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 act of
all bills which have been introduced in the Legislature of Maryland
from 1908 to 1931, inclusive, with a full index of same, and the Codes
and Laws of the other States. (Chapter 474 of the Acts of 1916, An.
Code Art. 41, Sec. 64-65.)

UNIFORMITY OF LEGISLATION COMMISSION.

(Terms Expire 1935)

Name. Postoffice.
Alexander Armstrong . . . . ...... Hagerstown
John Hinkley ......... . „ Baltimore
Randolph Barton, Jr.. . ...... . . Baltimore

Governor appoints three for a term of four years. (Chaps. 484 and
609, 1927.)

These Commissioners are appointed as the Maryland Representatives
on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws,
the purpose of which is to promote uniformity in State laws on all
subjects where uniformity is deemed desirable and practicable.

STATE LIBRARY.Annapolis.

Name. Postoffice.
State Librarian
Miss Mary E. Shearn (Term expires 1935) .... Annapolis
Custodian of Works of Reference:

Miss Frances B. Wells . „ . Annapolis
Indexer and Cataloguer:
Nelson J. Molter ...- - 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 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 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, 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 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 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.