DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE.
City Hall, Baltimore.
Executive Officer, Horace E. Flack, Baltimore.

The function of the Department of Legislative Reference is to col-
lect, compile and index information on all questions of proposed legis-
lation, to investigate and report upon the laws of Maryland and other
States at the request of the Governor, any committee or member of the
General Assembly, or the head of any State Department. It is also
made the duty of the Department to prepare or aid in the preparation
of any bill or resolution on the request of any member of the Legis-
lature, and to maintain an office at Annapolis during the sessions of
the Legislature. There is on file in the Department a complete set of
all bills which have been introduced in the Legislature of Maryland
from 1908 to 1924, inclusive, with a full index of same, and the Codes
and Laws of the other States. (Chapter 474 of the Acts of 1916.)

UNIFORMITY OF LEGISLATION COMMISSION.

(Terms Expire 1927.)

Name. Postoffice.
Judge Henry Stockbridge...................................................................................... Baltimore
John Hinkley ..................................................................................................... Baltimore
George Weems Williams.......................................................................Baltimore

Governor appoints three for a term not to exceed three years'.
(Chap. 287, 1920.)

This Board was organized for the purpose of examining the laws of
marriage and divorce, insolvency, and other laws of a similar nature,
and to ascertain the best means to effect uniformity of the same
throughout the United States.

STATE LIBRARY—Annapolis.
(All Terms Expire 1927.)

Name. Postoffice.

State Librarian;
Miss Mary E. Shearn................................................................................Annapolis

Custodian of Works of Reference:
Mrs. Alice Tate Williams.........................................................................Annapolis

Indexer and Cataloguer:
Edward G. Kenly........................................................................................Annapolis

The State Librarian is appointed by the Governor, with the consent
of the Senate, to hold office during the term of the Governor (Con-
stitution, Art. 7, Sec, 3); the Custodian of Works of Reference is ap-
pointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, for a term
of three years (Ch. 50, 1906) ; the Indexer and Cataloguer is appointed
by the Governor, with the consent of the Library Committee, for a term
of three years. (Ch. 271, 1900.)

The Librarian is required to have counted all volumes received in
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 betore payment is made for the .game to the State Printer.