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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, March 30, 1868
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642 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS Mar. 24,

is without, while many of those which it does possess are
either odd volumes or duplicates, utterly worthless and serv-
ing only to fill valuable space.

This state of things calls for immediate attention, and is-
due, in the judgment of your committee, to the inadequate
nature of previous annual appropriations and the impracti-
cable mode by which, under existing laws, the fund is ex-
pended and the regulations for the government of the Library
made. At present the President of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House of Delegates are empowered to frame
all rules and regulations. These gentlemen have their time
and attention fully occupied with official duties, and cannot
be expected to bestow upon this matter the care it requires.

The disbursement of the augmentation fund is now made
by a joint committee of three from each House. The effi-
ciency of these joint committees may be judged of from the
simple fact that of the fund voted last year not a cent has
as yet been drawn from the State Treasury, and that not-
withstanding the necessitous condition of the Library.

Under these circumstances, your committee, would recom-
mend a change in the system regulating the State Library
It appears to them that as the Judges of the Court of Ap-
peals are, from the nature of their professional duties, con-
stant frequenters of the Library, and must therefore be sup-
posed cognizant of its deficiency and requirements, to them
should be committed the preparation of rules for its govern-
ment and the expenditure of the augmentation fund. This
change, with an appropriation to the augmentation fund
for this year of not less than one thousand dollars, is most
respectfully urged by the committee.

No Library can be efficient without a thorough catalogue
of its books, and such a catalogue the State Library does not
possess. Your committee would therefore suggest that they
may be empowered to make arrangements for the preparation
of a thorough descriptive catalogue, to be completed within a
reasonable time, and submitted to the examination and ap-
proval of the Joint Committee on the Library of the Senate
and House of Delegates. They believe that the cost of such
a catalogue as the State Library should have will not exceed
the sum often or twelve hundred dollars. For the purpose
of carrying their views on these points they have prepared a
resolution, which the Chairman is herewith instructed to
present.

N. BREWER,
Chairman of Senate Committee.

And a resolution in regard to making a catalogue of the-
books in Library.


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