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
of two years or until the appointment of a successor. (Ch. 50, 1906);
The Law Librarian is appointed by the Library Committee to hold
office at the pleasure of said committee. (Ch. 413, 1939)

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 Librar-
ian 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first newspapers published in this country; historical reference books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 fic-
tion 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 F. Neale
Parke, and Herbert T. Tiffany, Reporter of the Court of Appeals.

HALL OF RECORDS COMMISSION

HALL OF RECORDS

College Ave. and St. John's Street, Annapolis

Commissioners Postoffice.
Hon. Herbert R. O'Conor, Governor.........................Annapolis
Hon. J. Millard Tawes, Jr., Comptroller. .............. .Crisfield
Hon. Carroll T. Bond, Chief Judge Court of Appeals. Baltimore
Dr. Isaiah Bowman, President Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore
Dr. Frank Stringfellow Barr, President St. John's College

Annapolis
Dr. J. Hall Pleasants, President Board Peabody Institute

Baltimore
Hon. George L. Radcliffe, President Maryland Historical Society

Baltimore
Chairman of the Board:

Hon. Carroll T. Bond................................................. Baltimore
Archivist:

Dr. Morris L. Radoff................................... Baltimore
Miss M. Joan Knight, Secretary......................... Annapolis

Archival Assistant;
Miss Elizabeth W. Meade........................ ............... Ashton