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 is
the Library and to keep a record of the same, 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 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 Librarian
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, Annapolis.
It has on its shelves not only an extensive collection of law books, in-
cluding an English collection, but a large number of exceptionally
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 com-
plete file of the Maryland Gazette, one of the first newspapers pub-
lished in this country; historical reference books of colonial times, and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 fiction and the current maga-
zines.

The reading room ia 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. Thornaa, Judge John P. Bris-
coe, and F. Herbert Tiffany, reporter of the Court of Appeals.

The State Library heretofore has been the distributive department
for all stationary supplies, etc., to the Executive Office, the Court of
Appeals and the Clerk's Office and also the General Assembly of Mary-
land. This duty has been transferred to the Central Purchasing Bu-
read under the Act passed January Sessions 1920, Chapter 184.

MARYLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION.
Offices, State Normal School, Towson.
(Terms Expire 1924.)

Ex-Officio Members:

Dr. Bernard O. Steiner...................................Enoch Pratt Library
Miss Mary E. Shearn...............................................State Librarian
Albert S. Cook.............................Superintendent Public Education

Members appointed by the Governor:

Mrs. Charlotte Newell...............................................Baltimore
John H. Apple..............................................Frederick County
Mrs. Otho S. Lee....................................................................Bel Air
John P. Ahern..................................................................Millingten

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