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 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lished in this country; historical reference books of colonial times, and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 is open to the public daily, where any of the
volumes in the Library may be utilized.

Members of the Library Committee are: Carroll T. Bond, Chief
Judge, Court of Appeals; Judge John R. Pattison, Judge Hammond
Urner, and F. Herbert Tiffany, Reporter of the Court of Appeals.

FINANCE DEPARTMENT

The Finance Department embraces three divisions, (1) the Division
of Financial Review and Control, (2) the Division of Deposit and Dis-
bursement and (3) the Board of Public Works.

I—DIVISION OF FINANCIAL REVIEW AND CONTROL

COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE—Annapolis.

Name. Postoffice.
Comptroller
Wm. S. Gordy, Jr.. .. ... .. .. . .... .. Salisbury

Chief Clerk:
Joseph O'C. McCusker -.- --...... Pikesville

Assistant Clerks;

Raymond B. Collier . . Baltimore
T. Carroll Worthington .-- - .... .... Annapolis
D. Ardin Carrick ....... - --........ ---. Baltimore
John F. Wilson .... --- --- Lothian
Sophia T. Munford ...... ..- .- Annapolis
W. K. Harrison . ... .. .... Baltimore
Eleanor B. Hepburn . -... .Annapolis
William A. Bounds ... ... Mardela