of two years (Ch. 50, 1906); the Indexer and Cataloguer is appointed
by the Governor, with the consent of the Library Committee, for a term
of two years (Ch. 271, 1900).

The duties of the State Librarian are prescribed by law, also the law
regulates the manner in which the volumes in the State Library shall be
kept and accounted for by the Librarian.

The Librarian is required to have counted all volumes received in the
Library including the Maryland Session Laws, the House and Senate
Journals, the Documents, the Maryland Reports, and all volumes named
in various legislative bills, etc., giving a certified account of the num-
ber received to the State Comptroller before payment is made for the
same to the State Printer.

The Session Laws, etc., named above are distributed by the Librarian
every two years (Section 7, Article 55). The Maryland Reports in ac-
cordance with Article 55, Public General Laws, 1912.

The Librarian is required to make payment to the Comptroller each
year for money received from the sale of the Session Laws to persona
desiring them not named on the list for distribution, these Laws are the
only volumes sold in the State Library.

Contracts for binding the Laws, House and Senate Journals, Docu-
ments, Bills and Magazines are awarded by the Librarian, also for re-
binding books in the Library.

Specifications for the legislative supplies, etc., for the General Assem-
bly, 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 set 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 1918.)
Ex-officio Members:

Dr. Bernard. O. Steiner. .................... .Enoch Pratt Library
Miss Nettie V. Mace. ........................... .State Librarian
M. Bates Stephens. ............... Superintendent Public Education