributed to the several States of the
Union in exchange for similar works published by said States, and to
the public Libraries in this and other Status, and to officials and citizens
of this State requiring such official information; twenty-five copies
bound in cloth, to the Maryland State Library; eight copies, two of
which shall be bound in cloth, to each of the Senators and members of
the House of Delegates of Maryland; one copy to each of the Clerks of
the Circuit Courts of this State; one copy to each of the Boards of
Comity Commissioners of this State

The said Manual shall contain a complete list of members of the
Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland, with their post office
addresses, the names and addresses of all State and county officers
elected by tive people; the names and addresses of all State and county
officers appointed by the Governor and the Board of Public Works; the
names and addresses of all officers elected by the Legislature, - a brief
summary of the duties of the several State officers; the official returns
of the election held just preceding the publication of the Manual; a list
of State educational, charitable, reformatory and benevolent institutions

with the amount appropriated by the State to each; the area, population,
assessable basis and tax rates in the several counties of the State and
the city of Baltimore; the construction of the judicial system of this
State; the official pay table of this State, and such other Stale informa-
tion as the Secretary of this State may deem proper to have inserted.