Specifications for the legislative supplies, etc., for the General
Assembly, the Court of Appeals, the Executive Department and the State
Library, must be made by the Librarian, these are submitted to the
bidders, for which the Board of Public Works advertises and awards the
contract.

The said supplies when purchased are received in the State Library
by the Librarian, who distributes them to the assigned offices as re-
quired, having to O. K. all bills and send to the Comptroller for the
receipt of all stationery, etc., renewing supplies when necessary accord-
ing to the contract made by the Board of Public Works.

The Librarian makes monthly reports to the Comptroller of all
expenses incurred in the running of the State Library under the head
of contingent expenses, for which the State makes an appropriation
known as the State Library Contingent Fund.

All letters received from publishers are referred to the Library Com-
mittee, when volumes are desired the Librarian is authorized by the
Committee to order books to be sent to the State Library with the bill
for the same, which, when O. K'd, the Library Committee pays from a
contingent fund apt apart for that purpose.

All requests made for volumes, in the State Library by the public are
submitted to the Library Committee, as said Committee designates the
distribution beyond the lists named, and when authorized, the Librarian
forwards the desired volumes as directed.

Inquiries regarding the distribution of the Maryland Session Laws,
Reports, Codes and special volumes purchased by the State, should be
addressed to the State Librarian.

MARYLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION.
Offices, Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore.
(Terms Expire 1916.)

Ex-officio Members:

Bernard C. Steiner..........................Enoch Pratt Library
Miss Sallie Webster Dorsey. ...................... State Librarian
M. Bates Stephens. ............. .Superintendent Public Education

Members appointed by the Governor:

Mrs. Charlotte Newell. ............................. .Port Deposit
Miss Anne Page. ................................ Princess Anne
Joseph H. Apple. ..................................... Frederick
Frank W. Mather.................................. .Westminster

Governor appoints four, two of whom shall be women, who with
the State Librarian, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Librarian
of Enoch Pratt Free Library, constitutes the Commission. Term two
years. (Ch. 505,1910.)

This commission was established under the law above referred to,
with power to give advice and counsel to all public libraries, and public
school libraries; in the State, and to all persons proposing to establish
them, as to the best means to their establishment and maintenance, the
selection of books, cataloguing, and other details of management; and
also to organize and conduct travelling libraries throughout the State.