thereof, the preparation of certificates of indebtedness and the adver-
tising and sale thereof. All contracts for the expenditure of the
proceeds of any loan authorized by any Act of the General Assembly
shall be subject to the approval of said Board before the same are
executed.

The Board shall in like manner supervise the expenditure of all
sums appropriated for the acquisition of land, buildings, equipment,
new construction and other capital expenditures, except in connection
with State roads, bridges and highways, whether made through the
medium of a budget bill, a supplementary appropriation bill or a State
bond issue bill, and all contracts for the expenditure thereof shall
be subject to the approval of said Board before the same are executed,
after review by the Director of Budget and Procurement.

The Board shall have the power and duty to approve every lease
and renewal thereof of land, buildings or office space before the same
is executed by any department, board, commission, State officer or
institution of the State, and shall have power to designate the location
of any State agency, after review by the Director of Budget and
Procurement.

The Board is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow upon the
credit of the State, at any time between the biennial sessions of the
General Assembly in sum or sums not to exceed $50,000 in the aggre-
gate to meet temporary deficits in the treasury; and in addition there-
to the said Board is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow upon
the credit of the State in sum or sums not to exceed $1,000,000 in the
aggregate, in anticipation of taxes levied for any year. All loans made
in pursuance of this section shall bear interest at a rate to be deter-
mined by the Board, and shall mature and be repaid on or before the
end of the biennium in which such sums are borrowed.

The Board shall have power to adopt rules and regulations, upon
recommendation of the Comptroller, covering matters of business
administration in the various departments, institutions and agencies
of the State, including the fixing of uniform rates of mileage allow-
ance, and the terms and renewals of all bonds furnished by State
officials and employees. Any such rules and regulations when adopted
shall be binding upon all the departments, institutions and other
agencies affected thereby.

The Department of Law

STATE LAW DEPARTMENT, 1901 Baltimore Trust Building

Baltimore, Maryland

Name. Postoffice.
Attorney General:
William C. Walsh........................................... Cumberland

Deputy Attorney General:

William L. Henderson............................................... Garrison
H. Vernon Eney. ........................................ ..Baltimore County

Assistant Attorneys General:
Robert E. Clapp, Jr................................................... Frederick

Special Assistant Attorney General for the Comptroller
of the Treasury:
Hugh Allen Meade.............................................. Baltimore