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nated by the State Board of Agriculture. The Board selects its own chairman and appoints a Secretary (Code 1957, 1964 Repl. Vol., 1967 Supp., Art. 66C, sec. 47A). OCEAN CITY CONVENTION HALL COMMISSION Chairman: J. Marshall Stewart, 1968 G. Maxwell Armor, Jr., 1969; Albert Berger, 1970; John B. Lynch, 1971; J. Warren Frame, 1972. Consultants: James J. O'Donnell, Director, State Planning Depart- ment; Russell 0. Hickman, Member of the House of Delegates from Worcester County; Louis L. Goldstein, Comptroller of the Treasury; Hugh Cropper, Mayor of Ocean City. Room 618, Wicomico Hotel, Salisbury 21801 The Ocean City Convention Hall Commission was created by Chapter 646, Acts of 1967. The Commission consists of five members all of whom are appointed by the Governor for five-year terms. The Gover- nor selects the Chairman. At least two of the members of the Com- mission must be residents or property owners within the corporate limits of Ocean City. The Commission is to acquire land in Ocean City and arrange for a suitable structure to be erected and operated for housing religious, business and professional conventions, cultural conferences, industrial exhibits, trade shows, and other events which might stimulate the tourist trade and economy of the State. The structure will be known as the Ocean City Convention Hall. The Commission is authorized to employ at a later date an executive director, a secretary and other staff personnel. It must submit a report annually to the Board of Public Works and the Mayor and Council of Ocean City (Code 1957, 1965 Repl. Vol., 1967 Supp., Art. 41, sees. 405-406). Library, Archives, and History MARYLAND STATE LIBRARY Library Committee Chairman: Hall Hammond Chief Judge, Court of Appeals William R. Homey, Associate Judge, Court of Appeals Charles C. Marbury, Associate Judge, Court of Appeals Nelson J. Molter, Director Court of Appeals Building, Annapolis 21404 Telephone: 268-3371 The State Library was established by Chapter 53, Acts of 1826. The Library Committee, which is composed of at least three mem- bers appointed by the Court of Appeals (Code 1957, 1965 Repl., Vol., Art. 41, sees. 166-69), exercises general supervision over the Library and appoints the Director (Code 1957, 1965 Repl. Vol., 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 (1745- |
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