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MARYLAND MANUAL. 9 DEPARTMENT OF LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE. City Hall, Baltimore. Executive Officer, Horace E. Flack, Baltimore. The function of the Department of Legislative Reference is to col- lect, compile and index information on all questions of proposed legis- lation, to investigate and report upon the laws of Maryland and other States at the request of the Governor, any committee or member of the General Assembly, or the head of any State Department It is also made the duty of the Department to prepare or aid in the preparation 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 set of all bills which have been introduced in the Legislature of Maryland from 1908 to 1935, inclusive, with a full index of same, and the Codes and Laws of the other States. Chapter 150 of 1935 provides that the several State departments shall transmit copies of their reports to the Department of Legislative Reference for exchange purposes. (Chapter 474 of the Acts of 1916, An. Code Art. 41, Sec. 64-65.) COMMISSIONERS FOR THE PROMOTION OF UNIFORMITY OF LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES (Terms Expire 1939) Name Postoffice. Alexander Armstrong . - Baltimore John Hinkley . . . . . 3. Purdon Wright - . Beginning June 1, 1935, and every fourth year thereafter, the Gov- ernor appoints a Board of three Commissioners, to be known as Com- missioners for the Uniformity of Legislation in the United States, who shall represent Maryland in the National Conference of Com- missioners on Uniform State Laws. (Chapter 502 of the Acts of 1935.) The duty of this Board is to examine into and ascertain the best means to effect uniformity in the laws of the States and especially to meet with representatives appointed by other States in a conven- tion, known as “The National Conference of Commissioners on Uni- form State Laws,” to draft laws to be submitted for the approval and adoption of the several States, and to recommend such action as shall best accomplish promotion of such uniform legislation. The Commissioners receive no salary but are allowed their actual disbursements for expenses, not to exceed, however, in the aggregate the amount of the appropriation made from time to time in the budget. STATE LIBRARY—Annapolis. Name. Postoffice. State LibrariaJohn W. McCool (Term expires 1939) .......Elkton Custodian of Works of Reference: W. Hallam Claude . Annapolis Indexer and Cataloguer: Nelson 3. Molter . . . . . . Severna Park *Mrs Frankie Wilson, Linthicum Heights, Md., added to staff under a temporary appointment through a special appropriation. No official title. 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 appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, for a term |
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