69), exercises general supervision over the Library and appoints the
Director (Code 1967, Art. 41, sec. 170).

The Library consists of a legal section of approximately seventy-two
thousand (72,000) volumes, and a reference section of approximately
forty-eight thousand (48,000) volumes. The reference section contains
many rare books, maps, and documents, including the subscription
edition of the four elephant folio volumes of Audubon's Birds of Amer-
ica, the most complete file now in existence of the early issues (1746-
1838) of the Maryland Gazette, bound volumes and microfilm copies
of the Baltimore Sunpapers from 1837 until the present, as well as
other early newspapers and periodicals. In addition, the Library pos-
sesses an almost complete set of the United States Documents, Serial
number series, dating back to the Continental Congress.

The Law Library, which contains all state, federal, and many
foreign court reports, session laws, codes, legal texts, compendiums,
legal periodicals, and other legal reference material, is an integral
part of the operation of the Court of Appeals of Maryland and fur-
nishes legal, reference and research material and facilities to the
court, judges, lawyers, State departments and officials, and the general
public. The Library is designated as a United States Depository
Library. All State officials and agencies are required by law to place
one copy of all of their reports and other publications in the Library
(Code 1967, Art. 41, sec. 144).

The Library is the distributing agency for the session laws and
journals (Code 1967, Art. 41, secs. 162-64) and the Maryland Reports
(Code 1967, Art. 41, sec. 166). The Library also distributes the
Annotated Code of Maryland under the direction of the Board of
Public Works.

Appropriations 1963 1964

General Funds .......................................... $42,201 $46,794
Staff: 4.

HALL OF RECORDS COMMISSION

Chairman: Frederick W. Brune, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals
Vice Chairman: Richard D. Weigle, President, St. John's College
J. Millard Tawes, Governor; Louis L. Goldstein, Comptroller;
George L. Radcliffe, President, Maryland Historical Society;
Herbert J. Watt, President, The Peabody Institute; Milton S.
Eisenhower, President, The Johns Hopkins University.
Morris L. Radoff, Archivist and Records Administrator

Gust Skordas, Assistant Archivist

Rex Beach, Assistant Records Administrator

Hall of Records, Annapolis Telephone: Colonial 8-3371
Saturdays and holidays: Colonial 8-3376

Record Center, State Office Building, Annapolis
Telephone: Colonial 8-3371

Record Center, 301 W. Preston Street, Baltimore I Telephone: 837-9000

The Hall of Records Commission was created by Chapter 18, Acts
of 1936. The Commission is an ex officio body. It supervises and con-
trols the Hall of Records and appoints the Archivist, who has charge
of the active management of the building and its contents.

State agencies as well as the counties, cities and towns of Maryland
are authorized to offer for deposit at the Hall of Records all files,
documents, and records not in current use. Should the Archivist