ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 473

CHAPTER 272.
AN ACT to repeal Sections seven, seventeen and eighteen of Article fifty-five of the Code of Pub- lic General Laws, entitled "State Librarian," and re-enact the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Sections seven, seventeen and eighteen of Article fifty-five of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled "State Librarian," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted to read as follows :	Repealed and re-enacted.
Sec. 7. The remaining copies of the laws, jour- nals and documents shall he subject to the dispo- sition of the committee appointed by the seven- teenth Section.	Committee to dispose of.
Sec. 17. The Honorable George Brent, Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, J. Shaff Stockett, State Reporter, and Arthur W. Machen, of Balti- more City, be and they are hereby appointed a Committee, to serve without compensation, with full power and authority to examine into the con- dition of the State Library, and to select some competent person to prepare, under their direction	Names of committee.
and supervision, a catalogue of the books, maps, &c., belonging to said Library, and to have two hundred copies of the same printed; and the per- son selected to prepare such catalogue shall also prepare a list of such books as may be properly removed from the library room and stored else- where in some safe and convenient place, and also such others as in his judgment may be advan- tageously disposed of by sale or otherwise, which disposition the Committee is hereby authorized to	Prepare cata- logue.
make as may be deemed by them most expedient; should such books, however, be sold, the proceeds arising therefrom shall be expended in the pur- chase of other books, to be selected by the Com- mittee, for the increase of the Library, and the Committee shall purchase, from time to time, such books and maps for the augmentation of the Li- brary as in their judgment may be deemed advisa- ble, and they shall have the library-room refur- nished and refitted; and the sum of three thousand	Proceeds of sale.