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10 MARYLAND MANUAL. 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 successor 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 cer- tified 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 Re- ports 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rare Audubon volumes; a complete file of the Maryland Gazette, one of the first newspapers published in this country; historical reference books of colonial times, and the records of the wars of the Revolution and 1812; books on travel, art and miscellaneous subjects, as well as fiction and the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 P. Scott Offutt, Judge Hammond Urner, and Herbert P. Tiffany, Reporter of the Court of Appeals. HALL OF RECORDS COMMISSION. HALL OF RECORDS College Ave. and St. Johns St., Annapolis. CommissionHon. Harry W. Nice, Governor Annapolis Wm. S. Gordy, Jr., Comptroller Salisbury Hon. Carroll T. Bond, Chief Judge Court of Appeals Baltimore Dr. Isaiah Bowman, President Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Col. A. W. Woodcock, President St. Johns College Salisbury Clinton L. Riggs, President Maryland Historical Society Baltimore Lawrason Riggs, President Board Peabody Institute Baltimore Chairman of the Board: Hon. Carroll T. Bond Baltimore Miss Joan Knight, SecretaryAnnapolis, Md. Archivist: Dr. James A. Robertson Takoma Park Archivist Assistant: Miss Elizabeth W. Meade Baltimore Miss Katherine H. Held Towson Chapter 18, Acts of 1935, created the Hall of Records Commis- sion, to be composed of the Governor of Maryland, State Comptroller, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, President of the Maryland His- torical Society and President of the Board of Trustees of Peabody Institute of Baltimore. The Commission shall have supervision and control of the Hall of Records building and to equip and furnish said building, to preserve |
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