The State Librarian is appointed by the Governor, with the con-
sent of the Senate, to hold office during the term of the Governor
(Constitution, Art. 7, Sec. 3); the Custodian of Works of Reference is
appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, for a term
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 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 ac-
count of the number 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 Lib-
rarian every two years (Section 7, Article 55). The Maryland Reports
in accordance with Article 55, Public General Laws, 1912.

The Library is located in the Court of Appeals Building, Annap-
olis. It has on its shelves not only an extensive collection of law
books, including an English collection, but a large number of excep-
tionally valuable reference volumes, many of which are now out of
print, and which are being freely consulted by authors and others
from all parts of the country, among them the four rare Audubon
volumes; a complete file of the Maryland Gazette, one of the first
newspapers published in this country; historical reference books of
colonial times, and the records of the wars of the Revolution and
1812; books on travel, art and miscellaneous subjects, as well as fic-
tion and the current magazines.

The reading room is open to the public daily, where any of the
volumes in the Library may be utilized.

Members of the Library Committee are: A. Hunter Boyd, Chief
Judge, Court of Appeals; Judge Wm. H. Thomas, Judge John P. Bris-
coe, Judge W. H. Adkins, Judge Walter W. Preston, 3rd Judicial
Circuit.

MARYLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION.
Offices, Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore.

(Terms Expire 1922.)
Ex-officio Members:

Dr. Bernard C. Steiner. ................. .Enoch Pratt Library
Misa Mary Garnett McCarty. ................ .State Librarian
Albert S. Cook.............. Superintendent Public Education
Members appointed by the Governor:

Mrs. Charlotte Newell. ............................ .Baltimore
John H. Apple. ........................... .Frederick County
Mrs. Otis S. Lee..................................... Bel Air
Alexander Hodgen .................................. Pearson
Governor appoints four, two of whom shall be women, who, with
the State Librarian, Superintendent of Public Education and Librar-
ian 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 pub-
lic' school libraries, in the State, and to all persons proposing to es-
tablish them, as to the best means to their establishment and main-
tenance, the selection of books, cataloguing, and other details of
management; and also to organize and conduct travelling libraries
throughout the State.