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first newspapers published in this country; historical reference books of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 T. Scott Offutt, Judge Hammond Urner,
and Herbert T. Tiffany, Reporter of the Court of Appeals.

HALL OF RECORDS COMMISSION.

HALL OF RECORDS

College Ave. and St. Johns St., Annapolis.
Commissioners:

Hon. 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
Brigadier General A. W. 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
Archivist:

Dr. James A. Robertson Annapolis
Miss Joan Knight, Secretary - Annapolis
Archival Assistant:

Miss Elizabeth W. Meade - - - Ashton
General Assistants:

Miss Katherine H. Held Towson
Mrs. Josephine Jickling . - - Annapolis
Mr. Donald Edward McGarrow Baltimore
Repair and Reproduction:

Miss Rebecca Dobbin . Elkridge
Mr. Allison Trader - Revells
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-