stitution. Art 7, See 3); the Custodian of Works of Reference is ap-
pointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, for a term
of two years or until the appointment of a successor. (Ch. 50, 1906);
the Indexer and Cataloguer is appointed by the Governor, with the con-
sent of the Library Committee, for a term of two years or until his suc-
cessor is duly appointed and qualified. (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 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, students, research workers
and others from all parts of the country, among them the four rare
Audubon volumes, a complete file of the Maryland Gazette, one of the
first newspapers published in this country, historical reference hooks of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 magazines.

The reading room is open to the public daily, where any of the
volumes in the Library may be consulted.

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:

Chester A. Ringgold Annapolis
Raymond B Collier Baltimore
T. Carroll Worthington . . Annapolis
John K. Pyles Baltimore
John F. Wilson . . ... --. Lothian
Sophia T. Munford . .. .. Annapolis
Ellen C. Ehle Annapolis
James G. Rennie . Baltimore
George E. Gannon Baltimore
Joseph L. Weems Baltimore
Abbie M Sullivan Baltimore
John P. Mannion Baltimore
Edward J. Dyas Baltimore
Jack Sokolsky Baltimore
Millicent A. Doney Glen Burnie