The Session Laws, etc., named above are distributed by the Librarian
every two years ( Section 7, Article 65 ). 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lished in this country; historical reference books of colonial times, and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 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, 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.

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

DIVISION OF FINANCIAL REVIEW AND CONTROL

COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE...Annapolis.

Name. Postoffice.
Comptroller:

Wm. S. Gordy, Jr............................................................................Salisbury
Chief Clerk:
Harry J. Hopkins.................................................................Annapolis

Assistant Clerks:

Joseph O'C. McCusker.................................................................Baltimore
H. Hooper Dempsey......................................................................................Annapolis
Louis B. Keene..............................................................................................Annapolis
T. Carroll Worthington.............................................................................Annapolis
D. Ardin Carrick........................................................................................... Baltimore
John F. Wilson......................................................Tracey's Landing
R. Krnest Smith...............................................Upper Marlboro
Sophia T. Munford.................................................................Annapolis
George P. Rlitledge, Jr.......................................................................... Baltimore

Stenographer:
Edna O. Dempsey..............................................................................Annapolis

Messenger:
J. Philip Beall............................................................................Annapolis

The Comptroller is elected by the people for a term of four years
from the third Monday in January next ensuing his election, except
that the .Comptroller elected in 1923 will serve for but three years
through the terms of the Quadrennial Elections Amendment of 1922.
The Comptroller appoints all officers in his own office,